It is the European section of the World Evangelical Alliance and is based in Zürich and Bonn.
The EEA has existed as a regional group since the 1950s, but traces its roots to the 1846 conference at which the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) was established.
[1] It represents 23 million evangelical Christians across Europe[2] and is one of the four main regional church bodies in Europe.
[3] It also has an office in Brussels and is part of the European Parliament Intergroup on Freedom of Religion or Belief and Religious Tolerance[4] The Co-Secretary General of the EEA are Connie Duante and Jan Wessels since October 2022.
[5] In 2022, the EEA signalled its opposition to antisemitism with its adoption of the IHRA working definition.