The Bulgarian Ataka Party will be seeking membership of the European Peoples' Party in the near future, party leader Volen Siderov said.
Having a reputation of being a far-right party, Mr Siderov insists that his party is much more centre-right.
Ataka's three MEPs consider themselves to be independent. Originally, they formed part of the short-lived and now defunct nationalist, ultra-right group - Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty.
The aim is to eventually become members of the EPP.
"We feel closest to the EPP. We have become much more centrist in our beliefs and ideas. We want to get rid of our country's corrupt socialist system but people who want to stay in power do their utmost to make us look bad."
Ataka, which is Bulgarian for attack, has not yet applied for EPP membership because it first wants to work on convincing and proving to all that it fits the bill, to avoid their application being declined, Mr Siderov explained while on a visit to Malta.
Ataka, he said, needed the EU to help it clear its name. "Our contributions in the EU are helping the other members get a clearer picture about us and what we stand for," he said.
The party has a reputation of being against ethnic minorities but Mr Siderov argued that Ataka's position was for equality.
"All Bulgarians should be treated equally, judged by the system in the same way and enjoy the same rights and duties, irrelevant of one's ethnic group. Bulgarian gypsies, for example, do not pay for electricity nor do they pay taxes. We believe that rules and laws should be there for everybody. We cannot have groups of people who make absolutely no contribution to society but just take, take, take. We are all for integration but everyone has to make an effort..."
He said that it should be compulsory for all children to go to school and, if necessary, parents had to be forced by the system to give their children an education.
While most European countries dealt with this and similar problems over the years, he said, Bulgaria had not, as yet. "But we have to be able to move forward."
Ataka, set up only in 2005, two months before the country's general election, surprised many in the country by winning 21 of the 240 parliamentary seats. It now hopes to do even better in the 2009 election.
Contrary to the Bulgarian government, the party is against Turkey's membership of the EU.
"We do not think that Turkey fulfils the conditions to be admitted to the European Union. It is an Islamic state, its culture is different and it is not really a European country geographically.
If Turkey joins the EU, then why not Iraq, Iran, Syria and Russia," Mr Siderov wondered.