Union for Europe of the Nations

Union for Europe of the Nations
European parliamentary group
UEN logo
Name	Union for Europe of the Nations
English abbr.	UEN
French abbr.	UEN
Formal name	Union for Europe of the Nations Group
Ideology	National conservatism Conservatism Euroscepticism
European parties	Alliance for Europe of the Nations
From	20 July 1999
To	1 July 2009 (de facto)
Preceded by	Union for Europe
Chaired by	Charles Pasqua, (99-04) Brian Crowley, (04-09) Cristiana Muscardini, (04-09)
MEP(s)	31 (20 July 1999) 30 (22 July 1999) 23 (30 April 2004) 30 (5 May 2004) 27 (June 4, 2004) 27 (July 20, 2004) 44 (10 February 2008) 35 (11 June 2009)
Website	http://www.uengroup.org/

Union for Europe of the Nations (UEN) was a national–conservative and Eurosceptic political group of the European Parliament active between 1999 and 2009.

UEN was formed on 20 July 1999 for the 5th European Parliament, supplanting the earlier Union for Europe. Its member parties Fianna Fáil (FF) and the National Alliance (AN) were the driving forces behind the group, despite their being alone in the group in their support for the proposed European Constitution. Gianfranco Fini, leader of AN, was a member of the Convention which drafted the Constitution, while Bertie Ahern, leader of FF, negotiated the treaty as President of the European Council in 2004.

UEN was a heterogeneous group: broadly Eurosceptic and national-conservative, it included some parties which were either uncomfortable with this characterisation or eventually evolved into something different. More specifically, FF was a "catch all" centre-right party and later joined the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, AN was a conservative party which eventually joined the European People's Party through The People of Freedom, and Lega Nord was supportive of a "Europe of Regions".

After the 2009 European elections the group officially had 35 members but this figure included parties such as AN and FF, which had already committed to leave. UEN members migrated to other groups after the elections in June 2009 and before the Seventh European Parliament term started on 14 July 2009. FF had already left for the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) Group, For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK and Law and Justice MEPs went to the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) Group, and Lega Nord, the Danish People's Party and Order and Justice MEPs went to Europe of Freedom and Democracy (EFD) Group. With this loss of members, the UEN group was dissolved by default.