List of active autonomist movements in Europe
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This is a list of currently active automomist movements in Europe. Separatism often refers to territorial autonomy.
Azerbaijan
Territory of the short-lived 
Talysh-Mughan Autonomous Republic
- People: Talysh people
- Proposed: Talysh province with regional administration within the borders of Azerbaijan[1] or independence[2] or unification with Caspia.
- Political organisation: Talysh National Movement
- Government in exile:
Talysh-Mughan Autonomous Republic[3]
- Proposed: Talysh province with regional administration within the borders of Azerbaijan[1] or independence[2] or unification with Caspia.
Belgium
- People: Flemish
- Autonomous area: Flanders[4]
- Movements: Flemish Movement
- Autonomous area: Flanders[4]
- People: Walloons
- Autonomous area: Wallonia[5]
- Movements: Walloon Movement
- Autonomous area: Wallonia[5]
- Peoples: Walloons, Flemish and Brusselaars
- Proposed: making
Brussels-Capital Region its own region - Political party: DéFI
- Proposed: making
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia
- People: Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Proposed state:
Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia, as a refounded third entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina[8]
- Political organisation: Croatian National Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina[9]
- Political parties: Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatian Democratic Union 1990, Croatian Christian Democratic Union
- Proposed state:
Bulgaria
- Proposed: autonomy for Pirin Macedonia
- Advocacy group: United Macedonian Organization Ilinden–Pirin
Croatia
- People: Istrians (Croats, Istrian Italians, Istro-Romanians, and Istriot-speakers)
- Proposed: Autonomy for
Istria within Croatia[12]
- Political party: Istrian Democratic Assembly (factions, not officially)[13][14]
- Proposed: Autonomy for
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- Ethnic group: Croats of Dalmatia
- Proposed: autonomy for
Dalmatia
- Political Party: Dalmatian Action (2021)
- Proposed: autonomy for
Czechia
- Proposition: Greater autonomy for Moravia
- Proposition: autonomy for
Liberec Region
- People: Czechs
- Political party: Mayors for the Liberec Region[19]
France
- People: Alsatians (Allemanics)
- Proposed autonomous area:
Alsace[20][21][22]
- Political parties: Elsass Zuerst, Alsatian Alternative, Nationalforum Elsass-Lothringen, Unser Land (EFA member)
- Proposed autonomous area:
- People: Savoyans
- Proposed autonomous area:
Savoy[26][27][28]
- Political party: Movement Règion Savouè (EFA member)
- Proposed autonomous area:
- People: Occitans
- Proposed autonomous area:
Occitania
- Political parties: Partit Occitan[29] (EFA member), Occitan Nationalist Party,[30] Bastir Occitània,[31] Assemblada Occitana,[32][33] Libertat
- Proposed autonomous area:
- People: Catalans
- Proposed autonomous region:
Pays Catalan, via separation of the Pyrénées-Orientales from the region of Occitania
- Political parties: Oui au Pays Catalan,[34] Catalan Unity[35]
- Advocacy organisations: Fem Catalunya Nord (left-wing assembly), Catalunya Nord per la independència,[36] Òmnium Catalunya Nord[37]
- Proposed autonomous region:
- Proposed autonomous area:
Franche Comté[38][39]
- Political party: Mouvement Franche-Comté, Yes Franche-Comté
- militant organization: Franche-Comtât Abada!
- Political party: Mouvement Franche-Comté, Yes Franche-Comté
- Proposed: reestablishment of the
County of Nice
- Political party: Ligue pour la restauration des libertés niçoises,[41] Parti niçois
Germany
- People: Bavarians, Franconians, Swabians
- Proposed state or autonomous area:
Free State of Bavaria
- Political party: Bavaria Party (EFA member)[43][44][45]
- Proposed state or autonomous area:
- Proposed autonomous region:
Franconia[46]
- Political party: Party for Franconia[47]
Italy
Romagna (shown in green) in the Emilia-Romagna region
- Ethnic group: Romagnol people[48]
- Proposal: divide of
Romagna from 
Emilia-Romagna - Political party: Movement for the Autonomy of Romagna, Lega Romagna
- Proposal: divide of
- Ethnic group: Ladins
- Proposed: creation of a province of Ladinia
Lithuania
- Ethnic group: Samogitians
- Proposed autonomous region:
Samogitia[50]
- Political party: Samogitian Party, Dawn of Nemunas
- Proposed autonomous region:
Malta
North Macedonia
Poland
- People: Poles, Masurians
- Proposed autonomous area:
Masuria[55]
- Political Party: Ruch Autonomii Mazur
- Proposed autonomous area:
- People: Poles in Greater Poland Voivodeship
- Proposed autonomous area:
Greater Poland[56]
- Political party: Konfederacja Wielkopolan
- Proposed autonomous area:
- People: Kashubians
- Proposed autonomous area:
Kashubia
- Political party: Kashubian Association
- Proposed autonomous area:
Romania
- People: Hungarians
- Proposed autonomous area: Partium or unification with
Hungary
- Advocacy organisations: Hungarian National Council of Transylvania[57]
- Proposed autonomous area: Partium or unification with
Switzerland
The seven Jura districts in Switzerland
The French-speaking part of Switzerland is shown in green on this map
- Autonomist movements
Jura region
- People: Jurassien (French-speaking)
- Proposed autonomous area: unification of the three districts of Bernese Jura and the Laufen District with the
Canton of Jura
- Militant organisations: Mouvement Autonomiste Jurassien (Jurassian Autonomist Movement),[58] Groupe Bélier (Youth activists movement)[59]
- Proposed autonomous area: unification of the three districts of Bernese Jura and the Laufen District with the
- Ethnic group: Swiss Italians
- Proposed: extended autonomy for
Ticino
- Political party: Ticino League
- Proposed: extended autonomy for
United Kingdom
- People: Welsh
- Proposed state or autonomous region:
Wales
- Political parties: Gwlad, Plaid Cymru, Propel, Plaid Glyndŵr, Wales Green Party, Independent Alliance for Reform
- Advocacy groups: YesCymru
- Proposed state or autonomous region:
- People: Canvey Islanders
- Proposed autonomous area: Canvey Island
- Political Parties: Canvey Island Independent Party[62][63][64]
- Proposed autonomous area: Canvey Island
- People: Irish, Northern Irish (Nationalists)
- Proposed state: Re-unification with
Ireland or independence[65][66]
- Political parties: Sinn Féin,[67] Fianna Fáil, Éirígí, Social Democratic and Labour Party, Aontú,[68][69] People Before Profit, Communist Party of Ireland, Irish Republican Socialist Party, Republican Network for Unity, Socialist Workers Network, Workers' Party of Ireland
- Militant organisations: RIRA, CIRA[70]
- Proposed state: Re-unification with
- People: People of Shetland
- Proposed autonomous area:
Shetland
- Advocacy group: Wir Shetland
- Political Parties: Shetland Movement, Orkney and Shetland Movement, Scottish Green Party[71]
- Proposed autonomous area:
- People: People of Wessex
- Proposed: autonomy for Wessex
- Political party: Wessex Regionalists
- Advocacy group: Wessex Constitutional Convention[73][74][75][76]
- Proposed: autonomy for Wessex
- People: Orkney islanders
- Proposed: Autonomy within the United Kingdom[77] or self governance under Norway[78][79]
- Advocacy group: Orkney Council
- Political Parties: Orkney and Shetland Movement
- Proposed: Autonomy within the United Kingdom[77] or self governance under Norway[78][79]