Jeune Europe

Young Europe (French: Jeune Europe, JE) was an international European nationalist movement active from 1962 to 1969, founded by the Belgian Jean Thiriart. It is the forerunner of contemporary European revolutionary nationalism, in the sense that it is one of the first movements to consider the national fact on a continental scale. The movement considers that the European nation-states belonged to a bygone era and had to be transcended to a unitary European nation: the Europe Nation. It publishes the magazines Jeune Europe and La Nation européenne.

It was the main European far-right group of the 1960s. Created by the Belgian Jean Thiriart in 1960, his renewal of forms and slogans undoubtedly inspired the Spanish Circle of Friends of Europe (CEDADE), with which he maintained good relations and close collaboration.

Jeune Europe existed in numerous European countries, it was seen by its militants as a pan-European overcoming of fascism and marxist communism.

It dissolved in 1969 after political-police pressure. Many of its former Italian militants joined the Red Brigades.^{[citation needed]}

Jeune Europe is considered the first purely neo-Nazi and pseudo-revolutionary association.

According to academic Xavier Casals, Thiriart advocated a "fascist pan-Europeanism".