Since being shown the door at the White House, in body though not in spirit, Steve Bannon has launched a project to support and unite the far-right populist parties of Europe. That has already included some near-fascist parties on the continent and now he’s offering support to Marine Le Pen’s openly neo-Nazi National Front party.





Louis Aliot, a vice president of Le Pen’s National Rally party who is also her companion, said Friday on BFMTV station that she met with Bannon a day earlier in Paris.

According to Aliot, Bannon wants to provide “technical assistance” for nationalist parties ahead of next year’s European elections but that he “doesn’t want to play a (political) role.”

Two years on from helping to mastermind Donald Trump’s successful campaign to become U.S. president, Bannon has his sights set on Europe and he is planning a foundation, called The Movement, to boost far-right parties.

“We’re not going to say ‘no’,” Aliot said with regard to getting help.