Europe’s most conservative parties – some of which are still relatively young, have been rapidly gaining support over the last several years as nationalists across the continent speak out in opposition to mass migration, high taxes and the open-border policies espoused by globalist leadership.

Ahead of the upcoming European Parliament elections in May, many have been wondering what the various nationalist parties think of the EU. Answering that question is Germany’s public international broadcaster, Deutsche Welle.

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AfD (Germany) — 1 MEP

The new AfD European election manifesto says Germany should abandon the euro currency. That position that can be traced to the party’s euroskeptic origins in 2013, when the AfD was founded as a direct protest against Brussels’ plans to bail out Greece in the aftermath of the European financial crisis.

But despite a concerted effort from the party’s hardliners, the AfD has stopped short of demanding that Germany leave the EU altogether. “Whoever toys with the idea of a Dexit also needs to ask themselves if this is not a utopia and should we be more realistic,” party leader Alexander Gauland told delegates at the party conference in Riesa, Saxony.

That compromise means the AfD supports restricting the EU to economic cooperation and opposing a joint EU defense and foreign policy.

National Rally (France) — 15 MEPs

As one of the oldest far-right parties on this list, France’s National Rally (known as the National Front until last summer) has held a number of different positions in its past. A basically a pro-European party intially, the FN u-turned in the early 2000s, when leader Jean-Marie Le Pen called for France to leave the EU and re-introduce the franc.

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