The Groupement de recherche et d'études sur la culture européenne ("Study and research group reagrding European Culture"), also knowns as GRECE (French for "Greece") is a far-right think-tank, founded in 1969 by the journalist and writer Alain de Benoist. The Far Right, Radical Right, or Hard Right are terms used by many scholars to discuss political groups, movements, and political parties that are located to the right of mainstream electoral conservatism. ... A think tank is a research institute or other organization providing advice and ideas on problems of policy, commerce, and military interest, and are often associated with military laboratories, corporations, academia, or other institutions. ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday For other uses, see Number 1969. ... Alain de Benoist (born 11 December 1943) is a French academic and head of the French think-tank Nouvelle Droite (English: New Right). ...

The GRECE is particular in that it displays a specific interest for Germanic and Nordic cultures, a rejections of christianism and monotheism, and advocates a come-back of paganism. For other uses of the term Christian, see Christian (disambiguation). ... Monotheism (in Greek μόνος = single and θεός = God) is the belief in a single, universal, all-encompassing deity. ... Paganism (from Latin paganus) and Heathenry are catch-all terms which have come to connote a broad set of spiritual/religious beliefs and practices of a natural religion, as opposed to the Abrahamic religions. ...

History

A former far-right militant, Benoist intended to create an intellectual think-tank to influence the French right-wing politics. A number of journalists were members of symapthisers of the GRECE, writing in the reviews Éléments and Nouvelle École. Several members of the GRECE, including Benoist himself, also joined the redaction of the right-wing newspaper Le Figaro, invited by Louis Pauwels. Le Figaro is one of the leading French morning daily newspapers. ...

The GRECE and the Club de l'horloge were targets of a hostile press campaign in 1979, denouncing far-right elements in the cluster of the French "New Right". Both groups , though, had very different aims, and very few members in common, though the president of the Club de l'horloge, Yvan Blot, was a member of GRECE for some time. This page refers to the year 1979. ...

In the 80s, the GRECE evolved toward the centre of the political spectrum, Benoist notably displaying interest for these in favour of Third World countries. Several notable members quit the GRECE at this point, notably Pierre Vial, who joined the Front national, or Guillaume Faye, who persued a career in journalism before coming back to politics in 1998, with extremist ideas which clash with the more consensual theses now defended by Benoist. For the Jamaican reggae band, see Third World (band). ... This article is about the French political party, not the WWII French resistance movement Front National. ... Guillaume Faye (1949 - ) is a French journalist and writer. ...

In spite of these demisions, most members do not go along well with the Front national, which contains Catholic traditionalists whose views are incompatible with the neo-paganists intellectuals of the GRECE. This article is about the French political party, not the WWII French resistance movement Front National. ...

In the latest years, the GRECE developed idea centred around a politically powerful Europe, independent from the USA and Neoliberalism Neoliberalism refers to political-economic policies that de-emphasize or reject government intervention in domestic economies, but favor the use of political power to open foreign nations to trade. ...

External links

• Official site