This is a list of currently active separatist movements in Europe. Separatism often refers to full political secession.
Azerbaijan
Lezgistan
Denmark
Bornholm
France
Secessionist movements
French Basque Country/ Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Etat Pied-Noir
* Ethnic group: Pieds-Noirs
* Political party: Etat Pied-Noir
* Status: Active (Established in 2016)
* Proposed state: The federation of the two shores
Historic Brittany, comprising Brittany (administrative region) and
French Flanders
Northern Catalonia/Pyrénées-Orientales
Savoy
- Proposed: independence for
- Advocacy group: le Mouvement de Libération de la Bourgogne
Georgia
Territory of the former Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
Territory of the former South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast
Javakheti
Adjara
- Ethnic group: Adjarians
- Proposed: Autonomy for Adjara
- Political Party: Adjara Party
Germany
Italy
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Lombardy
Northern Italy
Southern Italy
Moldova
Breakaway state
Montenegro
Sandzak
- Ethnic group: Bosniak
- Proposed: Greater Autonomy
- Political party: Free Sandzaz
Netherlands
Frisia
Portugal
Romania
Transylvania and Banat
Székely Land
Russia
Secessionist movements:<br> Adygea and Karachay-Cherkessia
Bashkortostan
Dagestan
Ingushetia
Kaliningrad Oblast
Republic of Kalmykia
Krasnodar Krai
- People: Cossacks, 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
Kingiseppsky, Lomonosovsky, Volosovsky & Sosnovy Bor districts of Leningrad Oblast
Mari El
Mordovia
North Caucasian Federal District
Tatarstan
Rostov Oblast
Udmurtia
Volga Federal District
Kumykia
Astrakhan Oblast
Severia
- Ethnic group: Russians
- Proposed: independence or autonomy for Severia
- Advocacy group: Seversky Region Movement
- Ethnic group: Chuvash people
- Proposed: independence for
- Advocacy group: IrÃÂklÃÂ ChÃÂvash En
- Ethnic group: Russians
- Proposed: independence or autonomy for
- Ethnic group: Russians
- Proposed: independence or autonomy for
- Advocacy group: Smolensk Republican Center
- Ethnic group: Russians
- Proposed: independence or autonomy for
- People: Ossetians
- Proposed: independence for and unification with to form United Ossetia
Vepsia
Terek Cossack Host
Zalessian Rus Central Black Earth Region
Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug
Russian-occupied Ukraine
and
, (Annexed by Russia in 2022)
Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Russian-occupied Kherson Oblast, Russian-occupied Kharkiv Oblast,
Serbia
Autonomist movements
Vojvodina
SandÃ
¾ak
PreÃ
¡evo Valley
Slovakia
Autonomist movements
Southern Slovakia:
- People: Hungarians
- Proposed autonomous area: Territorial autonomy for the compact Hungarian ethnic block and cultural autonomy for the regions of Hungarian presence, or unification with
- Political parties (autonomist): Party of the Hungarian Community, In 2010, the party renewed their demand for autonomy.
Spain
Secessionist movements
Basque Country (autonomous community) and
- People: Catalans
- Proposal state: Catalan Republic â Catalan Countries (i.e. including other Catalan-speaking areas)
- 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, ÃÂmnium 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 RepublicÃÂ, Joves d'Esquerra Verda, Joventut Nacionalista de Catalunya, Joventut Comunista de Catalunya
Galicia
- People: Galicians
- Proposed state: Galiza (possibly containing Galicia irredenta territories in Asturias and Castille and León)
- 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), AbrenteâÂÂGalician Democratic Left, Acción Galega, RenewalâÂÂNationalist 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)
- Militant organisation: Resistência Galega
Valencia
Autonomist movements
Cartagena
León
Province of Granada
Campo de Gibraltar
Ukraine
and
,
Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Russian-occupied Kherson Oblast, Russian-occupied Kharkiv Oblast
Carpathian Ruthenia
- People: Russians in Ukraine, Hungarians in Ukraine, Rusyns
- Proposed: autonomy or independence within unitary or unification with
- Political organisations: "Subcarpathian republican party", "Derzhava", "World Congress of Rusyns", "Opposition Bloc" (partially), "Russkiy dom", "Subcarpathian Ruthenia movement" "Russkiy Mir Foundation", "Association of Zakarpattia democrats", and other pro-Russian organizations. "Rusyn separatist movement" led by the Orthodox priest Dimitry Sydor (now Archbishop of Uzhorod, in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate))
United Kingdom
Major movements
Northern Ireland
- People: Irish, Northern Irish (Nationalists)
- Proposed state: Re-unification with or independence
- Political parties: Sinn Féin, Fianna Fáil, ÃÂirÃÂgÃÂ, Social Democratic and Labour Party, Aontú, 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
- People: Scots
- Proposed state or autonomous region:
- Political parties: Scottish National Party (EFA member), Scottish Greens, Scottish Socialist Party, Alba, Red Party of Scotland,Scotland's Independence Referendum Party, Independence for Scotland Party, Scottish Libertarian Party, parties: Scottish National Party (EFA member)
- Advocacy groups: Scottish Independence Convention (Common Weal, People's Voice, Scottish CND, Voice for Scotland, Women for Independence), Labour for Independence, Siol nan Gaidheal
See also: Welsh nationalism and Welsh independence
Minor movements
Northern England
London
- People: Londoners
- Proposed state: London
- Political party: Londonpendence Party
Fife
- Proposed state: Fife
- Political Party: Fife National Party
- Proposed state:
- Political Party: Norfolk Independence Party
Separatist movements of dependent territories
See also
References
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