 The associated Alliance for Europe of the Nations (AEN) party lost MEPs to other groupings.The largest single contributor of MEPs to the UEN group, the Italian National Alliance, merged with Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia party to form the People of Freedom (PdL) on 29 March 2009.The combined party belonged to the EPP and the MEPs elected in 2009 sat in that parliamentary grouping.