Editing European Free Alliance (section)

==Ideology==
In the Brussels declaration of 2000, the EFA codified its political principles. The EFA stands for "a Europe of Free Peoples based on the principle of [[subsidiarity]], which believe in solidarity with each other and the peoples of the world."<ref name="STAT">{{cite web |url=http://www.e-f-a.org/efaactive.php?id=12 |title=European Free Alliance |publisher=E-f-a.org |access-date=10 May 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021070229/http://www.e-f-a.org/efaactive.php?id=12 |archive-date=21 October 2013  }}</ref> The EFA sees itself as an alliance of [[Statelessness|stateless]] peoples, striving towards recognition, autonomy, independence or wanting a proper voice in Europe. It supports European integration on basis of the subsidiarity-principle. It believes also that Europe should move away from further centralisation and works towards the formation of a "Europe of regions". It believes that regions should have more power in Europe, for instance participating in the [[Council of the European Union]], when matters within their [[Jurisdiction|competence]] are discussed. It also wants to protect the [[languages of the European Union|linguistic]] and cultural diversity within the EU.

The EFA broadly stands on the left wing of the political spectrum.<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y33BAgAAQBAJ&q=efa+%22left-wing%22&pg=PA132 | title=Europe's Contending Identities: Supranationalism, Ethnoregionalism, Religion, and New Nationalism| isbn=9781139867757| last1=Gould| first1=Andrew C.| last2=Messina| first2=Anthony M.| date=17 February 2014| publisher=Cambridge University Press}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-parliaments-34574041 | title=European Parliament: Guide to the political groups| work=BBC News| date=21 October 2015}}</ref> EFA members are generally [[progressivism|progressive]], although there have been some notable exceptions as the conservative [[New Flemish Alliance]], [[Bavaria Party]], [[Democratic Party of Artsakh]], [[Schleswig Party]] and [[Future of Åland]], the Christian-democratic [[Slovene Union]] and the national-conservative (and often characterised as far-right)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361017961_Autonomism_as_Political_Strategy_A_comparison_between_Quebec_Corsica_and_South-Tyrol|title=160+ million publication pages organized by topic on ResearchGate}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.academia.edu/80489296 | title=Autonomism as Political Strategy. A comparison between Quebec, Corsica, and South-Tyrol | date=January 2022 | last1=Schmitt | first1=Etienne }}{{Dead link|date=April 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.corriere.it/editoriali/09_maggio_08/editoriale_alto_adige_ernesto_galli_della_loggia_fb5d76a4-3b8e-11de-a872-00144f02aabc.shtml |title=I separati dell'Alto Adige|work=Corriere della Sera |access-date=10 May 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://ricerca.gelocal.it/altoadige/archivio/altoadige/2010/10/14/AZBPO_AZB03.html |title=Digos e carabinieri nella sede del partito&nbsp;— Alto Adige dal 2004.it " Ricerca |publisher=Ricerca.gelocal.it |date=14 October 2010 |access-date=10 May 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://altoadige.gelocal.it/cronaca/2011/10/03/news/frattini-denuncia-il-diario-della-klotz-1.4288768 |title=Frattini denuncia il "diario" della Klotz&nbsp;— Cronaca&nbsp;— Alto Adige |publisher=Altoadige.gelocal.it |date=24 July 2012 |access-date=10 May 2014 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130813120537/http://altoadige.gelocal.it/cronaca/2011/10/03/news/frattini-denuncia-il-diario-della-klotz-1.4288768 |archive-date=13 August 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lastampa.it/2011/10/04/italia/cronache/nel-diario-scolastico-sudtirolesei-terroristi-si-scoprono-eroi-39Rsc1svaFlvWfi53OBIBJ/pagina.html |title=La Stampa&nbsp;— Nel diario scolastico sudtirolesei terroristi si scoprono eroi |work=La Stampa |date=4 October 2011 |access-date=10 May 2014}}</ref> [[South Tyrolean Freedom]], which left over policy disagreements in 2024.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rainews.it/tgr/tagesschau/articoli/2024/10/sud-tiroler-freiheit-verlasst-die-europaische-freie-allianz-de6cf006-9aee-486f-9f63-3da2c1dabcaa.html|title=Süd-Tiroler Freiheit verlässt die „Europäische Freie Allianz“|date=18 October 2024|website=RaiNews}}</ref>