A new Vienna-based organisation, the Institute for Remigration, is set to launch officially following a summit in Porto, Portugal, on Saturday, May 30th, positioning itself as Europe’s first think tank and lobbying group dedicated to ethnocultural continuity and remigration policies.
The organisation was founded by Austrian activist Martin Sellner, leader of the Identitarian Movement of Austria, and aims to focus on migration, demographic change, and the ‘Great Replacement.’
According to a press release, the institute intends to produce research papers, policy proposals, campaign materials, and political rankings relating to migration and integration policies across Europe.
Sellner, who featured on our publication’s The Forge programme earlier this year, together with Renaud Camus, said the institute would seek to “ensure the ethnocultural continuity of the European nations” and described it as a “metapolitical start-up” operating at the intersection of activism, political science, and party politics.
We regard it as a self-evident truth that European peoples exist as an ethnic and cultural reality. They have the right to maintain their identity and integrity by enforcing or changing their migration policy.
Managing director Philipp Huemer stated that the organisation plans to gather and analyse data on demographic change, migration, Islamisation, migrant crime, and electoral behaviour.
The institute also says it plans to publish a “European Remigration Pact” later this year, bringing together proposals from right-wing parties and activists across the continent. It further intends to monitor whether conservative and nationalist parties fulfil campaign promises on migration policy and to rate politicians according to their performance on the issue.
On its website, the organisation argues that “replacement migration” and declining birth rates are causing Europe’s native populations to be replaced, while Islam is becoming a dominant force in Europe.
Through mass naturalization and ethnic voting blocs, this process becomes irreversible. It destroys our democracy, social peace, security, and economy.
As mass migration from the Arab world and Africa continues to reshape European societies, the concept of remigration has gained increasing prominence on the right side of the political spectrum in Europe, and is increasingly influencing mainstream European politics.
Austria’s Freedom Party has called for the creation of an EU “remigration commissioner.” Similar proposals have also emerged in France and within Germany’s AfD party.
Sellner himself has become one of the central figures in debates surrounding remigration.
He took part in the so-called Potsdam meeting in Germany in 2023, where right-wing figures discussed remigration policies. Left-wing news reports that the meeting involved plans to deport German citizens of a migrant background proved to be false.
