Patriots.eu (), formerly known as the Identity and Democracy Party (ID or ID Party) and the Movement for a Europe of Nations and Freedom (MENF), is a

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and

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founded in 2014. Its

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sat in the

Europe of Nations and Freedom Europe of Nations and Freedom (ENF; , ENL) was a far-right Political groups of the European Parliament, political group that operated in the European Parliament between 2015 and 2019. It was composed of 37 MEPs and only existed during the Eighth ...

group from 2015 to 2019, then in the

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group between 2019 and 2024; following the

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, all of its MEPs sit within the

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group.

History

2010s

In the aftermath of the

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, parties affiliated with the

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unsuccessfully attempted to form a political group of the European Parliament. After unsuccessfully forming a group,

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, Northern League,

Freedom Party of Austria The Freedom Party of Austria (, FPÖ) is a political party in Austria, variously described as far-right, right-wing populist, national-conservative, and Eurosceptic. It has been led by Herbert Kickl since 2021. It is the largest of five part ...

Vlaams Belang Vlaams Belang (; ; VB) is a Flemish nationalist, Eurosceptic and right-wing populist political party in the Flemish Region and Brussels Capital Region of Belgium. It is widely considered by the media and political analysts to be on the polit ...

and the Civic Conservative Party formed MENF. Later in 2014, they decided to create a new European-level structure, which became the Movement for a Europe of Nations and Freedom. The Dutch

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(PVV) chose not to participate in this pan-European party, as it declined to be funded by the European Union. The Polish

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(KNP), initially claimed that it would be part of the new alliance, but was accused in a press release by the French

of spreading false claims in the Polish and Austrian media. Ultimately the KNP took part in the creation of the party's new parliamentary group as its former leader

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was evicted from the party to be replaced by Michal Marusik. It was recognised by the European Parliament (EP) in 2015. Its maximum grant by the EP for this year is €1,170,746"Grants from the European Parliament to political parties at European level 2004–2015"
March 2015, European Parliament. Retrieved 27 April 2015 plus €621,677 for its affiliated political foundation, the ''Fondation pour une Europe des Nations et des Libertés''. On 16 June 2015, the

parliamentary group was created in the

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with members of the MENF (RN, FPÖ, LN, VB) as well as the PVV, Poland's

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and a former member of

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, Janice Atkinson. The 1st congress of the movement was held on 28 June 2015 in

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, France, gathering some

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from the

as well as a few of its local and national representatives members; the objective of this meeting was mainly about making the 1st year of action of the National Rally's MEPs in review. On 15 September 2015, the Flemish

(VB) and the movement organised a colloquium dealing with sovereignty which took place in the

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with VB's leader

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, MEP Gerolf Annemans, VB's member Barbara Pas and

's leader

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. All of the Flemish parties approved

's visit at the Flemish Parliament although the speaker of the Flemish Parliament Jan Peumans ( N-VA) decided not to be part of this colloquium. On 21 November 2015, MENF's think tank "Foundation for a Europe of Nations and Freedom" organised a colloquium ("L'euro, un échec inéluctable?") dealing with

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and how it might be an inescapable failure. Jacques Sapir took part in this colloquium among others. The FENF, chaired by Gerolf Annemans, organised another colloquium on 2 April 2016 in Paris dealing with union representation and the development of professional organisations in France. The third colloquium of the movement took place on 4 March 2016 in the

with VB's leader

and PVV's leader

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. This colloquium entitled "Freedom" ("Vrijheid") dealt with liberties in Europe and how they would be threatened by immigration from "countries with cultures which are fundamentally different rom the European ones. The movement's member parties and allies met in July 2016 in Vienna, in an event hosted by Austria's FPÖ. The French National Rally,

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's Northern League, the German AfD, Belgium's

and the Dutch Party for Freedom were present, among other independent politicians and smaller European parties. According to

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, the movement owed in 2016 the

€535,818. The reasons given by Politico were the forbidden use of European grants by the MENF party to finance national political parties and referendum campaigns. The party strongly denied these allegations by saying that they just had to give the unused EU funds back to the European Parliament. In 2019, the party expanded by including the Estonian Conservative People's Party in February, We Are Family in March and the League in September. After the

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the party re-branded to the Identity and Democracy Party as the European political party for the

Group in the Ninth European Parliament.

2020s

In July 2020, the Portuguese nationalist party, Chega joined. In July 2023,

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(AfD) officially joined the ID Party, having been a member of the ID EU Parliament Group since 2019. In January 2024, the

Slovak National Party The Slovak National Party (, SNS) is an ultranationalist political party in Slovakia. The party characterizes itself as a nationalist party based on both social and European Christian values. Since 1990 SNS has won seats in every Slovak pa ...

and the Bulgarian Revival joined the ID Party. However, the latter soon left. In June 2024, the AfD left the ID Party to pre-empt its expulsion. In August 2024, the ID Party renamed itself to Patriots.eu, with a new manifesto issued. The new statutes published by the European Parliament revealed that Vlaams Belang's Gerolf Annemans would continue as President, with the National Rally's Catherine Griset receiving the Treasurer position.

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and the

were no longer listed as members, with the former instead joining Europe of Sovereign Nations. In September 2024, the Hungarian

Fidesz Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Alliance (; ) is a national-conservative political party in Hungary led by Viktor Orbán. It has increasingly identified as illiberal. Originally formed in 1988 under the name of Alliance of Young Democrats () as ...

, the Greek Voice of Reason, the Spanish Vox and Czech ANO were announced as new members of Patriots.eu. At the Patriots.eu's general assembly in November 2024, Vox leader Santiago Abascal was elected the new president of the party, succeeding Gerolf Annemans, while the Polish National Movement and the Czech Přísaha and Motorists for Themselves parties were announced as new member parties. In February 2025, Patriots.eu hosted a rally in Madrid with the theme 'Make Europe Great Again', which was addressed by

, Santiago Abascal,

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Krzysztof Bosak Krzysztof Bosak (, born 13 June 1982) is a far-right Polish politician. He serves as the Deputy Marshal of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland. He was a member of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland, Sejm for the League of Polish Families from 2005 ...

and other party leaders. Following the rally, Israeli ruling party

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was announced as the first Observer member of Patriots.eu. On 10 March 2025, the Danish People’s Party and Latvia First were added as members of Patriots.eu.

Platform

The Patriots.eu's platform is based around building a Europe that is united, rejecting the complete dismantling of the

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, however is critical of the current activities of the European Union which it accuses of being ultra-liberal and too bureaucratic. The party platform wishes to build a Europe that is composed of nations that maintain their sovereignty and identity.

Membership

Full members

Observer members

Former members

* : Volya (2018–2022) * : Revival (2024) * : Civic Conservative Party (2014–2016) * :

(2015–2024) * :

(2023–2024) * : New Right (2018–2023) * :

(2014–2019) * : We Are Family (2019–2023) * :

(2024) * : For Britain (2019–2022)

Relations with other parties

The

national conservative National conservatism is a nationalist variant of conservatism that concentrates on upholding national and cultural identity, communitarianism and the public role of religion. It shares aspects of traditionalist conservatism and social conserva ...

Civic Conservative Party was a founding member of the Movement for a Europe of Nations and Freedom, but left the group in 2016. In February 2016, leader of the FPÖ Heinz-Christian Strache was invited by the anti-

and

anti-immigration Opposition to immigration, also known as anti-immigration, is a political position that seeks to restrict immigration. In the modern sense, immigration refers to the entry of people from one state or territory into another state or territory in ...

party AfD and its leader Frauke Petry to their congress in

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, and the AfD also announced a cooperation pact with the FPÖ. In April 2016, AfD's vice-president Alexander Gauland also proposed an alliance with

. Therefore, AfD's MEP Marcus Pretzell joined the

group on 30 April 2016. The AfD was a member of the ID Party's European Parliament political group,

, until 2024. The Danish People's Party (DPP) and the

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were also members of the Identity and Democracy political group, and the DPP has participated in ID Party events such as their 2019 Antwerp Conference. The Dutch

(PVV), despite not being a member of MENF, participated in its previous political group in the European Parliament, ENF. Party leader

also attended ID Party events and appears in its promotional material. The Blue Party, led by former AfD leader Frauke Petry, and the

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, then led by Gerard Batten, were both members of the ENF group. However, neither party became an official member of MENF despite being ideologically aligned. Patriots.eu leaders also have public political relations of some kind with

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(FdI). On 24 October 2015, MENF's leader and vice-president of the National Rally Louis Aliot met the current president of Brothers of Italy,

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for a conference on immigration. Also in 2015

praised SVP's victory during the 2015 Swiss election although the Swiss party does not have official links with the movement. The movement launched an anti-immigration campaign in 2015 just like the SVP's campaign during Swiss referendum on immigration in 2014. In February 2017, French MEP Edouard Ferrand met with Vox's leaders during a meeting of the Spanish right-wing party. Back in 2016, Vox's president Santiago Abascal had already met with one of the

's leaders, Louis Aliot, also one of MENF's MEPs in the European Parliament. On 24 January 2020, the ID Party's think tank, the ID Foundation, held an event in London that was addressed by

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MEP Robert Rowland. Patriots.eu have supported the

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Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...

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and

Slovakia Slovakia, officially the Slovak Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the west, and the Czech Republic to the northwest. Slovakia's m ...

for their opposition to the

's migrant policies in response to the

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. Then-ID Party launched a petition to support the ruling parties of these nations.

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and

expressed

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and

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rhetoric similar to members of ID Party, resulting in mutual support, especially from

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and his party.

and

hoped to forge strong relations with Law and Justice and Fidesz prior to the

. From July 2021 to January 2022, most ID Party members participated in a series of declarations and summits alongside Fidesz, Law and Justice, Vox,

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and other European nationalist parties. In October 2021, a delegation of Identity and Democracy representatives visited Slovenian Prime Minister

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, the leader of the

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. In 2022, Fidesz sent representatives, including Justice Minister Judit Varga, to address ID Party events. In October 2023, then-ID Party hosted a gathering in Rome with representatives of Fidesz, the U.S. Republican Party, the Polish National Movement and the Israeli

. On 13 October 2023,

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revealed SOS Romania's intention to join the ID Group as well, although the party did not join any group in the European Parliament in the end. On 30 October 2023, the Croatian Homeland Movement also expressed openness to joining ID, following a meeting with leading figures within ID, though it ultimately joined

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in July 2024. In November 2023, ID member parties, along with Fidesz and Vox, participated in a conference hosted by the Serbian People's Party (SNP). A politician from the Serbian People's Party, Jovan Palalić, was later interviewed by the ID Foundation, stating that the SNP "works with the parties in the Identity and Democracy bloc". In December 2023, Bulgarian Revival leader Kostadin Kostadinov,

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(AUR) leader George Simion, and a representative from the Confederation of the Polish Crown addressed an ID rally in Florence. However, Simion clarified AUR's intention to join the

a day prior to the rally. In March 2024, former U.S. Republican presidential candidate

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addressed an ID rally in Rome. In February 2025, a delegation from Patriots.eu visited Israel to reinforce ties with

, meeting with Transport Minister

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, Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli, Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter, Chairman of the Shomron Regional Council

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and

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. In February 2025, Argentinian President

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of the

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party, Vente Venezuela leader María Corina Machado, and Kevin Roberts, president of

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, addressed a Patriots.eu rally in

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. In February 2025, a delegation from Patriots.eu's think tank, the Patriots for Europe Foundation, visited India to meet with officials from the

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. Following this, the Patriots for Europe Foundation hosted BJP National Spokesperson Shazia Ilmi for a conference on EU-India relations in Brussels in June 2025.

Structure

Party leadership

President

* Santiago Abascal ( Vox, Spain)

Vice President

* Kinga Gál (

, Hungary)

Treasurer

* Catherine Griset ( RN, France)

Members of the Bureau

( RN, France) *

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(

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, Austria) *

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( Lega, Italy) * Gerolf Annemans ( VB, Belgium) * Ricardo Dias Pinto ( Chega, Portugal) * Ondřej Knotek ( ANO, Czech Republic) * Sebastiaan Stöteler ( PVV, Netherlands) *

( EKRE, Estonia) * Jorge Martin Frias ( Vox, Spain) * Michał Wawer ( RN, Poland) * Anders Vistisen, ( DF, Denmark) * Afroditi Latinopoulou, ( FL, Greece)

Foundation leadership

President

* András László (

, Hungary)

Treasurer

* Ľudovít Goga ( We Are Family, Slovakia)

Members of the Office

* Mathilde Androuët ( RN, France) * Thierry Mariani ( RN, France) * Anders Vistisen ( DF, Denmark) * António Tânger Corrêa ( Chega, Portugal) * Susanna Ceccardi ( Lega, Italy) * Ádám Kavecsánszki (

, Hungary) * Tom Vandendriessche ( VB, Belgium) *

(

, Austria) * Tomasz Buczek ( RN, Poland) * Emmanouil Koulas ( FL, Greece) * Eduardo Cader ( Vox, Spain)

History

Party presidents

* 2015–2017: Louis Aliot * 2017–2019: Jean-François Jalkh * 2019–2024: Gerolf Annemans * 2024–present: Santiago Abascal

Representation in European institutions

Notes

References

External links

* {{Political organisations at European Union level 2014 establishments in the European Union Eurosceptic parties European political alliances European political parties Right-wing politics in Europe Right-wing populism in Europe Far-right politics in Europe Right-wing populist parties

History

2010s

2020s

Platform

Membership

Full members

Observer members

Former members

Relations with other parties

Structure

Party leadership

President

Vice President

Treasurer

Members of the Bureau

Foundation leadership

President

Treasurer

Members of the Office

History

Party presidents

Representation in European institutions

See also

Notes

References

External links