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  • EFA will be the voice of Europe’s diversity in the European Parliament

    EFA will be the voice of Europe’s diversity in the European Parliament

    The European Free Alliance will continue to be the voice of Europe’s diversity in the European Parliament. Following the European elections, our MEPs they will keep striving for a more democratic and diverse Europe from their place in the European Parliament. From EFA, we want to thank everyone that joined us during this campaign, amplifying…

  • Coming soon: EFA’s song for a “Europe for All”!

    Coming soon: EFA’s song for a “Europe for All”!

    Next Tuesday 21 May, EFA will present their song for the European elections “Europe for all” EFA members and followers have already heard a glance. Since last October’s Congress in Strasbourg, EFA has used a musical theme for its events, a song that stuck in the head of most of the audience both at the…

  • EFA wants to include discrimination against minorities into the rule of law mechanism

    EFA wants to include discrimination against minorities into the rule of law mechanism

    The Macedonian minority in Bulgaria still faces discrimination and harassment by the state, the police, and nationalist hooligans The European Free Alliance considers it necessary to include discrimination against national minorities on the grounds to apply the EU rule of law mechanism against its own member states. Last Saturday, in an event in Sandanski, Bulgaria,…

  • All European voices matter!

    All European voices matter!

    Statement of the European Free Alliance regarding EBU’s Ban on on our Participation in the Eurovision Debate EBU will not allow EFA to participate in the Eurovision Debate next week. Although EFA is one of the 10 officially recognized European Political Parties and is engaging in a pan-European campaign for the European elections, led by…

  • EFA calls the EU to listen to the needs of minority groups in the next term

    EFA calls the EU to listen to the needs of minority groups in the next term

    In an event in Komotini (Western Thrace), EFA President and Spitzenkandidatin stressed the importance of minorities being recognised and represented in the institutions The European Free Alliance calls for the EU to take seriously the needs of the different minority groups in the European countries. In an event in Greece, EFA highlighted that there are…

  • Building a Europe of regions for the future

    Building a Europe of regions for the future

    More than a hundred Alsatians joined EFA to learn more about our pan-European campaign at our event last week in Haguenau On Tuesday, April 16, EFA Spitzenkandidatin Maylis Roßberg and EFA President Lorena López de Lacalle were in Haguenau, Alsace, to explain EFA’s vision for a Europe for All. More than a hundred people joined…

  • Democracy for all: protecting minority rights through the European Citizens’ Initiative

    Democracy for all: protecting minority rights through the European Citizens’ Initiative

    “The voices of minorities should be heard and not forgotten in a Europe for all”, said Maylis Roßberg in Aabenraa, Denmark EFA visited last week the German-Danish border region, where 4 minority groups live: the Danes in Germany, the Germans in Denmark, the Sinti and Roma, and the Frisians. In the town of Aabenraa, on…

  • What does the EU do for minorities?

    What does the EU do for minorities?

    An EFA press conference in Flensburg (Germany) highlighted how important voting for transnational lists would be for minorities This week, the campaign for the European elections brought EFA to the German-Danish border region. On Monday, EFA held a press conference in Flensburg, on the German side, to explain our pan-European campaign to the media in…

  • On the way to EU elections: EFA General Assembly 2024

    On the way to EU elections: EFA General Assembly 2024

    On 7 and 8 March EFA welcomed its member parties in Brussels for the General Assembly. During the recent General Assembly of the European Free Alliance (EFA), held on 7th and 8th of March, all motions proposed were unanimously approved, marking a significant step forward for the party’s agenda centered on self-determination and human rights.…

  • International Women’s Day: Europe will be Feminist or it won’t be!

    International Women’s Day: Europe will be Feminist or it won’t be!

    To end EFA’s General Assembly in Brussels, an EFA delegation attended the International Women’s Day march An EFA delegation took part in the International Women’s Day march on the 8th of March in Brussels. Under EFA’s Women’s Forum slogan “Europe will be feminist or it won’t be”, our delegation took to the streets of Brussels…

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