Alliance for Peace and Freedom

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Alliance for Peace and Freedom
AbbreviationAPF
President/Chairman Roberto Fiore
Vice-Chairman Nick Griffin
Honorary Chairman Jean-Marie Le Pen
Founded4 February 2015
Preceded byEuropean National Front
HeadquartersSentier de Montigny 6060, Gilly, Belgium
Think tank Europa Terra Nostra
Ideology Ultranationalism [1]
Neo-fascism [2]
Anti-globalism [3]
Anti-Zionism [3]
Anti-immigration
Third Position [4]
Factions: [lower-alpha 1]
Neo-Nazism
Political position Far-right [5]
European Parliament group Non-Inscrits
European Parliament
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Party flag
Flag of Alliance for Peace and Freedom.svg
Website
apfeurope.eu

The Alliance for Peace and Freedom (APF) is a far-right European political party founded on 4 February 2015. The main member parties were involved in the now defunct European National Front.

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The party wishes to establish a network of nationalist movements across Europe that will cooperate to strengthen their shared ideals. [6] The party cooperates and supports other nationalist groups across Europe that are not members, these include former party member Golden Dawn, Tricolour Flame, [7] Alternative for Sweden [8] and the ELAM. [9] The party is described as neo-Nazi by several newspapers, [10] [11] and neo-fascist by others. [12] [13]

The group works for "a Europe of sovereign nations in which the independent states work together on a confederated basis", and for the perennity and the safeguarding of ancestral European traditions such as the Christian tradition. [14]

Europa Terra Nostra

The Europa Terra Nostra is the official European political foundation of the APF. The ETN was founded 3 July 2015 in Berlin where it continues to operate as the official think-tank of the APF and serves as the European framework for national foundations/think-tanks recognised by APF member-parties. [15] [16]

International connections

The APF works to co-ordinate European nationalist parties across the continent. It helped establish the Italy for the Italians coalition composed of APF member New Force along with Tricolour Flame. In 2017 the APF aided in the formation of the National Identity Bloc in Europe coalition, APF members, United Romania Party and Noua Dreaptă joined forces with the Greater Romania Party. [17] In 2019 The APF played a part in forming the ADÑ Identidad Española coalition, composed of APF member National Democracy, FE-JONS, Spanish Alternative and La Falange. [18]

The party also maintains contacts with the former leader of the National Rally, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who was expelled from his party in 2015. [19] He joined the group in March 2018. [20]

The APF maintains contacts with conservative circles in Russia with the group being invited to conferences hosted by the Kremlin. [21] The party supports Vladimir Putin and United Russia's leadership of Russia, especially in the Russo-Ukrainian War and Syrian Civil War. [22] The party is supportive of Alexander Lukashenko and maintains contacts with the Liberal Democratic Party of Belarus. [23]

The APF strongly supports Serbian nationalists and is opposed to international recognition of Kosovo, it has worked in the past with the Serbian Radical Party. [24] On 26 September 2021, the APF held a conference in Belgrade hosted by the Serbian Right. [25]

It maintains friendly relations with the Syrian Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party government with deputy chairman, Nick Griffin being invited to Syria by Bashar al-Assad multiple times as an ambassador. [26] Meetings between the party and the Syrian Social Nationalist Party have been held with the AFP publicly supporting the SSNP. [27] The group maintains contacts with Hezbollah and has hosted at least one meeting with Hezbollah leaders. [3] The group has been in regular contact with Lebanese leader Michel Aoun and the ruling Free Patriotic Movement. [28] [ non-primary source needed ]

Member parties

CountryPartyLeader Political group
in 2019–2024 term
European ParliamentNational lower housesPosition in national legislature
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Belgium Nation Hervé Van Laethem None
0 / 21
0 / 150
No seats
Flanders and Identity [29]
Vlaanderen Identitair (VLI)
Rob Verreycken None
0 / 21
0 / 150
No seats
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic Workers' Party of Social Justice [15]
Dělnická strana sociální spravedlnosti (DSSS)
Tomáš Vandas None
0 / 21
0 / 200
No seats
Flag of France.svg France Jeanne Committees [30] (Associate)
Comités Jeanne (CJ)
Jean-Marie Le Pen None
0 / 74
0 / 577
No seats
The Nationalists [31] [25]
Les Nationalistes
Yvan Benedetti None
0 / 74
0 / 577
No seats
Flag of Germany.svg Germany The Homeland [15] (formerly the National Democratic Party of Germany)
Die Heimat(DH) (formerly the Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands)
Frank Franz None
0 / 96
0 / 709
No seats
Flag of Greece.svg Greece Popular Greek Patriotic Union [32]
Laiki Elliniki Patriotiki Enosi (LEPEN)
Christos Rigas None
0 / 21
0 / 300
No seats
Flag of Italy.svg Italy New Force [15]
Forza Nuova (FN)
Roberto Fiore None
0 / 73
0 / 630
No seats
Flag of Romania.svg Romania New Right [7]
Noua Dreaptă (ND)
Tudor Ionescu None
0 / 32
0 / 136
No seats
Flag of Slovakia.svg Slovakia People's Party - Our Slovakia [15]
Ľudová strana – Naše Slovensko (ĽSNS)
Marian Kotleba None
0 / 14
0 / 150
No seats
Flag of Spain.svg Spain National Democracy [15]
Democracia Nacional (DN)
Luis Mateos de Vega None
0 / 54
0 / 350
No seats
The Phalanx [25]
La Falange (FE/Falange)
Manuel Andrino LoboNone
0 / 54
0 / 350
No seats

Former member parties

CountryPartyAbbr.LeaderLeft the AFP
Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark Party of the Danes
Danish: Danskernes Parti
DP Daniel Carlsen 2017 (party dissolved) [33]
Flag of France.svg France The French Dissent  [ fr ] [34]
French: La Dissidence Française
DFVincent Vauclin [35] 2020 (party dissolved)
Flag of Greece.svg Greece Golden Dawn
Greek: Χρυσή Αυγή
ΧΑ Nikolaos Michaloliakos 2017 [ citation needed ]
National Popular Consciousness [36]
Ethnikí Laïkí Syneídisi
ELASYN Giannis Lagos 2023 (party dissolved)
Flag of Romania.svg Romania United Romania Party [15]
Romanian: Partidul România Unită
PRU Robert Bugă 2019 (party dissolved)
Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden Party of the Swedes
Swedish: Svenskarnas parti
SvP Stefan Jacobsson 2015 (party dissolved) [37]

Executive Board

MemberPositionCountryPolitical party
Roberto Fiore [38] President/ChairmanFlag of Italy.svg Italy FN
Nick Griffin [38] Deputy chairmanFlag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
Jean-Marie Le Pen [39] Honorary chairmanFlag of France.svg  France CJ
Tomáš Vandas [38] Board memberFlag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic DSSS
Gonzalo Martín García [38] Board memberFlag of Spain.svg Spain DN
Hervé Van Laethem  [ fr ] [38] Board memberFlag of Belgium (civil).svg Belgium Nation
Olivier Wyssa [38] Board memberFlag of France.svg  France
Martin Beluský [38] Board memberFlag of Slovakia.svg Slovakia ĽSNS
Ingo Stawitz  [ de ] [38] Board memberFlag of Germany.svg Germany NPD

MEPs

Eighth European Parliament:

Member Political group
in 2014–2019 term
CountryPolitical party
Jean Marie Le Pen Non-Inscrits Flag of France.svg France CJ
Udo Voigt Non-Inscrits Flag of Germany.svg Germany NPD

Ninth European Parliament:

Member Political group
in 2019–2024 term
CountryPolitical party
Ioannis Lagos Non-Inscrits Flag of Greece.svg Greece ELASYN

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Notes

  1. Several parties such as the DSSS, DN or NPD are openly neo-Nazi. Several board members such as Tomáš Vandas or Stefan Jacobsson are or have past leadership in neo-Nazi parties.