The Parti Communautaire Européen (, PCE；''European Community Party'') was a pan-European nationalist

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular area's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology, ...

based in

Belgium Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. Situated in a coastal lowland region known as the Low Countries, it is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeas ...

that had a platform similar to

National Bolshevism National Bolshevism, whose supporters are known as National Bolsheviks and colloquially as Nazbols, is a syncretic political movement committed to combining ultranationalism and Bolshevik communism. History and origins In Germany Natio ...

. The party was initially formed in 1965 by Jean-François Thiriart as a political group to work alongside his

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-wide movement ''

Jeune Europe Jeune Europe (, "Young Europe") was a Neo-fascism, neo-fascist Pan-European nationalism, euro-nationalist movement formed by Jean Thiriart in Belgium. Emile Lecerf, a later editor of the ''Nouvel Europe Magazine'', was one of Thiriart's associa ...

''. However the PCE did not gain much attention until the 1970s, when, Thiriart managed to engineer a split in the

Communist Party of Belgium The Communist Party of Belgium (, , KPB; , , PCB) was a political party in Belgium from 1921 to 1989. The youth wing of KPB/PCB was known as the Communist Youth of Belgium. The party published a newspaper known as ''Le Drapeau Rouge'' in French ...

(PCB) gain a new core of membership for the CPE. Despite this, the PCE gradually declined in importance, particularly as Thiriart came to spend less time in Belgium. Many supporters of the PCE moved on to the '' Front National'' in the early 1980s as the group largely disappeared. The group was finally put to rest in 1984 with the foundation of the '' Parti Communautaire National-Européen'', a group with similar ideas that Thiriart agreed to serve as advisor to.P. Beaudry, 'Synarchy Movement of Empire'
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