British National Party, UK (number of MEPs 2) No black members allowed, wants to outlaw mixed-race relationships, "racism" is part of human nature. Stop immigration, deport foreign criminals and introduce voluntary repatriation by paying legal immigrants to leave. Withdraw from EU, keep the pound.

Front National, France (3) End non-European immigration and stop payments to help family members to join migrants. Reintroduce the French franc. Give French people priority for jobs, social support and housing. Restore border controls and the death penalty. Renegotiate EU as a band of nation states, or hold referendum on leaving.

Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest), Belgium (2) Wants an independent Flemish state within the EU and tight rules on immigration. Foreigners who want to settle in Flanders should pass language and cultural tests in their own country first. Asylum-seekers should be sent to countries near their home country rather than accepted in Europe.

Jobbik (The Movement for a Better Hungary), Hungary (3) Wants the establishment of local gendarmerie in Hungary to protect the population against crime, and a special police unit for Gypsy crime. Has its own militia, the Hungarian Guard, of several thousand uniformed volunteers who have campaigned against “Roma criminality”. Its motto: “Hungary belongs to the Hungarians”.

Ataka (Attack), Bulgaria (2) Wants to outlaw the use of other languages in Bulgaria, opposes privatisation and foreign ownership. Volan Siderov, its leader, has campaigned against Turkish membership of the EU, saying: “If we sit and don’t work like Bulgarian patriots, one day they \ will conquer us indeed. They will annex whole regions.” Motto: “Let’s bring Bulgaria back to Bulgarians”.

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Liga Nord (Northern League), Italy (9) Favours immigration from non-Muslim countries and supported legislation to make it a crime to be an illegal immigrant in Italy. Its leader, Umberto Bossi, has said that migrants heading for Italy should be “blown out of the water”.

Danish People’s Party, Denmark (2) Strict policies to restrict immigrants and refugees. Opposes “islamisation” and Turkey’s EU membership. Also against the euro and greater EU powers. Motto: “Give us Denmark back”.

Freedom Party, Netherlands (4) Wants to end immigration from non-Western countries, prevent new mosques being opened and opposes Turkey joining the EU. Its leader, Geert Wilders, is banned from Britain for his anti-Islamic rhetoric, likening the Koran to Hitler’s Mein Kampf.

Freedom Party, Austria (2) Anti-Islamic and opposed to Turkey joining the EU. Opposes EU controls over Austria and any increase in the country’s contribution to EU budget.

Greater Romanian Party, Romania (2) Wants to recreate the Kingdom of Romania to unite ethnic Romanians by taking land from Moldova and Ukraine. Strong rhetorical attacks on the Hungarian minority in Romania.

Slovak National Party, Slovakia (1) Anti-Gypsy and homophobic, also hostile to the country’s Hungarian minority.

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