Two non-aligned parties in the European parliament have reportedly joined up with Geert Wilders’ anti-Islam PVV and France’s Front National to form an official parliamentary grouping.

Both Wilders and Front National leader Marine Le Pen on Monday evening used Twitter to call a press conference in Brussels on Tuesday to announce the formation of the alliance – the Europe of Nations and Freedoms.

According to Dutch media reports, one ex-member of Britain’s UKip and an MEP for the extreme right-wing Hungarian party Jobbik have joined the PVV’s current five party alliance to create a seven-party grouping.

Dutch news magazine Elsevier reports that ex-UKip parliamentarian Janice Atkinson, who was expelled from the party after claims she had fiddled her expenses, is one of the new alliance signatories.

The Jobbik MEP is likely to be Krisztina Morvai, who was elected to the European parliament on behalf of the party last year but is not a member, Elsevier says. She is an outspoken anti-semite.

Poland

However, website EUObserver.com tips Jobbink and Poland’s Congress of the New Right as the most likely parties to join up with Le Pen and Wilders.

The other ‘unattached’ MEPs are ‘Greek and German neo-Nazis; a unionist from Northern Ireland; a disgraced Spanish socialist; a German satirist; and two Greek communists’, the website states.

The PVV and Front National earlier agreed to work with Austria’s FPÖ, Italy’s Lega Nord and Belgium’s Vlaams Belang.

The new alliance will be entitled to more financial support – up to €25m over four years – and more debating time.