The National Council of European Resistance (French: Conseil national de la résistance européenne, officially abbreviated as CNRE) is a France-based pan-European far-right political organization[a] co-founded by Renaud Camus and Karim Ouchikh on 9 November 2017 by analogy to the National Council of the Resistance.[4] It has links to the identitarian movement.[5][6]
Conseil national de la résistance européenne | |
 CNRE logo – a tricoloured cross of Lorraine | |
| Abbreviation | CNRE |
|---|---|
| Named after | National Council of the Resistance |
| Formation | 9 November 2017 |
| Founders | Renaud Camus Karim Ouchikh |
| Founded at | Colombey-les-Deux-Églises |
| Type | Political organization Nonprofit organization |
| Registration no. | W751242801 |
| Legal status | Association Loi de 1901 |
| Focus | Defence of European civilization |
| Headquarters | Paris, France |
| Field | Political advocacy |
Membership (2018) | 32 Council members[1] |
| Renaud Camus | |
| Karim Ouchikh | |
| vacant[2] | |
Key people | |
| Affiliations | |
| Website | cnre |
| Politics of France | |
The council is intended to bring together qualified French and European personalities who aspire to "work for the defence of European civilization"[7]—to oppose the Great Replacement, immigration to Europe, and, more generally, to defeat replacist totalitarianism,[7][8] a concept theorized by Renaud Camus.[9][10][11]
Membership in the council is strictly enlarged by co-option.[7] Several high-ranking European officials have taken part, such as former President of the Czech Republic Václav Klaus, former members of the European Parliament Jean-Yves Le Gallou and Paul-Marie Coûteaux, former member of the European Parliament Janice Atkinson, former representative to the National Assembly of France Christian Vanneste, Belgian member of parliament Filip Dewinter, or Africanist historian Bernard Lugan.[1]
Name
editThe name Conseil national de la résistance européenne is a reference to the coordinating body of the French Resistance during the German occupation of France—the National Council of the Resistance.[4] When asked how the CNRE could be both national and European, Renaud Camus replied:
The Council is national in that each and every nation is responsible for defending its independence and protecting its culture. It is European because our civilisational struggle must be fought in concert with and by all Europeans.
— Renaud Camus
History
editBackground
editRenaud Camus, a French writer and co-founder of the movement, coined in 2010–2011 the concept of "Great Replacement", a theory which supposes that "replacist elites"[b] are colluding against the White French and Europeans in order to replace them with non-European peoples—specifically Muslim populations from Africa and the Middle East—through mass migration, demographic growth and a drop in the European birth rate; a process he labeled "genocide by substitution."[12][13] Camus was a candidate in the 2012 French presidential election, but failed to gain enough elected representatives presentations to be able to run for president, and eventually decided to support Marine Le Pen.[14][15]
Creation
editOn 9 November 2017, in a public address in Colombey-les-Deux-Églises—the village where Charles de Gaulle is buried—Renaud Camus announced the foundation of the National Council of European Resistance and asked for a collective European commitment.[5]
All the European nations are invited to lead by our side the fight for the salvation of our common civilization, Celtic, Slavic, Greco-Latin, Judeo-Christian, and free-thinking.
— Renaud Camus
Membership
editCouncil
editAccording to its official website, members of the CNRE include:
| Member | Role |
|---|---|
| Renaud Camus | President of the CNRE, president of the Parti de l’In-nocence |
| Karim Ouchikh | Vice-president of the CNRE, president of SIEL |
| Martine Pincemin | Treasurer of the CNRE, secretary of SIEL |
| Paul-Marie Coûteaux | Former MEP |
| Sébastien Jallamion | President of ANDELE |
| Václav Klaus | Former president of the Czech Republic |
| Jean-Yves Le Gallou | Former MEP |
| Christian Vanneste | Former president of the Rally for France, president of La Droite Libre |
| Fabien Niezgoda | Former president of the Independent Ecological Movement |
| Jacques Clostermann | Former national delegate of the Rassemblement Bleu Marine |
| Rémi Soulié | Literary critic |
| Marco Santi | President of Démocratie Nationale |
| Marcel Meyer | Former president of the Parti de l’In-nocence |
| Nicolas Lacave | Vice-president of the Rassemblement pour l'indépendance et la souveraineté de la France |
| Aldo Sterone | YouTuber |
| Robert-Noël Castellani | UNESCO consultant |
| Filip Dewinter | Member of the Flemish Parliament, spokesman of Vlaams Belang |
| Christian Piquemal | Former General in the French Army |
| Antoine Martinez | General in the French Air Force |
| Richard Roudier | President of the Ligue du Midi |
| Frank Buhler | Former founding member of the Movement for France |
| Gérard Pince | Economist |
| Jean-Michel Darqué | Former Solidarist militant |
| Bernard Lugan | Historian |
| Janice Atkinson | Former MEP |
| Grégory Roose | Former departmental delegate of the Front National in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence |
| George Clément | President of the Comité Trump France |
| Jean-Louis Trainar | Webblogger |
| Gérard Hardy | Founder of the Volontaires pour la France |
| Bruno Lafourcade | Novelist |
Public membership
editLes Partisans du CNRE is a legal association created concurrently with the Council under the French law of 1901. Its purpose is to welcome natural persons and legal entities of French or foreign nationality, who wish to actively support the action of the CNRE, by relaying its ideas, through militant actions or through financial contributions.[7]
References
editFootnotes
editCitations
edit- ^ a b c "À propos". Conseil National de la Résistance Européenne (in French). 29 November 2017. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
- ^ "Mort de Philippe Martel". Conseil National de la Résistance Européenne (in French). 5 November 2020. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
- ^ Lovas, István. "Renaud Camus levele Orbán Viktorhoz" (in Hungarian). Magyar Idők. Retrieved 9 June 2018.
- ^ a b Sapiro 2018.
- ^ a b Zúquete 2018.
- ^ Lefebvre, Frédéric (10 April 2018). "La "droite identitaire" exige de la "droite décomplexée" qu'elle assume publiquement ses liaisons ..." (in French). The Huffington Post.
- ^ a b c d "Charte constitutive". Conseil National de la Résistance Européenne (in French). 3 December 2017. Archived from the original on 19 June 2022. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
- ^ Ouchikh, Karim (11 December 2017). "Pour défendre notre civilisation, j'appelle à un rassemblement devant le Conseil d'Etat". Association pour la Fondation de Service politique (in French). Retrieved 7 January 2018.
- ^ Wildman, Sarah (15 August 2017). "You will not replace us: a French philosopher explains the Charlottesville chant". Vox. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
- ^ Tharoor, Ishaan (21 December 2017). "Analysis | In 2017, nativism went mainstream in the West". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
- ^ Dupin, Éric (2017). La France identitaire : Enquête sur la réaction qui vient. Paris: Éditions La Découverte. ISBN 9782707191205.
- ^ Taguieff, Pierre-André (18 March 2015). La revanche du nationalisme: Néopopulistes et xénophobes à l'assaut de l'Europe (in French). Presses Universitaires de France. p. 71. ISBN 9782130729501.
- ^ Verstraet, Antoine (2017). "C'est ça que tu veux ? !". Savoirs et Clinique (in French). 23 (2): 55. doi:10.3917/sc.023.0055. ISSN 1634-3298.
[transl. from French] This theory states that the indigenous French ("Français de souche") could soon be demographically replaced by non-European peoples, especially from the Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa.
- ^ Sexton, David (3 November 2016). "Non!". The Spectator. Archived from the original on 21 August 2018. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
- ^ "L'écrivain Renaud Camus appelle à voter Le Pen". Le Figaro. 27 March 2012. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
Bibliography
edit- Sapiro, Gisèle (2018). Les écrivains et la politique en France – De l'affaire Dreyfus à la guerre d'Algérie (in French). Le Seuil. ISBN 978-2-02-140215-5.
- Zúquete, José Pedro (2018). The Identitarians: The Movement against Globalism and Islam in Europe. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. ISBN 9780268104214.
External links
edit- List of members of the National Council of European Resistance Archived 1 December 2017 at the Wayback Machine (in French)
- Constitutional charter of the National Council of European Resistance Archived 19 June 2022 at the Wayback Machine (in French)