National Council of European Resistance

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 (9 November 2017) by analogy to the National Council of the Resistance.[4] It has links to the identitarian movement.[5][6]

National Council of European Resistance
Conseil national de la résistance européenne
AbbreviationCNRE
Named afterNational Council of the Resistance
Formation9 November 2017; 6 years ago (2017-11-09)
FoundersRenaud Camus
Karim Ouchikh
Founded atColombey-les-Deux-Églises
TypePolitical organization
Nonprofit organization
Registration no.W751242801
Legal statusAssociation Loi de 1901
FocusDefence of European civilization
HeadquartersParis, France
FieldPolitical advocacy
Membership (2018)
32 Council members[1]
Renaud Camus
Karim Ouchikh
vacant[2]
Key people
Affiliations
Websitecnre.eu
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

The 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

Background

Renaud 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

On 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

Council

According to its official website, members of the CNRE include:

Members of the CNRE, by order of adhesion (November 2020)[1]
MemberRole
Renaud CamusPresident of the CNRE, president of the Parti de l’In-nocence
Karim OuchikhVice-president of the CNRE, president of SIEL [fr]
Martine PinceminTreasurer of the CNRE, secretary of SIEL
Paul-Marie CoûteauxFormer MEP
Sébastien JallamionPresident of ANDELE
Václav KlausFormer president of the Czech Republic
Jean-Yves Le GallouFormer MEP
Christian VannesteFormer president of the Rally for France, president of La Droite Libre
Fabien NiezgodaFormer president of the Independent Ecological Movement
Jacques ClostermannFormer national delegate of the Rassemblement Bleu Marine
Rémi Soulié [fr]Literary critic
Marco SantiPresident of Démocratie Nationale
Marcel MeyerFormer president of the Parti de l’In-nocence
Nicolas LacaveVice-president of the Rassemblement pour l'indépendance et la souveraineté de la France [fr]
Aldo SteroneYouTuber
Robert-Noël CastellaniUNESCO consultant
Filip DewinterMember of the Flemish Parliament, spokesman of Vlaams Belang
Christian PiquemalFormer General in the French Army
Antoine MartinezGeneral in the French Air Force
Richard RoudierPresident of the Ligue du Midi [fr]
Frank BuhlerFormer founding member of the Movement for France
Gérard PinceEconomist
Jean-Michel DarquéFormer Solidarist militant
Bernard LuganHistorian
Janice AtkinsonFormer MEP
Grégory RooseFormer departmental delegate of the Front National in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
George ClémentPresident of the Comité Trump France
Jean-Louis TrainarWebblogger
Gérard HardyFounder of the Volontaires pour la France
Bruno Lafourcade [fr]Novelist

Public membership

Les 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]

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