Geert Wilders invites Nigel Farage to join anti-EU alliance Mr Wilders and Miss Le Pen are attempting to build a powerful alliance of French, Dutch, Austrian, Swedish and Belgian MEPs that can play a major role in the EU assembly next year. Both their parties are counting on cashing in on popular hostility to the EU and a backlash fuelled by anger over austerity programmes, often imposed by the eurozone as a condition of membership of Europe's single currency. Despite some policy differences, the Dutch and French pair are seeking to position themselves as populists and Eurosceptics and to shed any past associations with the extreme Right or racism. We want to liberate Europe from the monster of Brussels. This is why I believe it is a historic moment that we are standing here together," said Mr Wilders. Mr Wilders insisted that the FN had moved away from the positions espoused by its founder - Miss Le Pen's father, Jean Marie - whose statements had previously led to him being convicted for denying the Holocaust which he described as a "detail of history." These are utterances that I obviously reject and from which Miss Le Pen has distanced herself. She is the child of her father, not of his statements," he said. I am convinced that there's not an inch of racism or anti-Semitism within her. Miss Le Pen denied that the FN was anti-Semitic and defended "the right of Israel to live in security," though she admitted that there were disagreements between her and Mr Wilders beneath the veneer of anti-EU unity. Both their parties are leading the opinion polls in the Netherlands and France and both are convinced they will win more votes than their respective rivals in next year's elections. The French FN leader pointedly did not mention Mr Farage, who she has previously described as "immature" and "afraid." Although he held out the possibility of one day working with Mr Wilders, Mr Farage told The Telegraph that he would not associate with the FN either before or after the elections. Whilst we admire the way Marine Le Pen has tried to change the Front National we feel that anti-Semitism and general prejudice remains in the DNA of the party. For that reason we will not be doing a deal with the French National Front," he said. That will not change. It is a principle. That is why she is so angry with me.