The Internationalism of the European Free Alliance
Résumé
The history of the European Free Alliance (EFA) is linked to the European Parliament. It is therefore the history of nationalist parties learning to work together in an international arena and learning to use this international arena as a political tool to carry their objectives forward. The history of the EFA is also the history of international solidarity, whereby the MEPs of national parties took upon themselves to represent nations (even in other States than the one they belong to) with no representation as such; it is the history of Flemish MEPs defending the interests of Frisia, of Welsh MEPs struggling for the rights of the Galician people, or of Corsican MEPs representing Breton and Occitan issues...