The leadership of the European Free Alliance, of which Esquerra Republicana is a member, was renewed in the course of the party’s General Assembly in Nantes last weekend.

The Esquerra Republicana delegation, led by Deputy Leader and MEP Diana Riba, along with International Relations Secretary Adrià Guevara, took part in the European Free Alliance (EFA) General Assembly in Nantes at the weekend. The European political party, of which Esquerra Republicana is a member, defends the right to self-determination.

The Assembly was marked this year by the renewal of the Bureau—the party’s political leadership—in a debate in which the representative of Esquerra Republicana, Oriol Cases, was elected the new Secretary General of the EFA. Mr Cases takes over from fellow Esquerra representative Jordi Solé, who held the position over the past several years. With a protracted career as an advisor at the European Parliament, Oriol Cases will bring experience and renewal to the European sovereignty project.

During the Assembly, Esquerra Republicana also presented two political motions that received broad support from the forty member parties. The first, demanding official recognition of Catalan in the European Union, reaffirms the EFA’s commitment to linguistic rights and cultural diversity. The second defends a more sovereign, socially just and green Europe, staking on structural responses to the climate, economic and geopolitical crises the continent is undergoing.