BNP (British National Party) in alliance with nationalists (in France and Hungary)

[pampango]

Source: BBC

The British National Party (BNP) has joined forces with far-right groups in a new European Alliance of National Movements. French (French National Front) and Hungarian (Jobbik party) nationalists are heading the alliance with the BNP.

He says there is also a question mark over how well the new allies can work together, since an attempt to form a similar group in the previous parliament - known as Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty (ITS) - collapsed in November 2007.

The new alliance's manifesto, published on the National Front (FN) website, says it "rejects all attempts to create a European superstate".

The movement will not be recognised as a political bloc in the European Parliament, but it might receive EU funding as a pan-European grouping. Among the conditions set by the European Parliament for funding pan-European political parties is a clause saying they "must observe the principles of liberty, democracy, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, and the rule of law".

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8356284.stm

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French National Front (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Front_%28France%29) and the Hungarian Jobbik Party (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movement_for_a_Better_Hungary) are far right parties like the BNP. Apparently this kind of far-right association was tried in 2007 and failed.

The progressive integration of Europe into its current 27-country open border-free trade zone seems to meet with continuing resistance from the far-right in almost every European country.

[LeftishBrit]

1. Yes, an international alliance of xenophobes is a contradiction in terms in some ways

Anyway, to hell with the lot of them!

[pampango]

2. There is plenty of irony in an English nationalist group that doesn' trust foreigners having

trouble coordinating their efforts with nationalist groups in other countries that don't trust the English because they're foreigners. The same can be said, of course, for the irony of the French and Hungarian nationalist parties effort to coordinate with foreign groups.

I like the group name "International Alliance of Xenophobes" though. I think that this new group should adopt that name rather than "European Alliance of National Movements.". (One almost has to chuckle at how anyone would actually conduct a meeting of the International Alliance of Xenophobes.)

[iandhr]

3. French National Front...

...This is Le Penn right?

[pampango]

5. Yeah, that's Le Pen's party.

"Le Pen focuses on immigration to France, the European Union, traditional culture, law and order and France's high rate of unemployment. He advocates immigration restrictions, the death penalty, raising incentives for homemakers,<1> and euroscepticism. He strongly opposes same-sex marriage, euthanasia, and abortion."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marie_Le_Pen

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[Cal Carpenter]

6. LOL

LOLOLOLOL

[Jeneral2885]

7. Irony

The BNP hates all non "indigenous" British and doesnt want European migration into England yet bands with European "friends" became they are on the same interests.

[harmonicon]

8. oh, great..... use EU funding for a group that wants to get rid of the EU

good thinking guys.... stay on top of this with your supreme logic-power and what could go wrong?

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. Hah - too late for this year; and note the figure in the BBC article is for *all* groupings

The European Alliance of National Movements (AENM), the coalition of far-right parties formed last month in Budapest, has failed in its an attempt to get its hands on European Parliament cash, as the jumble of reactionary rightists did not manage to file the application on time.

The alliance, which includes the UK's BNP, France's Front National and Hungary's Jobbik, says it wants its share of the around €11 million that the parliament hands out every year to pan-European political parties, informally known as ‘europarties'.

This would have amounted to around €400,000 for the group to carry out advertising, research and campaigning atop the money MEPs already receive.
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While the cluster of far-righters managed to cobble together the group in Budapest on 24 October, as earlier reported by EUobserver, the cut-off for 2010 funding was 1 November and so if the chamber does ultimately recognise the formation, it will still not be able to access any money until 2011.

http://euobserver.com/9/28982

I'd say there's a good chance the xenophobes willfall out with each other before this time next year; so here's hoping they can't get the money then either.