The National Council of European Resistance (french: Conseil national de la résistance européenne, officially abbreviated as CNRE) is a

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-based pan-European

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co-founded by

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and

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on by analogy to the

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. It has links to the

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. The Council is intended to bring together qualified French and European personalities who aspire to "work for the defence of European civilization"—to oppose the

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, and, more generally, to defeat ''replacist totalitarianism'', a concept theorized by

. Membership in the Council is strictly enlarged by co-option. Several high-ranking European officials have taken part, such as former

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, former

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and

Paul-Marie Coûteaux Paul-Marie Coûteaux (born 31 July 1956, in Paris) is a French politician and author. He served as a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2009 for the Movement for France, and since 2022 has been a member of Reconquête. Early life P ...

, former

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, former representative to the

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, Belgian member of parliament

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, or Africanist historian

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Name

The name ''Conseil national de la résistance européenne'' is a reference to the coordinating body of the

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during the

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—the

. When asked how the CNRE could be both national and European,

replied:

History

Background

, a French writer and co-founder of the movement, coined in 2010–2011 the concept of "

", a theory which supposes that "replacist elites" are colluding against the White French and Europeans in order to replace them with non-European peoples—specifically

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populations from

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and the

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—through mass migration, demographic growth and a drop in the European birth rate; a process he labeled " genocide by substitution." Camus was a candidate in the

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, but failed to gain enough elected representatives

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to be able to run for president, and eventually decided to support

Marine Le Pen Marion Anne Perrine "Marine" Le Pen (; born 5 August 1968) is a French lawyer and politician who ran for the French presidency in 2012, 2017, and 2022. A member of the National Rally (RN; previously the National Front, FN), she served as its pre ...

Creation

On 9 November 2017, in a public address in

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—the village where

Charles de Gaulle Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (; ; (commonly abbreviated as CDG) 22 November 18909 November 1970) was a French army officer and statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government ...

is buried—Renaud Camus announced the foundation of the National Council of European Resistance and asked for a collective European commitment.

Membership

Council

According to its official website, members of the CNRE include:

Public membership

is a legal association created concurrently with the Council under the French law of 1901. Its purpose is to welcome natural persons and legal entities of French or foreign nationality, who wish to actively support the action of the CNRE, by relaying its ideas, through militant actions or through financial contributions.

References

Footnotes

Citations

Bibliography

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External links

List of members of the ''National Council of European Resistance''

Constitutional charter of the ''National Council of European Resistance''
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