The ENF relyed especially on the spanish Falange, the german Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (NPD) and the italian Forza Nuova (FNi), later above all on the romanian Noua Dreaptă. At the beginning there were some middle and eastern european splinter parties

Neither the European People’s Party nor its group in the EP belong to the far right. But since, once in a while, it hosted MEPs who departed from or defected to the one or other far right party, it seemed

More of a pact than a party, Euro Right served as a working title for several meetings of representatives of the spanish Fuerza Nueva (FNe), the french Parti des Forces Nouvelles (PFN) and the italian Movimento Sociale Italiano (MSI) from

The UfE group was a fusion of the groups European Democratic Alliance (EDA) and Forza Europa (FE). While the first one was oriented more conservatively, the latter was made up and dominated by straight right-wing Forza Italia and later joined

The ECR group, initially founded by the british Conserrvative Party and the polish PiS, should be a pragmatic EU-critical alternative to the group of the European People’s Party (EPP) which both once were part of. From the beginning on it

In its second turn, the ECR group made a significant shift to the right by welcoming parties such as the german Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), the danish DF, the finnish Perussuomalaiset (PS) and the bulgarian Vatreshna Makedonska Revolyutsionna Organizatsiya –

The ECR group made a definite step further into the far right when parties like the dutch FvD, the spanish Vox, or (already at the end of the past legislature) the italian FdI. At the same time the number of

Neither the European People’s Party nor its group in the EP belong to the far right. But since, once in a while, it hosted MEPs who departed from or defected to the one or other far right party, it seemed