The Parti communautaire national-européen (PCN) is a Belgium

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

-based political organisation led by Luc Michel

Luc Michel

Luc Michel is a far-left Belgian political activist and supporter of the ideas of Jean-François Thiriart...

, a former member of the Neo-Nazi FANE

Fédération d'action nationale et européenne

The Fédération d'action nationale et européenne was a small French far-right organisation founded in April 1966. Openly Neo-Nazi, it was led by Mark Fredriksen, a bank employee who became involved in activism for French Algeria after serving in the paras there...

 party. A largely National Bolshevik

National Bolshevism

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 movement, it also has activists in France

France

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The PCN was founded in 1984 as a successor to the similar Parti Communautaire Européen

Parti Communautaire Européen

The Parti Communautaire Européen was a pan-European nationalist political party based in Belgium that had a platform similar to National Bolshevism....

. The party bases its ideas on those of Jean-François Thiriart

Jean-François Thiriart

Jean-François Thiriart was a Belgian far right politician.-Youth:Initially a Socialist, Thiriart eventually adopted a form of non-Marxist, Nationalist Socialism....

, who served as an advisor to Michel for a time after the foundation of the group, and seeks the creation of a single Europe

Europe

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an state stretching entity from Russia

Russia

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 to the Atlantic coast. Including activists with origins on both the far right

Far right

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 and far left

Far left

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, it seeks to liberate Europe from its 'Yankee and Zionist enemies'. It has also been noted for giving support to controversial world leaders such as Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia

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's Slobodan Milošević

Slobodan Milošević

Slobodan Milošević was President of Serbia and Yugoslavia. He served as the President of Socialist Republic of Serbia and Republic of Serbia from 1989 until 1997 in three terms and as President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1997 to 2000...

, Iraq

Iraq

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's Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003...

, Libya

Libya

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's Muammar al-Gaddafi

Muammar al-Gaddafi

Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar Gaddafi or "September 1942" 20 October 2011), commonly known as Muammar Gaddafi or Colonel Gaddafi, was the official ruler of the Libyan Arab Republic from 1969 to 1977 and then the "Brother Leader" of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya from 1977 to 2011.He seized power in a...

 and Syria

Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....

's Hafez al-Assad

Hafez al-Assad

Hafez ibn 'Ali ibn Sulayman al-Assad or more commonly Hafez al-Assad was the President of Syria for three decades. Assad's rule consolidated the power of the central government after decades of coups and counter-coups, such as Operation Wappen in 1957 conducted by the Eisenhower administration and...

. The party has, from time to time, contested elections in Belgium and France (without securing elected office), although at the last Belgian elections they told their supporters to vote for the Vlaams Belang

Vlaams Belang

Vlaams Belang is a Belgian far-right political party in the Flemish Region and Brussels that advocates the independence of Flanders and strict limits on immigration, whereby immigrants would be obliged to adopt Flemish culture and language...

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The party is not connected to the European Community Party, a more recent initiative.