The continuity of the ER group could only be achieved by a significant break, that was leaving behind the italian MSI. The new partners of the french FN though, the belgian VB and the german REP, did not achieve to formulate a common program, so they declared themselves as a so-called technical group.
extra-parliamentary alliance/party: European Right (ER)
ideological orientations: economic neoliberalism, value-oriented social conservatism, völkisch nationalism, neo-fascism, EU-hostility