List of active separatist movements in Europe
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This is a list of currently active separatist movements in Europe. Separatism often refers to full political secession.[1][2][3]
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Belgium
- People: Flemings
- Proposed state: Independent Republic of
Flanders or a Confederal Belgium (gradual independence).[citation needed] - Political parties: New Flemish Alliance, Vlaams Belang[citation needed]
- Proposed state: Independent Republic of
Denmark
- People: Faroese
- Proposed state:
Faroe Islands[4][5] or autonomy[6]
- Political parties: Republican Party, Progress, People's Party, Centre Party, Self-Government Party
- Proposed state:
France
- Secessionist movements
- People: Basque
- Proposed state: unification with the
Basque Country and 
Navarre – Euskal Herria[7][8][9] as an independent state or autonomy.[10]
- Political parties: Euskal Herria Bai, Abertzaleen Batasuna (AB), Eusko Alkartasuna (EFA member), Euzko Alderdi Jeltzalea (Basque Nationalist Party).
- Trade unions: Euskal Langileen Alkartasuna, Langile Abertzaleen Batzordeak
- Youth advocacy groups: Gazte Abertzaleak, Segi
- Proposed state: unification with the
Brittany (including Loire-Atlantique)
- People: Bretons
- Proposed state or autonomous region:
Brittany[11]
- Advocacy groups: Celtic League[12]
- Political parties: Unvaniezh Demokratel Breizh, Adsav, Strollad Breizh, Emgann, Brittany Movement and Progress, Young Bretons Movement
- Proposed state or autonomous region:
- People: Corsicans
- Proposed state or autonomous region:
Corsica[13][11]
- Political party: Corsica Libera, Pè a Corsica, Partitu di a Nazione Corsa (EFA member)
- Militant group: National Liberation Front of Corsica
- Proposed state or autonomous region:
Georgia
Territory of the former 
Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
- Ethnic group: Abkhazians
- De facto state:
Abkhazia[14] (recognized by 5 UN members)
- Political organization: Government of Abkhazia
- Militant organization: Abkhazian Armed Forces
- De facto state:
Territory of the former South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast
- People: Ossetians
- De facto state:
South Ossetia[15] (recognized by 5 UN members) - Proposition: Recognition of South Ossetia as an independent state or unification with Russia[16][17][18][19] or unification with
North Ossetia to form a united independent Ossetia
- Political organisation: Government of South Ossetia
- Militant organisation: Armed Forces of South Ossetia
- De facto state:
- Ethnic group: Armenians in Samtskhe–Javakheti
- Proposed: Autonomy for the region
Javakhk (Javakheti) or unification with 
Armenia[citation needed] - Political party: United Javakhk Democratic Alliance[20][21][22]
- Proposed: Autonomy for the region
Germany
- People: Upper Saxons
- Proposed state or autonomous area:
Saxony
- Political party: Free Saxony[23][24][25]
- Political party:
Italy
- People: Friulians
- Proposed state:
Friuli
- Political parties:
- Secessionist parties: Res Publica Furlane-Parlament Furlan,[citation needed][26] Patrie Furlane, Friulian Front,[27]
- Autonomist parties: Pact for Autonomy[27]
- Political parties:
- Proposed state:
- Proposed state:
Republic of Lombardy or autonomy.
- Political parties (autonomist): Lega per l'Autonomia – Alleanza Lombarda[28]
- Political parties (secessionist): Pro Lombardy Independence, Lega Lombarda[29][30]
- Proposed state:
Padania[31]
- Political parties (autonomist): Lega Nord, Great North[32][33]
- Political parties (secessionist): Lega Nord (formerly),[32] Lega Padana, Padanian Union, Alpine Padanian Union
- People: Sicilians
- Proposed state:
Sicily[34][31]
- Political parties (autonomist): Sicilian Socialist Party, Great Sicily,[35] Party of the Sicilians, Movement for Autonomy
- Political parties (secessionist): Free Sicilians[36][37]
- Advocacy groups: Sicilian National Front,[38] Sicilia Nazione,[39] Sicilian National Liberation Movement.[citation needed][40]
- Proposed state:
- Proposed: Greater autonomy or independence for
South Tyrol or unification with 
Tyrol in 
Austria[41][42]
- Political parties: Die Freiheitlichen (independence), South Tyrolean Freedom (unification)
- Proposed state:
Republic of Venice or autonomy[43][44][45]
- Political parties (autonomist): Liga Veneta, Resist Veneto,[46] Veneto for Autonomy[47]
- Political parties (secessionist): Party of Venetians, Venetian Independence, We Are Veneto, Liga Veneta Repubblica, Venetian People's Unity, Venetian Left
- youth organization: Independentist Youth
- National Liberation Movement (Self-determination): Venetian National Liberation Movement[citation needed]
- Ethnic group: Sardinian people
- Proposition: Greater autonomy or independence for
Sardinia.[48][49] - Political parties: Sardinian Action Party (regionalist)
- Proposition: Greater autonomy or independence for
Moldova
- Breakaway state
- People: Russians, Ukrainians, and Moldovans
- De facto state:
Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic
- Goal: International recognition as a sovereign state or unification with
Russia[citation needed] - Political organisation: Government of Transnistria
- Military forces: Army of Transnistria
- Goal: International recognition as a sovereign state or unification with
- De facto state:
- People: Gagauz people
- Proposed State:
Gagauz Republic - Political organisation: Peoples of Union of Gagauzia[50][51]
- Proposed State:
Netherlands
- People: Frisians, West Frisians
- Proposed: Greater autonomy or independence for
West Frisia
- Political party: Frisian National Party, (EFA member) (Greater autonomy),[52][53] Groep fan Auwerk
- Proposed: Greater autonomy or independence for
Romania
- People: Székelys
- Proposed autonomous area or state:
Székely Land or unification with 
Hungary
- Political organisations: Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania, the demand for Hungarian autonomy has been part of their program since 1993.[54] Hungarian Civic Party, they signed a settlement with the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania about cooperation and joint support for Hungarian autonomy.[55] Hungarian People's Party of Transylvania (PPMT), the party proposes the establishments of Transylvanian parliament and government and supports the case of Székely autonomy in Székely Land.[56] It also advocates territorial autonomy for Partium.[57]
- Advocacy organisations: Szekler National Council[58]
- Proposed autonomous area or state:
Russia
Secessionist movements:
Adygea and Karachay-Cherkessia[59]
- People: Circassians
- Proposed autonomous area or state:
Circassia
- Advocacy groups: International Circassian Association (Adygea), (former member of the UNPO), Congress of the Peoples of the North Caucasus, Free Nations League
- Proposed autonomous area or state:
- People: Bashkirs
- Proposed state:
Bashkortostan[60] - Militant organisation: Committee of Bashkir Resistance,[61] Bashkir Company[62]
- Advocacy groups: Bashkort movement, Bashkir National-Political Center,[63] Free Nations League
- Proposed state:
- People: Chechens
- Proposed state:
Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (government in exile) - Government in exile: Ichkerian government in exile (Proposed to be recognized by UN member: Ukraine)
- Militant organisation: Chechen separatists, Ajnad al-Kavkaz, Chechen volunteers in Ukraine, Dzhokhar Dudayev Battalion, Ichkerian Special Purpose Battalion, Khamzat Gelayev Detachment
- Advocacy group: Adat People's Movement, Congress of the Peoples of the North Caucasus
- Proposed state:
- People: Dagestanis
- Proposed state:
Dagestan
- Militant organization: Imam Shamil Dagestan Battalion
- Advocacy group: Dagestani National Center,[64] Congress of the Peoples of the North Caucasus
- Proposed state:
- People: Ingush
- Proposed state:
Ingushetia
- Militant organisation: Ingush Liberation Army
- Advocacy group: Ingush Independence Committee, Congress of the Peoples of the North Caucasus
- Proposed state:
- People: Kalmyks
- Proposed state:
Kalmykia with possible unification with 
Astrakhan Oblast[65]
- Advocacy group: Oirat-Kalmyk People's Congress
- Proposed state:
- People: Karelians, Vepsians, Russians, Finns, Pomors
- Proposed state:
Karelia
- Militant organisation: Karelian Group
- Advocacy groups: Karelian National Movement
- Proposed state:
- People: Cossacks,[68] Russians
- Proposed state or autonomous area:
Kuban
- Advocacy movements: Community of the Don-Kuban-Terek Citizens, Klin-Yar, Kuban Cossack Host, Kuban Cossacks of the Kuban Host Autonomy Movement, Kuban Cossack Youth, New Kuban Cossack Association, Southern Regional Resource Center, Union of Cossack Republics of Southern Russia
- Militant organization: Kuban Cossack Army
- Political parties: Free Cossack Movement, Lapin, Movement for the Federalizations of Kuban, Union of the Cossack Hosts of Russia, Union of the Cossack Hosts of Russia and Abroad, Committee for the Liberation of the Kuban
- Political organizations: Cossack Congress, Cossacks of the Kuban Rada
- Advocacy movements: Community of the Don-Kuban-Terek Citizens, Klin-Yar, Kuban Cossack Host, Kuban Cossacks of the Kuban Host Autonomy Movement, Kuban Cossack Youth, New Kuban Cossack Association, Southern Regional Resource Center, Union of Cossack Republics of Southern Russia
- Proposed state or autonomous area:
Kingiseppsky, 
Lomonosovsky, 
Volosovsky & 
Sosnovy Bor districts of
Leningrad Oblast[69]
- People: Russians, Izhorians, Ingrians, Votes
- Proposed state:
Ingria[70]
- Advocacy groups: Free Ingria, Ingria Without Borders[71]
- Proposed state:
- People: Mari
- Proposed federal subject or state:
Mari El
- Advocacy groups: Free Idel-Ural
- Proposed federal subject or state:
- People: Erzyas
- Proposed state:
Erzyan Mastor[74]
- Advocacy group: Free Idel-Ural, Erzyan Mastor
- Proposed state:
- People: Mokshas
- Proposed state:
Mokshan state
- Advocacy group: Free Idel-Ural, Moksha Committee,[75] Free Nations League
- Proposed state:
North Caucasian Federal District
- People: Peoples of the Caucasus
- Proposed state:
Confederation of the Northern Caucasus, United Caucasia
- Advocacy groups: Chechen government in exile[76]
- Proposed state:
- People: Tatars
- Proposed state:
Tatarstan - Government in exile: Tatarstan government in exile[77]
- Militant organisation: All-Tatar Public Center
- Advocacy groups: Ittifaq Party, Free Idel-ural, All-Tatar Public Center, Free Nations League
- Militant organisation: All-Tatar Public Center
- Proposed state:
- People: Cossacks, Russians
- Proposed state or autonomous area:
Cossackia, 
Don Cossack Host
- Advocacy groups: Members of the Free Nations League[78]
- Proposed state or autonomous area:
Udmurtia[73]
- People: Udmurts
- Proposed state:
Udmurtia
- Advocacy groups: Free Idel-Ural
- Proposed state:
- People: Bashkirs, Chuvash, Erzya, Mari, Mokshas, Russians, Tatars, Udmurts
- Proposed state:
Idel-Ural Republic
- Advocacy group: Free Idel-Ural[79]
- Proposed state:
- Ethnic group: Nogai, Astrakhan Tatars
- Proposed state:
Nogai El or unification with Kalmykia - Advocacy group: Free Nogai El
- Proposed state:
- Ethnic group: Komi people
- Proposed: independence for
Komi
- Proposed: independence for
- Ethnic group: Russians
- Proposed: independence or autonomy for Severia
- Advocacy group: Seversky Region Movement
- Ethnic group: Chuvash people
- Proposed: independence for
Chuvashia - Advocacy group: Irĕklĕ Chăvash En
- Proposed: independence for
- Ethnic group: Russians
- Proposed: independence or autonomy for
Kursk Oblast
- Proposed: independence or autonomy for
- Ethnic group: Russians
- Proposed: independence or autonomy for
Smolensk Oblast - Advocacy group: Smolensk Republican Center
- Proposed: independence or autonomy for
- Ethnic group: Russians
- Proposed: independence or autonomy for
Pskov Oblast
- Proposed: independence or autonomy for
Zalessian Rus Central Black Earth Region
- Ethnic group: Russians
- Proposed state: Black Earth Confederation
- Advocacy group: Council of Black Earth States[88]
Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug[89]
- Ethnic group: Komi-Permyaks
- Proposed state or autonomous region:
Komi-Permyak
- Proposed state or autonomous region:
Spain
Basque Country (autonomous community) and 
Navarre
- People: Basques
- Proposed state: Basque Country (greater region) – Euskal Herria[7]
- Political parties: Euzko Alderdi Jeltzalea (Basque Nationalist Party) (member of the European Democratic Party), Eusko Alkartasuna (EFA member), Bildu, Eusko Abertzale Ekintza (Basque Nationalist Action), Alternatiba
- Trade union: Euskal Langileen Alkartasuna, Langile Abertzaleen Batzordeak
- Youth advocacy groups: EGI, Gazte Abertzaleak, Ikasle Abertzaleak
- Proposed state:
- People: Catalans
- Proposal state:
Catalan Republic – 
Catalan Countries (i.e. including other Catalan-speaking areas)[citation needed]
- Political parties (pro-independence): Republican Left of Catalonia (33/135), Together for Catalonia, (32/135) supported by Left Movement, Popular Unity Candidacy (9/135) supported by Endavant and Poble Lliure
- Political parties (autonomist): Catalunya en Comú (8/135)
- Civil organisations: Assemblea Nacional Catalana, Òmnium Cultural, Association of Municipalities for Independence, Procés Constituent, Sobirania i Progrés, Committees for the Defense of the Republic, Negres Tempestes
- Trade unions: Intersindical-CSC, Coordinadora Obrera Sindical, Intersindical Alternativa de Catalunya
- Youth advocacy groups: Arran, La Forja, Jovent Republicà, Joves d'Esquerra Verda, Joventut Nacionalista de Catalunya, Joventut Comunista de Catalunya
- Proposal state:
- People: Galicians
- Proposed state:
Galicia
- Political party: Galician Nationalist Bloc (sovereigntist, EFA member), Anova-Nationalist Brotherhood (independentist, includes the Galician Popular Front), Compromiso por Galicia (centrist federalist), Terra Galega (Centrist autonomist), Galician Coalition (Centrist nationalist Party), Abrente–Galician Democratic Left, Acción Galega, Renewal–Nationalist Brotherhood, Assembleia da Mocidade Independentista
- Unions: Confederación Intersindical Galega (CIG) and Central Unitaria de Traballadores (CUT)
- Youth advocacy groups: Galiza Nova, Xeira, BRIGA and Erguer-Estudantes da Galiza (students)
- Proposed state:
- People: Valencians
- Proposed state:
Valencian Country[citation needed] or unification with Catalan Countries[citation needed]
- Political parties: Valencian Nationalist Bloc, Initiative of the Valencian People, Popular Unity Candidates, Republican Left of the Valencian Country, Valencian State, Valencian Nationalist Left, Valencian Left
- political party (Pro Catalan): Popular Unity Candidacy
- Advocacy groups: Pro-Catalan Valencianists (who defend Pan-Catalanism and Fuster's theories) propose the creation of a Valencian State and some type of reconnection with the rest of Catalan-speaking areas. Only a minor tendency within anti-Catalan Valencianism (Blaverism) proposed independence of the Kingdom of Valencia from both Catalonia and Spain.[93][94]
- Youth advocacy groups: Arran
- Student movement: AGIR
- Proposed state:
- ethnic group: Catalan people
- proposed: Independence for the
Balearic Islands or unification with the other Catalan countries[citation needed]
- political parties: Balearic Anticolonialist Group, Esquerra Republicana de les Illes Balears
- political party (pro Catalan): Popular Unity Candidacy
- political parties (regionalist): People's Party of the Balearic Islands
- proposed: Independence for the
- ethnic group: Asturians
- proposed state:
Asturias
- political party (autonomist): Asturias Forum
- political party (nationalist): Asturian Left, Compromisu por Asturies, Conceyu Abiertu, Partíu Asturianista, Unidá, Bloc for Asturias, Conceyu Abiertu
- political party (regionalist): Asturian Renewal Union
- political party (separatist): Andecha Astur
- proposed state:
United Kingdom
- Major movements
- People: Irish, Northern Irish (Nationalists)
- Proposed state: Re-unification with
Ireland or independence[97][98]
- Political parties: Sinn Féin,[99] Fianna Fáil, Éirígí, Social Democratic and Labour Party, Aontú,[100][failed verification][101] 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[102]
- Proposed state: Re-unification with
- People: Scots
- Proposed state or autonomous region:
Scotland
- Political parties: Scottish National Party (EFA member),[103] Scottish Greens, Scottish Socialist Party, Alliance to Liberate Scotland Independence for Scotland Party, Scottish Libertarian Party, Sovereignty
- Advocacy groups: Scottish Independence Convention (Common Weal, People's Voice, Scottish CND, Voice for Scotland, Women for Independence), Labour for Independence, Siol nan Gaidheal
- Proposed state or autonomous region:
- People: Welsh
- Proposed state or autonomous region: Wales
- Political parties: Plaid Cymru (EFA member),[104] Wales Green Party,[105] Gwlad,[106] Propel
- Advocacy groups: YesCymru[107]
- Proposed state or autonomous region: Wales
- Minor movements
- People: Cornish
- Proposed state or autonomous region:
Cornwall (including the Isles of Scilly)
- Advocacy groups: Cornish Constitutional Convention, Cornwall 2000, Revived Cornish Stannary Parliament, Gorsedh Kernow
- Political parties: Mebyon Kernow, Cornish Nationalist Party, Green Party of England and Wales,[109] Cornish Nationalist Party, Liberal Democrats[110][111]
Communist Party of Britain (Autonomy)[112]
- Proposed state or autonomous region:
- People: Northerners
- Proposed state:
Northumbria or greater autonomy within the United Kingdom.
- Advocacy group: Campaign for the North (Devo-Max)[114][115]
- Political parties: Northern Independence Party[116][117][118]
- Proposed state:
- Separatist movements of dependent territories
- Ethnic group: Manx people
- Proposed state:
Isle of Man
- Political party: Mec Vannin, Isle of Man First[120]
- Proposed state:
