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Police stand guard outside the front entrance of the event venue as the National Conservatism conference takes place in Brussels, April 16, 2024
A CANCELLED international conference of far-right politicians and supporters resumed in Brussels today after the organisers launched a legal challenge in the Belgian capital.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban was due today to speak at the National Conservative (Nat C) conference, a gathering of raging “nationalists” and fundamentalist Christians, a day after Nigel Farage addressed attendees.
French far-right figurehead Eric Zemmour had been scheduled to criticise the EU’s new and already brutal asylum rules at the event on Tuesday but was turned away by police. He returned today, was quickly surrounded by media, stood for a few photos with brainless devotees and retired to the VIP room.
From Reform UK to Trump, Orban and beyond, the far right is organised across borders and growing. Waiting for it to collapse is a fatal error – building an international, locally rooted left alternative is now an urgent necessity., argues ROGER McKENZIE
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT