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Alliance for Peace and Freedom
AbbreviationAPF
President/ChairmanRoberto Fiore
Vice-ChairmanNick Griffin
Founded4 February 2015
Preceded byEuropean National Front
HeadquartersSentier de Montigny 6060, Gilly, Belgium
Think tankEuropa Terra Nostra
IdeologyUltranationalism[1]
Neo-fascism[2]
Faction:[a]
Neo-Nazism
Political positionFar-right[3]
European Parliament groupNon-Inscrits
Website
apfeurope.eu

The Alliance for Peace and Freedom (APF) is a far-right European political alliance and former European political party founded on 4 February 2015.[4] The main member parties were involved in the defunct European National Front.

The alliance wishes to establish a network of nationalist movements across Europe that will cooperate to strengthen their shared ideals.[5] It cooperates and supports other nationalist groups across Europe that are not members, these include former party members Golden Dawn, Tricolour Flame,[6] Alternative for Sweden[7] and the ELAM.[8] The alliance is described as neo-Nazi by several newspapers,[9][10] and neo-fascist by others.[11][12]

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 ancestral European traditions such as the Christian tradition.[13]

Europa Terra Nostra

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The Europa Terra Nostra is the official European political foundation of the APF. The ETN was founded 3 July 2015 in Berlin where it continues to operate as the official think-tank of the APF and serves as the European framework for national foundations/think-tanks recognised by APF member-parties.[14][15]

International connections

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The APF works to co-ordinate European nationalist parties across the continent. It helped establish the Italy for the Italians coalition composed of APF member New Force along with Tricolour Flame. In 2017 the APF aided in the formation of the National Identity Bloc in Europe coalition, APF members, United Romania Party and Noua Dreaptă joined forces with the Greater Romania Party.[16] In 2019 The APF played a part in forming the ADÑ Identidad Española coalition, composed of APF member National Democracy, FE-JONS, Spanish Alternative and La Falange.[17]

The party also maintains contacts with the former leader of the National Front, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who was expelled from his party in 2015.[18] He joined the group in March 2018 as an Honorary Chairman and held this position until his death in January 2025.[19]

The APF maintains contacts with conservative circles in Russia with the group being invited to conferences hosted by the Kremlin.[20] The party supports Vladimir Putin and United Russia's leadership of Russia, especially in the Russo-Ukrainian War and Syrian Civil War.[21] The party is supportive of Alexander Lukashenko and maintains contacts with the Liberal Democratic Party of Belarus.[22]

The APF strongly supports Serbian nationalists and is opposed to international recognition of Kosovo, it has worked in the past with the Serbian Radical Party.[23] On 26 September 2021, the APF held a conference in Belgrade hosted by the Serbian Right.[24]

It maintains friendly relations with the Syrian Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party government with deputy chairman, Nick Griffin being invited to Syria by Bashar al-Assad multiple times as an ambassador.[25] Meetings between the party and the Syrian Social Nationalist Party have been held with the AFP publicly supporting the SSNP.[26] The group maintains contacts with Hezbollah and has hosted at least one meeting with Hezbollah leaders.[27] Michel Aoun, then president of Lebanon, received a delegation of the APF in 2018 and in 2019,[28][29] and the group claims to have been in regular contact with him and his party.[30]

Member parties

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Country Party Leader Political group
in 2024–2029 term 		European Parliament National lower houses Position in national legislature
Error creating thumbnail:  Belgium Nation Hervé Van Laethem None
0 / 21
0 / 150
 No seats
Flanders and Identity[31]
Vlaanderen Identitair (VLI) 		Rob Verreycken None
0 / 21
0 / 150
 No seats
File:Flag of France.svg France Jeanne Committees[32] (Associate)
Comités Jeanne (CJ) 		Vacant None
0 / 74
0 / 577
 No seats
The Nationalists[33][24]
Les Nationalistes 		Yvan Benedetti None
0 / 74
0 / 577
 No seats
Error creating thumbnail:  Germany The Homeland[14] (formerly the National Democratic Party of Germany)
Die Heimat (DH) (formerly the Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands) 		Peter Schreiber None
0 / 96
0 / 709
 No seats
File:Flag of Greece.svg Greece Popular Greek Patriotic Union[34]
Laiki Elliniki Patriotiki Enosi (LEPEN) 		Christos Rigas None
0 / 21
0 / 300
 No seats
Error creating thumbnail:  Italy New Force[14]
Forza Nuova (FN) 		Roberto Fiore None
0 / 73
0 / 630
 No seats
Error creating thumbnail:  Netherlands Dutch People's Union

Nederlandse Volks-Unie (NVU)

Constant Kusters None
0 / 14
0 / 150
 No seats
File:Flag of Romania.svg Romania New Right[6]
Noua Dreaptă (ND) 		Tudor Ionescu None
0 / 32
0 / 136
 No seats
File:Flag of Slovakia.svg Slovakia People's Party - Our Slovakia[14]
Ľudová strana – Naše Slovensko (ĽSNS) 		Marian Kotleba None
0 / 14
0 / 150
 No seats
File:Flag of Spain.svg Spain National Democracy[14]
Democracia Nacional (DN) 		Luis Mateos de Vega None
0 / 54
0 / 350
 No seats

Former member parties

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Country Party Abbr. Leader Left the AFP
File:Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic Workers' Party of Social Justice
Czech: Dělnická strana sociální spravedlnosti 		DSSS Tomáš Vandas 2024 (party dissolved)
File:Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark Party of the Danes
Danish: Danskernes Parti 		DP Daniel Carlsen 2017 (party dissolved)[35]
File:Flag of France.svg France The French Dissent (fr)[36]
French: La Dissidence Française 		DF Vincent Vauclin[37] 2020 (party dissolved)
File:Flag of Greece.svg Greece Golden Dawn
Greek: Χρυσή Αυγή 		ΧΑ Nikolaos Michaloliakos 2020 (party banned)[38]
National Popular Consciousness[39]
Ethnikí Laïkí Syneídisi 		ELASYN Giannis Lagos 2023 (party dissolved)
File:Flag of Romania.svg Romania United Romania Party[14]
Romanian: Partidul România Unită 		PRU Robert Bugă 2019 (party dissolved)
File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden Party of the Swedes
Swedish: Svenskarnas parti 		SvP Stefan Jacobsson 2015 (party dissolved)[40]
File:Flag of Spain.svg Spain The Phalanx
Spanish: La Falange 		FE/La Falange Manuel Andrino Lobo 2024 (party dissolved)

Executive Board

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Member Position Country Political party
Roberto Fiore[41] President/Chairman Error creating thumbnail:  Italy FN
Nick Griffin[41] Deputy chairman File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
Jean-Marie Le Pen[42] Honorary chairman File:Flag of France.svg France CJ
Tomáš Vandas[41] Board member File:Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic
Gonzalo Martín García[41] Board member File:Flag of Spain.svg Spain DN
Hervé Van Laethem (fr)[41] Board member Error creating thumbnail:  Belgium Nation
Olivier Wyssa[41] Board member File:Flag of France.svg France
Martin Beluský[41] Board member File:Flag of Slovakia.svg Slovakia ĽSNS
Ingo Stawitz (de)[41] Board member Error creating thumbnail:  Germany NPD

MEPs

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Eighth European Parliament (2014–2019)

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Member Political group Country Political party
Jean Marie Le Pen Non-Inscrits File:Flag of France.svg France CJ
Udo Voigt Non-Inscrits Error creating thumbnail:  Germany NPD

Ninth European Parliament (2019–2024)

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Member Political group Country Political party
Ioannis Lagos Non-Inscrits File:Flag of Greece.svg Greece ELASYN

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Several parties, such as the DSSS or Die Heimat, are openly neo-Nazi or, like DN, have clear ties to neo-Nazism. Several board members such as Tomáš Vandas or Stefan Jacobsson are or have past leadership in neo-Nazi parties.
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