The European Parliament
The European Parliament (EP) is one of the legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions. Together with the Council of the European Union (known as the Council and informally as the Council of Ministers), it adopts European legislation, following a proposal by the European Commission. The Parliament is composed of 720 members (MEPs), as of the June 2024 European elections.
Analysis
Entities in the European Parliament
Group of the European Right
In 1984 finally, the electoral results were sufficient for the french FN and the italian MSI, alongside with the far less relevant greek EPEN and north-irish UUP, to form a parliamentary group.
Identity and Democracy
Identity and Democracy is a far-right political group of the European Parliament, launched on 13th June 2019 and composed of nationalist, right-wing populist and eurosceptic national parties from ten European nations. It is the successor to the Europe of Nations
Identity and Democracy Group
The ID is the broadened continuation of the ENF (2015-2019). Newly accompanying its core parties are the finnish PS, the estonian Eesti Konservatiivne Rahvaerakond (EKRE) and the danish DF. It’s the first straight far right EP group that, due to
Identity, Tradition, Souvereignty
The ITS group came into being after several years of intensive preparatory work, initiated above all by the austrian Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs (FPÖ) and the french FN. After just eleven months, it lost its group status when the romanian MEPs
Independence/Democracy
After the EDD, the Ind/Dem is the successive parliamentary group project of the british UKIP. By including some members like the greek LAOS, the polish LPR and the italian LN, the Ind/Dem was a significant turn to the right. Halfway
Movement for a Europe of Liberties and Democracy
The MELD has evolved practically out of the EFD group in 2011, apart from the british UKIP and the dutch SGP all EFD group members were involved in its foundation. But the focus of work remained on the group and
Movement for a Europe of Nations and Freedom
Since the elections to the EP8 in 2014 didn‘t bring enough mandates to form an own parliamentary group, the MENF was founded as a euro-party to begin with. Previously, there were several meetings and public events of relevant actors of
Non Attached members 1
Although the Euro Right alliance brought new communication and interchange on a European level, it was unsuccessful with regard to the EP. The italian MEPs of the MSI were the only European mandates gained and they remained non-attached to any
Timeline
With the following timeline you can explore the evolution of the representation of far-right parties and groups in the European Parliament.