While some far right parties joined the UEN I and the british UKIP (co-)founded the EDD group, the french FN and the belgian VB tried again to form a technical group. When this possibility was abandoned judicially in 2001, they’ve been degraded, together with their new partners, the italian Lega Nord and the austrian FPÖ, to non-attached MEPs.

The long-lasting exclusion by other parties and parliamentary groups, the so-called cordon sanitaire, led to the situation, that the majoritarian group within the group of non-attached MEPs originated (in almost every election period) from the far right end of the spectrum. There have always been non far right non-attached mandatees too, who will not be documented here.