The Alliance for Peace and Freedom (APF) is a

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European political alliance and former

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founded on 4 February 2015. The main member parties were involved in the defunct European National Front. The alliance wishes to establish a network of

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movements across Europe that will cooperate to strengthen their shared ideals. It cooperates and supports other nationalist groups across Europe that are not members, these include former party member Golden Dawn, Tricolour Flame, Alternative for Sweden and the

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. The alliance is described as

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by several newspapers, and neo-fascist by others. 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

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Europa Terra Nostra

The Europa Terra Nostra is the official European political foundation of the APF. The ETN was founded 3 July 2015 in

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where it continues to operate as the official

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of the APF and serves as the European framework for national foundations/think-tanks recognised by APF member-parties.

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. In 2019 The APF played a part in forming the ADÑ Identidad Española coalition, composed of APF member

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, FE-JONS,

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and La Falange. The party also maintains contacts with the former leader of the National Front,

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, who was expelled from his party in 2015. He joined the group in March 2018 as an Honorary Chairman and held this position until his death in January 2025. The APF maintains contacts with conservative circles in Russia with the group being invited to conferences hosted by the

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. The party supports

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and

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's leadership of Russia, especially in the

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and Syrian Civil War. The party is supportive of

Alexander Lukashenko Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko (also transliterated as Alyaksandr Ryhoravich Lukashenka; born 30 August 1954) is a Belarusian politician who has been the first and only president of Belarus since the office's establishment in 1994, making hi ...

and maintains contacts with the

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. The APF strongly supports Serbian nationalists and is opposed to

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, it has worked in the past with the Serbian Radical Party. On 26 September 2021, the APF held a conference in

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hosted by the Serbian Right. It maintains friendly relations with the Syrian Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party government with deputy chairman,

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being invited to Syria by

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multiple times as an ambassador. Meetings between the party and the

Syrian Social Nationalist Party The Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP; ) is a Syrian nationalist party operating in Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan. It advocates the establishment of a Greater Syrian nation state spanning the Fertile Crescent, including present-day Syria, Leb ...

have been held with the AFP publicly supporting the SSNP. The group maintains contacts with

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and has hosted at least one meeting with Hezbollah leaders. The group has been in regular contact with Lebanese leader Michel Aoun and the ruling Free Patriotic Movement.

Member parties

Former member parties

Executive Board

MEPs

Eighth European Parliament (2014–2019)

Ninth European Parliament (2019–2024)

References

Notes

External links

Official website
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