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

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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.