A ROUSING SUCCESS: REMIGRATION SUMMIT 2025

By Jared Taylor at American Renaissance.

Despite ferocious opposition from politicians, antifa, and the media, the first European Remigration Summit — ReSum25 — was a smashing success. Speakers included some of the biggest names in European nationalism, and the audience of some 300 people was overwhelmingly young, enthusiastic, and by all appearances, deeply committed to the cause of our people and civilization.

Like so many nationalist events, this one had its original venue yanked just a few days beforehand, and organizers made a herculean effort to find a replacement. Since the site was only available in the morning, the afternoon plans were promptly rescheduled for the morning. We met in a movie theatre at some distance from the original site but still in the suburbs of Milan, and it served its purpose admirably.

By the time the conference began, the theatre was packed — despite the switch in both time and place. Like other events held in the teeth of intense opposition, there was a special thrill just being there, in addition to the joy of being in the company of so many comrades — at least two from as far away as Australia!

When I first arrived, I found every approach to the theater blocked by police.

I wondered if they were there to shut down the conference, but instead they politely let me through. I suspect they were on the lookout for the kind of rowdies whose malevolence shines through any disguise. When I got to the theatre, there was already a gang of journalists. No demonstrators ever appeared to us, so the police seem to have done their work very well.

We were welcomed by Andrea Ballarati, one of the Italian organizers of ReSum25, who told us the saga of how the summit came about. To much laughter and applause, he personally thanked Giuseppe Sala, the mayor of Milan, for his repeated denunciation of the conference and his threats to ban it. His fulminations, along with cries from leftist Italian parties for the event to be throttled, probably gave more publicity to the idea of Remigration than anything any of us could have done. This turned the event into a debate about free speech, and the Lega Party boldly spoke up for the right of the conference to take place. Mr. Ballarati concluded with a stirring call for us to remember that this summit was just the beginning, and that “now is the time to make remigration a reality.”

The first speaker was Lena Kotré, an elected AfD member of the parliament of the state of Brandenburg. She pointed out that no German has ever asked for mass immigration, and gave to an Austrian — Martin Sellner — the credit of popularizing the term “remigration,” which she called “the central issue of our era.” “We express the desires of a large part of the German people,” she said, and preservation of Germany for Germans must be “a perfectly normal policy.” She added that the goal should be to make remigration part of the political landscape, “even part of pop culture.”

Eva Vlaardingerbroek, a popular and prominent Dutch media personality, noted that many conferences are just “PR events in disguise” but that “this one may well end up in the history books because we are laying the foundations for the salvation of Europe.” “This is the fight,” she added, “that will decide our fate.” She noted that the future is easy to predict: Just look at the places where Europeans are already a minority. If nothing changes, this could be the fate for vast swaths of Europe. Miss Vlaardingerbroek also emphasized the beauty of what we are trying to preserve: “Our cities are works of art. The idea that white people have no culture is the biggest lie on social media.” We must throw off the guilt complex of the Second World War, and say boldly that “Africans have Africa, Asians have Asia, and Europe must be for Europeans.”

Cyan Quinn of the White Papers Policy Institute was one of two Americans who spoke. She noted that white people everywhere are in the same boat, and that we must work together to find solutions. She noted that cultural and racial arguments are sufficient to oppose replacement, but chose to emphasize some of the economic and other arguments that some use to argue against it. Yes, immigration does enrich some in the West, but for the most part only the rich at the expense of the rest of us. She presented detailed calculations of the actual material cost of immigrants who do not work, who drain social services. They are an economic cost to us, not a benefit, and they must go.

Dries Van Langenhove, who spoke at the 2023 American Renaissance conference, was in glorious form, and spoke briefly about his persecution by the “Brussels regime.” He said that he terrifies the regime because the truth terrifies it. He noted that a common argument against remigration is that current laws and treaties make it impossible. This is nonsense, he said. Remigration can largely be done within the current legal framework, and if not, it is the job of legislators to legislate in the name of their people. The Great Replacement is a result of government decisions and so must be remigration.

First, we must deport all illegals, especially criminals, he said. Close borders. Halt family reunification. Offer financial incentives to self deport. In the second phase, we deport people in Europe legally but who commit crimes. Stop renewing residence permits. Tax remittances. End halal meals in public schools. The third phase will deal with citizens who are hostile to Europe. They cannot be deported, but they should be offered incentives to return, and trained to fit into their own societies.

Remigration must be “dignified, lawful, and peaceful,” he said. We have the means, said Mr. Van Langenhove. All we lack is the will. All peoples have a right to a homeland, he noted. Politicians follow the people and if enough people demand remigration, the politicians will have no choice. Mr. Van Langenhove concluded with advice he received from Victor Orban of Hungary. First build a cadre of trustworthy people. Then convince them that change is within their grasp. He ended with a chant of SAVE OUR NATION. RE-MI-GRATION, which was thunderously repeated by everyone in the audience.

John MacLoughlin of the National Party of Ireland gave an inspiring talk about the terrible travails of his nation. He warned that native Irish could become a minority by 2060 if current trends are not reversed. He spoke of the harrowing experience of small Irish villages that have been betrayed by hotel owners who turn their rooms over to the government to be used as hostels for “asylum speakers,” and in some cases reduce the Irish residents to an instant minority. However, “resilience is in our blood,” he said. “We are laying the foundations for the future.” He emphasized that there is still a peaceful solution possible, but, “as problems get more extreme, so will the solutions.” He added: “when our people reach the breaking point, there will be no holding them back.” Mr. MacLoughlin noted that his generation might not see the rebirth, “but that does not matter.” We must fight for the future of our children.

Pedro Faria of Portugal spoke passionately about the threat his country faces. He said that it is tempting to despair, but “we are not victims, we are warriors. We do not owe our countries to those who hate us.” He emphasized that “remigration means putting our people first, ending surrender, and reclaiming what is ours.” This generation, he predicted will be “the bridge between what Europe was and what it will become.”

Jacky Eubanks, the other speaker from the United States, has been an organizer for Turning Point USA. She noted that the original United States was not founded to be a mixture of peoples. She quoted the preamble of the Constitution, the purpose of which was to “secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and to our posterity.” She noted that Dearborn, Michigan, has become the largest Muslim community outside the Middle East, and that Sharia law prevails. She denounced the H-1B visa system, with its pretense that immigrants who use them are doing jobs American will not do. She warned that there could be as many as 20 million illegal immigrants already in the United States and that the only solution is mass deportation and a halt to all immigration. She concluded with a rousing cry in Italian: “Italy for the Italians.”

As has been widely reported, a number of Germans who had been planning to attend the conference were stopped before they could board their plane. The German authorities justified this extraordinary act of repression by saying it would be bad for the country’s reputation if citizens were allowed to attend a conference on remigration. These Germans were ordered to remain in the country and to report several times a day to the authorities.

To everyone’s astonishment, those very Germans managed to elude the authorities and attend the summit. They appeared onstage to wild applause.

How did they manage? They said only — in words directed to the German authorities — “All your high-tech intelligence is nothing against our determination. We are proof every day that we are doing the right thing for our people.” They again were met with cheers when they presented Martin Sellner, one of the organizers of the summit, with a special shirt with a pattern of airplanes on it. This represents their goal: fleets of aircraft returning immigrants to their homelands.

Kenny Smith of the Homeland Party in Britain spoke of Asian grooming gangs. He called it “organized exploitation of our girls on an industrial scale” — something that, as the father of three girls, he found especially repugnant. Asian rapists do not think twice about raping white girls because they have no moral compunctions about it but also because they will not be punished for it. “This is not a matter of law enforcement,” he said. “This has been made possible only by mass immigration.” Mr. Smith poured scorn on the large number of people who refused to accept the racial element of grooming gangs despite overwhelming evidence. He noted that because law enforcement has been so lax, there are probably many thousands of victims, and countless perpetrators who are still unknown. The solution? “We must seize power at every level.”

Hilaire Bouyé, president of the French youth group Reconquête, was the only speaker to — and entirely rightly — denounce American influence by name. So many of the horrible ideas of our time have come from the United States, he said, and must be resisted at all costs. “The time has come to speak the truth,” he added. “I dedicate all my strength to the preservation of continent and its civilization.” Mr. Bouyé emphasized the need for us never to apologize, but to be proud of our roots. His conclusion: “The time of surrender is over.”

Frederik Jansen of the Dutch group Forum for Democracy spoke briefly about the necessity to make it more inviting for migrants to return to their countries of origin. So many Muslims come to Europe “because we have destabilized the region.” He noted the many interventions that have wrecked the fragile societies from which Muslims have fled. “There must be countries to which these people can return,” he said. “We must make peace with the Muslims world.”

Jean Yves Le Gallou, founder of the Institut Iliade, spoke of the history of the peopling of Europe. “We have been the indigenous people for 40,000 years,” he said, “and we have a cultural identity that is 5,000 years old.” He noted that there is a 2007 UN declaration of the rights of indigenous people that is scrupulously applied to every continent but Europe. He argued that there must be no hesitation to enforce remigration because that is the only solution. Obviously, illegals, criminals, and those who live on handouts must be expelled. But what about those who have been European citizens for several generations? For Mr. Le Gallou, there are three categories. First, those not assimilated and hostile to Europe. They must be stripped of citizenship and expelled. Those who are not assimilated but who respect Europe should be given incentives to leave. Finally, those who are fully assimilated “deserve the nationality their parents have earned.”

Mr. Le Gallou noted that it is wrong to blame the EU for our problems. The major nations of Europe began large-scale immigration in the 1970s, well before the EU promoted it. He noted that the Swiss, Norwegians, and Icelanders are not EU members, but they, too, have the same problems. Likewise, Britain achieved Brexit, but the problem got worse. Europeans must act together. “We cannot succeed in just one country,” he said. “All of Europe must act together to reclaim our identity.”

Martin Sellner, who has done the most of anyone to promote the concept of remigration, was welcomed on stage to a standing ovation. He noted that the press has referred to the summit as a conclave, and joked that indeed it was, and with the same rules expressed in Latin that apply to the cardinals who decide on the next pope: “Extra omnes” or “outside of everyone.” Yes, he said, that is our motto. He spoke of the dynamic of the standing ovation. First a few people rise, then others follow. Eventually it becomes embarrassing to stay seated and everyone stands. This, he says, must be the dynamic of remigration. Every party must back it to the point that it becomes embarrassing to be left behind. “In just two years,” he said, “everyone has heard of remigration. We will push all the parties in our direction, and our victory will be the laughter of our children.”

Martin Sellner and Jean Yves Le Gallou

The final speaker was Alfonso Gonçalves, one of the summit organizers and founder of Reconquista in Portugal. “We are here,” he said, “and we are not going anywhere until we win. We will be the best generation, the one that saves us from the worst crisis our people have ever faced.” He emphasized that today, politics is no longer Right versus Left but nation vs globalism. “It is suicide for us not to give everything we can,” he said, “and we will lead a new reconquista through remigration.”

Afonso Gonçalves

His was a rousing conclusion to a rousing conference. I’m sure that everyone left with renewed energy and determination, inspired to work harder than ever for Europe, for our people, and to ensure “the laughter of our children.”