European Free Alliance Youth is a youth organisation made up of members who belong to organisations, movements or political parties that safeguard and promote the cultural, linguistic and national diversity of Europe. The EFAY therefore is an alliance of the youth branches of nationalist and regionalist political parties and organizations throughout Europe, who are actively engaged at the State-Regional and European level. Its members work towards a greater recognition of European diversity.

EFAy is the youth wing of the European Free Alliance

European Free Alliance

The European Free Alliance is a European political party. It consists of various national-level political parties in Europe which advocate either full political independence , or some form of devolution or self-governance for their country or region...

 European political party. Created by Mikel Irujo (former Member of the European Parliament

Member of the European Parliament

A Member of the European Parliament is a person who has been elected to the European Parliament. The name of MEPs differ in different languages, with terms such as europarliamentarian or eurodeputy being common in Romance language-speaking areas.When the European Parliament was first established,...

 (MEP) for Eusko Alkartasuna

Eusko Alkartasuna

Eusko Alkartasuna is a Basque nationalist political party operating in Spain and France. The Basque language name means Basque Solidarity and abbreviated as EA. The party describes itself as a Basque nationalist, democratic, popular, progressive and non-denominational party...

) in 2000, when he was Secretary for international issues of Gazte Abertzaleak

Young Patriots (Basque Country)

Young Patriots is since 1988 the youth wing of the Basque political party Eusko Alkartasuna . Gazte Abertzaleak is founder member of the EFAY....

. Its current president is Roccu Garoby (from Corsica

Corsica

Corsica is an island in the Mediterranean Sea. It is located west of Italy, southeast of the French mainland, and north of the island of Sardinia....

), elected in 2011.

Bureau

EFAy Bureau (2010–2011)

Position	Name	Organization	Represents
President	Roccu Garoby	PNC-Ghjuventù	Corsica
Secretary General	Jana Baceva	Youth Section Rainbow Party	Macedonia
Member	Eva Paelinck	Jong N-VA	Flanders
Member	Michel Dixon	YSI	Scotland
Member	Max Zañartu	JERC	Catalan Countries
Member	Luke James	CymruX	Wales
Member	David Gómez	JJAA	Andalucía

EFAy Presidents

Name	Organization	Represents	Years
Irati Aizpurua	Gazte Abertzaleak	Basque Country	2010–Present
Jezz Anbleydh	Kernow X	Cornwall	2009–2010
Rhisiart Tal-e-bot	Kernow X	Cornwall	2007–2009
Lander de Bilbao	Gazte Abertzaleak	Basque Country	2005–2007
			2003–2005
	JERC	Catalonia	2001–2003
Mikel Irujo Amezaga	Gazte Abertzaleak	Basque Country	2000–2001

Members

It draws together 31 youth organisations from 29 different regions/nations in 14 European states

Current state	Name of the Organization	Mother Party	Represents	Link
Belgium	Partei Deutschsprachigen Belgier (PDB)	Party of German-speaking Belgians Party of German-speaking Belgians ProDG , is a political party active in the German-speaking community of Belgium. The party groups politicians from the previous PDB and PJU parties. The party was formed in 2008 and figured on the voting bulletins at first in 2009...	German speakers German-speaking Community of Belgium The German-speaking Community of Belgium is one of the three federal communities of Belgium. Covering an area of 854 km² within the province of Liège in Wallonia, it includes nine of the eleven municipalities of the so-called East Cantons...	PDB
Belgium	Jong N-VA	Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie	Flanders	J N-VA
Croatia	Young Autonomist	Lista za Rijeku	Free State of Fiume	LZR
Finland	Alands Framtid	Future of Åland Future of Åland The Future of Åland is a separatist political party in the Åland Islands. The goal of the party is to make Åland an independent state....	Åland Islands	AF
France	Ligue Savoisienne Ligue Savoisienne The Savoyan League is a French regionalist political party based in Savoy.The party supports the independence of Savoy from France. The two departments of Savoy, named Savoie and Haute-Savoie have belonged to France since the Treaty of Turin in 1860...	Savoyard League Ligue Savoisienne The Savoyan League is a French regionalist political party based in Savoy.The party supports the independence of Savoy from France. The two departments of Savoy, named Savoie and Haute-Savoie have belonged to France since the Treaty of Turin in 1860...	Savoie Savoie Savoie is a French department located in the Rhône-Alpes region in the French Alps.Together with the Haute-Savoie, Savoie is one of the two departments of the historic region of Savoy that was annexed by France on June 14, 1860, following the signature of the Treaty of Turin on March 24, 1860...	LS
France	Partit Occitan (PÒC)	Occitan Party Partit Occitan The Occitan Party is a political party in France. Its aims include greater autonomy for the Occitania region of southern France. The Occitan Party was formed in Toulouse in 1987 through the union of different occitanist movements , of candidates to the 1986 regional elections a d of various...	Occitania	PO
France	U Partitu di a Nazione Corsa	Party of the Corsican Nation Partitu di a Nazione Corsa The Party of the Corsican Nation is a political party seeking autonomy for Corsica. It was founded in Corte in 2002 by members of three nationalist parties, Union of the Corsican People , A Scelta Nova and A Mossa Naziunale....	Corsica	PdNC
France	Union Démocratique Bretonne (UDB)	Breton Democratic Union Union Démocratique Bretonne The Breton Democratic Union is the main autonomist and regionalist party in Brittany and Loire-Atlantique. It advocates devolution for Brittany as well as the promotion of the Breton language and its associated culture....	Bretagne	UDB
France	Union du Peuple Alsacien (UPA/EVU)	Unser Land	Alsace	UPA
Germany	Youth in the SSW	SSW SSW SSW is a three-letter abbreviation that may refer to:* South-SouthWest compass direction, see: Boxing the compass* SSW, the callsign of a TV station in the South West and Great Southern regions of Western Australia* St...	Danish minority of Southern Schleswig Danish minority of Southern Schleswig The Danish ethnic minority in Southern Schleswig, Germany, has existed by this name since 1920, when the Schleswig Plebiscite split German-ruled Schleswig into two parts: Northern Schleswig, with a Danish majority and a German minority was united with Denmark, while Southern Schleswig remained a...	Youth in the SSW
Germany	Bayernpartei	Bayernpartei	Kingdom of Bavaria	BP
Greece	Macedonian Minority in Greece  (Youth section inside the Party)	Rainbow Rainbow (political party) The Rainbow is a political party in Greece, and a member of the European Free Alliance. It is known for its activism amongst what it regards as the Ethnic Macedonian minority in Greece and their descendants abroad...  (Vinozhito)	Macedonians Macedonians (ethnic group) The Macedonians also referred to as Macedonian Slavs: "... the term Slavomacedonian was introduced and was accepted by the community itself, which at the time had a much more widespread non-Greek Macedonian ethnic consciousness...	MMG
Italy	Partito Sardo d'Azione (PSd'A)	Sardinian Action Party Sardinian Action Party The Sardinian Action Party is a regionalist social-democratic political party in Sardinia, which has recently sided with The People of Freedom, the largest centre-right party in Italy.-History:...	Kingdom of Sardinia	PSdA
Italy	Liga Fronte Veneto Liga Fronte Veneto Liga Veneta Repubblica is a Venetist political party. The party maintains a mildly independentist position and campaingns the self-government of Veneto....	Liga Veneta Repubblica	Veneto	LFV
Netherlands	Fryske Nasjonale Partij (FNP)	Frisian National Party Frisian National Party The Frisian National Party is a Frisian nationalist political party in the Netherlands. The FNP is mostly involved in Frisian politics...	Friesland	FNP
Poland	Młodzież Górnośląska (Upper Silesian Youth)	Silesian Autonomy Movement Silesian Autonomy Movement The Silesian Autonomy Movement is a movement officially declaring its support for the autonomy of Silesia as part of a unified Europe. The association was founded in January 1990 by Rudolf Kołodziejczyk and is based in the Polish part of Upper Silesia...	Silesia Silesia Silesia is a historical region of Central Europe located mostly in Poland, with smaller parts also in the Czech Republic, and Germany.Silesia is rich in mineral and natural resources, and includes several important industrial areas. Silesia's largest city and historical capital is Wrocław...	MG
Slovakia	Youth inside party	Strana regionov Slovenska SRS -Organizations and companies:* SRS Labs, an American audio technology engineering company* Savez Radio-Amatera Srbije, an amateur radio organization in Serbia* Sea Research Society, a non-profit research institution for diving and underwater archaeology...	Prešov, Košice	SRS
Spain	Gazte Abertzaleak Young Patriots (Basque Country) Young Patriots is since 1988 the youth wing of the Basque political party Eusko Alkartasuna . Gazte Abertzaleak is founder member of the EFAY....	Eusko Alkartasuna Eusko Alkartasuna Eusko Alkartasuna is a Basque nationalist political party operating in Spain and France. The Basque language name means Basque Solidarity and abbreviated as EA. The party describes itself as a Basque nationalist, democratic, popular, progressive and non-denominational party...	Basque Country (autonomous community)	GA
Spain	Jovens d'Unitat Catalana	Unitat Catalana	Catalan Countries	JUC
Spain	Joventuts d'Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya	Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya The Republican Left of Catalonia is a left wing Catalan independentist political party in Spain. It is also the main sponsor of the independence movement from France and Spain in the territories known among Catalan nationalists as Països Catalans...	Catalan Countries	JERC
Spain	Juventudes Andalucistas	Partido Andalucista	Andalusia	JJAA
Spain	Galiza Nova	Bloque Nacionalista Galego Bloque Nacionalista Galego The Galician Nationalist Bloc is a Galician nationalist coalition of political parties. It is self-defined as a "patriotic front".Formed in 1982, under the guidance of historical leader Xosé Manuel Beiras, the BNG advocates for further devolution of powers to the Parliament of Galicia and the...	Galicia (Iberian peninsula)	GN
Spain	Chobenalla Aragonesista	Chunta Aragonesista	Aragon	Chobenalla
Spain	Joves de Esquerra Nacionalista	Partit Socialista de Mallorca	Balearic Islands	JEN
United Kingdom	Young Scots for Independence Young Scots for Independence Young Scots for Independence is the youth wing of the Scottish National Party . It is not to be confused with Federation of Student Nationalists, which is for those in higher education, and whose membership is not restricted by age, unlike the YSI.The YSI is autonomous from the SNP and as such is...  (SNP Youth)	SNP Scottish National Party The Scottish National Party is a social-democratic political party in Scotland which campaigns for Scottish independence from the United Kingdom....	Kingdom of Scotland	YSI
United Kingdom	Federation of Student Nationalists Federation of Student Nationalists The Federation of Student Nationalists is the student wing of the Scottish National Party , representing students in Scottish higher education...  (SNP Students)	SNP Scottish National Party The Scottish National Party is a social-democratic political party in Scotland which campaigns for Scottish independence from the United Kingdom....	Kingdom of Scotland	FSN
United Kingdom	Cymru X Cymru X CymruX is the youth wing of Plaid Cymru, a political party in Wales.-Origins:CymruX was founded in 2005 to merge Plaid Cymru's two existing movements in to one new youth movement. The student federation 'the ffed' and the youth movement were merged to create a brand new youth organisation...	Plaid Cymru Plaid Cymru ' is a political party in Wales. It advocates the establishment of an independent Welsh state within the European Union. was formed in 1925 and won its first seat in 1966...	Wales	Cymru X
United Kingdom	Kernow X	Mebyon Kernow Mebyon Kernow Mebyon Kernow is a left-of-centre political party in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It primarily campaigns for devolution to Cornwall in the form of a Cornish Assembly, as well as social democracy and environmental protection.MK was formed as a pressure group in 1951, and contained as members activists...	Cornwall	Kernow X

Observers

Current state	Name of the Organization	Mother Party	Represents	Link
Czech Republic	Mladí Moravané	Moravané Moravané Moravané is a small non-parliamentary political party in Moravia in the Czech Republic.-History:It arose in 2005 by the coalescence of older two regional parties: Hnutí samosprávné Moravy a Slezska – Moravské národní sjednocení and Moravská demokratická strana Moravané ("Moravians") is a small...	Moravia	MM
Romania	Organisation of students	Transylvania Party		-
Slovakia	Youth organisation	Hungarian Federalist Party Hungarian Federalist Party The Hungarian Federalist Party was a Slovakian political party defending the interests of the Hungarian minority in Slovakia. It had a status of observer in the European Free Alliance until its disbanding in 2005....	Hungary	-
Latvia	For Human Rights in United Latvia For Human Rights in United Latvia For Human Rights in United Latvia is a left-wing political party in Latvia, supported mainly by ethnic Russians and other non-Latvian minorities. Co-chairpersons of its Ruling Board are Tatjana Ždanoka, Jakovs Pliners and Miroslav Mitrofanov....	For Human Rights in United Latvia For Human Rights in United Latvia For Human Rights in United Latvia is a left-wing political party in Latvia, supported mainly by ethnic Russians and other non-Latvian minorities. Co-chairpersons of its Ruling Board are Tatjana Ždanoka, Jakovs Pliners and Miroslav Mitrofanov....	Russia	-