European Alliance for Freedom
| European Alliance for Freedom | |
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| Secretary General | Sharon Ellul Bonici |
| Treasurer | Kent Ekeroth |
| founding | 2010 |
| resolution | 2017 |
| Headquarters | Birkirkara , Malta |
| Alignment | Right-wing populist , right-wing conservative , Eurosceptic , nationalist |
| Government grants | approx. 420,000 € (2017) |
| Website | www.eurallfree.org |
The European Alliance for Freedom (EAF, European Alliance for Freedom ) was a political party at the European level . It was founded in autumn 2010 and recognized by the European Parliament in February 2011 . Its members are mostly classified as right-wing conservative , right-wing populist or right-wing extremist. According to former chairman Godfrey Bloom , members only agreed on their Euroscepticism , while on other political areas there were different views. In contrast to most other European parties, the members of the EAF were mostly individuals, not national parties. The EAF shut down in 2017 after most of its members switched to the Movement for a Europe of Nations and Freedom .
history
The EAF was founded in autumn 2010. The background to this was on the one hand the refusal of the base of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) to participate in a European party and on the other hand the refusal of the UKIP leadership in a parliamentary group with right-wing extremist parties such as the Freedom Party Austria (FPÖ) or the Vlaams Belang (VB). That is why the UKIP European parliamentarian Godfrey Bloom allied himself with non-attached European parliamentarians such as Andreas Mölzer (FPÖ), Rolandas Paksas ( order and justice , Lithuania) and Krisztina Morvai (formerly Jobbik , Hungary) as well as other right-wing politicians in Europe and personally founded the EAF. In contrast to most other European parties, the EAF did not emerge from a parliamentary group and is also not an association of national parties.
In 2012, the chairwoman of the Front National , Marine Le Pen , was accepted into the party and elected vice-chairman. Franz Obermayr became the new chairman. In the run-up to the 2014 European elections , the EAF stepped up in public and stated that it was aiming to form its own parliamentary group in the European Parliament , which would require 25 MPs from seven countries. The Lega Nord , the Slovak National Party SNS and the Dutch PVV were presented by Geert Wilders as cooperation partners . In the election, the FN, in particular, but also the FPÖ, the PVV and the Lega Nord won seats. However, the SNS did not make it into parliament and the Sweden Democrats planned for the group joined the UKIP-led EFDD group. In the absence of the necessary members from seven nations, the EAF faction could not be formed after the election.
At the beginning of October, Front National, FPÖ and Lega Nord founded the Movement for a Europe of Nations and Freedom (Mouvement pour l'Europe des nations et des libertés, MENL), a new European political party. This European party, organized as a traditional alliance of parties, was to replace the EAF in the medium term. The EAF remained active, however, since the end of 2015 without members of the FPÖ, FN, VB and LN.
The EAF waived the registration of the party with the newly established authority for European political parties and foundations , which was necessary in 2017 . During the year the party stopped work.
organization
The first president of the board in 2010 was Godfrey Bloom (then UK Independence Party ). In November 2012 Franz Obermayr ( FPÖ ) took over the office. At the end of 2016 Obermayr is no longer a member of the EAF, the last president was not publicly known.
Marine Le Pen ( Front National ) and Philip Claeys ( Vlaams Belang ) were vice-chairs between November 2012 and the end of 2014 . The general secretary has been the non-party Maltese politician Sharon Ellul-Bonici .
Members
Known members at the end of 2016 were:
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Latvia : Normunds Grostiņš ( Rīcības partija , "Action Party") -
Latvia : Serzants Karlis ( ZZS )
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Sweden : Kent Ekeroth (Sweden Democrats) -
Germany : Jan Timke ( citizen in anger ) -
Poland : Janusz Korwin-Mikke (MEP) -
Poland : Przemysław Wipler
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Czech Republic : Martin Lank ( Úsvit ) -
United Kingdom : Jane Collins (MEP, UKIP) -
United Kingdom : Mike Hookem (MEP, UKIP)
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Malta : Anthony Agius Decelis ( PL )
The EAF also had members in Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Lithuania and Malta.
Well-known former members were:
| country | Members | Political party | annotation |
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 Belgium
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Philip Claeys (MEP), Frank Vanhecke (MEP) | Vlaams Belang | Vanhecke left the VB in July 2011, the VB switched to MENL in 2014. |
 Bulgaria
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Dimitar Kinow Stojanow (MEP) | Non-party | until 2014 |
 Austria
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Andreas Mölzer (MEP), Franz Obermayr (MEP) | Freedom Party of Austria | Mölzer 2014, Obermayr changed to MENL at the end of 2016 |
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Sweden
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Kent Ekeroth (National MP) | Sweden Democrats | The board of the SD distanced itself from the EAF in 2014 and participated in the founding of the ADDE |
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United Kingdom
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Godfrey Bloom (MEP) | UKIP / independent | was excluded from UKIP due to EAF membership |
 France
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Marine Le Pen (MEP) | Front National | changed to MENL from October 2011, 2014 |
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Germany
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Torsten Groß | Citizens in anger | until early 2012 |
 Lithuania
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Rolandas Paksas (MEP), Juozas Imbrasas (MEP) | Order and justice | In 2011 switched to the Movement for a Europe of Freedom and Democracy (MELD) |
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Poland
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Michał Marusik (MEP), Aleksander Grabczewski ( Janusz Korwin-Mikke's staff ), Robert Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz , Stanisław Żółtek (MEP), Przemysław Wipler | KNP | Marusik changed to MENL, Iwaszkiewicz to ADDE |
 Hungary
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Krisztina Morvai (MEP) | independent | elected to the European Parliament via the Jobbik list, left the EAF in July 2011 |
Other members came from Bulgaria, Italy, Russia and Croatia.
Affiliate organizations
The European Foundation for Freedom was a party foundation that, like the EAF, was financed by the European Parliament.
The EAF was close to the youth organization Young European Alliance for Hope (YEAH). The YEAH includes the Ring Freiheitlicher Jugend Österreich (youth organizations of the FPÖ), the Front national de la jeunesse (FN) and the Vlaams Belang Jongeren (VB). The youth organization of the Sweden Democrats SDU was involved in the establishment, but left the YEAH in 2014 under pressure from the mother party. YEAH has not been active since 2016 at the latest.
Individual evidence
- ^ Michael Weigl: European parties. In: Werner Weidenfeld, Wolfgang Wessels: Yearbook of European Integration 2017. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2017, pp. 179–184, on p. 181.
- ↑ a b c d e Standard.at Mölzer participates in the new EU right wing party
- ↑ European Parliament Grants from the European Parliament to political parties at European level 2004-2011 (PDF; 107 kB)
- ^ Sarah L. de Lange, Matthijs Rooduijn, Joost van Spanje The 'Le Pen-Wilders' alliance will change European politics. In: Policy Network Observatory , February 4, 2014.
- ^ Cas Mudde: The Le Pen-Wilders alliance and the European Parliament - Plus ça change, plus la meme chose. In: The Washington Post , February 11, 2014.
- ↑ publicserviceeurope.com ( Memento from January 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Die Presse FPÖ MP is at the head of the EU right-wing party
- ↑ bund.vsstoe.at ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ eunews.it ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ oe24.at
- ↑ euractiv.de
- ↑ lefigaro.fr
- ↑ euobserver.com
- ^ Die Presse FPÖ MP is at the head of the EU right-wing party
- ^ Michael Weigl: European parties. In: Werner Weidenfeld, Wolfgang Wessels: Yearbook of European Integration 2017. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2017, pp. 179–184, on p. 183.
- ↑ asktheeu.org
- ↑ eurallfree.org ( Memento from March 6, 2016 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i europarl.europa.eu
- ↑ a b c d asktheeu.org
- ↑ a b asktheeu.org
- ↑ asktheeu.org
- ↑ a b c http://www.eurallfree.org/?q=node/65 ( Memento from August 10, 2011 on WebCite )
- ↑ frontnational.com
- ↑ eurallfree.org ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) "EAF was represented by (...) a special representative Aleksander Grabczewski."
- ↑ eurallfree.org ( Memento from September 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Die Presse: European right-wing parties found "Yeah"
- ↑ expo.se
