[2] He joined Alain de Benoist's French New Right organisation GRECE in 1973 and left it for the first time in 1981 to found his own similar group, Études, recherches, et orientations européennes (lit.
[3] In 1985, he and the fellow New Rightists Guillaume Faye and Pierre Freson wrote the brochure Little Lexicon of the European Partisan that was distributed by the far-right groups Third Way and Forces Nouvelles.
SE promotes a Eurasianist ideology distinct from Dugin's Russian project, envisioning a political axis of Paris, Berlin and Moscow.
A prominent member became the Romanian Jean Parvulesco [fr; ro], who envisioned a political union of white people.
[6] SE has never attracted the same media attention as GRECE, but figured in public discussions when some of its academic members were accused of having created a New Right faculty at the Jean Moulin University Lyon 3.
[9] Steuckers opposes the existence of immigrant communities in Europe, describing them as "ethnic groups passing through, not assimilated because there are too many of them, [and who] develop parallel economies in order to survive, which, unfortunately, too often lead to Mafia networks.