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{{Short description|Former national-conservative political group of the European Parliament}}
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{{Infobox European Parliament group
| title       = Union for Europe of the Nations
| image       = Union for Europe of the Nations logo.svg
| from        = 20 July 1999<ref name="t1s8">{{Cite web|url=http://www.europe-politique.eu/rassemblement-des-democrates-europeens.htm |title=UFE on Europe Politique |publisher=Europe-politique.eu |access-date=30 December 2009}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.europe-politique.eu/union-pour-l-europe-des-nations.htm |title=UEN on Europe Politique |publisher=Europe-politique.eu |access-date=30 December 2009}}</ref>
| to          = 1 July 2009
| precededby  = [[Union for Europe]]
| formalname  = Union for Europe of the Nations Group<ref name="t1s53"/>
| ideology    = {{ubl|class=nowrap|
 |[[National conservatism]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Daniela Pîrvu|title=Corporate Income Tax Harmonization in the European Union|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FEl7rtV2I2EC&pg=PA168|year=2012|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-1-137-00092-7|page=168}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Alexander H. Trechsel|title=Towards a Federal Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mTndAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT72|year=2013|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-317-99818-1|page=72}}</ref><ref name="Gillissen">{{cite book|author=Christophe Gillissen|title=Ireland: Looking East|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QoKaFhA-unwC&pg=PA157|year=2010|publisher=Peter Lang|isbn=978-90-5201-652-8|page=157}}</ref>
 |[[Conservatism]]<ref name="Nugent2006">{{cite book|author=Neill Nugent|title=The Government and Politics of the European Union|url=https://archive.org/details/governmentpoliti00nuge_0|url-access=registration|year=2006|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=0-8223-3870-X|page=[https://archive.org/details/governmentpoliti00nuge_0/page/265 265]}}</ref>
 |[[Euroscepticism]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Christina Schori Liang|title=Europe for the Europeans: The Foreign and Security Policy of the Populist Radical Right|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jXR5GzqvmyYC&pg=PA205|year=2007|publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.|isbn=978-0-7546-4851-2|page=205}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Senem Aydin-Düzgit|title=Constructions of European Identity: Debates and Discourses on Turkey and the EU|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zaa14rj9uQkC&pg=PA135|year=2012|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-0-230-34838-7|page=135}}</ref>}}
| position = [[Right-wing]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.politico.eu/article/european-parliament-elections-results-in-brief/|title=European Parliament elections results in brief|date=10 June 2009|access-date=28 October 2022|publisher=Politico}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Pankowski |first1=Rafal |title=The Populist Radical Right in Poland: The Patriots |date=2010 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781135150976 |page=149}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Crum |first1=Ben |url=https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/bitstream/handle/document/22913/ssoar-eup-2007-1-crum-party_stances_in_the_referendums.pdf;jsessionid=5D5403AE4EF7F30DFAD836608304E98F?sequence=1|doi=10.1177/1465116507073286|title=Party Stances in the Referendums on the EU Constitution: Causes and Consequences of Competition and Collusion|hdl=2262/52468 |s2cid=53533845 }}</ref>
| europarties = [[Alliance for Europe of the Nations]]
| chairs = [[Charles Pasqua]],<ref name="t1s53">{{Cite web|url=http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/archive/term5/view.do?language=EN&id=4359 |title=European Parliament profile of Charles Pasqua |publisher=Europarl.europa.eu |access-date=30 December 2009}}</ref> (99-04)<br />[[Brian Crowley]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/archive/alphaOrder/view.do?id=2109&language=en |title=European Parliament profile of Brian Crowley |publisher=Europarl.europa.eu |access-date=30 December 2009}}</ref> (04-09)<br />[[Cristiana Muscardini]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/archive/alphaOrder/view.do?id=1073&language=en |title=European Parliament profile of Cristiana Muscardini |publisher=Europarl.europa.eu |access-date=30 December 2009}}</ref> (04-09)
|meps = 31<ref name="CEPSRUEN">[http://www.cepsr.com/clanek.php?ID=238 Unie pro Evropu národů/Union for Europe of Nations], 2005 article by Pavla Papírníková, in the Central European Political Studies Review, from the International Institute of Political Science, Masaryk University.</ref> (20 July 1999)<br />30<ref name="EPC19990722">{{Cite web|url=http://www.europarl.europa.eu/elections2004/ep-election/sites/en/yourparliament/outgoingparl/members/graphical1999.html |title=Seats in the EP 22 July 1999 has UEN with 30 seats |publisher=Europarl.europa.eu |access-date=30 December 2009}}</ref> (22 July 1999)<br />23<ref name="EPC20040430">{{Cite web|url=http://www.europarl.europa.eu/elections2004/ep-election/sites/en/yourparliament/outgoingparl/members/graphical2004.html |title=Seats in the EP 30 April 2004 has UEN with 23 seats |publisher=Europarl.europa.eu |access-date=30 December 2009}}</ref> (30 April 2004)<br />30<ref name="EPC20040505">{{Cite web|url=http://www.europarl.europa.eu/elections2004/ep-election/sites/en/yourparliament/outgoingparl/members/index.html |title=Seats in the EP 5 May 2004 has UEN with 30 seats |publisher=Europarl.europa.eu |access-date=30 December 2009}}</ref> (5 May 2004)<br />27<ref name="EPC20040630">{{Cite web|url=http://www.europarl.europa.eu/elections2004/ep-election/sites/en/results1306/global.html |title=Seats in the EP 30 June 2004 has UEN with 27 seats |publisher=Europarl.europa.eu |access-date=30 December 2009}}</ref><ref name="EPCBP20040630">{{Cite web|url=http://www.europarl.europa.eu/elections2004/ep-election/sites/en/results1306/parties.html |title=Seats in the EP 30 June 2004 by party has UEN with 27 seats |publisher=Europarl.europa.eu |access-date=30 December 2009}}</ref> (4 June 2004)<br />27<ref name="CEPSRUEN"/><ref name="EuropePolitique2004">{{Cite web|url=http://www.europe-politique.eu/elections-europeennes-2004.htm |title=Europe Politique Seats in the EP 20 July 2004 by party has UEN with 27 seats |website=Europe-politique.eu |date=17 February 2007 |access-date=30 December 2009}}</ref> (20 July 2004)<br />44<ref name="EPPED10022008">{{Cite web|url=http://files.epp-ed.eu/Activities/docs/year2008/leaflet-group-en.pdf|access-date=30 December 2009|title=Leaflet Group}}</ref><ref name="UENMEPS">[http://www.uengroup.org/about_uen_meps.html About UEN MEPs]</ref> (10 February 2008)<br />35<ref name="E2009seats_by_group_en_txt">[http://www.elections2009-results.eu/en/seats_by_group_en_txt.html "Seats by political group in each Member State"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090611192848/http://www.elections2009-results.eu/en/seats_by_group_en_txt.html |date=11 June 2009 }} 11 June 2009</ref><ref name="EUB1244416659">[http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1244416659.62/view "Make-up of new EU parliament and turnout rates"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605111048/http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1244416659.62/view |date=5 June 2011 }}</ref> (11 June 2009)
|website = {{URL|https://web.archive.org/web/20090129094831/http://www.uengroup.org/|uengroup.org}}
|}}

'''Union for Europe of the Nations''' ('''UEN''')<ref name="t1s1">{{Cite web|url=http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/groland/pubs/HNR-Democracy_in_the_EP-11July05.pdf |title=Democracy in the European Parliament |access-date=30 December 2009}}</ref><ref name="t1s3">{{Cite web|url=http://www.cvce.eu/obj/the_development_of_political_groups_of_the_european_parliament-en-35c2d1b5-1661-4c33-a65a-db49ade0c5ac.html |title=Development of Political Groups in the European Parliament |publisher=CVCE |access-date=16 January 2015}}</ref> was a [[National conservatism|national-conservative]], [[Euroscepticism|Eurosceptic]] [[political groups of the European Parliament|political group]] that operated in the [[European Parliament]] between 1999 and 2009. At its height in February 2008, it had 44 [[MEPs]]. UEN was affiliated with the [[Alliance for Europe of the Nations]] political party.

UEN was formed as the successor of the [[Union for Europe]] group. Its members were parties such as the [[Rally for France]], Italian [[National Alliance (Italy)|National Alliance]] and [[Lega Nord]], Irish [[Fianna Fáil]], and Polish [[Law and Justice]]. After the [[2009 European Parliament election]], UEN was dissolved due to its member parties opting to switch to other groups.

==History==
UEN was formed on 20 July 1999<ref name="t1s8"/> for the [[Fifth European Parliament|5th European Parliament]], supplanting the earlier [[Union for Europe]].<ref name="Nugent2006"/> Its member parties [[Fianna Fáil]] (FF) and the [[National Alliance (Italy)|National Alliance]] (AN) were the driving forces behind the group, despite their being alone in the group in their support for the proposed [[Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe|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 [[Presidency of the Council of the European Union|President of the European Council]] in 2004.

UEN was a heterogeneous group: broadly Eurosceptic and [[National conservatism|national-conservative]], it included some parties which were either uncomfortable with this characterisation or eventually evolved into something different. More specifically, FF was a "[[big tent|catch all]]" centre-right party and later joined the [[Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party|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".<ref>{{cite web |title=Sintesi posizioni Lega Nord sull'Unione Europea |url=http://www.padaniaoffice.org/pdf/affari_istituz/doc_politici/Punti_LN_Europa.pdf |publisher=Lega Nord |date=10 March 2004 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727161710/http://www.padaniaoffice.org/pdf/affari_istituz/doc_politici/Punti_LN_Europa.pdf |archive-date=27 July 2011 }}</ref>

After the [[2009 European Parliament election|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.<ref name="FFfull-text-taoiseach-brian-cowen-at-the-official-opening-of-72nd-fianna-fail">[http://www.fiannafail.ie/feature/entry/full-text-taoiseach-brian-cowen-at-the-official-opening-of-72nd-fianna-fail/ "Full Text: Taoiseach Brian Cowen at the official Opening of 72nd Fianna Fáil Ard Fheis - Part 1"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090303163833/http://www.fiannafail.ie/feature/entry/full-text-taoiseach-brian-cowen-at-the-official-opening-of-72nd-fianna-fail/ |date=3 March 2009 }}, Fianna Fáil website, posted 27 February 2009</ref> 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 Group|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 Group]] (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===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Country
! colspan="3"| Name
! Ideology
! [[European Parliament|MEPs]]
|-
| {{flag|France}}
! style="background:{{party color|Rally for France}}"|
| [[Rally for France]]
| RPF
| [[Gaullism]]<br />[[National conservatism]]
| {{Composition bar|12|87|{{party color|Rally for France}}}}
|-
| rowspan="2"| {{flag|Italy}}
! style="background:{{party color|National Alliance (Italy)}}"|
| [[National Alliance (Italy)|National Alliance]]
| AN
| [[National conservatism]]<br />[[Post-fascism]]
| {{Composition bar|8|87|{{party color|National Alliance (Italy)}}}}
|-
! style="background:{{party color|Segni Pact}}"|
| [[Segni Pact]]
| PS
| [[Christian democracy]]<br />[[Economic liberalism]]
| {{Composition bar|1|87|{{party color|Segni Pact}}}}
|-
| {{flag|Ireland}}
! style="background:{{party color|Fianna Fáil}}"|
| [[Fianna Fáil]]
| FF
| [[Irish republicanism]]<br />[[Conservatism]]
| {{Composition bar|6|15|{{party color|Fianna Fáil}}}}
|-
| {{flag|Portugal}}
! style="background:{{party color|CDS – People's Party}}"|
| [[CDS – People's Party]]
| CDS–PP
| [[Conservatism]]<br />[[Christian democracy]]
| {{Composition bar|2|25|{{party color|CDS – People's Party}}}}
|-
| {{flag|Denmark}}
! style="background:{{party color|Danish People's Party}}"|
| [[Danish People's Party]]
| DF
| [[Nationalism|Danish nationalism]]<br />[[Right-wing populism]]
| {{Composition bar|1|16|{{party color|Danish People's Party}}}}
|}

=== 2004–2009 ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Country
! colspan="3"| Name
! Ideology
! [[European Parliament|MEPs]]<ref name="EPPED10022008"/><ref name="UENMEPS"/>
|-
| {{flag|Denmark}}
! style="background:{{party color|Danish People's Party}}"|
| [[Danish People's Party]]
| DF
| [[Nationalism|Danish nationalism]]<br />[[Right-wing populism]]
| {{Composition bar|1|14|{{party color|Danish People's Party}}}}
|-
| {{flag|Ireland}}
! style="background:{{party color|Fianna Fáil}}"|
| [[Fianna Fáil]]
| FF
| [[Irish republicanism]]<br />[[Conservatism]]
| {{Composition bar|4|13|{{party color|Fianna Fáil}}}}
|-
| rowspan="3"| {{flag|Italy}}
! style="background:{{party color|National Alliance (Italy)}}"|
| [[National Alliance (Italy)|National Alliance]]
| AN
| [[National conservatism]]<br />[[Post-fascism]]
| {{Composition bar|8|78|{{party color|National Alliance (Italy)}}}}
|-
! style="background:{{party color|Lega Nord}}"|
| [[Lega Nord]]
| LN
| [[Regionalism (politics)|Regionalism]]<br />[[Right-wing populism]]
| {{Composition bar|4|78|{{party color|Lega Nord}}}}
|-
! style="background:{{party color|The Right (Italy)}}"|
| [[The Right (Italy)|The Right]]
| LD
| [[Neo-fascism]]<br />[[National conservatism]]
| {{Composition bar|1|78|{{party color|The Right (Italy)}}}}
|-
| {{flag|Latvia}}
! style="background:{{party color|For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK}}"|
| [[For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK]]
| TB/LNNK
| [[National conservatism]]<br />[[Economic liberalism]]
| {{Composition bar|4|9|{{party color|For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK}}}}
|-
| rowspan="2"| {{flag|Lithuania}}
! style="background:{{party color|Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union}}"|
| [[Lithuanian Peasant Popular Union]]
| LVLS
| [[Social conservatism]]<br />[[Agrarianism]]
| {{Composition bar|1|13|{{party color|Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union}}}}
|-
! style="background:{{party color|Order and Justice}}"|
| [[Order and Justice]]
| TT
| [[National conservatism]]<br />[[Right-wing populism]]
| {{Composition bar|1|13|{{party color|Order and Justice}}}}
|-
| rowspan="4"| {{flag|Poland}}
! style="background:{{party color|Law and Justice}}"|
| [[Law and Justice]]
| PiS
| [[National conservatism]]<br />[[Right-wing populism]]
| {{Composition bar|8|54|{{party color|Law and Justice}}}}
|-
! style="background:{{party color|League of Polish Families}}"|
| [[League of Polish Families]]
| LPR
| [[National conservatism]]<br />[[Political Catholicism]]
| {{Composition bar|5|54|{{party color|League of Polish Families}}}}
|-
! style="background:{{party color|Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland}}"|
| [[Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland]]
| SRP
| [[Agrarian socialism]]<br />[[Left-wing populism]]
| {{Composition bar|3|54|{{party color|Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland}}}}
|-
! style="background:#008000"|
| [[Piast Faction|Polish People's Party "Piast"]]
| PSL Piast
| [[Christian democracy]]<br />[[Agrarianism]]
| {{Composition bar|3|54|#008000}}
|}

=== 2009 ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Country
! colspan="3"| Name
! Ideology
! [[European Parliament|MEPs]]<ref name="E2009seats_by_group_en_txt"/><ref name="EUB1244416659"/>
|-
| {{flag|Denmark}}
! style="background:{{party color|Danish People's Party}}"|
| [[Danish People's Party]]
| DF
| [[Nationalism|Danish nationalism]]<br />[[Right-wing populism]]
| {{Composition bar|2|13|{{party color|Danish People's Party}}}}
|-
| {{flag|Poland}}
! style="background:{{party color|Law and Justice}}"|
| [[Law and Justice]]
| PiS
| [[National conservatism]]<br />[[Right-wing populism]]
| {{Composition bar|15|50|{{party color|Law and Justice}}}}
|-
| {{flag|Italy}}
! style="background:{{party color|Lega Nord}}"|
| [[Lega Nord]]
| LN
| [[Regionalism (politics)|Regionalism]]<br />[[Right-wing populism]]
| {{Composition bar|9|72|{{party color|Lega Nord}}}}
|-
| {{flag|Ireland}}
! style="background:{{party color|Fianna Fáil}}"|
| [[Fianna Fáil]]
| FF
| [[Conservatism]]<br />[[Populism]]
| {{Composition bar|3|12|{{party color|Fianna Fáil}}}}
|-
| {{flag|Latvia}}
! style="background:{{party color|For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK}}"|
| [[For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK]]
| TB/LNNK
| [[National conservatism]]<br />[[Economic liberalism]]
| {{Composition bar|1|9|{{party color|For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK}}}}
|-
| {{flag|Lithuania}}
! style="background:{{party color|Order and Justice}}"|
| [[Order and Justice]]
| TT
| [[National conservatism]]<br />[[Right-wing populism]]
| {{Composition bar|2|12|{{party color|Order and Justice}}}}
|-
| {{flag|Slovakia}}
! style="background:{{party color|Slovak National Party}}"|
| [[Slovak National Party]]
| SNS
| [[Ultranationalism]]<br />[[Right-wing populism]]
| {{Composition bar|1|13|{{party color|Slovak National Party}}}}
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/expert/groupAndCountry.do?language=EN Table of all groups and the number of MEPs from countries]
*[http://www.uengroup.org/ UEN]

{{European Parliament groups}}

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