| All European political parties have been drafting EU election manifestos these days and, with or without disagreements, will soon come up with an election plan, except for the far-right Identity and Democracy, which will rely on a vague two-page declaration from 2022. “No ID manifesto is planned, as our programme was already formulated when the group was founded in 2019 and in the Antwerp Declaration,” ID group vice-president and member of the German AfD, Gunnar Beck, told Euractiv. The grouping of nationalists seems content, fighting for their particular national interests while using the advantages of a parliamentary group to “roll back” the European project. Their marriage of convenience is also shown by their recurring refusal to impose any group-voting discipline: Each national party still votes according to its own agenda. “Members have the right to vote according to their conscience, national party program […] the chief whip shall ensure the highest political coherence possible between the National Delegations during votes”, the ID group’s statute reads. Politically, their only connecting element is the desire to block further EU integration and push for the return of power to the national capitals. However, their “political realism” in the modern multipolar world is unrealistic. The rejection of Europe’s common defence, for example, is closer to “political surrealism”. | 
