[31] On 21 November 2015, MENF's think tank "Foundation for a Europe of Nations and Freedom" organised a colloquium ("L'euro, un échec inéluctable?")
This colloquium entitled "Freedom" ("Vrijheid") dealt with liberties in Europe and how they would be threatened by immigration from "countries with cultures which are fundamentally different [from the European ones]".
[33] The movement's member parties and allies met in July 2016 in Vienna, in an event hosted by Austria's FPÖ.
[35] The party strongly denied these allegations by saying that they just had to give the unused EU funds back to the European Parliament.
[43] The new statutes published by the European Parliament revealed that Vlaams Belang's Gerolf Annemans would continue as President, with the National Rally's Catherine Griset receiving the Treasurer position.
In September 2024, the Hungarian Fidesz, the Greek Voice of Reason, the Spanish Vox and Czech ANO were announced as new members of Patriots.eu.
[46] In February 2025, Patriots.eu hosted a rally in Madrid with the theme 'Make Europe Great Again', which was addressed by Marine Le Pen, Geert Wilders, Santiago Abascal, Matteo Salvini, Andrej Babiš, Martin Helme, Krzysztof Bosak and other party leaders.
[55][56] In April 2016, AfD's vice-president Alexander Gauland also proposed an alliance with Marine Le Pen's National Rally.
[13][59] The Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV), despite not being a member of MENF, participated in its previous political group in the European Parliament, ENF.
[61] On 24 October 2015, MENF's leader and vice-president of the National Rally Louis Aliot met the current president of Brothers of Italy, Giorgia Meloni in Trieste for a conference on immigration.
In February 2017, French MEP Edouard Ferrand met with Vox's leaders during a meeting of the Spanish right-wing party.
[64] Back in 2016, Vox's president Santiago Abascal had already met with one of the National Rally's leaders, Louis Aliot, also one of MENF's MEPs in the European Parliament.
[68][69][70] Matteo Salvini and Marine Le Pen hoped to forge strong relations with Law and Justice and Fidesz prior to the 2019 European Parliament election.
[75] In 2022, Fidesz sent representatives, including Justice Minister Judit Varga, to address ID Party events.
[84] However, Simion clarified AUR's intention to join the European Conservatives and Reformists a day prior to the rally.