International Conferences in Brussels

ECR Event 'Make Europe Great Again'

On January 28 and 29, 2025 members of the European Conservatives and Reformists Group (ECR) met for the Make Europe Great Again (MEGA) conference at the European Parliament in Brussels. Politico reported that Mateusz Morawiecki (ECR chairman), Marion Marechal (MEP), Raul Latorre (Paraguay, who also attended the Patriots Network Conference, see below), Kari Lake (USA), Bill Robinson had been spotted at the venue. Members of the Patriots for Europe (PfE) group also joined the conference, as António Tânger Corrêa, MEP of the portuguese Chega party. Also the President of the polish Ordo Iuris, Jerzy Kwaśniewski, attended.

A documentation of the second day of the conference, titled MEGA - True Fundamental Values and their Role in Reshaping Europe's Future can be found on Youtube (2 hours 45 minutes).

In his keynotes ECR Vice President George Simion from the Romanian AUR party said: "We should unite under the same values, we should unite under the same values of President Trumps movement 'Make America Great Again' (...) The victory of MAGA is an example for us here in Europe."
Virologist Robert W. Malone (USA) spoke about the political attacks on Donald Trump and rejected that there are any pro-fascist tendencies within the Global Far-Right. Regarding Argentina he said: "What he [Milei] has done in Argentina cannot be denied. He has demonstrated that it's possible to transform a deeply compromised socialist economy in a matter of weeks, a year."

Mihail Neamțu, AUR-MP from Romania, used his speech to viciously attack Alexander Soros and a projected globalist agenda: "Soros represents to this very day the shadow side of modernity: a technocrat who wields the power of capital to destroy the very foundations of our culture."
The first MEGA conference took place in Bucharest in April 2024.

Patriots Network Conference in Brussels

On January 30, 2025 a Patriots Network Conference took place in Brussels with "MPs and consuls from many countries". It staged in the Flamish Parliament after the announced hotel withdraw their contract due to antifascist protest. The Network was invited into rooms of the far-right Vlaams Belang by Filip Dewinter, "a true friend and supporter of the Patriots Network since our beginning", the organisers reported on their Instagram account. Around one hundred Belgian Antifascists protested outside of the parliament.

On the conference several dozens members of the network joined for talks and speeches. Some attendants were Branko Grims, MEP from Slovenia, Enzo Alias (France), Davide Quadri (Italy), Raul Latorre (Paraguay), Cedric Cornelissen (Belgium), Axinia Adrian (MEP AUR - Romania), Markus Buchheit (MEP AfD). 

The Network is formed by members of far-right youth organizations from North and South America, Africa, Asia and Europe. President Enzo Alias is a former member of the Youth organization of Rassemblement National, Vice president Ignacio Oyarzu from Argentina is also chairman of the Foro Panamericano de Jóvenes Políticos. German representative is Severin Köhler, member of the recently dissolved Junge Alternative (Young Alternative), former youth wing of the AfD. Köhler is currently facing an exclusion procedure from the AfD. He was critized for close ties to the Nazist Identitarian Movement.

The next meeting of Patriots Network is announced for Lisbon on February 15th. A former conference had been announced for Washington, DC on December 28 2024 but the social media channels of the organisation showed no further notices.

Redaktion: Ulli Jentsch