2010s In the aftermath of the
2014 European Parliament election, parties affiliated with the
European Alliance for Freedom unsuccessfully attempted to form a
political group of the European Parliament. After unsuccessfully forming a group,
National Rally,
Northern League,
Freedom Party of Austria,
Vlaams Belang and the
Civic Conservative Party formed MENF. Later in 2014, they decided to create a new European-level structure, which became the Movement for a Europe of Nations and Freedom. The Dutch
Party for Freedom (PVV) chose not to participate in this pan-European party, as it declined to be funded by the European Union. The Polish
Congress of the New Right (KNP), initially claimed that it would be part of the new alliance, but was accused in a press release by the French
National Rally of spreading false claims in the Polish and Austrian media. Ultimately the KNP took part in the creation of the party's new parliamentary group as its former leader
Janusz Korwin-Mikke was evicted from the party to be replaced by Michal Marusik. It was recognised by the European Parliament (EP) in 2015. Its maximum grant by the EP for this year is €1,170,746 plus €621,677 for its affiliated
political foundation, the
Fondation pour une Europe des Nations et des Libertés. On 16 June 2015, the
Europe of Nations and Freedom parliamentary group was created in the
European Parliament with members of the MENF (RN, FPÖ, LN, VB) as well as the PVV, Poland's
KNP and a former member of
UKIP,
Janice Atkinson. The 1st congress of the movement was held on 28 June 2015 in
Perpignan, France, gathering some
MEPs from the
National Rally as well as a few of its local and national representatives members; the objective of this meeting was mainly about making the 1st year of action of the National Rally's MEPs in review. On 15 September 2015, the Flemish
Vlaams Belang (VB) and the movement organised a colloquium dealing with sovereignty which took place in the
Flemish Parliament with VB's leader
Tom Van Grieken, MEP
Gerolf Annemans, VB's member Barbara Pas and
National Rally's leader
Marine Le Pen. All of the Flemish parties approved
Marine Le Pen's visit at the Flemish Parliament although the speaker of the Flemish Parliament
Jan Peumans (
N-VA) decided not to be part of this colloquium. On 21 November 2015, MENF's think tank "Foundation for a Europe of Nations and Freedom" organised a colloquium ("L'euro, un échec inéluctable?") dealing with
Euro and how it might be an inescapable failure.
Jacques Sapir took part in this colloquium among others. The FENF, chaired by
Gerolf Annemans, organised another colloquium on 2 April 2016 in Paris dealing with union representation and the development of professional organisations in France. The third colloquium of the movement took place on 4 March 2016 in the
Flemish Parliament with VB's leader
Tom Van Grieken and
PVV's leader
Geert Wilders. This colloquium entitled "Freedom" ("Vrijheid") dealt with liberties in Europe and how they would be threatened by immigration from "countries with cultures which are fundamentally different [from the European ones]". The movement's member parties and allies met in July 2016 in Vienna, in an event hosted by Austria's FPÖ. The French National Rally,
Matteo Salvini's Northern League, the German AfD, Belgium's
Vlaams Belang and the Dutch Party for Freedom were present, among other independent politicians and smaller European parties. According to
Politico, the movement owed in 2016 the
European Parliament €535,818. The reasons given by Politico were the forbidden use of European grants by the MENF party to finance national political parties and referendum campaigns. The party strongly denied these allegations by saying that they just had to give the unused EU funds back to the European Parliament. In 2019, the party expanded by including the
Estonian Conservative People's Party in February,
We Are Family in March and the
League in September. After the
2019 European Parliament election the party re-branded to the Identity and Democracy Party as the European political party for the
Identity and Democracy Group in the
Ninth European Parliament.
2020s In July 2020, the Portuguese nationalist party,
Chega joined. In July 2023,
Alternative for Germany (AfD) officially joined the ID Party, having been a member of the ID EU Parliament Group since 2019. In January 2024, the
Slovak National Party and the Bulgarian
Revival joined the ID Party. However, the latter soon left. In June 2024, the AfD left the ID Party to pre-empt its expulsion. In August 2024, the ID Party renamed itself to Patriots.eu, with a new manifesto issued. The new statutes published by the European Parliament revealed that Vlaams Belang's
Gerolf Annemans would continue as President, with the National Rally's
Catherine Griset receiving the Treasurer position.
Freedom and Direct Democracy and the
Slovak National Party were no longer listed as members, with the former instead joining
Europe of Sovereign Nations. In September 2024, the Hungarian
Fidesz, the Greek
Voice of Reason, the Spanish
Vox and Czech
ANO were announced as new members of Patriots.eu. At the Patriots.eu's general assembly in November 2024, Vox leader
Santiago Abascal was elected the new president of the party, succeeding Gerolf Annemans, while the Polish
National Movement and the Czech
Přísaha and
Motorists for Themselves parties were announced as new member parties. In February 2025, Patriots.eu hosted a rally in Madrid with the theme 'Make Europe Great Again', which was addressed by
Marine Le Pen,
Geert Wilders,
Santiago Abascal,
Matteo Salvini,
Andrej Babiš,
Martin Helme,
Krzysztof Bosak and other party leaders. Following the rally, Israeli ruling party
Likud was announced as the first Observer member of Patriots.eu. On 10 March 2025, the
Danish People’s Party and
Latvia First were added as members of Patriots.eu. ==Platform==