Eurodroite
Euroright
| |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | Ed |
| President | Giorgio Almirante |
| Founder | Giorgio Almirante |
| Founded | 19 April 1978 |
| Dissolved | 24 July 1984 |
| Succeeded by | Group of the European Right (political group) |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Far-right |
| European Parliament group | Non-Inscrits |
| 1st European Parliament | 4 / 410 |
Eurodroite (French: [œɾɔdɾwatə]; English: Euroright) was a far-right European political alliance that took part in the 1979 European Parliament election. It did not register as a European political party or a political group of the European Parliament because it only had four seats, all held by the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement. The Group of the European Right became its formal successor following the 1984 European Parliament election.
History
[edit]Giorgio Almirante, the president of the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement (MSI), envisioned to create an alliance of far-right political parties from Europe.[1][2] Almirante said that the objective of the alliance would be to "prevent the European Parliament shifting to the left" and that it would be strongly anti-communist.[1] At the founding congress of Eurodroite on 19 April 1978, Almirante's MSI was also joined by the French Party of New Forces (PFN) of Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour and New Force (FN) of Blas Piñar.[3]
Shortly before the formation of Eurodroite, Tixier-Vignancour was supposed to be a candidate of Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front.[1] Another meeting of the Eurodroite was held on 27 June in Paris, with about two thousand participants, according to the Le Monde diplomatique newspaper.[1][4] Left-wing organisations held a counter-protest to the meeting in Paris.[4] Le Pen was critical of the Eurodroite project because of the participation of PFN.[1]
In the 1979 European Parliament election, MSI was the only party from the Eurodroite that crossed the threshold, obtaining four seats. It was thus unable to form a group in the European Parliament.[5]
The Eurodroite alliance was succeeded in 1984, when the Group of the European Right was officially formed.[6] FN and the National Political Union (EPEN) of former military dictator Georgios Papadopoulos were members of this new group, while PFN was replaced by Le Pen's National Front.[3]
Ideology
[edit]The Eurodroite was a far-right alliance composed of neo-fascist parties.[7] It opposed the rise of Eurocommunism.[8]
Members
[edit]The following parties were members of the Eurodroite alliance.[1][3] The FN and EPEN did not contest the 1979 election, as Spain and Greece were not yet member states of the European Union.[1][9]
| Country | Name | Ideology | MEPs | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Italy
|
Italian Social Movement | MSI | Neo-fascism Italian nationalism |
4 / 410
| |
 France
|
Party of New Forces | PFN | Neo-fascism Anti-communism |
0 / 410
| |
 Belgium
|
Party of New Forces | PFN | Neo-fascism Neo-Nazism |
0 / 410
| |
 Greece
|
National Political Union | EPEN | Metaxism Greek nationalism |
Not in the EU | |
 Spain
|
New Force | FN | Neo-fascism Francoism |
Not in the EU | |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g "Aux origines du RN (4) – Rivalité entre fascistes : l'épisode du Parti des forces nouvelles (PFN)". www.contretemps.eu. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
- ^ "A euro-right with Spanish and French support". Patterns of Prejudice. 12 (3): 9–10. January 1978. doi:10.1080/0031322X.1978.9969439. ISSN 0031-322X.
- ^ a b c Magliaro, Massimo (2017). "The Italian Social Movement". Cahiers d'histoire du nationalisme. 11: 149–150, 157. ISSN 2493-6715.
- ^ a b Julien, Claude (1 July 1978). "Nostalgies et fascisme". Le Monde diplomatique (in French). Retrieved 13 June 2024.
- ^ Shields, James (2007). The extreme right in France: from Pétain to Le Pen. Routledge. p. 182. ISBN 978-0-415-37200-8.
- ^ Igounet, Valérie; Picco, Pauline (2016). "Histoire du logo de deux "partis frères" entre France et Italie (1972-2016)". Histoire@Politique: 6–9.
- ^ Albertini, Dominique. "Front national : le plus europhile des partis europhobes". Libération (in French). Retrieved 13 June 2024.
- ^ "Almirante: "Ante el eurocomunismo, nosotros somos la euroderecha"". El País (in Spanish). 17 February 1978. ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
- ^ "Me Tixier-Vignancour conduira la liste de l'Eurodroite". Le Monde.fr (in French). 1 March 1979. Retrieved 13 June 2024.