It was initiated by British Conservative Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Daniel Hannan, and its birth came in the midst of renewed questioning of the linkage between the centre-right European People's Party and the further-right eurosceptic European Democrats in the European Parliament.
The group was set up by Lord Harris of High Cross and an Oxford University student Patrick Robertson following Margaret Thatcher's Eurosceptic speech delivered in Bruges in September 1988.
Young was a strong proponent of European integration, and sharply expressed his disappointment with the British government's eurosceptic politics in his columns, including Prime Minister Tony Blair's decision to side with George W. Bush instead of his EU partners in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
He is also the European director of the European Foundation, a eurosceptic think-tank chaired by Bill Cash MP.
In June 2013 he was expelled from the Europe of Freedom and Democracy, a eurosceptic group in the European Parliament, for making racist remarks regarding Italy's first black cabinet minister, Cécile Kyenge.
In January 2009, Kopecký announced the foundation of a new party under the name Libertas Slovensko which was supposed to be the Slovak branch of the pan-European eurosceptic alliance Libertas.eu running for the 2009 European Parliament elections.
This album has been called an "inspiration" by English singer Jack Lucien for his second studio album EuroSceptic.
She has been the founding secretary-general of the European Alliance for Freedom, a eurosceptic pan-European party, established in late 2010, and led by UKIP europarlamentarian Godfrey Bloom.
She voted for Kenneth Clarke, who was in favour of stronger ties with the EU as opposed to a right-wing eurosceptic, William Hague.