In the 1979 election four regionalist parties obtained seats: the Scottish National Party (SNP), the Flemish People's Union (VU), the Brussels-based Democratic Front of Francophones (FDF) and the South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP).
They were joined by 4 MEPs from the Danish left-wing Eurosceptic People's Movement against the EU, while the other regionalist parties, including the SVP, Batasuna and the Convergence and Union of Catalonia (CiU) declined to join. In the 1994 European Parliament election the regionalists lost many seats.
The three remaining EFA MEPs (representing the SNP, the VU and the Canarian Coalition) formed a group with the French Énergie Radicale list and the Italian Pannella List: the European Radical Alliance. Following the 1999 European Parliament election, in which EFA parties did quite well, EFA elected MEPs formed a joint group with the European Green Party, under the name Greens–European Free Alliance (Greens/EFA).
However, the EFA suffered the loss of these seats later in 2019 due to Brexit, which meant SNP and PC MEPs had to leave. ==Ideology== In the Brussels declaration of 2000 the EFA codified its political principles.
30 years EFA, 2011 Tudi Kernalegenn, The internationalism of the EFA, European Free Alliance, 2011 Peter Lynch, Organising for a Europe of the Regions: The European Free Alliance-DPPE and Political Representation in the European Union, 2007 Pan-European political parties Politics of Europe 1981 establishments in Belgium
30 years EFA, 2011 Tudi Kernalegenn, The internationalism of the EFA, European Free Alliance, 2011 Peter Lynch, Organising for a Europe of the Regions: The European Free Alliance-DPPE and Political Representation in the European Union, 2007 Pan-European political parties Politics of Europe 1981 establishments in Belgium
Thus, EFA had seven members in the Greens/EFA group and four within ECR. In the 2019 European Parliament election the EFA gained a fourth seat in the United Kingdom, due to the SNP gaining a third seat to add to Plaid's one.
However, the EFA suffered the loss of these seats later in 2019 due to Brexit, which meant SNP and PC MEPs had to leave. ==Ideology== In the Brussels declaration of 2000 the EFA codified its political principles.
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