TheParti Communautaire Européen (French pronunciation:[paʁtikɔmynotɛʁøʁɔpeɛ̃],PCE；European Community Party) was apan-European nationalistpolitical party based inBelgium that had a platform similar toNational Bolshevism.[1]
The party was initially formed in 1965 byJean-François Thiriart as a political group to work alongside hisEurope-wide movementJeune Europe.[2] However the PCE did not gain much attention until the 1970s, when, Thiriart managed to engineer a split in theCommunist Party of Belgium (PCB) gain a new core of membership for the CPE.
Despite this, the PCE gradually declined in importance, particularly as Thiriart came to spend less time in Belgium. Many supporters of the PCE moved on to theFront National in the early 1980s as the group largely disappeared. The group was finally put to rest in 1984 with the foundation of theParti Communautaire National-Européen, a group with similar ideas that Thiriart agreed to serve as advisor to.[3]
