European Free Alliance
| Name and Portrait |
Party Office | Constituency (if any) |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
Jill Evans |
EU Parliament Group Leader |
Wales in the EU |
Plaid retains close links with the Scottish National Party, with both parties' MPs co-operating closely with one another. They work as a single group within Westminster, and were involved in joint campaigning during the 2005 general election campaign. Both Plaid and the SNP are part of the European Free Alliance party in the European Parliament, a nationalist and regionalist bloc of parties. The EFA works with the European Green Party in order to form a joint group in the European Parliament: the The Greens–European Free Alliance.
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