European free Alliance

The European free Alliance ( ALE - Democratic party of the people of Europe PDPE ) is an alliance of regionalistic and minority political parties in Europe (in English: European Free Alliance EFA ), traditionally allied with the Left Green European within the the European Parliament.

Foundation

The ALE , created in 1981, is a “ Association of co-operation joining together of the political parties which are distinguished from the diagrams of political thoughts traditional insofar as they put at the foreground an integral regionalism. ” (site EFA)

In 1994, it becomes officially a federation of parties.

It was constituted in European Political party, Friday March 26th 2004 with the “pavellò Mies Van Der Rohe” of Barcelona, with the signature of a constitutive declaration, signed by 25 parties members and 5 observant parties.

In the presence of the media, signed the agreement the following representatives:

Camilo Nogueira (Blocks Nacionalista Galego - BNG);
Bizén Fuster (Chunta Aragonesista - CHA);
Josep-Lluís Carod-Rovira (Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya - ERC);
Begoña Errazti (Eusko Alkartasuna - EA);
Cees van der Meulen (Fryske Nasjonale Partij);
Fabrizio Comencini (Liga Fronte Veneto);
Patrice Bee (Savoyard League);
Antonina Poltavec (Lietuvos lenkų liaudies partija - Lithuanian Polish People' S Party);
Davyth Hicks (Mebyon Kernow - Tea Party for Cornwall);
Christian Montagnon (Movement Area Savoy);
Dieter Thielen-Krütgen (Partei der Deutschsprachigen Belgier);
Gustave Alirol (Left Occitan);
Lorenzo Palermo (Left Sardinian action);
Jill Evans (Plaid Cymru - Tea Party off Wales);
Pavle (Pavlos) Voskopoulos (Rainbow- Vinozhito);
Neil MacCormick (National Scottish Party);
Jerzy Gorzelik (Ruch Autonomii Slaska - movement for the autonomy of the Silesia);
Drago Stoka (Slovenska Skupnost);
Els Van Weert (Spirit);
Yves Garden (Breton democratic Union);
Martin Hell (Union of the Alsatian people);
Eva Klotz (Union für Südtirol);
Jaume Roure (Unitat Catalana).

For the observant parties, also signed the declaration:

Jozsef Mihajlovics (Mihajlovics József) (Magyar Föderalista Párt - Hungarian federalistic party);
Jiri Novotny (Moravská demokratická strana) (Moravian Democratic party);
Eduard Riudavets (Left Socialista de Mallorca I Menorca - Entesa Nacionalista).

The assembly of ALE elected then the European Député, Nelly Maes (Spirit - Flanders), at the station of President E of ALE. The vice-presidents are: Free Piretta (Partito Sardo d' Azione - Sardinia), Begoña Lasagabaster (Eusko Alkartasuna - Pays Basque), Jill Evans (Plaid Cymru - Wales), Gustave Alirol (Left Occitan - Occitanie); Roelof Falkena (Fryske Nasjonale Partij) and Bartolomiej Swiderek (movement for the autonomy of the Silesia).

Members

It includes/understands in particular the following regionalistic parties:

- Ålands Framtid, (islands Åland, Finland), represented with the Ålands Lagting with Mariehamn.

- Fryske Nasjonale Partij (FNP) (Plank, Netherlands and Germany)

- Slovenska Skupnost, (Slovenien S of Trieste)

- Enotna Listed (list of unit of the Sloveniens of Carinthie in Austria)

- Blocks Nacionalista Galego (BNG) (Galicia, Spain)

- Movement Area Savoy (MRS) (Savoy, France)

- Partei DER deutschsprachigen Belgier (PDB) (Belgian German-speaking, Belgium)

- Partito Sardo d' Azione (PSd' A) (Sardinia, Italy)

- Plaid Cymru (PC) (Wales, the United Kingdom)

- Slovenska Skupnost (Slovenien of Italy)

- Breton democratic Union (UDB) (Brittany, France)

- Union of the Alsatian people (UPA/EVU) (Alsace, France)

- Union für Südtirol (the Tyrol of the South, Italy)

- Partitu di has Nazione Corsa (PNC) (ex UPC) (Corsica, France)

- Left Occitan (PÒc) (Occitanie, France)

- Unitat Catalana (CPU) (French Catalonia, Perpignan)

- Spirit (Flanders, Belgium)

- Partido Andalucista (Andalusia, Spain)

- Libertà Emiliana - Nazione Emilia (Emilie, Italy)

- Savoyard League (Savoy, France)

- Veneti d' Europa (Italy) and Liga Fronte Veneto (Venezia, Italy)

- EFA - DPPE (official European party of ALE, English name).

- Chunta Aragonesista (CHA) (Aragon, Spain)

- Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC) (Catalan Countries)

- Eusko Alkartasuna (EA) (Basque Country)

- Left Occitan (P.Oc) (Occitanie, France)

- Moravané (Moravian in Czech Republic)

- National Scottish Party (SNP) (Scotland, the United Kingdom)

- Vinozhito - Ouranio Toxo-Rainbow Party (Macedonians in Greece) (Greece)

- Ruch Autonomii Slaska (Silesia, Poland)

- Mebyon Kernow (Cornouailles, the United Kingdom), cf.

- Polska Partita Ludowa (Lithuanian Polish popular party, Lithuania)

- Omo Ilinden Pirin (Macedonians in Bulgaria) (Bulgaria)

- like observers:

- Left Socialista de Mallorca-Entesa Nacionalista (started from Majorque)

- Liga Transilvania-Banat (Romania)

- Left federalistic Hungarian (Slovakia)

- Left Bavarian (Germany)

- Revival Valdôtain (Italy)

- with in an individual capacity Tatjana Zdanoka, appointed European Russian speaker of Latvia.

The Union valdôtaine, which was one of the founding members of alliance, ceased taking part in its activities and does not form of it any more part since the congress of 2007.

See too

Official site of the ALE

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