Eurodroite

Euroright Eurodroite Eurodestra
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	Neo-fascism Euroscepticism
Political position	Far-right
European Parliament group	Non-Inscrits
1st European Parliament	4 / 410

Eurodroite (French pronunciation: [øʁɔdʁwat] ; 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

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

The Eurodroite was a far-right alliance composed of neo-fascist parties. ^[7] It opposed the rise of Eurocommunism. ^[8]

Members

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

• European Right (1984–1989)
• European Right (1989–1994)
• Euronat (1997-2009)

References

1. "Aux origines du RN (4) – Rivalité entre fascistes : l'épisode du Parti des forces nouvelles (PFN)". www.contretemps.eu. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
2. "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.
3. Magliaro, Massimo (2017). "The Italian Social Movement". Cahiers d'histoire du nationalisme. 11: 149–150, 157. ISSN   2493-6715.
4. Julien, Claude (1 July 1978). "Nostalgies et fascisme". Le Monde diplomatique (in French). Retrieved 13 June 2024.
5. Shields, James (2007). The extreme right in France: from Pétain to Le Pen. Routledge. p. 182. ISBN   978-0-415-37200-8.
6. Igounet, Valérie; Picco, Pauline (2016). "Histoire du logo de deux "partis frères" entre France et Italie (1972-2016)". Histoire@Politique: 6–9.
7. Albertini, Dominique. "Front national : le plus europhile des partis europhobes". Libération (in French). Retrieved 13 June 2024.
8. "Almirante: "Ante el eurocomunismo, nosotros somos la euroderecha"". El País (in Spanish). 17 February 1978. ISSN   1134-6582 . Retrieved 20 January 2024.
9. "Me Tixier-Vignancour conduira la liste de l'Eurodroite". Le Monde.fr (in French). 1 March 1979. Retrieved 13 June 2024.