14-05-2022

EFA General Assembly supports FNP plea on container safety at sea

All the FNP's motions have been adopted at the annual congress of the European Free Alliance (EFA). The European regional parties were particularly content with the motion that asks for more container safety at sea, in the aftermath of the MSC Zo&eum ...

06-05-2022

FNP attends political assembly on Gran Canaria

Next week a delegation of FNP will attend the general assembly of the European Free Alliance (EFA) to meet up with other regional parties and to ask for support for a number of important political issues. Furthermore the new board for the coming thre ...

03-03-2022

Statement of 160 young EU-politicians in Marseille against invasion of Ukraine

FNP-leader Sijbe Knol is at the European Summit of Cities and Regions in Marseille this week. The event is being organised every second year in another region of Europe by the EU Committee of the Regions. Today and tomorrow some 1800 politicians are ...

27-11-2021

Blog: FNP finds inspiration from SSW in Northern Germany

Last weekend the moment was there. With a nice group of FNP-members we departed in the direction of North-Frisia. In our focus was the visit to and a conference with our EFA-sister party SSW, on the subject of: ‘How can regional parties partici ...

17-11-2021

Sister party SSW succeeded, can also FNP enter national parliament?

In the elections for the Bundestag last September, the SSW party of the Danish and Frisian minorities in Germany succeeded entering the German parliament. As a single Member of Parliament next to six political groups of between 39 and 206 seats each. ...

15-10-2021

EFA unanimously supports FNP-motion on housing

Today, FNP received unanimous support at the EFA-congress in Brussels for its motion on housing. With this motion the party wants to create more space for measures in the area of housing and makes a call for using the available European programmes to ...

03-06-2021

Plaid Cymru and the Welsh elections

Founded in 1925, Plaid Cymru is a social democratic party that advocates for independence for Wales. Plaid Cymru’s ambition is to build a national bilingual Welsh community based on equal citizenship and respect for different traditions and cul ...

22-04-2021

Gerben van der Mei installed as member of FNP group in Frisian Parliament

Gerben van der Mei has been installed as a new member of the FNP group in Frisian Parliament. He is succeeding Sybren Posthumus who has left active politics after more than 10 years in duty as Provincial Council Member and more than 15 years as the l ...

09-03-2021

FNP: serious questions about lifting immunity Catalan MEPs

The FNP Group in the Frisian Parliament has serious questions about the decision of the European Parliament to lift the immunity of three Catalan Members of the European Parliament. The way in which a majority of the MEPs threw their colleagues under ...

23-02-2021

In memoriam Roel Falkena 1936-2021

EFA is saddened to hear of the passing of Roelof Falkena, co-founder of the European Free Alliance and member of the Frisian movement. ...