These theories, along with the meta-political strategy of Venner, influenced young Europe-Action journalist Alain de Benoist and are deemed conducive to the creation of GRECE and the Nouvelle Droite in 1968.
[5] These nationalists maintained an ambiguous view of Nazism; Europe-Action, for example, quoted Maurice Bardèche as saying that "next to genial intuitions, Hitler made mistakes," attributing these errors to a "lack of established doctrinal foundations.
In that manifesto, the pro-colonial founders of the Federation of Nationalist Students (FEN) committed themselves to "action of profound consequence", as opposed to the "sterile activism" of mere street violence that Jeune Nation had promoted in the 1950s.
[8] Following a dispute between Occident leader Pierre Sidos and campaign director Jean-Marie Le Pen, Europe-Action volunteers stepped in to support Tixier-Vignancour by joining his Comité Jeunes ("Youth Committee").
[8][17] The REL managed to field only 27 candidates during the 1967 legislative election, garnering just 2.58% of the vote,[2][18] a failure often seen as paving the way for the creation of the ethno-nationalist think tank GRECE and the evolution of Nouvelle Droite meta-politics.
[2] The magazine released its final issue in November 1966 following the bankruptcy of its publishing house,[14][19] and Europe-Action ceased to exist in the summer of 1967 after an unsuccessful attempt to revive the publication.
[21] The movement developed two main thesis: a "biological realism" composed of racialism and social Darwinism; and a pan-European nationalism built on a common Western civilization seen as the link between the peoples of the "white race".
The destruction of this balance, which can be quick, will lead to our disappearance and that of our civilization.Europe-Action promoted the project of creating a genetically improved social elite along with, "without futile sentimentality", the elimination of "biological waste",[30] "not through massacres but through eugenic processes".
[31] Their conception of Europe was not limited to the continent, and described as a "heart whose blood beats in Johannesburg and in Quebec City, in Sydney and Budapest, aboard white caravels and spaceships, on every sea and in every desert in the world.
[29] Seeking to oppose the anti-intellectualism that had been a major hindrance to the right in the battle of ideas—notably against the Marxist set of concepts—Venner aimed at establishing a new radical right doctrine to be spread in wider society and bring about a nationalist cultural revolution.
Describing Europe-Action members as "militants of a white nation", Venner concluded that nationalists should infiltrate organizations, "however small, including unions, local newspapers, even youth hostels" in order to disseminate their ideas.
[40] GRECE and the Nouvelle Droite inherited a number of themes from Europe-Action, among them "the anti-Christian stance, a marked elitism, the racial notion of a united Europe, the seeds of a change from biological to cultural definitions of "difference", and the sophisticated inversion of terms like racism and anti-racism".