Conservative Dutch political commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek wants remigration to become a Europe-wide initiative. To this effect, she has initiated gathering signatures for the ‘Save Europe Act’—a European Citizens’ Initiative demanding that “the political elite halt replacement migration, secure our borders, and protect the ethnocultural identity of European nations.”
Speaking to a reporter at Saturday’s Remigration Summit in Porto, Portugal, Vlaardingerbroek described the Save Europe Act as “essentially a legal proposal that we will send to the European Commission and demand that they transform into law.”
The Act’s main demands, Vlaardingerbroek said, are a total and full halt to non-European immigration—both legal and illegal—and the creation of a Europe-wide remigration system. The charter also calls for the removal of “social welfare incentives and benefits that function as pull factors for migration” to reduce incentives for further migration, encourage remigration, and “lessen the burden on European taxpayers.”
While not ruling out that the Commission could refuse to consider the initiative, even if it manages to collect the required 1 million signatures representing all 27 EU member states, Vlaardingerbroek said identifying the “immense wish and support that there is for remigration” is still valuable.
“Things are going too slow here in Europe when it comes to immigration and especially remigration,” she said. “Obviously, the borders are still wide open and nobody is being sent home. But the situation is deteriorating. We are about to become a minority in our own countries and we cannot just wait for politicians to save our lives.”
The initiative’s initial goal is to reach 100,000 signatures before officially filing the Citizens’ Initiative. By midnight Saturday, the website collecting signatures listed over 13,000 signatures by citizens of at least 13 member states plus Norway and Britain.
