Union for Europe of the Nations
# Union for Europe of the Nations

Union for Europe of the Nations (UEN) was a national–conservative, Eurosceptic political group of the European Parliament active between 1999 and 2009.

## 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 (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 | Name | Ideology | MEPs |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| France | Rally for France | RPF | Gaullism Conservatism | 12 / 87 |
| Italy | National Alliance | AN | National conservatism Post-fascism | 8 / 87 |
| Italy | Segni Pact | PS | Christian democracy Economic liberalism | 1 / 87 |
| Ireland | Fianna Fáil | FF | Conservatism Populism | 6 / 15 |
| Portugal | CDS – People's Party | CDS–PP | Conservatism Christian democracy | 2 / 25 |
| Denmark | Danish People's Party | DF | National conservatism Right-wing populism | 1 / 16 |

### 2004–2009

| Country | Name | Name | Ideology | MEPs |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Denmark | Danish People's Party | DF | National conservatism Right-wing populism | 1 / 14 |
| Ireland | Fianna Fáil | FF | Conservatism Populism | 4 / 13 |
| Italy | National Alliance | AN | National conservatism Post-fascism | 8 / 78 |
| Italy | Lega Nord | LN | Regionalism Right-wing populism | 4 / 78 |
| Italy | The Right | LD | Neo-fascism National conservatism | 1 / 78 |
| Latvia | For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK | TB/LNNK | National conservatism Economic liberalism | 4 / 9 |
| Lithuania | Lithuanian Peasant Popular Union | LVLS | Conservatism Agrarianism | 1 / 13 |
| Lithuania | Order and Justice | TT | National conservatism Right-wing populism | 1 / 13 |
| Poland | Law and Justice | PiS | National conservatism Right-wing populism | 8 / 54 |
| Poland | League of Polish Families | LPR | National conservatism Right-wing populism | 5 / 54 |
| Poland | Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland | SRP | Polish nationalism Right-wing populism | 5 / 54 |
| Poland | Polish People's Party "Piast" | PSL Piast | Christian democracy Agrarianism | 3 / 54 |

### 2009

| Country | Name | Name | Ideology | MEPs |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Denmark | Danish People's Party | DF | National conservatism Right-wing populism | 2 / 13 |
| Poland | Law and Justice | PiS | National conservatism Right-wing populism | 15 / 50 |
| Italy | Lega Nord | LN | Regionalism Right-wing populism | 9 / 72 |
| Ireland | Fianna Fáil | FF | Conservatism Populism | 3 / 12 |
| Latvia | For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK | TB/LNNK | National conservatism Economic liberalism | 1 / 9 |
| Lithuania | Order and Justice | TT | National conservatism Right-wing populism | 2 / 12 |
| Slovakia | Slovak National Party | SNS | Ultranationalism Right-wing populism | 1 / 13 |
