Two British right-wing activists were attacked by a group of Congolese immigrants beside the Eiffel Tower on Sunday, 1 November, while filming a documentary about mass immigration in Paris. The attack, widely captured in footage shared on social media, reportedly began when Montgomery Toms and Will Coleshill rushed to defend their female companion, who was being harassed by the immigrants.
Toms, founder of Freedom Watch GB, said roughly a dozen men confronted them, while Coleshill, who runs Resistance GB, said he was repeatedly struck on the head with metal objects. Filming equipment, including microphones, was allegedly thrown into the Seine, while cameraman Luke William Schmidt was also targeted. Significantly outnumbered, the crew eventually retreated.
Myself & @WillColeshill have just been attacked by third world savage Congolese migrants in Paris.
It started because we were documenting the demographic replacement in France.
They went to attack our female friend and we stepped in to defend her.
This is why we need Remigration
📽️: @LukeWSchmidt
‘It was about a 12:2 ratio of violent Congolese migrants vs two Englishmen, and more and more were coming,’ Toms wrote on X. ‘All we could do was de-escalate and get out.’ He also praised Coleshill for protecting Schmidt, who said two attackers had approached him after noticing his camera.
Coleshill described being ‘repeatedly beaten over the head with metal weapons’ after intervening to protect the woman. ‘Remigration has never been more necessary,’ he declared, promising to release further footage through Resistance GB.
The activists were in Paris for a weekend of events promoting remigration, organized by former right-wing MEP Jean-Yves Le Gallou’s Polémia and the Objectif Remigration movement. Their international conference, scheduled for 31 October in Le Plessis-Robinson, and a march planned for 1 November in Paris were both prohibited by French authorities.
Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez requested the bans, citing ‘public-order concerns’. Le Gallou condemned the decision as an infringement of freedom of expression and launched an emergency legal challenge. Organizers subsequently held a smaller meeting at a Paris brasserie, where participants said police ordered them to leave.
Austrian remigration activist Martin Sellner, who was due to attend and promote his book, was detained at Beauvais airport on 29 October, served with an entry ban and deported to Austria the following day.
The assault sparked outrage among right-wing activists, with British campaigner Tommy Robinson sharing the footage and condemning the treatment of the conference participants. He contrasted Sellner’s deportation and the prohibition of the gathering with the violence against activists who reached Paris, arguing that the events demonstrated the necessity of remigration.
More than 100 police officers have been injured and 54 people arrested after rioting erupted in Frankfurt, Germany’s financial capital and home of the European Central Bank, following a day of youth-led protests across the country.
Roman Poseck, interior minister of the state of Hesse, told a press conference on November 1 that police estimated they had faced between 1,000 and 1,500 violent troublemakers, most of them from a migrant background. He said those detained, aged between 13 and 29, were predominantly German nationals.
One officer was seriously hurt, losing teeth after being struck in the face by a stone, according to the minister. Up to 1,300 officers were deployed at the height of the disturbances, while 17 shops were damaged and five looted.
The violence followed demonstrations on October 31 called by the campaign group Gen Z regelt (Gen Z takes charge) in around 30 German cities over school funding and the cost of living. In Frankfurt, some 8,000 to 9,000 people marched largely peacefully, German news agency dpa reported.
The mood turned as night fell. Police said they were pelted with fireworks, stones, bottles and petrol bombs and dissolved the march at about 6.20pm, after which shop windows were smashed and barricades set alight in the city centre, public broadcaster ZDF reported.
Frankfurt police chief Stefan Müller said officers had been attacked continuously and without restraint by groups large and small. Firefighters and paramedics were also targeted.
Police recorded 87 criminal complaints and carried out 366 identity checks. According to the police, only a small share of the rioters came from Frankfurt itself, with suspects travelling from elsewhere in Hesse and from neighbouring states.
Poseck said border controls had been tightened ahead of the protests amid concerns that extremist groups from abroad could use them to stir up riots. He pledged tough consequences for those responsible.
Gen Z regelt, which presents itself as acting in solidarity with French school protesters, had insisted its demonstrations would be peaceful without exception.
German interior minister Alexander Dobrindt has blamed left-wing groups and troublemakers from a migrant milieu for the riots in Frankfurt and Cologne, according to Der Tagesspiegel. On October 19 he had warned that left-wing extremists and migrant circles were joining forces on the streets against the democratic system.
Student and socialist groups in several EU member states have called an International Youth Strike for November 20, which organisers said would include walkouts, blockades and occupations.
Israelis surf on a sand dune in the Negev. Screengrab youtube
by Giulio Meotti
The Alliance of Democracies conducts an annual study called the “Democracy Perception Index.” The latest report finds that “Israel is the most unpopular country in the world,” with a favorability rating lower even than that of gulag-era North Korea and Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. It is not only Benjamin Netanyahu, the bête noire of the international intelligentsia and “a pain in the ass,” as Barack Obama once called him. As curator Milana Gitzin-Adiram puts it, “in many places we are simply persona non grata, almost Satan.” Iran’s Little Satan.
A few days ago Luxembourg decided it no longer wanted to be the country responsible for approving Israel Bonds issuances in the European Union. This is the organization that handles the sale of Israeli government bonds to diaspora Jews (a business worth €2.5 billion a year). A low blow, given that Luxembourg had only taken on the role a year earlier, after Ireland had given it up.
Yet in the World Happiness Index the Jewish state ranks ahead of Luxembourg, the tax haven that last saw war on 10 May 1940 during the Nazi invasion (Israel contrasts with other war-ravaged countries that are understandably unhappy, such as Ukraine in 111th place and Lebanon second-to-last in 145th).
Shuki Friedman, head of the Jewish People Policy Institute, tracks sanctions imposed on Israel through a world map that is growing ever more crowded. His database records 110 sanctions currently in force, applied by 54 countries. The only continent that currently imposes no sanctions on Israel is Antarctica. This is the price of military victory, Bibi or not Bibi. The image that has been pushed of Israel in the West is that of an anti-democratic, dark country on the brink of “suicide”.
Reality says the exact opposite.
While over the past twenty years Israel has held nine parliamentary elections, no elections have been held in the Palestinian Arab territories of the ‘West Bank’ and Gaza since 2006 (and no neighbor of Israel holds free and democratic elections). Among two hundred countries in the world, Israel ranks among the twenty longest-lived continuous electoral democracies.
After gaining independence in 1948, Israel has maintained its parliamentary democracy for 78 years. Israelis like to vote (78 percent turnout, compared with 63 percent in Italy). Since 1996, elections have been held in Israel every two or three years (six elections since 2019), a shorter interval than that found in twenty other democracies examined: higher frequency than Spain (3), Japan (3), Canada (3.2), the United Kingdom (3.8) and Italy (4.4), among others. A young country with a strong democratic tradition.
And Israel has once again demonstrated that it is the worst apartheid regime in the history of apartheid: no Arab country in the world allows Arabs to vote freely as happens in Israel, where Arab parties have doubled their seats (and with their success effectively prevented the creation of an automatic political majority).
In the famous Democracy Index, published annually by The Economist, Israel ranks thirtieth: four places ahead of the United States and seven ahead of Italy.
In “The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World,” the new book by Dan Senor and Saul Singer, authors of “Start-Up Nation,” Israel is “Morningburg,” while Europe is “Twilight City.”
According to the Pew Research Center, Israel and Singapore are the only rich countries in which more people are optimistic about the financial future of their children than their parents. Across nineteen countries, the average who answer “worse” is seventy percent; in Israel only 27 percent (the least pessimistic). During the pandemic (2019-2022), pessimists decreased in Israel, while elsewhere they rose to record levels. The country is both younger and longer-lived, more quarrelsome and more cohesive, more exposed to death and more resistant to despair. Israel is the anthropological anomaly that challenges the maps of hatred and the geographies of well-being.
Take the so-called “deaths of despair” (suicides, drugs, alcohol): Israel has the lowest rate among OECD nations. Sweden, Denmark and Norway have rates two to three times higher. Israeli men have the fourth-highest life expectancy in the world, women the eighth. Adolescent suicides, although each is mourned deeply, effectively do not exist in the country: among the lowest in the world, less than a third of the OECD average and less than a quarter of the United States, Australia, Finland and Canada.
Despite isolation and war, Israel remains firmly in eighth place in the World Happiness ranking (it was even fourth before the mourning after October 7). Israel is the anomaly among the happiest nations. Geographically, the countries ranked from first to ninth are all located in a tight circle centered on Copenhagen: Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Switzerland. Peaceful, quiet, politically stable countries with generous welfare systems, where the food is bad and the weather is terrible.
Then there is Israel, far away in the Middle East, a region not exactly known for tranquility. Noisy and quarrelsome Israelis rate their lives as more satisfying than Swedes, Swiss, Americans, Australians, Canadians, Italians and Singaporeans. Israel ranks first in the world for the number of living kidney donations (including altruistic ones) per capita, a result largely due to the Matnat Chaim organization in Jerusalem.
Compared with a West that looks backward with nostalgia and forward with pessimism, the Bank of Israel forecasts say the Jewish state’s economy will grow by 5.6 percent in 2026 and by 7.5 percent in 2027. The country will be called upon to make difficult and strategic choices, from accelerating military self-sufficiency from the United States to an industrialization that abandons European partnerships for anti-Chinese Asian alliances and anti-Iranian Arab ones (since October 7, Israeli tech companies have lost 8,500 employees due to emigration).
Meanwhile, Israel is third in the world in the startup ranking (Global Startup Ecosystem Index 2026), is the country with the highest score worldwide for “quality of social relations” (the country is united, a crucial factor for overall well-being), ranks tenth for the number of Nobel Prizes won (in per capita terms it surpasses the United States, Germany, France, Canada and Japan), fourth in the world for scientific publications, sixth in the World Index of Healthcare Innovation (Israel conceived itself as a nation that could, as Arieh Herzog, former head of Israel’s missile defense agency, said, “innovate or disappear”), fifth for the number of patents per capita (after Japan, Sweden, Switzerland and South Korea, all countries not at war) and –
Nowhere else among developed countries are so many children born as in the Jewish state (and by 2050 it is projected that Israel will be twenty years younger than Italy, Spain and Germany).
Despite the Second Intifada, the wars in Gaza and October 7, the net migration balance is 480,094 people who have arrived in Israel from all over the world from 2000 to today.
Meanwhile the Israeli region on the border with Gaza, known as “Tekuma” (rebirth), has grown by ten percent compared with the situation prior to the October 7, 2023 attack. What other people with Western customs would return en masse to live where just three years ago more than twelve hundred of their fellow citizens were murdered in medieval scenes?
The Little Satan laughs happily, because it has learned not to confuse unpopularity with defeat and has taught the world that one can live very well even at the foot of a volcano.
London Emir Sadiq Khan began November on the promising note of announcing ‘Islamophobia Awareness Month’ to “shine a light on the abhorrent hatred and discrimination Muslims continue to face.”
Especially those who run London.
‘Islamophobia Awareness Month’ is very important. And the best way to spread awareness of the fact that Afghans are seven times more likely than the indigenous population to be convicted of sex crimes.
Afghans are seven times more likely to be convicted of sex crimes than Britons, analysis suggests.
The research showed that people who described themselves as Afghans accounted for 409 sex offences – or 0.39 per cent of the total – during a 15-year period.
After population numbers had been taken into account, and the statistics standardised for age and sex, the rate of sex crimes committed by Afghans was seven times that of people who described themselves as British, the analysis showed.
Plans to open a camp for asylum seekers on a former RAF base at Linton-on-Ouse are a “recipe for disaster”, and have echoes of the child grooming scandal, a Shadow Minister has told The Yorkshire Post.
The Government plans to house more than 1,000 lone male asylum seekers on the North Yorkshire site, as well as use two other MoD sites in Oxfordshire and Suffolk.
The Shadow Women’s and Equalities Minister Joy Morrissey told The Yorkshire Post she had received countless letters from concerned women living nearby the three proposed camps.
She said: “I don’t want a situation where women and girls have raised these concerns, and we [collectively] do what happened with the grooming gangs, which is we just said ‘we don’t want to hear it, you’re being racist’ and we just ignored it and ignored it.”
The Shadow Minister claimed: “These men are primarily coming from places where women, in Afghanistan, Sudan, Eritrea, places where sexual violence against women is used in both conflict and in everyday life.
“And in places like Afghanistan, women are treated worse than animals now. You can beat your wife, she can’t go to the park, your dog has more rights than a woman does in Afghanistan now.”
Luckily, the Burnham Labor regime is working hard to equalize the status of women in Afghanistan and the United Kingdom. Anyone expressing concern about this better remember that this is ‘Islamophobia Awareness Month’ and the coppers watch what you’re typing.
If it turns out that the police officers who cordoned off the Polish Constitutional Court – who were not wearing their service numbers and who clearly could not speak Polish – were from Germany, that is even more insidious than I initially thought: On the one hand, it would constitute blatant, unlawful EU terrorism against a sovereign nation and support for a coup d’état. Secondly, it would reopen the rifts between Poland and Germany – which had only been painstakingly buried – and once again sow discord between the two nations. This is entirely in keeping with the inhuman, supranational EU.
Wenn es sich herausstellt, dass die Polizisten, die das polnische Verfassungsgericht abriegelten, ohne Dienstnummern zu tragen und die offensichtlich kein Polnisch konnten, aus Deutschland waren, ist das noch perfider, als ich zunächst dachte:
Zum einen wäre es offener widerrechtlicher EU-Terrorismus gegen eine souveräne Nation und Unterstützung eines Staatstreichs.
Zum anderen würde es die nur mühsam verschütteten Gräben zwischen Polen und Deutschland wieder aufreißen und erneut Zwietracht zwischen beiden Nationen säen.
Ganz im Sinne der menschenverachtenden supranationalen EU.
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While the news is scattered and the incidents fresh, it appears the EU-supported politicians attempted a coup d’etat in Poland and lost due to the bravery of the Polish president Karol Nawrocki and the thousands of Poles who support him. The international press is largely silent as this significant setback for the EU unfolds, but thanks to Elon Musk, X is covering it well.
Without X, no one in Europe would have found out about what happened in Poland tonight. The head of government Donald Tusk carried out an attempted coup d’état, taking advantage of the state head Karol Nawrocky’s trip abroad. He stormed the Constitutional Tribunal with the police and tried to remove the president and vice president of the Constitutional with a loyal judge without competencies. But he hadn’t counted on the president, who, upon learning of it, ordered the plane to turn around while it was flying over Spain. He returned to Warsaw, forced his way into the TC building ahead of his escorts despite Tusk’s police cordon, and summoned all the highest institutions of the Supreme and Constitutional to restore constitutional order. Although the crisis continues, it seems clear that Tusk’s government, the puppet of Von der Leyen who would never have carried out this assault without Brussels’ permission, has its days numbered. But remember, the public and private media across all of Europe have been complicit in the coup d’état by silencing the entire operation. Only social networks have alerted Poles and Europeans. That’s why they want to intervene in them.
The plotters managed the airport well enough to refuse Nawrocki’s return flight landing rights but the military pilots of his plane ignored the control tower and landed anyway.
Poland has a Constitutional Tribunal, which works roughly like our Supreme Court. Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s pro-EU government called the court illegitimate because the conservative Law and Justice party (PiS) packed it with conservatives back in 2015. So his government simply stopped publishing the court’s rulings, even though Polish law requires it.
This year, parliament elected new leftwing judges. President Karol Nawrocki, a PiS ally who holds the veto, refused to swear five of them in. Without the president’s oath, Polish law says they aren’t judges yet.
Last night, while President Nawrocki was out of the country, Donald Tusk’s justice minister, Waldemar Żurek, moved to criminally charge the court’s conservative chief justice, Bogdan Święczkowski, by lifting his official immunity. Seven of the not-yet-sworn judges walked into the Tribunal under government security escort, and the court’s own guards were told to leave.
One of the new judges, Anna Korwin-Piotrowska, declared herself the court’s most senior judge, by counting her years from 1995 in the ordinary courts, not from any time on the Tribunal. On that basis, she suspended the chief justice and his deputy for a month. Riot police ringed the building and the new judges took over the court’s website. The court’s X account, still run by the old leadership, posted that everyone involved was “committing the crime of a coup d’état.”
When it all went down, President Nawrocki was flying to Senegal. He posted, “At such a moment, the President must be in Poland. I’m interrupting my flight,” and flew back. Just after midnight, he went to the Tribunal with the head of the Supreme Court, cut a padlock on the Tribunal’s front fence with a power saw, pushed through the police at the door, and told the new judges, “You are not judges.” Before dawn, he called it a “forcible takeover of a constitutional organ of the state” and convened emergency security talks for today.[/quote]
The coup plotters timed this to occur when the president was to be out of town and when most of the capital city residents were likely to have traveled back to rural areas to celebrate All Saints Day with their families. The city’s residents seem to have returned en masse and surrounded the government buildings in support of Nawrocki.
How to commit political suicide: Donald Tusk managed to unite the entire fragmented Polish Right + the President against him. He sends the Police to expel the current President and Vice of the Constitutional Tribunal… on a Friday night, after the Stock Exchange closes, during an All Souls’ weekend and with the President away on an official trip. Why the importance of All Saints’ Day? Because the Polish opposition elite who live in Warsaw and most people all head to their hometowns, to light candles and clean the graves. The sly trick of wanting a city empty of opposition. Result: they all came back from their hometowns and even the President ordered the plane to turn around.
By Saturday it was reported that Prime Minister Donald Tusk had fled Warsaw and flown to the Baltic Sea city of Sopot. Another report has him hiding in the prime minister’s office. In any event he’s not been seen in public. I don’t think this is the action of a winner.
The U.S. Ambassador to Poland, Tom Rose, issued a diplomatically neutral statement:
“The events unfolding tonight at Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal are very serious indeed. We appear to be witnessing an unprecedented confrontation over the government’s use of state power and the independence and authority of a constitutional institution. Both sides offer sharply different accounts of what happened and why. Whatever the facts ultimately establish, thousands gathering outside the Tribunal make an already dangerous situation more combustible. The last thing Poland needs is a confrontation that spirals into something far worse. America is on Poland’s side. It is not our place to judge or interfere in its internal affairs. Our concern is for the stability, security, and democratic future of a country we are proud to call our friend and ally. I hope everyone involved — government officials, law enforcement, and demonstrators alike, to take a deep breath, and don’t take any action that could provoke violence or further escalation. Americans and U.S. President Donald Trump care deeply about this country, its democracy, and its future. But Poland’s strength ultimately must come from within — from its people, its institutions, and their shared commitment to the rule of law. Poland has come too far and accomplished too much to let political differences, no matter how strongly felt, put any of that at risk.”
Why do I think the EU has suffered a major blow with Nawrocki’s bold counteroffensive? Here’s how the prime minister of Slovenia details the EU’s work elsewhere in Europe to sustain its autocratic control:
When we were deciding to join the EU, no one imagined that in any of its member states or in the Union as a whole it would be possible without consequences:
1. To annul presidential elections (Romania);
2. To abolish an informational program on the national RTV (Hungary);
3. To send police to the Constitutional Court (Poland);
4. Three weeks before the elections to send the leader of the polling party to prison (Slovenia);
5. To occupy the national RTV with police and replace the management (Poland);
6. To terminate the mandate of the national RTV leadership and carry out a purge of employees (Slovenia);
7. To send members of the previous government to prison without the possibility of defense (Hungary);
8. To grant nearly a million citizenships to illegal migrants through an expedited process (Spain);
9. To shut down a new Nuclear Power Plant and build a gas pipeline to Russia (Germany);
10. To tax carbon energy sources while simultaneously closing NPPs and relocating industry to countries with low environmental standards under the pretense that this is how we save the planet.
An EU has emerged that must save itself from itself.
You can cancel an election and ban the winner from running (Romania), you can ban your opponents from ever running again (Hungary), you can threaten to ban the main opposition party and subject it to relentless investigations by the secret police (Germany), you can threaten a ban on the leading presidential candidate and make them wear an ankle monitor (France), every member of your circle can be investigated for corruption (Spain), you can try and cancel local elections because you will lose them (Britain), and you can storm the constitutional court with riot police because you want to control it (Poland).
You can just do all these things. The secret is you just have to be on the right side of the European Commission.
Tusk’s first move as prime minister was to take over the country’s public broadcasting system by replacing its leadership, instead of passing a media law. When that move was blocked he liquidated public TV. When the Constitutional Tribunal ruled against his government, he stopped recognizing its rulings. “Tusk himself said openly that restoring the rule of law would sometimes require decisions that would not fully meet the criteria of legality.” The EU partnered with him by freezing billions of EU funds under a conservative government, restoring them only when Tusk was in office.
It’s a nasty European habit:
In Europe, the rule of law is no longer a principle. It is a label. When a conservative government reshapes the courts, it’s an assault on democracy. When a pro-Brussels government ignores a court, it’s “restoring the rule of law.”
It isn’t only Poland. In Romania in December 2024, the Constitutional Court annulled the first round of a presidential election after the wrong candidate came first. In France, a TV channel, C8, lost its broadcasting license in 2025, and this week a member of parliament declared that shutting down CNEWS, the most-watched news channel in the country, is “a priority.” In Germany, domestic intelligence labeled the main opposition party extremist. In Brussels, the Digital Services Act gives unelected commissioners the power to fine platforms up to 6% of global revenue, and its first fine ever went to X, with more investigations into “disinformation” still open.
He concludes that the reason that the U.S. is “the first power on earth” is because we built our “entire system on a radical idea: the individual comes before the state,” protecting speech and property. Reviewing Democratic Party actions like leaning on social media platforms to censor speech, proposing to tax unrealized gains, and packing the Supreme Court, he urges us all: ”Keep your First Amendment, Keep your property… Vote on Tuesday.”
Do it or people here like Ursula von der Leyen will be taping your mouths shut, rifling through your things and confiscating whatever they wish to, and controlling all human activity under a variety of stupid ideas until our economy is in stasis and our streets overrun with low-IQ third-world thugs on the dole.
A long list of leftist and communist groups, including pro-Palestinian organizations, are backing the protests in France. Photo courtesy of the French National Gendarmerie, via a screenshot on X.
Riots, Demographic Decline, and the Loss of National Purpose
Europe’s crisis is no longer an abstraction. It is visible in the streets of its great cities, where public disorder, economic frustration, demographic decline, and questions of national identity increasingly collide.
In France, demonstrations in October brought hundreds of thousands into the streets. Reports described fires and damage in Limoges and Bordeaux, attacks on public buildings in Marseille, and clashes with police in Paris. In Italy, violent confrontations in Milan included stone-throwing near the Duomo and police use of tear gas; clashes were also reported in Bologna and other northern cities.
Europe’s defenders of the status quo may insist that each episode is isolated, each smashed window an exception, each confrontation merely the inevitable friction of democratic life. That is precisely how decline becomes normalized: a city burns, public authority retreats, and the political class offers another round of explanations instead of a reckoning.
A civilization does not have to fall in a single dramatic instant. It can erode street by street, as citizens lose faith that the state can maintain order, preserve a common inheritance, or persuade the next generation that their country is worth sustaining.
The Question of National Identity
Europe’s political class has spent years treating the defense of national identity as an embarrassment, border enforcement as cruelty, and demands for public order as extremism. The result is a crisis of authority. When citizens watch their cities descend into disorder while their leaders lecture them about tolerance, they are entitled to ask: whose interests does the state exist to serve?
President Trump has been blunt about Europe’s predicament, warning that it must “straighten out their act” and arguing for stronger enforcement against unauthorized immigration. In France, National Rally leader Jordan Bardella has condemned the government’s response to disorder, while Marine Le Pen has declared that the state has “lost control of everything.” Italy’s Giorgia Meloni has insisted that the right to demonstrate does not confer a right to turn cities into battlegrounds.
The point is that Europe’s political class has lost the will to defend the foundations of national life. Uncontrolled immigration, failing integration, declining birth rates, and the erosion of public authority have become intertwined challenges that European leaders can no longer afford to ignore. A nation that refuses to control its borders, enforce its laws, or preserve its national identity risks surrendering the very conditions that make self-government possible.
Borders are not relics of an unenlightened age. They are the physical expression of a people’s right to determine its collective future. Europe must stop confusing compassion with abdication. Governments should enforce immigration law, accelerate the lawful removal of those without a right to remain, and ensure that serious criminal offending carries the consequences prescribed by law.
National identity is not a biological test. It is a shared inheritance of history, institutions, laws, and obligations. But that inheritance cannot survive if political leaders refuse to defend it. Integration must mean more than occupying the same territory: it must involve respect for the country’s laws, constitutional institutions, and civic traditions.
A Continent Growing Older
Europe’s crisis is also demographic. The European Union’s fertility rate fell to approximately 1.34 births per woman in 2024, far below the roughly 2.1 births associated with long-term population replacement. An aging population places mounting pressure on pensions, healthcare, public finances, and the working-age population.
The economic case for mass immigration is rapidly weakening in the age of artificial – super – intelligence. For decades, Europe’s political class has justified importing workers as an economic necessity. But AI and robotics are poised to replace vast amounts of human labor, challenging the assumption that prosperity requires a constantly expanding workforce. Europe should prepare for an economy in which machines perform tasks once reserved for people—not import ever-larger populations to fill jobs that technology may soon eliminate. Its priorities should be technological leadership, domestic prosperity, and control over its own borders.
The Choice Europe Can No Longer Postpone
Europe must secure its borders, reverse its demographic decline, restore public order, and recover the conviction that its civilization is worth preserving. These are not marginal policy preferences. They are questions of national survival.
A nation that cannot control who enters its territory, enforce its laws, encourage the formation of families, or transmit its inheritance to the next generation is surrendering the foundations of its own continuity. Governments must enforce immigration law, accelerate lawful removals of those without a right to remain, and confront demographic decline as a strategic national challenge.
Europe must reject the fiction that national identity is an obstacle to be overcome. A nation is a historical community, bound together by institutions, traditions, laws, and obligations. Integration requires respect for that inheritance. Sovereignty means having the authority—and the will—to defend it.
The riots are a warning of what happens when public authority weakens and national purpose fades. Europe’s leaders can continue managing the symptoms of decline, or they can confront its causes. They must decide whether Europe intends to remain the author of its own future—or become the passive administrator of its disappearance.
A leading leftist mayor in France has called on the government to outlaw public debate of the “Great Replacement”, thereby potentially turning large sections of the native population into thought criminals.
The Moroccan-heritage mayor of the multicultural Paris suburb of Trappes, Ali Rabeh, accused the so-called “far-right” of being responsible for the shooting which occurred in his city earlier this month, claiming that discussions surrounding the “Great Replacement” had radicalised the suspected shooter, who killed one and injured five others in an alleged retaliation against ethnic and religious minorities for the previous month of riots and looting.
Appearing on France Inter on Friday, Mayor Rabeh said, according to Le Journal du Dimanche, that the 1881 law on press freedom could be amended to include penalties for “those who have presented a group of people, because of their origin, their belonging to a religion, an ethnicity or a so-called race as actors in a replacement process.”
“I think the law needs to be toughened,” he said, claiming that the “provisions preventing incitement to racial hatred” are “insufficient.”
The term was originally coined by French philosopher Renaud Camus, who argued that elites in Western societies viewed their citizens as interchangeable economic units that could be replaced by cheaper migrant labour with little consequence.
Mayor Rabeh specifically pointed to presidential candidate Éric Zemmour, complaining that despite having been convicted for inciting racial hatred, he is “still invited to almost every talk show to spew his hatred and venom without being threatened with anything other than a fine, which for him is insignificant.”
Zemmour, a leading proponent of re-migration in the country, responded: “The Gulag is on the march. Here is the project of their socialist-Islamic Republic.”
The proposal was also criticised by National Rally president Jordan Bardella — the current favourite to become the next prime minister of France — who remarked that the move would “criminalise the feelings of at least 60 per cent of the French, who observe a ‘profound demographic transformation.’ Unless it’s to celebrate it, of course.”
Indeed, a survey from the Institut français d’opinion publique (Ifop) earlier this year found that six in ten French people believe that the French are being “progressively replaced by non-European populations, primarily from the African continent.”
Among those who agreed with the sentiment, 66 per cent said it was entirely bad, compared with 21 per cent who were neutral, and nine per cent who thought it was a good thing.
A report from the Immigration and Demography Observatory (OID) in Paris in September found that if immigration levels continue at their current pace, the native French population — defined merely as those whose grandparents were born in the country — are set to become a minority in their own country by around 2050.
Additionally, the report forecasts that if immigration remains steady, people of non-European extraction would become the majority by the mid-2070s.
As opposed to other Western countries, the “Great Replacement” has also been promoted by the far-left, which, rather than dismissing it as a so-called conspiracy theory, has simply proclaimed it to be a good thing.
Indeed, presidential candidate and the leader of the far-left France Insoumise party (France in Rebellion/LFI), Jean-Luc Mélenchon, has hailed the Great Replacement and the formation of a “New France”. Mélenchon, who often complains about “ugly” white France, has previously admitted that the hard left cannot rely on the rural, white working class to support socialism.
Others within his party have also embraced the concept, including MP Clémence Guetté, who boasted in June that efforts to preserve the native white population had failed, declaring in the National Assembly: “You have lost the racist ideological battle. Today, one in three French people is already linked to immigration.”
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has defiantly rejected any compromise over the attempted takeover of the Constitutional Tribunal, despite mounting criticism from his right-wing opposition and growing divisions within his own governing coalition. In a televised address on Saturday evening, 31 October, Tusk defended Friday’s attempted judicial coup carried out by pro-Tusk judges at the court, while two of his coalition partners engaged in emergency consultations with President Karol Nawrocki to resolve the constitutional crisis.
‘In certain matters there can be no compromise,’ Tusk declared, accusing Nawrocki and the opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party of destroying the rule of law. He insisted that the newly elected judges were legally entitled to assume their duties and that police had merely protected them from aggressors. Tusk also suggested that those challenging his government’s actions were benefiting from—of course—Russian interference. He nevertheless announced no new constitutional reform initiative.
Meanwhile, the Parliamentary Council linked to Nawrocki has formally condemned Friday night’s attempted takeover, describing it as an ‘unlawful coup against a constitutional organ of the state’.
The council, chaired by Deputy Sejm Speaker Marcin Horała, adopted the declaration during an extraordinary meeting on Saturday attended by presidential minister Adam Andruszkiewicz. It accused individuals acting without legal authority of receiving support from state security services in their attempt to seize control of the Constitutional Tribunal.
The declaration warned that accepting such actions would exclude Poland from the ranks of civilized Western democracies. It also condemned attempts to undermine the president’s constitutional prerogatives, calling for respect for the separation of powers and judicial independence.
The crisis has also exposed divisions within Tusk’s governing coalition. Deputy Prime Minister and Polish People’s Party (PSL) leader Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz met Nawrocki alongside Deputy Sejm Speaker Piotr Zgorzelski, emphasizing constitutional order, political stability and national security.
Poland 2050 leader Szymon Hołownia also attended the consultations, calling Friday night’s events ‘shameful’ and urging Nawrocki and Tusk to negotiate a constitutional reset. Hołownia expressed serious legal reservations about the suspension of the Tribunal’s leadership, while stopping short of calling it a coup.
By contrast, Tusk’s Civic Coalition refused to participate in the presidential consultations, while the Left also rejected Nawrocki’s initiative.
Hard-right Konfederacja went further, demanding snap parliamentary elections. Following talks with Nawrocki, its leaders Sławomir Mentzen and Krzysztof Bosak proposed terminating the mandates of all 15 Constitutional Tribunal judges and electing replacements by a three-fifths parliamentary majority.
Bosak also demanded a parliamentary vote to shorten the Sejm’s term, challenging Tusk’s coalition partners to demonstrate whether their criticism of the government’s actions would translate into political consequences.
Meanwhile, left-wing opposition party Razem leader Adrian Zandberg proposed a comprehensive constitutional reset, further broadening political pressure for institutional reform.
Saturday’s developments have left Tusk increasingly isolated in his uncompromising position. While Nawrocki has brought representatives from across the political spectrum to the negotiating table, the prime minister has offered no concessions, leaving Poland’s constitutional confrontation unresolved and exposing growing disagreements within his own parliamentary majority.
His remarks fall awkwardly short of calming a situation described by many as bringing the country to the brink of civil conflict. Instead, as has increasingly become the reflex of mainstream EU leaders facing domestic crises, Tusk pointed to Russia as a source of Poland’s deepening confrontation.
