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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 European National Front (ENF) was a coordinating structure of European ultranationalist parties. There had been one elected MEP from ENF in the past. He was the leader of the Italian New Force, Roberto Fiore. Three parties of the European Nati ...
. The party wishes to establish a network of nationalist movements across Europe that will cooperate to strengthen their shared ideals. The party cooperates and supports other nationalist groups across Europe that are not members, these include former party member Golden Dawn,
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,
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and the ELAM. The party is described as neo-Nazi by several newspapers, and neo-fascist by others. The group works for "a Europe of sovereign nations in which the independent states work together on a confederated basis", and for the perennity and the safeguarding of the "ancestral" European traditions such as the Christian tradition.


Europa Terra Nostra

The Europa Terra Nostra is the official European political foundation of the APF. The ETN was founded 3 July 2015 in
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where it continues to operate as the official
think-tank A think tank, or policy institute, is a research institute that performs research and advocacy concerning topics such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, technology, and culture. Most think tanks are non-governmental ...
of the APF and serves as the European framework for national foundations/think-tanks recognised by APF member-parties.


International connections

The APF works to co-ordinate European nationalist parties across the continent. It helped establish the
Italy for the Italians Italy for the Italians ( it, Italia agli Italiani) was a coalition of far-right neo-fascist political parties in Italy. It was founded to participate in the 2018 general election by the neo-fascist, New Force and Tricolor Flame The Social Movem ...
coalition composed of APF member New Force along with
Tricolour Flame The Social Movement Tricolour Flame ( it, Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore, MSFT), commonly known as Tricolour Flame (''Fiamma Tricolore''), is a neo-fascist political party in Italy. History The party was started by the more radical members ...
. In 2017 the APF aided in the formation of the National Identity Bloc in Europe coalition, APF members,
United Romania Party The United Romania Party ( ro, Partidul România Unită) was a Romanian nationalist political party. It was founded by former members of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), such as Bogdan Diaconu and Greater Romania Party (PRM), like Horațiu ...
and
Noua Dreaptă ''Noua Dreaptă'' ( en, The New Right) is an ultranationalist, far-right organization in Romania and Moldova, founded in 2000. The party claims to be the successor to the far-right Iron Guard, with its aesthetics and ideology being directly i ...
joined forces with the
Greater Romania Party The Greater Romania Party ( ro, Partidul România Mare, PRM) is a Romanian nationalist political party. Founded in May 1991 by Eugen Barbu and Corneliu Vadim Tudor, it was led by the latter from that point until his death in September 2015. The ...
. In 2019 The APF played a part in forming the ADÑ Identidad Española coalition, composed of APF member
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, FE-JONS,
Spanish Alternative Spanish Alternative ( es, link=no, Alternativa Española, AES) () is a Far-right politics, far-right political party in Spain. It describes itself as "social Christian and cross-sectional". Its Secretary General is the lawyer and businessman Rafae ...
and La Falange. The party also maintains contacts with the former leader of the National Rally,
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, who was expelled from his party in 2015. He joined the group in March 2018. The APF maintains contacts with conservative circles in Russia with the group being invited to conferences hosted by the Kremlin. The party supports
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and
United Russia United Russia ( rus, Единая Россия, Yedinaya Rossiya, (j)ɪˈdʲinəjə rɐˈsʲijə) is a Russian conservative political party. As the largest party in Russia, it holds 325 (or 72.22%) of the 450 seats in the State Duma , havin ...
's leadership of Russia, especially in the
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and Syrian Civil War. The party is supportive of
Alexander Lukashenko Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko (as transliterated from Russian; also transliterated from Belarusian as Alyaksand(a)r Ryhoravich Lukashenka;, ; rus, Александр Григорьевич Лукашенко, Aleksandr Grigoryevich Luk ...
and maintains contacts with the Liberal Democratic Party of Belarus. The APF strongly supports
Serbian nationalists Serbian nationalism asserts that Serbs are a nation and promotes the cultural and political unity of Serbs. It is an ethnic nationalism, originally arising in the context of the general rise of nationalism in the Balkans under Ottoman rule, und ...
and is opposed to
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, it has worked in the past with the
Serbian Radical Party The Serbian Radical Party ( sr-cyrl, Српска радикална странка, Srpska radikalna stranka, ''SRS'') is an ultranationalist political party in Serbia. It was founded in 1991, and its founder and current leader is Vojislav ...
. On 26 September 2021, the APF held a conference in Belgrade hosted by the
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. It maintains friendly relations with the Syrian Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party government with Deputy chairman,
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being invited to Syria by Bashar al-Assad multiple times as an ambassador. Meetings between the party and the
Syrian Social Nationalist Party The Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP) or is a Syrian nationalist party operating in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Palestine. It advocates the establishment of a Greater Syrian nation state spanning the Fertile Crescent, including present ...
have been held with the AFP publicly supporting the SSNP. The group maintains contacts with Hezbollah and has hosted at least one meeting with Hezbollah leaders. The group has been in regular contact with Lebanese leader Michel Aoun and the ruling
Free Patriotic Movement The Free Patriotic Movement ( ar, التيار الوطني الحر, ) is a Lebanese political party. Founded by Michel Aoun in 2005, the party is currently led by Aoun son-in-law Gebran Bassil since 2015. Ideology The Free Patriotic movemen ...
.


Member parties


Former member parties


Executive Board


MEPs

Eighth European Parliament: Ninth European Parliament:


See also

* Alliance of European National Movements * Euronat *
European National Front European National Front (ENF) was a coordinating structure of European ultranationalist parties. There had been one elected MEP from ENF in the past. He was the leader of the Italian New Force, Roberto Fiore. Three parties of the European Nati ...
(2004–2009)


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