Ahead of the 2014 European Parliament election, it was suggested that EAF members might form a parliamentary group of their own after the elections.
On 28 May, three days after the end of the elections, Le Pen, Wilders, Matteo Salvini (LN), Harald Vilimsky (FPÖ) and Gerolf Annemans (VB) appeared at a press conference in Brussels, claiming to be confident to find enough allies for forming a new group soon [REF].