According to the Portugal remigration summit’s official website, the meeting was about “shaping the future of Europe and the West through sovereignty, identity, and demographic renewal” – a euphemism of creating imagined racially pure Western societies.
The far-right founder of Portugal’s Chega (“Enough”), André Ventura, is a former sports TV commentator from the world of showbusiness — and came a close second in January’s presidential election on an anti-Roma, anti-Muslim, racist and sexist platform.
Elections in Austria are over. While a stable coalition between the conservatives, socialists, and liberals seems difficult to imagine, it might work if all partners are willing to compromise. If this fails, there could still be a possibility of renewing the coalition between the conservatives and the far-right, though likely with new leadership.
The AfD’s victory has historical significance — it was in the Thuringian state election of 1930 that the Nazi Party had its first success, becoming the second-largest party in the regional elections gaining 11 out of 53 seats, which allowed them to form a coalition government and appoint the first minister of the interior and education. This served as a first testing ground for many of their policies, before they came to power at the national level three years later.
A group of journalists traveled throughout Germany and Austria, where it met with activists from the Identitarian movement, including some with official positions in political parties such as the Alternative for Germany. In private conversations, they would be much more open than in public.
Germany’s unstinting support for Israel is not only rooted in responsibility for the Holocaust — the county is barely coming to terms with its own colonial genocide against the tribes of Namibia more than 100 years ago.
France’s extensive use of anti-terrorism legislation bears witness to the increasing authoritarianism that comes with the expansion of the security state, hitting several freedoms France would normally claim to uphold: freedom of thought, of speech, of travel, and of assembly.
The European Commission has not taken any initiative to restaff the position of a coordinator on combating anti-Muslim hatred, which has been void since July 2021 and starved of resources and a clear mandate.
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