National Council of European Resistance explained

National Council of European Resistance
Native Name:French: Conseil national de la résistance européenne
Native Name Lang:fr
Named After:National Council of the Resistance
Logo Alt:CNRE logo
Abbreviation:CNRE
Founders:Renaud Camus
Karim Ouchikh
Founding Location:Colombey-les-Deux-Églises
Type:Political organization
Nonprofit organization
Status:French: Association Loi de 1901
Registration Id:W751242801
Focus:Defence of European civilization
Field:Political advocacy
Headquarters:Paris, France
Leader Title:President
Leader Name:Renaud Camus
Leader Title2:Vice President
Leader Name2:Karim Ouchikh
Leader Title3:Secretary General
Leader Name3:vacant[1]
Membership:32 Council members[2]
Membership Year:2018
Footnotes:Politics of France

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 co-founded by Renaud Camus and Karim Ouchikh on by analogy to the National Council of the Resistance. It has links to the identitarian movement.[3]

The council is intended to bring together qualified French and European personalities who aspire to "work for the defence of European civilization"[4] —to oppose the Great Replacement, immigration to Europe, and, more generally, to defeat replacist totalitarianism,[5] a concept theorized by Renaud Camus.[6] [7] [8]

Membership in the council is strictly enlarged by co-option. 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.

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. When asked how the CNRE could be both national and European, Renaud Camus replied:

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" 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."[9] [10] 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.[11] [12]

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.

Membership

Council

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

Members of the CNRE, by order of adhesion (November 2020)!Member!Role
Renaud CamusPresident of the CNRE, president of the Parti de l’In-nocence
Karim OuchikhVice-president of the CNRE, president of SIEL
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
Literary critic
Marco SantiPresident of Démocratie Nationale
Marcel MeyerFormer president of the Parti de l’In-nocence
Nicolas LacaveVice-president of the
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
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
Novelist

Public membership

French: 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.

References

Bibliography

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2020-11-05. Mort de Philippe Martel. 2020-11-05. Conseil National de la Résistance Européenne. fr.
  2. News: À propos. 2017-11-29. Conseil National de la Résistance Européenne. 2017-12-21. fr-FR. 1 December 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171201033219/https://www.cnre.eu/a-propos. dead.
  3. News: Lefebvre. Frédéric. 2018-04-10. La "droite identitaire" exige de la "droite décomplexée" qu'elle assume publiquement ses liaisons .... fr-fr. The Huffington Post.
  4. News: Charte constitutive. 2017-12-03. Conseil National de la Résistance Européenne. 2017-12-31. fr-FR. 19 June 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220619221646/https://www.cnre.eu/charte. dead.
  5. Web site: Pour défendre notre civilisation, j'appelle à un rassemblement devant le Conseil d'Etat. Ouchikh. Karim. 2017-12-11. . fr-FR. 2018-01-07.
  6. News: You will not replace us: a French philosopher explains the Charlottesville chant. Wildman. Sarah. 2017-08-15. Vox. 2017-12-31.
  7. News: Analysis In 2017, nativism went mainstream in the West. Tharoor. Ishaan. 2017-12-21. The Washington Post. 2017-12-31. en-US. 0190-8286.
  8. Book: Dupin . Éric . La France identitaire : Enquête sur la réaction qui vient . 2017 . Éditions La Découverte . Paris . 9782707191205.
  9. Book: Taguieff, Pierre-André. La revanche du nationalisme: Néopopulistes et xénophobes à l'assaut de l'Europe. 2015-03-18. Presses Universitaires de France. 9782130729501. 71. fr.
  10. Verstraet. Antoine. 2017. C'est ça que tu veux ? !. Savoirs et Clinique. fr. 23. 2. 55. 10.3917/sc.023.0055. 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..
  11. News: Sexton. David. 3 November 2016. Non!. The Spectator. 20 August 2018. 21 August 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180821031918/https://life.spectator.co.uk/2016/11/non/. dead.
  12. Web site: 2012-03-27. L'écrivain Renaud Camus appelle à voter Le Pen. 2019-09-07. Le Figaro.