 They advocated an ethno-nationalist stance focused on European culture, which advocated a return of paganism.Members of the GRECE quit the think tank in the 1980s, such as Pierre Vial who joined the FN, or Guillaume Faye who quit the organisation along with others members in 1986.Faye participated in 2006 in a conference in the US organised by "American Renaissance", a white separatist magazine published by the New Century Foundation.