Parties

Alliance for Peace And Freedom

The Alliance for Peace and Freedom (APF) is a far-right European political party founded on 4 February 2015. The main member parties had been involved in the now defunct European National Front. The party wishes to establish a network of

Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d’Italia)

Brothers of Italy – named after the opening words of the country’s national anthem – was formed in 2012, following the direct inheritance of MSI (Italian Social Movement), a far-right institutional party founded for the new republican regime by former

Casapound Italy

Casapound Italy is a political movement of the far-right and of a neo-fascist and populist matrix, established in 2008 as a social association after the squat of a big building in the city center of Rome, close to main-station Termini.

European Conservatives and Reformists

The European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) is a Eurosceptic, anti-federalist political group of the European Parliament. The ECR is the parliamentary group of the European Conservatives and Reformists Party (ECR Party) European political party (formerly known as the Alliance of

Forza Italia

Forza Italia is a right-wing political party, inspired by liberalism and conservative catholic tradition; founded by Silvio Berlusconi in January 1994 together with other notables of the Fininvest group. After the political crisis and corruption scandals, denounced by the “clean

Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs / Freedom Party of Austria

(„Freedom Party of Austria“) **character:** right-wing populist **strength:** 60,000 (2017) **Short description:** The FPÖ was founded in 1956 and was a harbour for old NSDAP-members. FPÖ became the third largest party in Austria. Youth wing is the „Ring Freiheitlicher Jugend“.

Greek Solution

A far-right, religious and nationalist party founded by Kyriakos Velopoulos in June 2016. The party entered Greek Parliament in the 2019 elections with 3,70% of the vote and 10 seats.

Greeks for the Fatherland

Formed by I. Kasidiaris after GD’s failure to elect MP’s in the 2019 elections. Even though Kasidiaris is imprisoned after getting convicted, online activity of his party remains regular. On February 2022, the governing conservative party, New Democracy, passed a

Identity and Democracy

Identity and Democracy is a far-right political group of the European Parliament, launched on 13th June 2019 and composed of nationalist, right-wing populist and eurosceptic national parties from ten European nations. It is the successor to the Europe of Nations

LEGA

Lega is the re-styled party lead from 2017 by Matteo Salvini, after a big trial that condemned former ‘Lega Nord’ to pay 49million euros defrauded from the Italian Republic. Apart from the legal scandal, the political shift concerns a different

National Agreement

National Agreement (Greek: Εθνική Συμφωνία – Ethnikí Symphonía – E.SY.) was founded by Konstantinos Bogdanos, an independent Member of the Greek Parliament after his expulsion from the New Democracy party. In the announcement of the new party on April 5

National Front / Ethniko Metopo

“National Front” (Greek: Εθνικό Μέτωπο) is a far-right Greek nationalist political party. It has been active from 2012.

National Popular Consciousness

Formed in 2019 by Ioannis Lagos after he broke off from Golden Dawn, with the support of Konstantinos Plevris, ELASYN has a rhetoric similar to that of Golden Dawn, but appears less organized than its parent party.

New Democracy

The mainstream right-wing party in Greece, New Democracy (Néa Dhimokratía – ND) was founded in 1974, right after the 7-years-long Colonels’ Dictatorship (“The Junta”) by Konstantinos Karamanlis. The party has formed five governments from 1974 to present. While most of

New Force (Forza Nuova)

New Force (Italian: Forza Nuova, FN) is an Italian far-right political party. It was founded by Roberto Fiore and Massimo Morsello, former neofascist terrorists of ‘Third Position’ (Italian: Terza Posizione) during the so-called ‘lead years’. The party is a member

New Right

The New Right (Greek: Νέα Δεξιά, Nea Dexia) is a far-right political party in Greece. The party was formed in May 2016 by Failos Kranidiotis, former advisor to former Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, after Kranidiotis was ousted from the New

Partei National Orientierter Schweizer

(„Party National-orientated Swiss people“) **Strength:** 300 or 800 (2020 self proclaimed) **Short description:** The Swiss Party PNOS is a traditional facscist Party founded in 2000 which imitates the fascist ‘Fronten-Bewegung’ of the 1930s. In September 2020 the french branch of

Popular Association – Golden Dawn

Founded by Nikolaos Michaloliakos in the ’80s as an obscure and occultist national-socialist (Nazi) group, Golden Dawn evolved to a party with many attempts to enter parliament during the last decades. After Michaloliakos was elected in the Municipal Council of

Schweizerische Volkspartei / Swiss People’s Party

(„Swiss People’s Party“) **character:** national-conservative, right-wing populist **strength:** 90,000 **Short description:** The SVP was founded in 1971 as a merger of different Partys. In the 1990s they changed from conservative to right-wing populist. In the 2000s it became the strongest

Tricolour Flame

The Social Movement Tricolour Flame (Italian: Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore, MSFT), commonly known as Tricolour Flame (Fiamma Tricolore), is a neo-fascist political party in Italy. The party was started by the more radical members of the Fascist Italian Social Movement,