The European Free Alliance (EFA) is a European political party that consists of various regionalist,separatist and 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.
Plaid Cymru is a centre-left to left-wing,Welsh nationalist political party in Wales,committed to Welsh independence from the United Kingdom. It campaigns on a platform of social democracy and civic nationalism. The party is a supporter of the European Union and is a member of the European Free Alliance (EFA). The party holds 4 of 32 Welsh seats in the UK Parliament,12 of 60 seats in the Senedd,and 202 of 1,231 principal local authority councillors. Plaid was formed in 1925 under the name Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru and Gwynfor Evans won the first Westminster seat for the party at the 1966 Carmarthen by-election.
Eurig Wyn was a Welsh politician and reporter. He was a Plaid Cymru Member of the European Parliament for Wales from 1999 to 2004,when he lost his seat,in part due to a reduction of the number of seats allocated to Wales.
Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the DS &OP with the Democratic Left Alliance-Labor Union,part of the Socialist Group. Her family name is Ulatowska,which she has changed after marriage with her husband.
Wales was a constituency of the European Parliament. It elected 4 MEPs using the D'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation,until the UK exit from the European Union on 31 January 2020.
Leanne Wood is a Welsh politician who served as the leader of Plaid Cymru from March 2012 to September 2018,and served as a Member of the Senedd (MS) from 2003 to 2021.
Geraint Rhys Davies is a Welsh Plaid Cymru politician. He was the National Assembly for Wales Member for Rhondda from 1999 to 2003.
Plaid Cymru originated in 1925 after a meeting held at that year's National Eisteddfod in Pwllheli,Caernarfonshire. Representatives from two Welsh nationalist groups founded the previous year,Byddin Ymreolwyr Cymru and Y Mudiad Cymreig,agreed to meet and discuss the need for a "Welsh party". The party was founded as Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru,the National Party of Wales,and attracted members from the left,right and centre of the political spectrum,including both monarchists and republicans. Its principal aims include the promotion of the Welsh language and the political independence of the Welsh nation.
Jacqueline Kay Swinburne,Baroness Swinburne is a British politician and life peer. She was a member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Wales between 2009 and 2019,representing the Conservative Party,and became a member of the House of Lords in 2023. She was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Housing and Communities from 1 March 2024 for Baroness Penn as a Minister on Leave.
Sidonia Elżbieta Jędrzejewska is a Polish politician and MEP. She was the Undersecretary of State in the Office of the Committee for European Integration in Poland (2008–2009).
Derek Vaughan is a Welsh Labour politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Wales between 2009 and 2019.
Franziska Maria "Ska" Keller is a German politician and was member of the European Parliament for the Germany constituency from 2009 to 2024. She is a member of the Alliance 90/The Greens,part of the European Green Party.
Viola von Cramon-Taubadel,often officially referred as simply Viola von Cramon is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who served as a member of the European Parliament from 2019 to 2024 and of the Bundestag,the German federal parliament,from 2009 to 2013.
Syd Morgan is a Welsh nationalist politician.
Angelika Rosa Mlinar is an Austrian and Slovenian politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2014 until 2019. She is a member of NEOS –The New Austria,part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe. She belongs to the minority of Carinthian Slovenes. She is a distinguished fellow of the European Institute for International Law and International Relations.
Elizabeth Saville Roberts is a Welsh Plaid Cymru politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dwyfor Meirionnydd since 2015. She has served as the group leader of Plaid Cymru in the House of Commons since 2017.
Željana Zovko is a Bosnian and Croatian diplomat and politician. Since 2016,she has been serving as a member of the European Parliament from Croatia.
Kerstin Westphal is a German politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2009 until 2019. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party,part of the Party of European Socialists.
Romana Tomc is a Slovenian politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Slovenia. She is a member of the Slovenian Democratic Party,part of the European People's Party.
Łukasz Marcin Kohut is a Polish politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since the 2019 elections.
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