The Breton Party (PB) has decided to to stand in the 2004 European election with a program that places emphasis on federalism at the European level and the need to establish an own Breton political power. The party says that its aim is to go hand in hand with " Basque, Catalan, Scottish and Flemish" parties in order to achieve these goals.

The Executive Committee of the PB has also released a "solemn appeal to Bretons", with the purpose of helping them deal with the crisis that is facing Brittany. The crisis, PB argues, is hitting virtually all areas of private and public life, and that situation is causing Britrany to "be dying, emptying all of its blood as thousands of jobs disappear and youths prepare to leave".

PB considers that "a new Brittany can only be given birth out of a Breton political movement" and that nothing can be expected from the "hexagonal" (French) parties. Given these circumsances, there is only one dilemma, according to PB: either "to continue on the deadend road of submission " or else to choose the "renewal through the assertion of a Breton power".

Other Breton parties prepare to contest the 2014 elections

This "renewal" can indeed be defended from a number of Breton parties. Ouest-France yesterday said that a new Breton pro-autonomy party, Breizh Europa, has announced its establishment. Breizh Europa aims to achieve "an autonomous Brittany within a federal Europe." The party wants to contest the 2014 French local election, and also says that it is ready to look for a common ground with other parties, such as the PB, the Breton Democratic Union (UDB) and the Greens.

The UDB, indeed, expects to contest the European elections within a broader coalition including Alsatian, Catalan, Basque, Occitan, Corsican and Savoy parties, which hold together as the Regions and Peoples with Solidarity (R&PS). This group of parties said in August that they hoped to renew the coalition with the Europe Ecology-Greens (EELV), as it did in 2009. Then, one of the R&PS candidates (Corsican François Alfonsi) was elected MEP.