Alliance for Europe of the Nations

Political party in the European Union

The Alliance for Europe of the Nations was a pan-European political party that gathered conservative and national-conservative political parties from across the continent.

History

The AEN was founded in 2002, designed to complement the existing Union for Europe of the Nations group in the European Parliament. Moves towards establishing standardised funding block grants for European political parties were at this point well afoot, and the parties affiliated with UEN required a corresponding organisation to take advantage of them.

Almost immediately upon its founding, the AEN began to decline in terms of membership and influence. At its first meeting, participants included the Czech Civic Democratic Party, Portuguese CDS-PP, Israeli Likud, Irish Fianna Fáil, Italian National Alliance and the Greek Popular Orthodox Rally,[2] all of which later left the organisation.

The AEN had a broadly national-conservative political line, but many members were uncomfortable with this. There was a strong movement for the centrist Fianna Fáil to leave AEN and join the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party, which it did on 17 April 2009. Also, National Alliance, which despite its post-fascist background was a moderate national-conservative party strongly promoting European integration, grew uncomfortable with AEN and left it for the European People's Party by merging with Forza Italia to form The People of Freedom party on 27 March 2009.

MEPs elected from its member-parties were expected to sit in the affiliated Union for Europe of the Nations (UEN) group in the European Parliament, but UEN collapsed in 2009 following the 2009 European Parliament elections, and MEPs from AEN member parties were scattered across the European Conservatives and Reformists and Europe of Freedom and Democracy groups, and their respective European-level parties, the Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists and Movement for a Europe of Liberties and Democracy.

After those realignments, there were too few AEN member parties left to retain its EU-funded status as a political party at European level. The AEN's 2009 grant was rescinded.[4]

Funding

The grants from the European Parliament to AEN from 2004 to 2010 were as follows:[4][5]

Financial year Initial grant (EUR) Final grant (EUR)
2004/5 161 250[5] 83 964[5]
2005/6 450 000[5] 114 330[5]
2006/7 450 000[5] 144 809[5]
2007/8 300 000[5] 159 138[5]
2008/9 300 000[5] 206 375[4]
2009/10 577 150[4] n/a[4]

Member parties

Current state(s) Party Joined Left New group / future
 Albania Republican Party of Albania 2002[6] 2009
 Bulgaria National Ideal for Unity ? 2006/7[7][8]
 Cyprus Fighting Democratic Movement ? 2009 Merged into DIKO
 Czech Republic Civic Democratic Party 2002[6] bef 2006[7] Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists
 Denmark Danish People's Party 2002[6] 2006/7[7][8] Movement for a Europe of Liberties and Democracy
 Estonia People's Union of Estonia 2002[6] 2009
 France Rally for France 2002[6] 2009
 Greece ESESY (Hellenic League) 2008/9[9][10] 2009
Popular Orthodox Rally 2002[6] 2005 Movement for a Europe of Liberties and Democracy
 Hungary Hungarian Provincial and Civic Party 2004[11] 2009
 Ireland Fianna Fáil 2002[6] 2009 Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party
 Israel International Right Forum 2002[6] bef 2006[7]
Likud 2002[6] bef 2006[7]
Yisrael Beiteinu 2002[6] bef 2006[7]
 Italy National Alliance 2002[6] 2009 Party merged into The People of Freedom
Sicilian Alliance 2008/9[9][10] 2009
 Kazakhstan Media Forum 2007[7][8] 2009
 Latvia For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK 2002[6] 2009 Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists
 Lithuania Lithuanian Peasant Popular Union ? 2009
Order and Justice ? 2009 Movement for a Europe of Liberties and Democracy
 Luxembourg Alternative Democratic Reform Party 2002[6] 2010 Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists
 Malta Malta Conservative Party 2002[6] bef 2006[7]
 Poland Law and Justice ? 2009 Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists
National Conservative League 2002[6] bef 2006[7]
 Portugal Democratic and Social Centre – People's Party 2002[6] bef 2006[7] European People's Party
 Romania National Liberal Party ? 2006/7[7][8] Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party
 Russia Democratic Party of Russia 2002[6] bef 2006[7]
 Slovakia Movement for Democracy 2004[11] 2008/9[9][10] Movement for a Europe of Liberties and Democracy
Slovak National Party 2002[6] 2009
 Ukraine Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists ? 2009

References

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  2. ^ a b "List of Political Parties participating at the A.E.N. meeting on June, 25th - 26th 2002" 25 June 2002
  3. ^ a b Nordsieck, Wolfram (2013). "European Union". Archived from the original on 7 December 2013. Retrieved 27 April 2019.
  4. ^ a b c d e "Grants from the European Parliament to political parties at European level 2004-2010", 14 April 2010, from http://www.europarl.europa.eu/
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Grants from the European Parliament to political parties at European level 2004-2008"
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r "Alliance for Europe of the Nations". EUobserver. 25 June 2002.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Parties". AEN. 2006. Archived from the original on 20 June 2006.
  8. ^ a b c d "Parties". AEN. 2007. Archived from the original on 12 October 2007.
  9. ^ a b c "Parties". AEN. 22 April 2008. Archived from the original on 22 April 2008.
  10. ^ a b c "Parties". AEN. 16 February 2009. Archived from the original on 16 February 2009.
  11. ^ a b "Meeting of the Alliance for Europe of the Nations". AEN. 3 December 2004. Archived from the original on 20 October 2007.
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