Union for Europe of the Nations

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Union for Europe of the Nations
European Parliament group
Union for Europe of the Nations logo.svg
Formal nameUnion for Europe of the Nations Group [1]
Ideology
Political position Right-wing [8] [9] [10]
European parties Alliance for Europe of the Nations
From20 July 1999 [11] [12]
To1 July 2009
Preceded by Union for Europe
Chaired by Charles Pasqua, [1] (99-04)
Brian Crowley, [13] (04-09)
Cristiana Muscardini, [14] (04-09)
MEP(s) 31 [15] (20 July 1999)
30 [16] (22 July 1999)
23 [17] (30 April 2004)
30 [18] (5 May 2004)
27 [19] [20] (4 June 2004)
27 [15] [21] (20 July 2004)
44 [22] [23] (10 February 2008)
35 [24] [25] (11 June 2009)
Website uengroup.org

Union for Europe of the Nations (UEN) [26] [27] was a national-conservative, Eurosceptic political group that operated in the European Parliament between 1999 and 2009. At its height in February 2008, it had 44 MEPs. UEN was affiliated with the Alliance for Europe of the Nations political party.

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UEN was formed as the successor of the Union for Europe group. Its members were parties such as the Rally for France, Italian National Alliance and Lega Nord, Irish Fianna Fáil, and Polish Law and Justice. After the 2009 European Parliament election, UEN was dissolved due to its member parties opting to switch to other groups.

History

UEN was formed on 20 July 1999 [11] for the 5th European Parliament, supplanting the earlier Union for Europe. [5] Its member parties Fianna Fáil (FF) and the National Alliance (AN) were the driving forces behind the group, despite their being alone in the group in their support for the proposed European Constitution. Gianfranco Fini, leader of AN, was a member of the Convention which drafted the Constitution, while Bertie Ahern, leader of FF, negotiated the treaty as President of the European Council in 2004.

UEN was a heterogeneous group: broadly Eurosceptic and national-conservative, it included some parties which were either uncomfortable with this characterisation or eventually evolved into something different. More specifically, FF was a "catch all" centre-right party and later joined the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, AN was a conservative party which eventually joined the European People's Party through The People of Freedom, and Lega Nord was supportive of a "Europe of Regions". [28]

After the 2009 European elections the group officially had 35 members but this figure included parties such as AN and FF, which had already committed to leave. [29] UEN members migrated to other groups after the elections in June 2009 and before the Seventh European Parliament term started on 14 July 2009. FF had already left for the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) Group, For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK and Law and Justice MEPs went to the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) Group, and Lega Nord, the Danish People's Party and Order and Justice MEPs went to Europe of Freedom and Democracy (EFD) Group. With this loss of members, the UEN group was dissolved by default.

Membership

1999–2004

CountryNameIdeology MEPs
Flag of France.svg  France Rally for France RPF Gaullism
National conservatism
12 / 87
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy National Alliance AN National conservatism
Post-fascism
8 / 87
Segni Pact PS Christian democracy
Economic liberalism
1 / 87
Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland Fianna Fáil FF Irish republicanism
Conservatism
6 / 15
Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal CDS – People's Party CDS–PP Conservatism
Christian democracy
2 / 25
Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark Danish People's Party DF Danish nationalism
Right-wing populism
1 / 16

2004–2009

CountryNameIdeology MEPs [22] [23]
Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark Danish People's Party DF Danish nationalism
Right-wing populism
1 / 14
Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland Fianna Fáil FF Irish republicanism
Conservatism
4 / 13
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy National Alliance AN National conservatism
Post-fascism
8 / 78
Lega Nord LN Regionalism
Right-wing populism
4 / 78
The Right LD Neo-fascism
National conservatism
1 / 78
Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK TB/LNNK National conservatism
Economic liberalism
4 / 9
Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania Lithuanian Peasant Popular Union LVLS Social conservatism
Agrarianism
1 / 13
Order and Justice TT National conservatism
Right-wing populism
1 / 13
Flag of Poland.svg  Poland Law and Justice PiS National conservatism
Right-wing populism
8 / 54
League of Polish Families LPR National conservatism
Political Catholicism
5 / 54
Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland SRP Agrarian socialism
Left-wing populism
3 / 54
Polish People's Party "Piast" PSL Piast Christian democracy
Agrarianism
3 / 54

2009

CountryNameIdeology MEPs [24] [25]
Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark Danish People's Party DF Danish nationalism
Right-wing populism
2 / 13
Flag of Poland.svg  Poland Law and Justice PiS National conservatism
Right-wing populism
15 / 50
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Lega Nord LN Regionalism
Right-wing populism
9 / 72
Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland Fianna Fáil FF Conservatism
Populism
3 / 12
Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK TB/LNNK National conservatism
Economic liberalism
1 / 9
Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania Order and Justice TT National conservatism
Right-wing populism
2 / 12
Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia Slovak National Party SNS Ultranationalism
Right-wing populism
1 / 13

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