[2] Hannan reportedly launched the Alliance with the intention of promoting national sovereignty, free trade and "maximum devolution of power".
[3] Some have suggested that the organisation could become the nucleus of a new European political party or that its name be adopted by a newly independent ED group.
The Alliance appears to have never received any official sanction from the respective party leadership of its participants, however.
This move was criticized by former UK Conservative minister Anthony Nelson who argued that the leader of the Tory party "should occupy the centre ground and be inclusive not exclusive.
[citation needed] In July 2006, the Movement for European Reform was announced, a broadly similar body, though with a formal mandate from the leadership of the British Conservatives and Czech Civic Democrats.