In spring 1997, Jean-Marie Le Pen, then unrivalled leader of the french Front National (FNf), invited several party delegations from western and eastern Europe to a meeting in Paris. The loose network was already named EuroNat on this occasion. Only few years after the break-up of the Euro-Right, it offered a frame in which the italian MSI (after its split-up in 1994/1995 as MS-Fiamma Tricolore) and the belgian Vlaams Blok (VB) could obviously co-exist again. For shorter or longer periods, east european right-wing newcomers like the croation Hrvatska Stranka Prava (HSP), the romanian Partidul România Mare (PRM), the slovak Slovenská národná strana (SNSsk), the serbian Srpska Radikalna Stranka (SRS), the ukrainian Svoboda and the hungarian Magyar Igazság és Élet Pártja (MIÉP) were part of the network, too. When, in 2005, an official manifest was signed, most of the eastern European partners, as well as the VB, weren’t involved anymore. The practical outcomes of it haven‘t been much more than bilateral support visits to electoral campaigns for example. More significant was the participation of quite some EuroNat members in the founding of the parliamentary group Identity, Tradition, Souvereignty in 2007.

EP groups: TGI, non-attached MEPs, later ITS

ideological orientations: from economic neoliberalism to protectionism, value-oriented social conservatism, neo-fascism, EU-hostility