European Free Alliance
The European Free Alliance (EFA) is a European political party that consists of various regionalist, separatist and ethnic minority political parties in Europe. Member parties advocate either for full political independence and sovereignty, or some form of devolution or self-governance for their country or region. The party has generally limited its membership to centre-left and left-wing parties; therefore, only a fraction of European regionalist parties are members of the EFA.
European Free Alliance | |
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| President | Lorena Lopez de Lacalle (EA) |
| Secretary-General | Jordi Solé (ERC) |
| Treasurer | Anke Spoorendonk (SSW) |
| Founded | 9 July 1981 |
| Headquarters | Boomkwekerijstraat 1, 1000 Brussels, Belgium |
| Think tank | Coppieters Foundation |
| Youth wing | European Free Alliance Youth |
| Ideology | Regionalism Autonomism Separatism Ethnic minority interests |
| European Parliament group | Greens/EFA (7 MEPs) ECR (N-VA, 3 MEPs) |
| Colours | Purple |
| European Parliament | 10 / 705 |
| European Council | 0 / 27 |
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Since 1999, the EFA and the European Green Party (EGP) have joined forces within Greens–European Free Alliance (Greens/EFA) group in the European Parliament, although some EFA members have joined other groups from time to time.
The EFA's youth wing is the European Free Alliance Youth (EFAY), founded in 2000.
As of 2024, four European regions are led by EFA politicians: Scotland with Humza Yousaf of the Scottish National Party, Flanders with Jan Jambon of the New Flemish Alliance, Corsica with Gilles Simeoni of For Corsica, and Catalonia with Pere Aragonès of the Republican Left of Catalonia.