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Alliance of European National Movements
PresidentBéla Kovács
Founded24 October 2009
IdeologyUltranationalism,
Euroscepticism
Political positionFar-right
European Parliament groupNone
International affiliationNone
Website
aemn.eu

The Alliance of European National Movements (AENM) is a European political party that was formed in Budapest on 24 October 2009 by a number of nationalist and far-right parties from countries in Europe.[1] The alliance's founding members were Jobbik (the Alliance was established during their sixth party congress), France's National Front, Italy's Tricolour Flame, Sweden's National Democrats and Belgium's National Front.[2] At the end of 2011, Marine Le Pen, new leader of the French National Front resigned from the AENM and joined the EAF (European Alliance for Freedom).[3]

History

In November 2009 the British National Party claimed that the Alliance had been extended to nine parties,[4] but this information was not confirmed by the AENM President Bruno Gollnisch in 2012.[5]

At a press conference held in Strasbourg on 16 June 2010 the political leadership of the AENM was confirmed as follows: President Bruno Gollnisch, Vice President Nick Griffin, Treasurer Béla Kovács, and Secretary General Valerio Cignetti.[6][7]

In October 2013, Marine Le Pen requested that Gollnisch and Jean-Marie Le Pen leave the AENM in order to join the more moderate EAF and so unify the French National Front under the EAF banner.[8] Marine Le Pen has tried to "de-demonize" the party, i.e. to give it a more acceptable image. Cooperation with the openly racist and antisemitic parties present in the AENM was seen as contradictory to these aims. On November 7th, the two declared they have followed the request and left the AENM. This also meant the end of Gollnisch's term as the AENM's chairman,[9] a place occupied by Béla Kovács since January of 2014.[10]

On 20 March 2014 Ukraine's Svoboda announced its withdrawal of its observer status from AENM citing the stance by several members of the alliance supporting the 2014 Russian military intervention in Ukraine.[11][12]

Members

Member parties[5]

Associate members (individuals)

Party Abbr. Country MEPs National
Legislators
Jobbik Jobbik  Hungary 3 23
Tricolour Flame FT  Italy 0 0
National Democratic Party ND  Bulgaria 0 0
British National Party BNP  United Kingdom 0 0
Republican Social Movement[6] MSR  Spain 0 0
National Renovator Party[6] PNR  Portugal 0 0
Name Country Party affiliation
Béla Kovács  Hungary Jobbik
Nick Griffin  United Kingdom British National Party
Dimitar Stoyanov  Bulgaria Ataka
Christian Verougstraete  Belgium Vlaams Belang
Bartosz Jozef Kownacki  Poland Law and Justice
Dailis Alfonsas Barakauskas  Lithuania Order and Justice

Former observer members

Party Abbr. Country MEPs National
Legislators
All-Ukrainian Union "Svoboda"[11] ВОС  Ukraine Non EU country 37/445[13]

See also

References

  1. ^ Far-right European parties forge alliance, EUbusiness.com, 2009-10-25, A handful of European nationalist political parties have formed an alliance to represent them in Brussels... ... Negotiations are underway with like-minded Austrian, British, Spanish and Portuguese parties. {{citation}}: External link in |publisher= (help)
  2. ^ European nationalist parties form alliance, Taiwan News (source: Associated Press), 2009-10-24, Hungary's Jobbik, France's National Front, Italy's Three-Color Flame, Sweden's National Democrats and Belgium's National Front formed the Alliance of European National Movements on Saturday and say they expect parties from Britain, Austria, Spain and Portugal to join them soon.
  3. ^ http://www.frontnational.com/2012/01/marine-le-pen-en-autriche/
  4. ^ BNP in alliance with nationalists, BBC News, 2009-11-12
  5. ^ a b Template:Fr icon Réunion de l’AEMN à Hédervár: une profession de foi pour l’Europe des patries, Bruno Gollnisch, 2012-10-24
  6. ^ a b c "Alliance of European National Movements Expands to 9 Parties," British National Party. Retrieved 18-10-2013.
  7. ^ Meade, Geoff (2009-11-12), Alliance of European Nationalist Mouvements, Fiamma Tricolore
  8. ^ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/10400740/Frances-FN-to-team-up-with-other-far-Right-parties-for-European-elections.html
  9. ^ http://www.rtl.fr/actualites/info/politique/article/fn-jean-marie-le-pen-obeit-a-sa-fille-et-quitte-le-parti-pan-europeen-7766551739
  10. ^ http://www.tribunadeeuropa.com/?p=18105
  11. ^ a b Template:Uk icon "Свобода" і європейські націоналісти: конфлікти є, війни нема "Svoboda" and European nationalists: conflicts are not the war, BBC Ukrainian (24 January 2013)
    Europe's Far Right Is Embracing Putin, Business Insider (10 April 2014)
  12. ^ Oleh Tiahnybok withdraws Svoboda's membership within the Alliance of European National Movements
  13. ^ only 445 were elected out of 450 seats
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