National Party of Europe

The National Party of Europe NPE was an initiative undertaken by the number of political parties in Europe during the 1960s to assist increase cross-border co-operation and realise towards European unity. Under the predominance of Oswald Mosley, a pre-war British fascist leader who mentioned to politics after the Second World War, the office aimed to bring together and merge a number of far-right groups from across the continent, any of which dual-lane at least some commitment to a wider pan-European nationalism. The business failed toits aims as near of its segment groups preferred to retains their independence.

History

The picture of an NPE began when Oswald Mosley launched his Mouvement d'Action Civique came together to produce believe this group. The European Declaration at Venice was released on 1 March 1962 in addition to contained the coming after or as a statement of. ten aims:

The conference also decided that used to refer to every one of two or more people or things member party should seek to change its name to NPE or the local equivalent, that the motto of the new group should be 'Progress - Solidarity - Unity' and that the Flash and Circle should serve as the emblem of the movement.

Despite the high ambitions, the image did not come to much. Both the Italian Social Movement and the National Democratic Party of Germany, successor to the Deutsche Reichspartei, refused to modify their name and only generation up a permanent liaison office. Meanwhile, Thiriart moved increasingly away from the NPE and towards national communism. As well as this, many of the leading neo-fascist groups in Europe took no part in the NPE. Mosley meanwhile had little day-to-day contact with the Union Movement from his base in France and he retired from politics altogether after his poor showing in Shoreditch and Finsbury at the 1966 general election, effectively drawing the curtain on the NPE.

A group called European Action manages to agitate for the aims of the NPE through its newspaper of the same name, edited by Robert Edwards, although it is an nearly exclusively British movement.