Europe of Nations and Freedom

Europe of Nations and Freedom (French: Europe of Nations and Freedom , ENL) is a political group in the European Parliament lancé is 15 June 2015. With 37 members, the group is The Smallest in the European Parliament. The largest party of the MEPs is the National Front representing almost half of ENL’s MEPs with 17 MEPs out of 40.

The ENF is the parliamentary group of the Movement for a Europe of Nations and Freedom ALTHOUGH PVV ’s MEPs are members of the European Alliance for Freedom and other MEPs are Without Any European affiliations.

History

Following the 2014 European elections is 22-25 May 2014, the European Alliance for Freedom (FAE), comprenant right-wing and far-right sides from across Europe, avocation to form a stable, parliamentary group in the European Parliament prior to the start of the 8th term . Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty (ITS) group in 2007. [12] A previous attempt to form a far-right group in the European Parliament during the sixth term was the short-lived

On 28 May 2014, it was announced at a press conference in Brussels that the alliance led by Marine The Pen of the French National Front (FN) and Geert Wilders of the Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV), including Lega North leader Matteo Salvini , were in negotiations to form a parliamentary group. [13] On 24 June 2014, it was announced that the Pen / Wilders alliance had failed to gather the requisite 25 MEPs from seven member states, thus starting the parliamentary term Non-registered members. [14] [15] Later in 2014, the EAF was succeeded by theMovement for a Europe of Nations and Freedom (MENL), without the participation of the PVV. [16]

On 15 June 2015, Marine Le Pen announced that a new group in the European Parliament would be launched, including MEPs from the FN, PVV, Lega Nord, the Freedom Party of Austria (FPO), Flemish Interest (VB ), [4] [17] [18] The Polish Congress of the New Right (KNP) and UK Independence Party member Janice Atkinson . [19] Together with the availability of the UKIP MEP, the creation of the group with representation of seven different members states was made possible by the recent side-lining of two historical but controversial figures of the far-right: Jean-Marie Le Penwas suspended by his own National Front , while Janusz Korwin-Mikke’s departure from the KNP allowed Marine The Pen and Wilders to accept the two remaining members of the party in their group, something they had rejected during the discussions held in June 2014. [20] [21] Among the FN delegation, Bruno Gollnisch did not join in solidarity with former president Jean-Marie Le Pen, while Aymeric Chauprade , a trip to Fiji , [20] joined a few days later. [22] One of the four seats won by the PVV was vacant at the time of the group’s creation until 8 September 2015, when Auke ZijlstraREPLACED Hans Jansen , Who HAD died on 5 May 2015. [23]

In July 2015, the European Parliament decided to earn € 3 million per year from EU funds. [24] By adding up all the grants for the political party and think tank, the funds will amount to $ 17.5 million for the next four years of their mandate. [25]

On July 15, 2015, Romanian MEP Laurenţiu Rebega left both the Conservative Party and the S & D group to join the ENF. [26] On 9 November 2015 Aymeric Chauprade left the group. [27]

Review of the votes in the EU The Kremlin’s interests (eg, the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement ), Hungary’s political capital found that the future members of the ENF voted „no“ in 93% of cases. [28] [ falling? – discuss ]

The first convention of the ENL took place on the 28th & 29th of January 2016 in Milan with all the leaders of the ENL’s members, along with Freedom and Direct Democracy(SPD) leader Tomio Okamura , whose party is not a member of the ENL MEPs. During this convention, each leader makes a speech followed by the next day. [29]

During the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party convention on 30 April 2016, it was announced that Marcus Pretzell MEP would join the ENL group. [30] The AfD’s other MEP Beatrix von Storch joined the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (EFDD) group in March 2016, both MEPs having been expelled from the ECR group. [31]

On October 2nd, 3 MEPs left the National Front and the EFDD group two days later.

Membership

The ENF group has 37 members from nine different countries. [32] [33]

Country # National Party ME P EU party
 austria
2/18

Freedom Party of Austria (FPO)
Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs
Franz Obermayr EAF [34]
Georg Mayer
2/18

Harald Vilimsky MENL [35]
Barbara Kappel
 belgium
1/21

Flemish Interest (VB)
Vlaams Belang
Gerolf Annemans
 la France
17/74

National Front (FN)
Front National
Louis Aliot
Marie-Christine Arnautu
Nicolas Bay
Dominique Bilde
Marie-Christine Boutonnet
Steeve Briois
Edouard Ferrand
Sylvie Goddyn
Jean-François Jalkh
Gilles Lebreton
Christelle Lechevalier
(Joined the group on 19 June 2017, replacing Marine Le Pen , who was elected MP in France on 18 June 2017)
Philippe Loiseau
(Had replaced Jeanne Pothain , who resigned before sitting) [36] [37]
Dominique Martin
Joëlle Mélin
Bernard Monot
Jean-Luc Schaffhauser
Mylène Troszczynski
 Germany
1/96

The Blue Party (BP)
Die blaue Partei
Marcus Pretzell
(Joined the group on 1 May 2016)
None
 italy
5/73

Northern League (LN)
Lega North
Mara Bizzotto MENL [35]
Mario Borghezio
Angelo Ciocca
( Who was on July 7, 2016 Gianluca Buonanno , who died on June 5, 2016)
Lorenzo Fontana
( Flavio Tosi , who resigned to be mayor of Verona ) [38]
Matteo Salvini
1/73

Independent (elected as M5S ) [39] Marco Zanni
(Joined the group on 11 January 2017)
None
 Netherlands
4/26

Party for Freedom (PVV)
Partij voor de Vrijheid
Marcel de Graaff None
André Elissen
(Joined the group on 13 June 2017, replacing Vicky Maeijer , who was elected MP in the Netherlands on 15 March 2017) [40]
Olaf Stuger
Auke Zijlstra
(Joined the group on 8 September 2015, replacing Hans Jansen , who died on 5 May 2015) [41]
 poland
1/51

Congress of the New Right (KNP)
Kongres Nowej Prawicy
Michał Marusik EAF [34]
1/51

Stanisław Żółtek None
 romania
1/32

Independent (elected as Conservative ) [42] Laurenţiu Rebega
(Joined the group on 15 July 2015)
 United Kingdom
1/73

Independent (elected as UKIP ) [43] Janice Atkinson

Former members

Member state Party MEPs from to Moved to
la France Train National Front
Now The Free French [44]
Aymeric Chauprade 24 June 2015 [22] 9 November 2015 [27] Non-Registered
Former National Front
Now The Patriots
Mireille d’Ornano 15 June 2015 October 2, 2017 EFDD
Sophie Montel
Florian Philippot

Leadership

  • Co-President: Nicolas Bay
  • Co-President: Marcel de Graaff
  • Vice-President: Gerolf Annemans
  • Vice-President: Janice Atkinson
  • Vice-President: Michał Marusik
  • Vice-President: Edouard Ferrand
  • Vice-President: Marcus Pretzell
  • Vice-President: Matteo Salvini
  • Vice-President: Harald Vilimsky
  • General Secretary: Ludovic of Danne [45]

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