Patriots.eu
Right-wing to far-right European political party
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| February 2025 | A delegation from Patriots.eu's think tank, the Patriots for Europe Foundation, visited India to meet with officials from the Bharatiya Janata Party. |
| February 2025 | Argentinian President Javier Milei, Vente Venezuela leader María Corina Machado, and U.S. Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts addressed a Patriots.eu rally in Madrid. |
| February 2025 | A Patriots.eu delegation visited Israel, meeting with Transport Minister Miri Regev, Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli, Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter, Chairman of the Shomron Regional Council Yossi Dagan, and Speaker of the Knesset Amir Ohana. |
| February 2025 | Patriots.eu hosted a 'Make Europe Great Again' rally in Madrid, addressed by various party leaders including Marine Le Pen, Geert Wilders, Santiago Abascal, Matteo Salvini, and others. Israeli ruling party Likud was announced as the first Observer member. |
| 2024 | Formation of Patriots.eu political alliance, bringing together nationalist and right-wing parties from multiple European countries under the 'Patriots for Europe' political group. |
| 2024 | Following the European Parliament election, all MEPs moved to sit within the Patriots for Europe group. |
| November 2024 | At the general assembly, Santiago Abascal was elected as the new president, succeeding Gerolf Annemans. The Polish National Movement, Czech Přísaha, and Motorists for Themselves were announced as new member parties. |
| September 2024 | Fidesz, Voice of Reason, Vox, and ANO were announced as new members of Patriots.eu. |
| August 2024 | The ID Party renamed itself to Patriots.eu, with a new manifesto. Gerolf Annemans continued as President and Catherine Griset became Treasurer. |
| June 2024 | AfD left the ID Party to pre-empt its potential expulsion. |
| January 2024 | The Slovak National Party and Bulgarian Revival joined the ID Party, though the latter soon left. |
| 2023 | Alternative for Germany joined and New Right from Greece left the Patriots.eu political alliance. |
| July 2023 | Alternative for Germany (AfD) officially joined the ID Party. |
| 2022 | Volya from Bulgaria and For Britain from United Kingdom left the Patriots.eu political alliance. |
| July 2020 | The Portuguese nationalist party Chega joined the party. |
| January 24 2020 | ID Party's think tank held an event in London addressed by Brexit Party MEP Robert Rowland. |
| 2019 | Gerolf Annemans takes over as party president from Jean-François Jalkh, leading Patriots.eu from 2019 to 2024. |
| 2019 | Congress of the New Right from Poland and We Are Family from Slovakia joined Patriots.eu political alliance. |
| 2019 | Transitioned from the Europe of Nations and Freedom group to the Identity and Democracy group in the European Parliament. |
| 2018 | Volya from Bulgaria and New Right from Greece joined Patriots.eu political alliance. |
| 2017 | Jean-François Jalkh succeeds Louis Aliot as party president, leading Patriots.eu from 2017 to 2019. |
| February 2017 | French MEP Edouard Ferrand met with Vox's leaders during a meeting of the Spanish right-wing party. |
| July 2016 | Member parties and allies met in Vienna, hosted by Austria's FPÖ, with representatives from National Rally, Northern League, AfD, Vlaams Belang, and Party for Freedom. |
| April 30 2016 | AfD's MEP Marcus Pretzell joined the Europe of Nations and Freedom group. |
| March 4 2016 | A third colloquium titled 'Freedom' was held at the Flemish Parliament, featuring Tom Van Grieken and Geert Wilders, discussing liberties in Europe and immigration concerns. |
| February 2016 | FPÖ leader Heinz-Christian Strache was invited by AfD and its leader Frauke Petry to their congress in Düsseldorf. |
| 2015 | Louis Aliot becomes the first party president of Patriots.eu, serving from 2015 to 2017. |
| 2015 | Freedom and Direct Democracy from Czech Republic joined Patriots.eu political alliance. |
| November 21 2015 | MENF's think tank organized a colloquium discussing the potential failure of the Euro, with economist Jacques Sapir participating. |
| October 24 2015 | MENF's leader Louis Aliot met with Brothers of Italy president Giorgia Meloni in Trieste for a conference on immigration. |
| September 15 2015 | A colloquium on sovereignty was organized by Vlaams Belang and the movement at the Flemish Parliament, featuring leaders like Tom Van Grieken, Gerolf Annemans, Barbara Pas, and Marine Le Pen. |
| June 28 2015 | The first congress of the movement was held in Perpignan, France, focusing on reviewing the first year of action of National Rally's MEPs. |
| June 16 2015 | The Europe of Nations and Freedom parliamentary group was created in the European Parliament, including members from MENF parties and additional parties like PVV, KNP, and a former UKIP member. |
| 2014 | Patriots.eu first documented membership with Civic Conservative Party from Czech Republic joining the political alliance. |
| 2014 | Parties including National Rally, Northern League, Freedom Party of Austria, Vlaams Belang, and the Civic Conservative Party formed the Movement for a Europe of Nations and Freedom (MENF) after unsuccessful attempts to form a European Parliament political group. |
| 2014 | Founded as a nationalist, right-wing populist and Eurosceptic European political party. |
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