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Six in ten adults in France believe that their country is facing a “great replacement” with the mass importation of non-European immigrants.

A survey conducted by the Institut français d’opinion publique (Ifop) research firm has found that 60 per cent of French people believe that their country is experiencing a “profound demographic transformation” and that the French are being “progressively replaced by non-European populations, primarily from the African continent.”

Of those who agreed with the statement, 66 per cent said the development was entirely bad, compared with 21 per cent who felt it was neither good nor bad, and 9 per cent who felt it was a positive development.

Opinions on the matter were divided largely along party lines, with supporters of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally being the most concerned about demographic displacement at 81 per cent, compared to 76 per cent of Les Républicains voters, 37  per cent of Macron supporters, and just 30 per cent of far-left La France Insoumise voters.

Intriguingly, 64 per cent of Socialist Party voters expressed concerns about the country’s transformation through mass migration. Conversely, just 4 per cent — a Lizardman’s Constant — of National Rally voters felt it was entirely a good thing, compared to 39 per cent of Green Party voters and 32 per cent of LFI supporters.

LFI leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon has begun to frequently invoke the phrase “great replacement”, originally coined by French philosopher Renaud Camus to describe the attitude of Western liberal elites who view their populations as mere economic units which can be exchanged with no consequence.

While the far-left former presidential candidate appeared to initially make reference to the phenomenon in ironic jest, he and his cohort of radicals have increasingly cast the political battle between “new” and “old” France, comparing their multicultural support base with “ugly” white France.

Perhaps giving the game away, Mélenchon was quoted earlier this month as saying that the far-left cannot rely on the white Catholic working class of rural France to usher in socialism.

This may explain his party’s focus on courting urban ethnic minority voting blocs, particularly the Muslim vote, with LFI having increasingly focused on issues like Palestine. This has coincided with the leftist party facing accusations of cosying up to Islamist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood.

According to the French government’s National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE), there were approximately six million foreign nationals living in France in 2024, or around 8.8 per cent of the population. This does not include migrants who obtained citizenship or people who were born to migrant parents.

INSEE noted that there has been a significant change in the backgrounds of foreigners living in France, with three-quarters of migrants in 1968 coming from other European nations, compared to around half of migrants currently hailing from Africa.

Great Replacement: Black French Lawmaker’s Implicit Boast About Outbreeding Native Populationhttps://t.co/rTkNYo2WX8

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) December 29, 2025

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After two Syrians were accused of stabbing a 28-year-old father to death in the German city of Pulheim, police have confirmed the victim was German national Sebastian H., who leaves behind a 4-year-old daughter, but also has a partner who is four months pregnant with what would have been his second child.

The incident occurred just before midnight in a parking lot at the city park in Pulheim, North Rhine-Westphalia. Five men engaged in a physical confrontation, but three individuals were reportedly armed with baseball bats and knives.

This encounter proved fatal for Sebastian H., who suffered multiple stab wounds and died at the scene. His 35-year-old companion was transported to a hospital with serious injuries. While the attackers were arrested, they have remained silent.

According to Bild newspaper sources, two brothers from Syria who were previously known to police are among the three suspects, ages 20, 24, and 28.

The trio is currently being investigated on suspicion of joint manslaughter and grievous bodily harm. Arrest warrants have been issued, and the men are in pre-trial detention.

Because the suspects have not commented, the exact motive for the confrontation on April 12, 2026, remains unclear. The Public Prosecutor’s Office received information that indicated the trio arrived at the parking lot armed specifically to meet the two victims. Reportedly, the sum the Syrians killed the man over was as small as €250.

“There was an immediate physical altercation in the parking lot. It may have been the dispute about outstanding financial claims,” said Cologne’s senior public prosecutor Ulrich Bremer upon request.

Following the stabbing, Basti H. managed to move through the park despite his critical injuries before collapsing on the lawn, where he died.

Bild reported that bloodstains are still present at the location, along with objects left by mourners, including photos, candles, and flowers for the murdered father.

Sebastian, known as “Basti,” leaves behind his young family. Christof Miseré, the lawyer representing the victim’s family, stated, “Relatives and friends are stunned. There is no justification for such acts.”

The murder came shortly before German federal police (BKA) released PKS statistics this week, highlighting a massive overrepresentation of foreigners in the crime data, including in knife attacks. Germany experienced nearly 30,000 knife-related crimes last year, 2025, equalling 80 per day.

Despite being only 15 percent of the population, foreigners are responsible for 41 percent of the violent crime in the country. Syrians, in particular, are 10 times more likely to be involved in violent crime than Germans.

Data released last year found that Syrians committed 135,000 crimes against Germans over a period of 10 years, equaling a crime against a German every 39 minutes for every single day.

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On Friday, April 17th, the conservative publisher Vauban Books, which publishes the latest English edition of Jean Raspail’s seminal novel The Camp of the Saints, was informed that Amazon was removing the book from sale in the United States. The e-commerce giant is acting as a censor towards a leading author who has been recognised and established in the French and international literary landscape for decades.

The new translation of the 1973 novel, produced by the publisher, Ethan Rundell, has been available on Amazon since the summer of 2025 and has been a resounding success there. Since it went on sale, the publisher states, no fewer than 20,000 copies have been sold, with an average reader rating of 4.8.

Raspail’s book, now over fifty years old, has become a benchmark for its uncompromising portrayal of a Europe sinking under a tidal wave of migration that nothing seems able to stop. The book, which was initially shared only by a circle of happy few French conservatives, is now recognised as a major literary work—a dystopian novel that deciphers, with uncommon narrative and dramatic intensity, the material and moral collapse of our civilisation wallowing in resignation in the face of the arrival of ‘the other,’ adorned with every virtue.

Certain iconic quotes are now widely shared on social media—in French, but also in English. The book had been available in translation for several years already, but Rundell’s work has given it new visibility.

Amazon deemed the novel’s content to be “offensive.” Yet there is nothing shocking in these lines, written in a lively style that is at once tragic and epic. A shiver is bound to run down the spine of anyone who loses themselves in this work of speculative fiction—just as when reading the most poignant pages of Huxley or Orwell.

“Your universe has no meaning to them. They will not try to understand. They will be tired, they will be cold, they will make a fire with your beautiful oak doors.”

— Jean Raspail https://t.co/YW5XtFLh4w pic.twitter.com/A1dKyCJWOZ

— Chad Crowley (@CCrowley100) April 20, 2026

Let the reader rest assured. They can still purchase, for a few dollars and with priority delivery, Mao’s Little Red Book or even, in a different vein, the complete collection of Hitler’s speeches from 1922 to 1945. Far be it from us to take offence at this: after all, these are also historical documents whose study is highly instructive. But to censor Raspail?

Faced with the scale of the controversy, Amazon eventually, a few hours after Vauban Books’ announcement, made the novel available online again. As is often the case in such situations, the announcement of Amazon’s censorship gave sales a new boost. Within a few hours, the book was topping the sales charts in several categories. For a brief moment, Raspail even outstripped Hugo and Zola, Balzac and Proust, in the French literature category.

And it’s the Streisand Effect for the win…

The Camp of the Saints, # 138 in books and a best-seller across several categories!

Somewhere, Jean Raspail is smiling. pic.twitter.com/X0VC7EWLF6

— Vauban Books (@VaubanBooks) April 21, 2026

One has to be cautious for the future. Some readers note in the comments that they have placed massive orders for Raspail’s novel. How right they are! After all, he is the brilliant inventor of the Kingdom of Patagonia, the last refuge of a world in peril. The best you can do when the world is about to collapse is to read books.

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The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that Hungary violated EU law after it banned the display and promotion of LGBT content to minors under legislation introduced by Viktor Orbán’s government.

The 2021 law was officially presented as a child-protection measure, designed to strengthen rules against paedophilia.

The law also introduced restrictions on what young people can access, effectively banning or limiting content that depicts homosexuality, gender transition or gender identities different from biological sex.

Under the law, such material cannot be shown to under-18s in schools, on television, in advertising or through other media channels.

The EU’s top court found these measures unlawfully interfere with fundamental EU rights, such as the prohibition of discrimination based on sex and sexual orientation, respect for private and family life and freedom of expression and information.

In her June 2025 Opinion, the CJEU’s Advocate General Tamara Ćapeta likewise concluded that Hungary failed to provide any credible evidence justifying the restrictions.

“Hungary has not provided any evidence of the potential risk of harm that content depicting the daily lives of LGBTI+ people could pose to the healthy development of minors,” she said.

The CJEU went further, stating that the legislation itself is discriminatory in nature.

It found that the law “stigmatises and marginalises non-cisgender persons – including transgender persons – or non-heterosexual persons as being detrimental to the physical, mental and moral development of minors solely on the basis of their gender identity or sexual orientation”.

It also highlighted that the law’s wording, by linking LGBT identities with paedophilia, reinforces “stigma and risks encouraging hatred”.

It concluded that Hungary breached multiple areas of EU law, including internal market rules, the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, Article 2 TEU and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

The European Commission can now seek financial penalties against Hungary if it fails to comply with the ruling.

Human-rights organisations see the decision as a test for Hungary’s political future and its relationship with the EU.

“If incoming Hungarian prime minister Péter Magyar truly aims to be pro-EU, he must place this at the top of his agenda for his first 100 days in office, as an essential part of his EU-facing reforms,” said NGO ILGA-Europe’s Deputy Director, Katrin Hugendubel.

“There is now no excuse for the Commission not to require Hungary to quickly withdraw the law. Hungary cannot enter a post-Orbán era without repealing this legislation, including the Pride ban,” she added.

Eszter Polgári of the Hungarian LGBTQI organisation Háttér Society highlighted the significance of the ruling, saying it sets an important precedent: “The CJEU has, for the first time, found an independent violation of Article 2 TEU for systematically undermining the rights of sexual and gender minorities.”

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An Islamist terrorist who plotted to blow up the London Stock Exchange was allowed to stay in Britain despite having his asylum claim turned down.

Shah Rahman was jailed in 2012 – alongside three other extremists inspired by Al-Qaeda – over the plot.

Just five years later, he was released onto Britain’s streets, but was later recalled to prison in 2022 for breaches of his license.

However, a fresh immigration case involving his wife has uncovered that the terrorist had been allowed to remain in the country despite having his asylum claim turned down.

Rahman married Mauritian national Parveen Purbhoo while on license in 2019 in an Islamic ceremony in London.

She was later barred from Britain for life by then-Home Secretary Suella Braverman after officers at Heathrow Airport uncovered Isis-related material on her phone.

Her relation to Rahman can now be revealed after legal restrictions were lifted.

The judgement in the Mauritian national’s case revealed that Rahman had lodged an unsuccessful asylum claim – shortly after his release from prison.

His application was rejected under Article 51 of the Refugee Convention, which can deny refugee status for those convicted of “war crimes, crimes against humanity, terrorist acts or other serious criminal offences”.

However, despite the claim being turned down, he was allowed to stay in Britain after a judge ruled that deporting the convicted terrorist would be a breach of his human rights.

The judgement read: “He was granted restricted leave to remain in the United Kingdom on the basis that he could not be removed to Bangladesh without breach of his rights under Article 3 of the Human Rights Convention.”

This article guarantees the absolute right to be free from torture, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment.

Following her 2019 wedding ceremony at the East London Mosque, Purbhoo applied for entry clearance to Britain.

Her first application was denied, but was accepted after she applied a second time.

After returning to Mauritius at the beginning of the pandemic, Purbhoo returned to Britain in August 2021 to formalise her marriage to Rahman in a civil ceremony.

After touching down at Heathrow, officers searched her phone and discovered Isis-related videos and images featuring soldiers and Islamist propaganda.

Despite the discovery, she was allowed to enter the country and lived with her husband until he was recalled to prison in 2022 for failing to inform probations services of a bank account, email address and phone.

A parole board’s forensic psychology report noted Rahman’s wife as being “complicit in the breaches for which Mr Rahman was convicted”.

On Monday, the Mauritian national was denied the right to appeal against her permanent exclusion from Britain.

The judgement said: “The applicant was complicit in Mr Rahman’s unlawful breach of notification requirements; and she has not provided either the police or SIAC with an explanation of how Islamist material came to be on her phone.

“Her willingness to place her own interests over and above legal or administrative processes is troubling and risky.”

It found the decision to bar her from Britain proportionate and said she had been “reasonably assessed as a national security risk”.

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A newly unearthed photograph taken in Rome in 1983 shows a young Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, participating in a left-leaning mass demonstration against NATO missile deployment.

On April 14 Luca Casarini, an Italian left-wing activist known for his role in the “no-global” movement and, more recently, for his work in migrant rescue operations in the Mediterranean, posted an image on his Facebook profile showing a young Father Robert Prevost during a peace march. Several news outlets have since picked up the story.

“You’ve come a long way, brother Robert. But you haven’t changed direction,” Casarini commented in his post.

On October 22, 1983, during a large march for peace held in Rome against the installation of NATO Cruise missiles in Comiso, Sicily, and across Europe, a young Prevost – not long ordained and engaged in studies in canon law – was photographed among a group of members of the Augustinian order carrying a sign reading, “Giovani agostiniani per la pace” (“Young Augustinians for Peace”).

The protest, which drew close to a million participants, took place amid heightened Cold War tensions and widespread mobilization for nuclear disarmament, and was organized by a broad coalition of pacifist groups and political organizations, including the Italian Communist Party (PCI), the Italian Communist Youth Federation (FGCI), and peace committees active at NATO bases.

The black-and-white image, which has recently circulated widely on social media platforms, shows Prevost in the front row of demonstrators. According to sources, the photograph was taken by Gianni Novelli, a Stigmatine priest known for his involvement in the Base Christian Communities and for his leadership within Cipax, the Interconfessional Center for Peace.

Novelli played a prominent role in ecclesial networks associated with non-violence and peace activism, and became a leading figure of the so‑called “Catholic dissent” initiative after the Second Vatican Council. After leaving his religious order, he devoted himself to pacifism in an ecumenical sense.

The Base Christian Communities (in Spanish: comunidades de base), which had emerged in the 1960s and 1970s in Italy and Latin America, played a role in fostering grassroots engagement on left-leaning social and political issues. These communities were later viewed with particular interest by Pope Francis.

The unearthed image was first published a decade later, in 1993, in the Italian magazine Mosaico di pace, within a feature dedicated to Christian commitment to non-violence. At that time, the photograph was presented as part of a broader reflection on the involvement of Catholic groups in peace movements during the Cold War period.

Decades after it was taken, the photograph gained public attention again. According to the same sources, in November 2025, Archbishop Giovanni Ricchiuti, national president of Pax Christi, presented a copy of the image to Pope Leo XIV during an official meeting.

The demonstration in which Prevost participated formed part of a wider movement opposing the deployment of Euromissiles in Europe in the late 1970s and ‘80s. The installation of Cruise missiles at Italy’s Comiso air base had become a focal point for international protest, drawing activists, religious figures, and political groups into coordinated action. The Rome rally represented one of the largest such mobilizations in Italy and in the world during that period.

However, the global mobilization against the missiles was part of a broader international landscape of opposition to the Cold War – often encouraged by the USSR, which included pro‑peace propaganda aimed at undermining the U.S. nuclear strategy directed against Russia.

It is perfectly possible Prevost may have taken part more for peace and nuclear disarmament rather than for the organizer – the communists. However, it still appears naïve on his part largely because the organizers were part of the Italian Communist Party (notoriously a cell of the USSR, directly financed with Kremlin funds).

In particular, the Italian Communist Party operated – as historians now widely acknowledge – as a Soviet propaganda outpost. The pacifism promoted by the Russians also served the purpose of internal disruption and of slowing the deterrence efforts of the NATO bloc.

The photo can also be found among the images preserved in the historical archive of the Italian Communist Party. Alongside the Augustinians (see here), members of several other religious orders – such as Franciscans and Jesuits – also took part in the event. The demonstration, held in those days also in other important European cities such as London, Paris, Amsterdam, and Bonn, brought together people of all religions and political orientations, though it was clearly oriented in an anti‑NATO direction.

The Magisterium of the Catholic Church teaches that socialism in all its forms, including communism, is infallibly condemned. As Pope Pius XI stated in his 1937 encyclical Divini Redemptoris: “Communism is intrinsically wrong, and no one who would save Christian civilization may collaborate with it in any undertaking whatsoever. Those who permit themselves to be deceived into lending their aid towards the triumph of Communism in their own country will be the first to fall victims of their error.”

Luca Casarini was personally invited by Pope Francis to take part in the Synod on Synodality held at the Vatican from October 4 to 29, 2023, as one of the lay guests with the right to speak but not to vote. His presence was both highly symbolic and controversial.

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by Olivia Murray 

What’s the point in dying for your country when, instead of your death

serving as a payment for a prosperous and secure future for your children and culture, your government just hands it over to foreigners who hate you and all that you were? Today, Remix News reported that Ukrainian officials are working on a new plan to replace all their war dead men with third world aliens from the darkest corners of the globe: Islamic Africa.

Well, let be be more clear: Zelensky’s administration isn’t looking to send these newcomer imports to the warfront to really get a full sense of citizenship and national responsibility—that’s a position reserved for the white, Slavic natives—these Africans are going to be sent to Ukraine to fill the jobs left vacant when the Ukrainian fathers, husbands, and brothers reported for duty, or were dragged into a van and hauled off to the battlefield under “mobilization” policies. The role of cannon fodder is exclusively reserved for the Ukrainian men.

Volodymyr Zelensky’s head of his Presidential Office in Ukraine, Kyrylo Budanov, has announced plans to import migrant laborers from Africa. Essentially, this entails Ukraine establishing new laws for the legal entry and residence of foreign workers.

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It has long been known that Ukraine faces a serious demographic crisis, now exacerbated by men who have died in the war or fled to other countries. Already, there have been voices pushing for mass immigration in Ukraine since the war began. Last year, Remix News reported that Vasyl Voskobojnik, president of the Ukrainian Association of Foreign Employment Agencies, said the population decline can no longer be offset by simply increasing the birthrate. Instead, immigration from Third-World countries is the only solution.

Voskobojnik said the Ukrainian government must develop a migration policy by 2026 that focuses on reducing this shortage.

As for the African men? They’ll get all those non-military positions in the private and/or public sector, far from the danger, complete with government-funded healthcare and pensions, largely thanks to American taxpayers—though it’s a thankless role as gracious benefactor. Ukraine has a public healthcare system, which we taxpayers are routinely forced to prop up, and USAID funds have long been used to pay for government expenses, including pensions (though one of the aid packages disbursed by the Biden administration prohibited those particular funds from being used in that way).

Far be it from me to think that individuals who really are just a scourge on the rest of humanity be the ones to go first into the Russian meatgrinder, especially when you consider that they’re being handed all the perks of a functioning country without any of the sacrifice—in fact, not only are they not expected to earn any of those benefits, but they’re set to receive them…at the bloody expense of legitimate citizens.

(Seriously, do third world Islamic hordes provide any positive impact on the rest of the world? Not to be callous, but do they offer any value to anyone?)

Though, could they even be trusted on the front? Obviously that’s rhetorical, because of course not.

I know I’ve been quoting Pat Buchanan quite a bit in recent days, but his observations about the “seething racial resentment” from the third world and directed at the first is just so aproipos—but there’s also another application for it. The progressive left of the first world also possesses the exact same attitude, but it’s so much worse because the disdain is for their own people.

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German media is full of headlines like ‘German crime figures: Are migrants unfairly targeted?’

“Is it true that the crime rate in Germany is higher among immigrants? Statistics suggest as much, but numbers by themselves can be misleading. An expert explains what’s behind them.”

Experts. What would we do without them?

The crime statistics are bad otherwise they wouldn’t be doing this kind of song and dance.

Syrian nationals in Germany are almost eleven times more likely to be identified as suspects in violent crimes than German citizens.

According to de Vries, the rate of offenses is even higher for serious sexual crimes : Afghan nationals top the list – with a figure that is around 14 times higher than that of Germans.

Overall, foreign suspects are “significantly overrepresented” in violent crimes (over 43 percent) and serious sexual offenses (39.6 percent), according to de Vries. The crime rate is particularly striking among individuals from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Morocco – those immigrant groups who primarily came to Germany in the last decade.

We’re not supposed to say what these ‘immigrant groups’ have in common.

De Vries drew a clear conclusion: ” Asylum migration from the Arab world in the past decade has made our country less safe, especially for women,” said the CDU politician.

At the same time, he differentiated: Most immigrant groups, especially from the EU, South America, and large parts of Asia, live “righteously and peacefully in our country.”

Somehow I don’t think it’s the Arab Christians behind all those rapes.

Now, non-citizens are a fairly small part of the population, but a huge part of the criminal population.

About 16% of the total population of Germany don’t have German citizenship, yet they accounted for roughly 34% of suspects in crimes as diverse as theft, burglary and violent crimes.

At least the crime is diverse.

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A Turkish woman claiming “Level 6 care” appeared to be in perfect health during a check at Vienna Airport, leading authorities to believe she was able to “walk normally and without an assistant” in a brazen case of suspected fraud.

According to investigators at Schwechat Airport in Lower Austria, the woman was returning from a holiday home in her native country of Turkey when she “strolled into the control check” during a priority check by the Criminal Investigation Department.

Officers noted that she “showed no walking aids, visible disabilities, or other abnormalities,” which contradicted her official status as someone “seriously ill.”

The subsequent investigation revealed that the woman had been receiving a Level 6 care allowance of €1,685.40 month a month in Austria.

Under Austrian law, this level of “aid money is actually reserved for people or caregivers of people who rely on particularly intensive care around the clock and are often no longer able to walk independently.”

Suspicious of her mobility, the welfare fraud task force (SOLBE) initiated a follow-up medical examination. The results confirmed the officers’ doubts: the recipient was “actually perfectly healthy,” leading to the immediate cancellation of her care allowance.

The financial impact of this case is significant, with investigators estimating that the woman had, over the course of her fraud, collected €150,000 illegally. As Heute news outlet outlines, this incident highlights a broader trend, as “welfare fraud explodes, and most cases are in Vienna.”

Vienna also happens to have the largest foreign population in Austria, and the country, like many other European countries, is facing billions in costs linked to mass immigration, including social benefits, housing, and education.

Notably, nearly all cases of welfare fraud are linked to foreigners, totaling approximately 70 percent.

“More than 70 percent of the suspects are not Austrian citizens,” Gerald Tatzgern, head of the department for combating welfare fraud, said last year. One common form of fraud is couples registering at different apartments to receive higher benefits, while still living in the same house or apartment.

Just last month, Remix News reported on another Turkish asylum family that was ordered to repay €66,000 in welfare benefits after an investigation found the father owned a large vineyard, an Istanbul apartment, and €150,000 in Bitcoin.

Foreigners are vastly overrepresented in welfare statistics overall in Austria. In the small city of St. Pölten, for example, 72 percent of welfare recipients are foreigners.

At the same time, these same foreign groups are committing an extremely disproportionate amount of crime in the country, committing nearly half of all crimes.

Brigadier Gerald Tatzgern, head of the welfare fraud task force, recently published its findings, noting that the unit has uncovered damage of around €158 million since its inception.

Tatzgern and his team attribute the spike in reported crimes to “recently intensified controls.” While the authorities recorded only “472 reports” in 2016, that number “rose significantly to 6,062 by 2025.”

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In Italian, there is a saying: “The elephant in the china shop” — something obvious and problematic that everyone can see but no one addresses for fear of causing damage.

The phrase surfaced repeatedly on April 18 in Milan’s Piazza del Duomo during a demonstration organised by the pan-European right-wing group Patriots for Europe.

It referred to the recent tensions between the administration of US President Donald Trump and European right-wing parties — an issue widely discussed behind the scenes, but largely avoided on stage.

Only Matteo Salvini, Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the League, briefly touched on it, insisting that transatlantic relations are not in question.

Called “Without fear. In Europe, masters in our own home,” the event was organised by Salvini, who brought together representatives from across Europe belonging to the Patriots for Europe group in the European Parliament.

Among those addressing the crowd were Jordan Bardella, President of France’s Rassemblement National (RN), Party for Freedom leader Geert Wilders of the Netherlands, Voice of Reason leader Afroditi Latinopoulou of Greece, Vlaams Belang leader Tom Van Grieken of Belgium and Vox President Santiago Abascal of Spain (via video link), alongside other party chiefs from across the continent.

The rally focused on themes typical of the sovereigntist Right: Opposition to mass immigration, criticism of Islamic extremism and attacks on the European Commission and its President Ursula von der Leyen.

The demonstration began with a march through the streets of Milan before concluding in Piazza del Duomo, beneath the city’s cathedral, where speakers addressed a crowd estimated at between 2,500 and 4,500 people.

The event took place at a politically sensitive moment, which several participating politicians as well as ordinary attendees described in interviews with Brussels Signal yesterday as “problematic,” “difficult” and “delicate” for Europe’s right-wing movements.

Two main concerns dominated discussions among attendees: The recent electoral setback of Viktor Orbán, a key figure within the Patriots for Europe alliance, and recent actions by the US administration seen by many as not always aligned with European interests.

In particular, the latest escalation involving Iran — and its economic repercussions for Europe — was frequently cited as already affecting citizens’ daily lives, especially through rising fuel prices.

Paolo Borchia, the League’s delegation leader in the European Parliament, told Brussels Signal there is a “cry of distress” coming from local communities due to rising prices and what he described as the harmful effects of the Green Deal, the EU Stability Pact and price increases linked to the US-led escalation involving Iran. He argued the Right must address these issues in response to its electorate.

Stressing the hope for positive relations with the US, he said Italy and Europe need predictability in transatlantic co-operation, a predictability that is not always a defining feature of Trump.

Among demonstrators interviewed, opinions on recent US actions varied.

Some strongly defended Trump, saying he should be supported “without ifs or buts”. The majority, though, expressed reservations about his recent conduct, reflecting a broader view that US decisions do not necessarily coincide with the priorities of the Italian and European Right.

Most respondents supported the critical positions adopted by Salvini and by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in recent days, although these criticisms were not voiced from the stage during the rally.

The rally itself did not produce clear signs of a new strategy for handling tensions with the US or responding to Orbán’s electoral setback.

Instead, speakers largely called for unity and cohesion in what they repeatedly described as a “delicate,” “difficult” and “problematic” moment.

Whether the Patriots for Europe group will adjust its strategy in response to transatlantic tensions and Orbán’s defeat remains unclear. For now, the prevailing message is one of unity, as the movement seeks to navigate an increasingly complex political phase.

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