Union for Europe of the Nations explained

Union for Europe of the Nations
From:	20 July 1999^[1] ^[2]
To:	1 July 2009
Precededby:	Union for Europe
Formalname:	Union for Europe of the Nations Group
Position:	Right-wing^[3] ^[4] ^[5]
Europarties:	Alliance for Europe of the Nations
Chairs:	Charles Pasqua,^[6] (99-04) Brian Crowley,^[7] (04-09) Cristiana Muscardini,^[8] (04-09)
Meps:	31^[9] (20 July 1999) 30^[10] (22 July 1999) 23^[11] (30 April 2004) 30^[12] (5 May 2004) 27^[13] ^[14] (4 June 2004) 27^[15] (20 July 2004) 44^[16] ^[17] (10 February 2008) 35^[18] ^[19] (11 June 2009)

Union for Europe of the Nations (UEN)^{[20] [21]} 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^[1] 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".^[22]

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.^[23] 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 (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
Italy		National Alliance	AN	National conservatism Post-fascism
		Segni Pact	PS	Christian democracy Economic liberalism
Ireland		Fianna Fáil	FF	Irish republicanism Conservatism
Portugal		CDS – People's Party	CDS–PP	Conservatism Christian democracy
Denmark		Danish People's Party	DF	Danish nationalism Right-wing populism

2004–2009

Country	Name			Ideology	MEPs
Denmark		Danish People's Party	DF	Danish nationalism Right-wing populism
Ireland		Fianna Fáil	FF	Irish republicanism Conservatism
Italy		National Alliance	AN	National conservatism Post-fascism
		Lega Nord	LN	Regionalism Right-wing populism
		The Right	LD	Neo-fascism National conservatism
Latvia		For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK	TB/LNNK	National conservatism Economic liberalism
Lithuania		Lithuanian Peasant Popular Union	LVLS	Social conservatism Agrarianism
		Order and Justice	TT	National conservatism Right-wing populism
Poland		Law and Justice	PiS	National conservatism Right-wing populism
		League of Polish Families	LPR	National conservatism Political Catholicism
		Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland	SRP	Agrarian socialism Left-wing populism
		Polish People's Party "Piast"	PSL Piast	Christian democracy Agrarianism

2009

Country	Name			Ideology	MEPs
Denmark		Danish People's Party	DF	Danish nationalism Right-wing populism
Poland		Law and Justice	PiS	National conservatism Right-wing populism
Italy		Lega Nord	LN	Regionalism Right-wing populism
Ireland		Fianna Fáil	FF	Conservatism Populism
Latvia		For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK	TB/LNNK	National conservatism Economic liberalism
Lithuania		Order and Justice	TT	National conservatism Right-wing populism
Slovakia		Slovak National Party	SNS	Ultranationalism Right-wing populism

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: UFE on Europe Politique . Europe-politique.eu . 30 December 2009.
2. Web site: UEN on Europe Politique . Europe-politique.eu . 30 December 2009.
3. Web site: European Parliament elections results in brief. 10 June 2009. 28 October 2022. Politico.
4. Book: Pankowski . Rafal . The Populist Radical Right in Poland: The Patriots . 2010 . Routledge . 9781135150976 . 149.
5. Book: Crum . Ben . Party Stances in the Referendums on the EU Constitution: Causes and Consequences of Competition and Collusion. 10.1177/1465116507073286. 53533845 .
6. Web site: European Parliament profile of Charles Pasqua . Europarl.europa.eu . 30 December 2009.
7. Web site: European Parliament profile of Brian Crowley . Europarl.europa.eu . 30 December 2009.
8. Web site: European Parliament profile of Cristiana Muscardini . Europarl.europa.eu . 30 December 2009.
9. http://www.cepsr.com/clanek.php?ID=238 Unie pro Evropu národů/Union for Europe of Nations
10. Web site: Seats in the EP 22 July 1999 has UEN with 30 seats . Europarl.europa.eu . 30 December 2009.
11. Web site: Seats in the EP 30 April 2004 has UEN with 23 seats . Europarl.europa.eu . 30 December 2009.
12. Web site: Seats in the EP 5 May 2004 has UEN with 30 seats . Europarl.europa.eu . 30 December 2009.
13. Web site: Seats in the EP 30 June 2004 has UEN with 27 seats . Europarl.europa.eu . 30 December 2009.
14. Web site: Seats in the EP 30 June 2004 by party has UEN with 27 seats . Europarl.europa.eu . 30 December 2009.
15. Web site: Europe Politique Seats in the EP 20 July 2004 by party has UEN with 27 seats . Europe-politique.eu . 17 February 2007 . 30 December 2009.
16. Web site: Leaflet Group. 30 December 2009.
17. http://www.uengroup.org/about_uen_meps.html About UEN MEPs
18. http://www.elections2009-results.eu/en/seats_by_group_en_txt.html "Seats by political group in each Member State"
19. http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1244416659.62/view "Make-up of new EU parliament and turnout rates"
20. Web site: Democracy in the European Parliament . 30 December 2009.
21. Web site: Development of Political Groups in the European Parliament . CVCE . 16 January 2015.
22. Web site: Sintesi posizioni Lega Nord sull'Unione Europea . Lega Nord . 10 March 2004 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110727161710/http://www.padaniaoffice.org/pdf/affari_istituz/doc_politici/Punti_LN_Europa.pdf . 27 July 2011 .
23. http://www.fiannafail.ie/feature/entry/full-text-taoiseach-brian-cowen-at-the-official-opening-of-72nd-fianna-fail/ "Full Text: Taoiseach Brian Cowen at the official Opening of 72nd Fianna Fáil Ard Fheis - Part 1"