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Euroright

Eurodroite
Eurodestra
Euroright Eurodroite; Eurodestra;
Abbreviation	Ed
President	Giorgio Almirante
Founder	Giorgio Almirante
Founded	19 April 1978
Dissolved	24 July 1984
Succeeded by	Group of the European Right (political group)
Ideology	Neo-fascism; Euroscepticism;
Political position	Far-right
European Parliament group	Non-Inscrits
1st European Parliament	4 / 410

Eurodroite (French pronunciation: [øʁɔdʁwat]; English: Euroright) was a far-right European political alliance that took part in the 1979 European Parliament election. It did not register as a European political party or a political group of the European Parliament because it only had four seats, all held by the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement. The Group of the European Right became its formal successor following the 1984 European Parliament election.

History

Giorgio Almirante, the president of the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement (MSI), envisioned to create an alliance of far-right political parties from Europe.^[1]^[2] Almirante said that the objective of the alliance would be to "prevent the European Parliament shifting to the left" and that it would be strongly anti-communist.^[1] At the founding congress of Eurodroite on 19 April 1978, Almirante's MSI was also joined by the French Party of New Forces (PFN) of Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour and New Force (FN) of Blas Piñar.^[3]

Shortly before the formation of Eurodroite, Tixier-Vignancour was supposed to be a candidate of Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front.^[1] Another meeting of the Eurodroite was held on 27 June in Paris, with about two thousand participants, according to the Le Monde diplomatique newspaper.^[1]^[4] Left-wing organisations held a counter-protest to the meeting in Paris.^[4] Le Pen was critical of the Eurodroite project because of the participation of PFN.^[1]

In the 1979 European Parliament election, MSI was the only party from the Eurodroite that crossed the threshold, obtaining four seats. It was thus unable to form a group in the European Parliament.^[5]

The Eurodroite alliance was succeeded in 1984, when the Group of the European Right was officially formed.^[6] FN and the National Political Union (EPEN) of former military dictator Georgios Papadopoulos were members of this new group, while PFN was replaced by Le Pen's National Front.^[3]

Ideology

The Eurodroite was a far-right alliance composed of neo-fascist parties.^[7] It opposed the rise of Eurocommunism.^[8]

Members

The following parties were members of the Eurodroite alliance.^[1]^[3] The FN and EPEN did not contest the 1979 election, as Spain and Greece were not yet member states of the European Union.^[1]^[9]

Country			Ideology	MEPs
Italy	Italian Social Movement	MSI	Neo-fascism Italian nationalism	4 / 410
France	Party of New Forces	PFN	Neo-fascism Anti-communism	0 / 410
Belgium	Party of New Forces	PFN	Neo-fascism Neo-Nazism	0 / 410
Greece	National Political Union	EPEN	Metaxism Greek nationalism	Not in the EU
Spain	New Force	FN	Neo-fascism Francoism	Not in the EU