Union for Europe of the Nations

Union for Europe of the Nations (UEN) was a national-conservative, Eurosceptic political group that operated in the European Parliament between 1999 and 2009. At its height in February 2008, it had 44 MEPs. UEN was affiliated with the Alliance for Europe of the Nations political party.

UEN was formed as the successor of the Union for Europe group. Its members were parties such as the Rally for France, Italian National Alliance and Lega Nord, Irish Fianna Fáil, and Polish Law and Justice. After the 2009 European Parliament election, UEN was dissolved due to its member parties opting to switch to other groups.

History

UEN was formed on 20 July 1999 for the 5th European Parliament, supplanting the earlier Union for Europe. Its member parties Fianna Fáil (FF) and the National Alliance (AN) were the driving forces behind the group, despite their being alone in the group in their support for the proposed European Constitution. Gianfranco Fini, leader of AN, was a member of the Convention which drafted the Constitution, while Bertie Ahern, leader of FF, negotiated the treaty as President of the European Council in 2004.

UEN was a heterogeneous group: broadly Eurosceptic and national-conservative, it included some parties which were either uncomfortable with this characterisation or eventually evolved into something different. More specifically, FF was a "catch all" centre-right party and later joined the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, AN was a conservative party which eventually joined the European People's Party through The People of Freedom, and Lega Nord was supportive of a "Europe of Regions".

After the 2009 European elections the group officially had 35 members but this figure included parties such as AN and FF, which had already committed to leave. UEN members migrated to other groups after the elections in June 2009 and before the Seventh European Parliament term started on 14 July 2009. FF had already left for the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) Group, For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK and Law and Justice MEPs went to the European Conservatives and Reformists Group (ECR Group), and Lega Nord, the Danish People's Party and Order and Justice MEPs went to Europe of Freedom and Democracy (EFD) Group. With this loss of members, the UEN group was dissolved by default.

Membership

1999–2004

Country	Name			Ideology	MEPs
France		Rally for France	RPF	Gaullism National conservatism	12 / 87 <div style="background-color: ; width: 14%; height: 100%;">
Italy		National Alliance	AN	National conservatism Post-fascism	8 / 87 <div style="background-color: ; width: 9%; height: 100%;">
		Segni Pact	PS	Christian democracy Economic liberalism	1 / 87 <div style="background-color: ; width: 1%; height: 100%;">
Ireland		Fianna Fáil	FF	Irish republicanism Conservatism	6 / 15 <div style="background-color: ; width: 40%; height: 100%;">
Portugal		CDS – People's Party	CDS–PP	Conservatism Christian democracy	2 / 25
Denmark		Danish People's Party	DF	Danish nationalism Right-wing populism	1 / 16 <div style="background-color: ; width: 6%; height: 100%;">

2004–2009

Country	Name			Ideology	MEPs
Denmark		Danish People's Party	DF	Danish nationalism Right-wing populism	1 / 14 <div style="background-color: ; width: 7%; height: 100%;">
Ireland		Fianna Fáil	FF	Irish republicanism Conservatism	4 / 13 <div style="background-color: ; width: 31%; height: 100%;">
Italy		National Alliance	AN	National conservatism Post-fascism	8 / 78 <div style="background-color: ; width: 10%; height: 100%;">
		Lega Nord	LN	Regionalism Right-wing populism	4 / 78 <div style="background-color: ; width: 5%; height: 100%;">
		The Right	LD	Neo-fascism National conservatism	1 / 78 <div style="background-color: ; width: 1%; height: 100%;">
Latvia		For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK	TB/LNNK	National conservatism Economic liberalism	4 / 9 <div style="background-color: ; width: 44%; height: 100%;">
Lithuania		Lithuanian Peasant Popular Union	LVLS	Social conservatism Agrarianism	1 / 13 <div style="background-color: ; width: 8%; height: 100%;">
		Order and Justice	TT	National conservatism Right-wing populism	1 / 13 <div style="background-color: ; width: 8%; height: 100%;">
Poland		Law and Justice	PiS	National conservatism Right-wing populism	8 / 54 <div style="background-color: ; width: 15%; height: 100%;">
		League of Polish Families	LPR	National conservatism Political Catholicism	5 / 54 <div style="background-color: ; width: 9%; height: 100%;">
		Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland	SRP	Agrarian socialism Left-wing populism	3 / 54 <div style="background-color: ; width: 6%; height: 100%;">
		Polish People's Party "Piast"	PSL Piast	Christian democracy Agrarianism	3 / 54

2009

Country	Name			Ideology	MEPs
Denmark		Danish People's Party	DF	Danish nationalism Right-wing populism	2 / 13 <div style="background-color: ; width: 15%; height: 100%;">
Poland		Law and Justice	PiS	National conservatism Right-wing populism	15 / 50 <div style="background-color: ; width: 30%; height: 100%;">
Italy		Lega Nord	LN	Regionalism Right-wing populism	9 / 72 <div style="background-color: ; width: 13%; height: 100%;">
Ireland		Fianna Fáil	FF	Conservatism Populism	3 / 12 <div style="background-color: ; width: 25%; height: 100%;">
Latvia		For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK	TB/LNNK	National conservatism Economic liberalism	1 / 9 <div style="background-color: ; width: 11%; height: 100%;">
Lithuania		Order and Justice	TT	National conservatism Right-wing populism	2 / 12 <div style="background-color: ; width: 17%; height: 100%;">
Slovakia		Slovak National Party	SNS	Ultranationalism Right-wing populism	1 / 13 <div style="background-color: ; width: 8%; height: 100%;">

External links

• Table of all groups and the number of MEPs from countries
• UEN