The plans of Europe's extreme right to try to sabotage the EU from within were hit after
Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders, the French and Dutch far right leaders, failed to gain enough allies to qualify as a single caucus in the new European parliament – denying them precious funding, speaking time and committee positions.
Following European parliamentary elections last month, won by Le Pen's Front National, the various parties had until Tuesday to form a caucus comprising at least 25 MEPs from at least seven countries.
The Le Pen-led grouping includes Wilders' Freedom party, the Austrian party of the same name, Italy's Liga Nord and Belgium's Flemish separatist Vlaams Belang. Le Pen and Wilders easily mustered the seats but fell short of enough countries.
Her political woes abroad have been compounded by political and personal spats in her home country with her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen – the Front National founder and honorary life president. He was openly criticised by Front National leaders over allegedly antisemitic remarks made when he suggested on his videoblog that a Jewish singer should be baked in an oven.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/24/marine-le-pen-fails-form-far-right-bloc-european-parliament
Nice to see that the far-right failed to follow up their electoral success with any ability to form a parliamentary group that could have worked more effectively to undermine the EU from within. I owe it is difficult for parties based on nationalism to learn to work together for a common goal. 
