On the heels of the second CPAC Hungary, where Budapest played host to a transcontinental gathering of European and North American conservative anti-globalists, young leaders from the ascendent nationalist-populist movement convened in the historic Lónyay-Hatvany Villa—overlooking the banks of the Danube and the city’s skyline—for the third annual Transatlantic Patriot Summit.
The summit, hosted by the Danube Institute and once again organized by the Republicans for a National Renewal, in collaboration with Fidelitas and Lega Giovani, brought together young, national-conservative leaders from the United States, Hungary, Austria, Italy, Belgium, Portugal, Luxembourg, Croatia, Israel, and the Czech Republic.
This year’s conference, like those before it, sought to lay the groundwork for bilateral and multilateral networking and increased cooperation between conservative forces on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
The gathering’s primary points of discussion related to mass illegal migration, its effects, possibilities of international cooperation between conservative organizations, and how to take back—or at the very least, how to protect oneself and one’s family against—the increasingly woke institutions controlled by the globalist liberal left.
In addition to high-level representatives from the U.S.-based Republicans for a National Renewal and the New York Young Republicans Club, leaders from the youth wings of Fidesz, the Christian Democratic People’s Party, the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ), Vlaams Belang, Chega, the Czech Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD), Lega, the Alternative Democratic Reform (ADR) Party, Likud, and Homeland Movement were in attendance.
The summit commenced with an opening speech from MP Jovan Palalić, General Secretary of the Serbian People’s Party, who warned that a perfect storm has been gathering over Europe since 2015. The amalgam making up the perfect storm’s composition, he said, includes Europe’s continued demographic collapse paired with the sustained migratory invasion of the continent, Trump’s defeat in 2016, the globalists’ relentless march toward a federal Europe—spearheaded Germany’s left-liberal government—and the increasingly ubiquitous erasure of genders, family, tradition, religion, community, and national identity and borders.
The Serbian lawmaker’s opening remarks were succeeded by a welcome speech from Barbara Hegedűs, the international vice president of Fidelitas, who told attendees: “Hungarian and American conservatives face many common values and challenges. It is a pleasure to see that the cooperation between the American and Hungarian patriotic forces is getting stronger every year. And we hope it will continue to grow in the future.”
After Hegedűs’ remarks, the Executive Director of Republicans for a National Renewal Mark Ivanyo opened up a panel discussion that considered the following topics: threats posed by mass migration in Europe and the U.S and what counteractions can be taken by conservatives to reverse the process; how the various subdivisions of the Right across the Western world can cooperate more closely; and how the woke liberal-left took over our institutions and what can and ought to be done about it.
Immigration
On the topic of immigration, panelists agreed that globalists are importing massive numbers of foreigners from alien cultures to demoralize national populations, erode national sovereignty, and create a new voting base sympathetic to their cause.
Gavin Mario Wax, the president of the New York Young Republicans, was the first to give his take on the issue. “The Left, which is not interested in persuading American voters anymore, has simply turned to importing new voters,” he began. The end result of mass migration as we’ve seen in America, he continued, is “a breakdown of society” where crimes and drug use have become rampant. He highlighted that with the sustained influx of foreigners, U.S. cities “have become far less safe and the country’s culture has been eroded.” Wax asserted that globalists, through the weaponization of mass migration, seek to create an “American Yugoslavia,” and a society deeply divided across ethnocultural and religious lines.
Belgian MP Filip Brusselmans of Vlaams Belang, the youngest member of the Flemish parliament, expressed deep pessimism on the topic, signaling that what has already been done may not be reversible. “It’s sad to say, but Belgian cities are already lost to us,” he said, highlighting that on average 55% of the population of Belgian cities has a non-European background. In Brussels, 70% of the people under the age of 12% have a non-European background, he added. For Brusselmans, the best solution would be for the Belgian authorities to place a moratorium on all immigration—legal and illegal.
The erosion of social cohesion caused by mass migration and forced multiculturalism was a theme repeatedly stressed by panelists. For example, Dóra Hidas, who serves as the head of the Fidelitas Foreign Affairs and Union Cabinet, highlighted that Hungary—a country which, thus far, has not been subjected to migration on the same scale as its Western European counterparts—is one of the safest countries in the world.
Regarding potential solutions, some panelists, like Hungarian MP Lőrinc Nacsa, who also serves as president of KDNP Youth, proposed investing significant state resources in underdeveloped countries where migrants and asylum seekers are originating from so they might be inclined to remain instead. Nacsa noted that the Hungarian government, through its Hungary Helps program, is already doing this, but that more countries need to be contributing to the effort.
Wax proposed the U.S. adopt far stronger laws on naturalization, like those in most European countries, strengthen citizenship laws, end dual citizenship, complete the wall on the country’s southern border with Mexico, and enact real border security. He put forward the idea that both the U.S. and Europe are running out of time to solve the problem.
Cooperation
Concerning the need for increased cooperation among conservatives to resist the relentless forward march of the globalist left’s agenda, which all panelists agreed is of paramount importance, speakers, among other things, called for more real-world community building, urged focusing on what unites the right rather than what divides it, and underscored that the right must learn from what has worked for the left.
Right-wing Gramscians Wax and Brusselmans were especially keen on this idea, with the former saying: “We on the right should never be afraid of emulating the tactics used by the left.” Brusselmans, for his part, agreed and lauded the left’s ability to organize, saying it was this that allowed it to achieve the hegemony it presently enjoys in key institutions like the education system and the media.
Wax said the cross-pollination of ideas at conferences like CPAC Hungary and the Transatlantic Patriot Summit is absolutely vital, as they are important sources of inspiration, policy ideas, and political strategy.
“What the left can and does, we can do too. We ought not to fight to be the most right or the most conservative, but to form a front against the woke left, with the ultimate goal of giving the people of our respective States the policies that they deserve,” Brussels said in comments given to The European Conservative.
With regard to the pressing need for increased cooperation between national conservatives and rightists on both sides of the Atlantic, José Maria Matias, the international secretary for Portugal’s Juventude Chega, told The European Conservative:
It is inspiring to see that increasingly, European and U.S. conservative parties understand that we must work together. We are all facing the same problems in our countries, so it’s of paramount importance to understand what our allies are doing. On the other hand, we are all members of international institutions like the UN and the EU which have been taken over by disciples of António Gramsci. Thus, our fight is both on the national and international level. It was clear at the summit that everyone realizes this. The next step, however, will be to build a common agenda regarding the similar problems that we are facing and how to address them. I think that is going to be possible in the near future.
Davide Quadri, the international secretary of Italy’s Lega Giovani, expressed similar sentiments in comments given to The European Conservative:
The challenges we face as patriots are many and differ from country to country, but one thing unites us. The desire not to see our nations disappear in a new world without values and fatherlands, God, and families.
This must commit us to join forces to revive our struggles and preserve our ideas. If, as [Dominique] Venner said, to exist is to defy all that threatens you, this challenge for our generations is essential and must see us united, beyond the fences of European or international political families.
Maks Woroszylo, the president of the youth wing of Luxembourg’s Alternative Democratic Reform (ADR) party, also underscored the importance of international cooperation between conservative forces, telling The European Conservative:
We as patriots all pursue to be individual sovereign member states. However, as we all face issues that share the same roots, it is important to exchange ideas and solutions that lead to the improvement of our nations.
Hungarian MP Lőrinc Nacsa, for his part, warned that conservatives should not make the mistake of building only virtual communities in lieu of real-world communities. He argued that the future of conservatives lies in religious communities.
Another subject that panelists repeatedly raised during this segment was the ever-present problem of fake conservatives. Alessandro Kopeter, who serves as a board member of the FPÖ’s youth wing, stated emphatically that conservatives “must get the public to know which parties are real conservatives and which are ‘conservative’ in name only. Ciprijan Crljenko, the international representative for Croatia’s Homeland Movement’s youth wing, and NYYRC chief Gavin Wax both concurred.
“The real conservatives versus the fake conservatives is also a thing in the United States and must be addressed,” Wax said, before contending that fake conservatives ought to be shunned within the wider movement. He then called attention to the “massive civil war” that’s presently taking place within the Republican party between pro-Trump populist-nationalist conservatives and the neoconservatives.
Impressions
In comments to The European Conservative, Executive Director of Republicans for a National Renewal Mark Ivanyo gave his impressions on the summit:
The third annual Transatlantic Patriot Summit was a tremendous success. Every year that we have held this summit, it has continued to grow with more conservative representatives from different countries being present. Despite the limited time, every panelist had at least one opportunity to give their opinion during the event. Just days after the summit, everyone present on the panel was able to agree to a joint statement of cooperation on the issues that were discussed.
It is of paramount importance that events like the Transatlantic Patriot Summit take place because they help to build a bridge of cooperation and collaboration between conservatives of different countries, which is the only way we can ever truly go on the offensive against the powerful, coordinated, and well-funded forces of the globalist left. If conservative leaders of their respective parties fail to come together and cooperate, conservative parties will never have significant wins, or worse, many will crumble and cease to exist under the weight of the ever-growing globalist forces.
Ivanyo’s remarks on the summit were mirrored by Flemish MP Filip Brusselmans, who told The European Conservative:
Once again, the Transatlantic Patriot Summit was a huge success. As an extension of CPAC Hungary, where we already had been able to network a lot, it was all the more fun to share our impressions as young people at this closing event. This year’s summit was the third of its kind and it is extremely important to keep doing this. I continue to be amazed at how much we can learn from each other and how similar some issues are across national borders.
Transatlantic Patriot Summit III: Conservative Anti-Globalist Youth Leaders Convene in Budapest
On the heels of the second CPAC Hungary, where Budapest played host to a transcontinental gathering of European and North American conservative anti-globalists, young leaders from the ascendent nationalist-populist movement convened in the historic Lónyay-Hatvany Villa—overlooking the banks of the Danube and the city’s skyline—for the third annual Transatlantic Patriot Summit.
The summit, hosted by the Danube Institute and once again organized by the Republicans for a National Renewal, in collaboration with Fidelitas and Lega Giovani, brought together young, national-conservative leaders from the United States, Hungary, Austria, Italy, Belgium, Portugal, Luxembourg, Croatia, Israel, and the Czech Republic.
This year’s conference, like those before it, sought to lay the groundwork for bilateral and multilateral networking and increased cooperation between conservative forces on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
The gathering’s primary points of discussion related to mass illegal migration, its effects, possibilities of international cooperation between conservative organizations, and how to take back—or at the very least, how to protect oneself and one’s family against—the increasingly woke institutions controlled by the globalist liberal left.
In addition to high-level representatives from the U.S.-based Republicans for a National Renewal and the New York Young Republicans Club, leaders from the youth wings of Fidesz, the Christian Democratic People’s Party, the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ), Vlaams Belang, Chega, the Czech Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD), Lega, the Alternative Democratic Reform (ADR) Party, Likud, and Homeland Movement were in attendance.
The summit commenced with an opening speech from MP Jovan Palalić, General Secretary of the Serbian People’s Party, who warned that a perfect storm has been gathering over Europe since 2015. The amalgam making up the perfect storm’s composition, he said, includes Europe’s continued demographic collapse paired with the sustained migratory invasion of the continent, Trump’s defeat in 2016, the globalists’ relentless march toward a federal Europe—spearheaded Germany’s left-liberal government—and the increasingly ubiquitous erasure of genders, family, tradition, religion, community, and national identity and borders.
The Serbian lawmaker’s opening remarks were succeeded by a welcome speech from Barbara Hegedűs, the international vice president of Fidelitas, who told attendees: “Hungarian and American conservatives face many common values and challenges. It is a pleasure to see that the cooperation between the American and Hungarian patriotic forces is getting stronger every year. And we hope it will continue to grow in the future.”
After Hegedűs’ remarks, the Executive Director of Republicans for a National Renewal Mark Ivanyo opened up a panel discussion that considered the following topics: threats posed by mass migration in Europe and the U.S and what counteractions can be taken by conservatives to reverse the process; how the various subdivisions of the Right across the Western world can cooperate more closely; and how the woke liberal-left took over our institutions and what can and ought to be done about it.
Immigration
On the topic of immigration, panelists agreed that globalists are importing massive numbers of foreigners from alien cultures to demoralize national populations, erode national sovereignty, and create a new voting base sympathetic to their cause.
Gavin Mario Wax, the president of the New York Young Republicans, was the first to give his take on the issue. “The Left, which is not interested in persuading American voters anymore, has simply turned to importing new voters,” he began. The end result of mass migration as we’ve seen in America, he continued, is “a breakdown of society” where crimes and drug use have become rampant. He highlighted that with the sustained influx of foreigners, U.S. cities “have become far less safe and the country’s culture has been eroded.” Wax asserted that globalists, through the weaponization of mass migration, seek to create an “American Yugoslavia,” and a society deeply divided across ethnocultural and religious lines.
Belgian MP Filip Brusselmans of Vlaams Belang, the youngest member of the Flemish parliament, expressed deep pessimism on the topic, signaling that what has already been done may not be reversible. “It’s sad to say, but Belgian cities are already lost to us,” he said, highlighting that on average 55% of the population of Belgian cities has a non-European background. In Brussels, 70% of the people under the age of 12% have a non-European background, he added. For Brusselmans, the best solution would be for the Belgian authorities to place a moratorium on all immigration—legal and illegal.
The erosion of social cohesion caused by mass migration and forced multiculturalism was a theme repeatedly stressed by panelists. For example, Dóra Hidas, who serves as the head of the Fidelitas Foreign Affairs and Union Cabinet, highlighted that Hungary—a country which, thus far, has not been subjected to migration on the same scale as its Western European counterparts—is one of the safest countries in the world.
Regarding potential solutions, some panelists, like Hungarian MP Lőrinc Nacsa, who also serves as president of KDNP Youth, proposed investing significant state resources in underdeveloped countries where migrants and asylum seekers are originating from so they might be inclined to remain instead. Nacsa noted that the Hungarian government, through its Hungary Helps program, is already doing this, but that more countries need to be contributing to the effort.
Wax proposed the U.S. adopt far stronger laws on naturalization, like those in most European countries, strengthen citizenship laws, end dual citizenship, complete the wall on the country’s southern border with Mexico, and enact real border security. He put forward the idea that both the U.S. and Europe are running out of time to solve the problem.
Cooperation
Concerning the need for increased cooperation among conservatives to resist the relentless forward march of the globalist left’s agenda, which all panelists agreed is of paramount importance, speakers, among other things, called for more real-world community building, urged focusing on what unites the right rather than what divides it, and underscored that the right must learn from what has worked for the left.
Right-wing Gramscians Wax and Brusselmans were especially keen on this idea, with the former saying: “We on the right should never be afraid of emulating the tactics used by the left.” Brusselmans, for his part, agreed and lauded the left’s ability to organize, saying it was this that allowed it to achieve the hegemony it presently enjoys in key institutions like the education system and the media.
Wax said the cross-pollination of ideas at conferences like CPAC Hungary and the Transatlantic Patriot Summit is absolutely vital, as they are important sources of inspiration, policy ideas, and political strategy.
“What the left can and does, we can do too. We ought not to fight to be the most right or the most conservative, but to form a front against the woke left, with the ultimate goal of giving the people of our respective States the policies that they deserve,” Brussels said in comments given to The European Conservative.
With regard to the pressing need for increased cooperation between national conservatives and rightists on both sides of the Atlantic, José Maria Matias, the international secretary for Portugal’s Juventude Chega, told The European Conservative:
Davide Quadri, the international secretary of Italy’s Lega Giovani, expressed similar sentiments in comments given to The European Conservative:
Maks Woroszylo, the president of the youth wing of Luxembourg’s Alternative Democratic Reform (ADR) party, also underscored the importance of international cooperation between conservative forces, telling The European Conservative:
Hungarian MP Lőrinc Nacsa, for his part, warned that conservatives should not make the mistake of building only virtual communities in lieu of real-world communities. He argued that the future of conservatives lies in religious communities.
Another subject that panelists repeatedly raised during this segment was the ever-present problem of fake conservatives. Alessandro Kopeter, who serves as a board member of the FPÖ’s youth wing, stated emphatically that conservatives “must get the public to know which parties are real conservatives and which are ‘conservative’ in name only. Ciprijan Crljenko, the international representative for Croatia’s Homeland Movement’s youth wing, and NYYRC chief Gavin Wax both concurred.
“The real conservatives versus the fake conservatives is also a thing in the United States and must be addressed,” Wax said, before contending that fake conservatives ought to be shunned within the wider movement. He then called attention to the “massive civil war” that’s presently taking place within the Republican party between pro-Trump populist-nationalist conservatives and the neoconservatives.
Impressions
In comments to The European Conservative, Executive Director of Republicans for a National Renewal Mark Ivanyo gave his impressions on the summit:
Ivanyo’s remarks on the summit were mirrored by Flemish MP Filip Brusselmans, who told The European Conservative:
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