Alliance for Peace and Freedom

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The Alliance for Peace and Freedom (APF) is a European political alliance and former far-right European political party founded on 4 February 2015.[6] The main member parties were involved in the now defunct European National Front.

Alliance for Peace and Freedom
AbbreviationAPF
President/ChairmanRoberto Fiore
Vice-ChairmanNick Griffin
Honorary ChairmanJean-Marie Le Pen
Founded4 February 2015
Preceded byEuropean National Front
HeadquartersSentier de Montigny 6060, Gilly, Belgium
Think tankEuropa Terra Nostra
IdeologyUltranationalism[1]
Neo-fascism[2]
Anti-globalism[3]
Anti-Zionism[3]
Anti-immigration
Third Position[4]
Factions:[a]
Neo-Nazism
Political positionFar-right[5]
European Parliament groupNon-Inscrits
Website
apfeurope.eu

The alliance wishes to establish a network of nationalist movements across Europe that will cooperate to strengthen their shared ideals.[7] It cooperates and supports other nationalist groups across Europe that are not members, these include former party member Golden Dawn, Tricolour Flame,[8] Alternative for Sweden[9] and the ELAM.[10] The alliance is described as neo-Nazi by several newspapers,[11][12] and neo-fascist by others.[13][14]

The group works for "a Europe of sovereign nations in which the independent states work together on a confederated basis", and for the perennity and the safeguarding of ancestral European traditions such as the Christian tradition.[15]

Europa Terra Nostra

The Europa Terra Nostra is the official European political foundation of the APF. The ETN was founded 3 July 2015 in Berlin where it continues to operate as the official think-tank of the APF and serves as the European framework for national foundations/think-tanks recognised by APF member-parties.[16][17]

International connections

The APF works to co-ordinate European nationalist parties across the continent. It helped establish the Italy for the Italians coalition composed of APF member New Force along with Tricolour Flame. In 2017 the APF aided in the formation of the National Identity Bloc in Europe coalition, APF members, United Romania Party and Noua Dreaptă joined forces with the Greater Romania Party.[18] In 2019 The APF played a part in forming the ADÑ Identidad Española coalition, composed of APF member National Democracy, FE-JONS, Spanish Alternative and La Falange.[19]

The party also maintains contacts with the former leader of the National Rally, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who was expelled from his party in 2015.[20] He joined the group in March 2018.[21]

The APF maintains contacts with conservative circles in Russia with the group being invited to conferences hosted by the Kremlin.[22] The party supports Vladimir Putin and United Russia's leadership of Russia, especially in the Russo-Ukrainian War and Syrian Civil War.[23] The party is supportive of Alexander Lukashenko and maintains contacts with the Liberal Democratic Party of Belarus.[24]

The APF strongly supports Serbian nationalists and is opposed to international recognition of Kosovo, it has worked in the past with the Serbian Radical Party.[25] On 26 September 2021, the APF held a conference in Belgrade hosted by the Serbian Right.[26]

It maintains friendly relations with the Syrian Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party government with deputy chairman, Nick Griffin being invited to Syria by Bashar al-Assad multiple times as an ambassador.[27] Meetings between the party and the Syrian Social Nationalist Party have been held with the AFP publicly supporting the SSNP.[28] The group maintains contacts with Hezbollah and has hosted at least one meeting with Hezbollah leaders.[3] The group has been in regular contact with Lebanese leader Michel Aoun and the ruling Free Patriotic Movement.[29][non-primary source needed]

Member parties

CountryPartyLeaderPolitical group
in 2019–2024 term
European ParliamentNational lower housesPosition in national legislature
 BelgiumNationHervé Van LaethemNone
0 / 21
0 / 150
No seats
Flanders and Identity[30]
Vlaanderen Identitair (VLI)
Rob VerreyckenNone
0 / 21
0 / 150
No seats
 Czech RepublicWorkers' Party of Social Justice[16]
Dělnická strana sociální spravedlnosti (DSSS)
Tomáš VandasNone
0 / 21
0 / 200
No seats
 FranceJeanne Committees[31] (Associate)
Comités Jeanne (CJ)
Jean-Marie Le PenNone
0 / 74
0 / 577
No seats
The Nationalists[32][26]
Les Nationalistes
Yvan BenedettiNone
0 / 74
0 / 577
No seats
 GermanyThe Homeland[16] (formerly the National Democratic Party of Germany)
Die Heimat (DH) (formerly the Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands)
Frank FranzNone
0 / 96
0 / 709
No seats
 GreecePopular Greek Patriotic Union[33]
Laiki Elliniki Patriotiki Enosi (LEPEN)
Christos RigasNone
0 / 21
0 / 300
No seats
 ItalyNew Force[16]
Forza Nuova (FN)
Roberto FioreNone
0 / 73
0 / 630
No seats
 RomaniaNew Right[8]
Noua Dreaptă (ND)
Tudor IonescuNone
0 / 32
0 / 136
No seats
 SlovakiaPeople's Party - Our Slovakia[16]
Ľudová strana – Naše Slovensko (ĽSNS)
Marian KotlebaNone
0 / 14
0 / 150
No seats
 SpainNational Democracy[16]
Democracia Nacional (DN)
Luis Mateos de VegaNone
0 / 54
0 / 350
No seats
The Phalanx[26]
La Falange (FE/Falange)
Manuel Andrino LoboNone
0 / 54
0 / 350
No seats

Former member parties

CountryPartyAbbr.LeaderLeft the AFP
 DenmarkParty of the Danes
Danish: Danskernes Parti
DPDaniel Carlsen2017 (party dissolved)[34]
 FranceThe French Dissent [fr][35]
French: La Dissidence Française
DFVincent Vauclin[36]2020 (party dissolved)
 GreeceGolden Dawn
Greek: Χρυσή Αυγή
ΧΑNikolaos Michaloliakos2017 [citation needed]
National Popular Consciousness[37]
Ethnikí Laïkí Syneídisi
ELASYNGiannis Lagos2023 (party dissolved)
 RomaniaUnited Romania Party[16]
Romanian: Partidul România Unită
PRURobert Bugă2019 (party dissolved)
 SwedenParty of the Swedes
Swedish: Svenskarnas parti
SvPStefan Jacobsson2015 (party dissolved)[38]

Executive Board

MemberPositionCountryPolitical party
Roberto Fiore[39]President/Chairman  ItalyFN
Nick Griffin[39]Deputy chairman  United Kingdom
Jean-Marie Le Pen[40]Honorary chairman  FranceCJ
Tomáš Vandas[39]Board member  Czech RepublicDSSS
Gonzalo Martín García[39]Board member  SpainDN
Hervé Van Laethem [fr][39]Board member  BelgiumNation
Olivier Wyssa[39]Board member  France
Martin Beluský[39]Board member  SlovakiaĽSNS
Ingo Stawitz [de][39]Board member  GermanyNPD

MEPs

Eighth European Parliament:

MemberPolitical group
in 2014–2019 term
CountryPolitical party
Jean Marie Le PenNon-Inscrits  FranceCJ
Udo VoigtNon-Inscrits  GermanyNPD

Ninth European Parliament:

MemberPolitical group
in 2019–2024 term
CountryPolitical party
Ioannis LagosNon-Inscrits  GreeceELASYN

See also

References

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