A far-right Romanian party has claimed it will take on ‘Satanists’ in the European Parliament and defend Romanian values at the same time.

       Candidates for the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) said they will “combat globalists and Satanists” if they succeed in the elections on June 9.

       According to Euractive, leader of the party George Simion has said the party rejects what it calls the federalist agenda of Europe.

       Mr Simion added that when his party submitted a list of signatures and candidates, it received 630,000, 430,000 above the required 200,000 needed.

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       The party’s candidate list is led by MEP Cristian Terhes who said Romanians faced a decision between “sovereignty or vassalage; freedom or tyranny” when they went to the polls later this year.

       At an event to mark the unveiling of the list of candidates, the AUR outlined its vision and future for Europe and Romania’s position within it.

       They reportedly asserted Romania was an “arm of Christendom”, and expressed the importance of the family unit, and scepticism of foreigners in their country.

       They also emphasised the importance of Romanian values and their wariness of things they perceived to be threats to these values.

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       One of the candidates, Claudiu Tarziu, claimed: “At least in the last 15 years, the Commission has shown a growing appetite for neo-Marxist ideology.”

       Despite the party’s alleged scepticism of foreigners, Mr Tarziu claimed that they were not against the European Union per se.

       He explained: “We are not against the European Union, but we oppose the anti-EU policies issued by the current European Commission, which simply torpedo the European project.”

       Fellow candidate Mihail Neamtu said the party’s “crusaders” would “fight against those who seek to redefine normality” and “undermine the sanctity of the church”.

       The AUR has caused controversy in the past. Earlier this year, they and far-right parties in Hungary hinted at plans to annex Ukrainian territories to their countries if Vladimir Putin won the Russia-Ukraine War.

       Mr Tarziu said: “We will not be truly sovereign until after we restore the Romanian state within its natural borders. Bessarabia must come home.

       "Northern Bukovina cannot be forgotten, southern Bessarabia, the land of Hertsa, Transcarpathia, everything that was and is of the Romanian nation must return to the borders of the state.”