Ethnic Cleansing Conference in Europe Draws American Speakers, Advocates for a White Europe

The Remigration Summit was organized on the back of the recent surges in support for far-right political parties and the increasingly mainstream adoption of remigration. Examples include the Portuguese far-right party Chega! (Enough!), whose members have advocated for remigration in parliament, Alternative für Deutschland, designated a far-right extremist organization by the German government, which received about 20 percent of votes in the German election after campaigning on remigration, and Donald Trump, whose administration is now enacting an immigration policy scarily similar to Sellner’s own remigration proposal. Trump is currently deporting Hispanic asylum seekers, among others, in favor of Afrikaaner South Africans on the baseless conspiracy theory, often spread by white supremacists, that they’re facing a “white genocide.” Advertising the Summit, Sellner used the United States as an example of remigration working, saying “In the US, deportations are a reality…Remigration is on everyone’s lips. On May 17 we will give this vision a political form!”

News of the bigoted summit drew international controversy. German authorities issued an order to prevent eight members of Identitare Bewegung Bayern (Identitarian Movement Bayern, IB Bayern), otherwise known as Lederhosen Revolte, from leaving the country to attend the conference on the basis of “prevent[ing] neo-Nazism, especially across borders,” and labeling their participation as a “significant risk of damage to the reputation of the Federal Republic of Germany.”  In defiance of the order, IB Bayern members managed to leave Germany for the summit, and according to Sellner, were detained after they returned. 

The pan-European Identitarian movement, a white nationalist network of which Sellner was the de-facto leader, has a history riddled with acts of hate, harassment and terror, including Identitarians from France, Austria, the Netherlands, the UK, and Greece all attempting to stoke violence on Lesbos, a Greek island where refugees land after fleeing from Africa and the Middle East. In 2019, the Identitarian movement in Germany was classified as right-wing extremist by Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, and, in 2021, the French government dissolved Generation Identity (GI), that country’s Identitarian movement.

On May 15, Danish far-right politician Rasmus Paludan, infamous for staging public Quran burnings, was detained upon arrival in Milan and returned to Denmark. Alessandro Gassman, the son of Vittorio Gassman, a famous Italian actor with a Jewish background who the hosting venue is named after, issued a public statement against the Remigration Summit, scolding Andrea Cassani, the Lega mayor of Gallarate, saying “Remove my father’s name from the Remigration Summit theater.” 

The Remigration Summit also drew some endorsements from far-right political groups. The New York Young Republican Club (NYYRC) published a statement on May 17 called “Repeat After Us: Remigration!” The statement compared Trump’s mass deportation plan to remigration, saying “Mass deportation is not only justified but necessary after decades of poor border security and reckless immigration policy, which catalyzed tens of millions of illegal entries and a shocking demographic shift. While Europe’s invasion is more recent and not yet as severe, it is no less dire. We implore all Europeans to defend their ancestral homelands and not let them balkanize into multiethnic bazaars stripped of European identity, legacy, and history.”

Roberto Vannacci, deputy secretary of the political party Lega (League) in Italy, which is part of the governing coalition, gave his support to the summit’s attendees, saying “Remigration is not a slogan but a concrete proposal. It means putting Italians, Europeans, at the center. It is a battle of freedom and civilization, of security, which is the real watershed between right and left.” 

Speaker Profiles

The Remigration Summit featured over a dozen speakers from across Europe and the United States.

Italian Identitarian activist Andrea Ballarati, who helped to organize the summit, was also its host. Ballarati often posts about the “Great Replacement conspiracy theory” on his Twitter account and is a former member of Gioventù Nazionale, the youth group of the far-right party Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy, FdI). Gioventù Nazionale has close ties to Casaggi Firenze, another Italian extremist group which was reportedly involved in assaulting anti-fascist high school students in Florence for interfering with Casaggì’s attempts to distribute leaflets. He also founded Azione Cultura Tradizione Italia (ACT), a group which has engaged in white supremacist rhetoric such as accusing South Africa of “white genocide,” eerily similar to statements made recently by Donald Trump and Elon Musk, and organized “Boer Lives Matter” protests. ACT has described being LGBTQ+ as a “symptom of a dying society” and a “display of depravity and perversion.” In July 2023, Ballarati delivered a speech at a remigration demonstration in Vienna alongside Sellner. Since January 2025, ACT has been sharing posts on Telegram advertising the Remigration Summit. 

In his introductory speech, Ballarati spoke about the rise of remigration in mainstream Italian politics, specifically paying tribute to Lega Nord deputy Rossano Sasso, who in January 2025 told the Italian parliament, “From the Italian Parliament a message for those who hate Italy and violate the law: remigration is the only solution.” He tried to claim that Italian journalists ran a “defamatory media campaign” against the Remigration Summit but praised Lega for their “solidarity.” He thanked Roberto Vannacci, a Lega candidate in the upcoming European Parliamentary elections, for creating a video for Remigration Summit participants (the video itself was not included in archived footage of Ballarati’s speech). He also thanked Isabella Tovaglieri, a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) representing Lega, for “fighting for remigration,” and Alessandro Corbetta, a regional counselor who has “also been quite vocal about remigration.

Austria and Germany

Martin Sellner, one of the organizers and speakers, once belonged to an openly neo-Nazi group called “Stolz und Frei” (Proud and Free), and stuck a swastika poster onto a synagogue in Baden bei Wien, Austria. He was mentored by Gottfried Küssel, who was imprisoned twice in Austria for “Nazi revivalism.” Since shifting his focus to Identitarianism and the pan-European Generation Identity network, of which he was the unofficial leader, Sellner has been a relentless propagator of the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory. Sellner has since delivered lectures on remigration to members of the AfD in November 2023 and to an American audience at the American Renaissance conference in November 2024. After Donald Trump used the term during his 2024 presidential election campaign, Sellner credited Trump for “exploding” the term transnationally.

At the summit, Sellner was introduced as the “father of remigration,” and spoke about his goals of making remigration known by “every European,” and of having every government on the continent implement remigration policies by pushing the media, culture, and parliaments “to the right.” Sellner believes that migration into Europe is worthy of “revenge” through remigration and says, once complete, will be valued through the “laughter of our children.” 

Maximilian Markl, leader of Identitare Bewegung Deutschland (Identitarian Movement Germany, IBD) also spoke. IBD has long been an advocate of white nationalism and remigration, including attendance at Sellner’s secret meeting alongside neo-Nazis and AfD members in 2023. Its members have reportedly been involved in 114 crimes between April 2017 and August 2018. In 2019, the movement was classified as right-wing extremist by Germany’s domestic intelligence agency. Over the past few years, IBD members split into several smaller “successor” Identitarian groups, but it appears IBD is staging a comeback. Markl is now helping to run an IBD remigration campaign in Germany targeting children at school, which reportedly involved the distribution of over 20,000 flyers suggesting students ask teachers questions about remigration in schools across the country.

In his address at the summit, Markl celebrated the AfD’s rise in the polls, using their success as a metric for the Identitarian movement’s influence on German politics. He called onto the stage the Germans who snuck into Italy, despite being barred from leaving Germany, a subversion of German law, and celebrated it as a victory. One of Markl’s colleagues noted IBD members were carrying AfD merchandise, such as hats representing Bjorn Höcke, the AfD leader in Thuringia and former leader of AfD’s even more extremist wing, Der Flügel (The Wing), dissolved by the party after it was classified as a suspected case of right-wing extremism in 2019 by German authorities. 

Lena Kotré is a member of the Brandenburg state parliament, representing AfD since 2019, and now serves as the spokesperson for remigration for AfD in the Brandenburg region. She is a former member of Die Freiheit (Freedom), a now-defunct political party which was infested with extremist activists like Munich State Chairman Michael Stürzenberger, a prominent member of the anti-Muslim movement Pax Europa. Kotré was documented attending a secret meeting in November 2023 where Sellner delivered a lecture on remigration alongside neo-Nazis from Blood & Honour, a neo-Nazi group banned in Germany, and Junge Tat (Youth Action), a Swiss neo-Nazi group. The Brandenburg AfD, her local AfD faction, is also mired in controversy. In 2024, it called for Ukrainian asylum seekers, war refugees, and those who “tolerated refugees” to be banned from attending public events across the country. Kotré defended the exclusionary proposal, saying that “innocent people” caught up in this ban are simply “collateral damage.” Since 2024, Kotré has been the Chairwoman of the AfD parliamentary group in the Dallgow-Döberitz municipal council. Kotre was announced as a speaker at the Homeland Party’s “Big Remigration Conference” in the United Kingdom, which took place in April 2025, alongside Renaud Camus, who coined the term “The Great Replacement.”

In her speech, Kotré credited Martin Sellner for helping to “gradually introduce remigration into the public consciousness in Germany” along with Junge Alternative (Young Alternative, JA), which is AfD’s former youth wing, dissolved by the party after it was confirmed as a right-wing extremist movement by the German authorities. Thanks to the work of Sellner, a former neo-Nazi, and JA, she praised AfD as the “first and only party [in Germany] to include remigration in its party platform,” and calls for more remigration conferences in order to make the proposal palatable to young audiences. Kotré bizarrely suggests, in order to make remigration part of pop culture, to replace “gangsta hip hop” with “remigration rap,” suggesting the erasure of Black culture in favour of promoting ethnic cleansing to the youth. Kotré closed by saying they can take advantage of the United States and Donald Trump to make remigration a reality, saying “they will help us gain reach if we give them a good show.” 

Belgium 

Dries Van Langenhove, another organizer of the summit, is a former MP for the far-right Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest) party. In March 2024, he was convicted of racism and Holocaust denial and sentenced to one year in prison (pending an appeal) after an investigation found members of his student group, Shild & Vrienden (Shield and Friends), were spreading “racist, hateful, Nazi and negationist speech” on social media platforms like Discord. Van Langenhove has influence in the United States, having spoken at the 2023 American Renaissance conference and receiving a letter of support from the New York Young Republican Club after his 2024 conviction.

Van Langenhove spoke about the logistics of remigration, essentially outlining Sellner’s proposal, including steps to “deport all illegals,” “close borders,” “halt family reunification,” and “offer financial incentives to self deport.” He outlines that in the “second phase” of remigration, European governments should “stop renewing residence permits” and “end halal meals in public schools,” the latter signifying one of the ultimate goals of remigration, which is the complete elimination of Muslim culture from European countries. In the final phase, “non-Europeans” (i.e,. non-white) people who are “involved in political activism against the interests of the native European peoples” will also be forcibly deported, making remigration a mechanism of a grossly authoritarian state silencing forms of dissent against this ethnic cleansing. Van Langenhove invoked a slogan by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, asking participants to chant “Save our nation, remigration.”

France

Jean-Yves Le Gallou is a former MEP for the French political party Front National from 1994 to 1999, and a leading member of La Nouvelle Droite (New Right), a movement that introduced the Identitarian strain of white nationalism to the world decades ago. He is the intellectual responsible for “national preference,” a discriminatory practice that favors French citizens for social benefits over non-citizens and was an early propagator of the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory. Le Gallou spoke alongside American white supremacists such as Patrick Casey, former leader of the American Identity Movement (AIM), Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, and Jared Taylor, at the 2019 American Renaissance conference.

Le Gallou, in the conference’s penultimate speech, called for Europeans to “defend their ethnic and civilizational identity” by “refus[ing] the invasion of populations from elsewhere,” even calling migration “invasive settler colonization.” Settler colonialism, despite Le Gallou’s attempt to bastardize the term, is a system of oppression based on genocide and colonialism, associated with Eurocentric colonial practices that decimated indigenous populations, traditions, and lands worldwide. His proposed solutions, which invoke war-like language, to the “Great Replacement” include “the expulsion of the hostiles (i.e., migrants),” and “stripping them of a nationality that they usurp.” Le Gallou sees the judiciary as an obstacle to their goals, calling for the European far-right to “take power back from the judges,” continuing a worrying transnational trend of far-right figures attacking the judiciary.

The conference’s other French representative comes from a younger generation of Identitarians. Hilaire Bouyé is the new leader of Génération Zemmour (Generation Z), the youth movement supporting the far-right political party Reconquête’s leader Eric Zemmour, who was convicted of hate speech in 2022 after calling child migrants “thieves,” “killers,” and “rapists,” of which he is a co-founder, after serving as its vice-president since 2021.  Before joining Reconquête and Generation Z, Bouyé was active in Les Républicains, a centrist party, and Union Nationale Interuniversitaire (“Inter-University Union”), a right-leaning student union. 

Ireland

John McLoughlin is a representative of the Irish far-right National Party (NP) in the Waterford region. Its leader, Justin Barrett, has a long history in extremist politics. He got his start in the anti-abortion group Family Solidarity and later was active with the militantly anti-abortion Youth Defence from roughly 1992 until 2004, which reportedly physically attacked women’s rights activists and had links with the fascist International Third Position organization. NP is explicitly anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, and anti-LGBTQ+, and faced an exodus of members following an electoral washout in 2021.

Netherlands

Eva Vlaardingerbroek is a prominent Dutch far-right extremist and “Great Replacement” peddler with roots in the far-right Forum for Democracy (FvD) party, including speaking at its 2019 party congress, before she resigned in November 2020. After leaving formal politics, Vlaardingerbroek became an online political commentator, appearing on television, podcasts, and social media. In 2021, she appeared on the radio show of American Dennis Prager, founder of PragerU, which produces far-right propaganda for schools. In 2022, she was featured on Tucker Carlson Tonight on FOX News and the YouTube channel of American Brittany Pettibone-Sellner, Martin Sellner’s wife. 

In her speech, Vlaardingerbroek called Europe an “entirely white continent,” and attempted to justify the morality of ethnic cleansing by saying “it is not unethical to want that Europe stays European.” She invoked war-like language, referring to migration as an “invasion.” Areas where migrants live, who are supposedly committing “genocidal rapes… against the native population of Europe,” she labels as “occupied terrain.” As a result, Vlaardingerbroek believes that “remigration is the antidote to the Great Replacement,” and even cites Donald Trump’s mass deportation strategy as a sign that remigration is a realistic, and implementable, policy. Similarly to Le Gallou, she described the judiciary as an obstacle to achieving their goals, claiming judges want Europeans to become a minority, and that political leaders “hide behind international treaties” and “human rights” to prevent remigration. Vlaardingerbroek’s address was shared on Telegram by White Lives Matter (WLM), an international white supremacist movement with connections to violence, including a member who in 2024 was sentenced to 18 years in prison for firebombing a church that planned drag shows.

Frederik (Freek) Jansen, another Dutch speaker at the summit, is a member of the far-right Forum for Democracy (FvD) party and the chairman of the Youth Association Forum for Democracy (JFVD). FvD is led by Thierry Baudet, who subscribes to conspiracy theories like the “Great Replacement” and, in one of many cases where he publicly supported Donald Trump, that the United States 2020 election was “stolen.” Jansen believes his participation in parliamentary politics is part of a grandiose “fight between good and evil,” and a “spiritual” and “cultural war.” To Jansen, this “war” includes the fight against “more immigrants” and “LGBT propaganda.” In January 2024, Jansen ceded his seat in parliament to another FvD member to focus on “the expansion of the social network of Forum for Democracy,” such as “organiz[ing] ourselves not only politically but also culturally and economically” against left-wing ideology. 

Portugal

Afonso Gonçalves, an organizer of the summit and the conference’s closing speaker, is a white supremacist and misogynist who made his name as one of the leaders of Reconquista (Reconquest), a far-right Portuguese protest movement that has travelled to Pride events to “invade and interrupt [them] in a very aggressive way.” Gonçalves has referred to women as “whores” and “cockroaches,” and argued women who undergo an abortion deserve the death penalty. In May 2025, Gonçalves posted a picture of himself next to American Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, calling him “the greatest [American] of his generation.”

In his speech, Gonçalves called for “a new reconquista” to “take back” Europe “with remigration.” He made several worrisome claims that were reminiscent of Nazi Germany, including that white Europeans must take what is theirs “by right,” often described as “blood and soil,” a slogan originating from Nazi Germany representing their ideal “racially pure” society within a united territory encompassing all Aryans. Similarly, Gonçalves envisions a future where someone can only be defined as Portuguese by “blood” rather than “law.” 

Pedro Faria, the other Portuguese speaker, is a member of the National Council for the Portuguese far-right party Chega!. The party is the most popular far-right political party in Portugal, and its leader, André Ventura, commonly spews hatred against immigrants, Muslims, and Roma peoples. Before becoming a prominent member of the party, Faria was involved with Chega Juventude (Chega Youth) in Porto, and worked alongside Francisco Araujo, who is a leader in the Reconquista movement. He ran for office as a member of Chega in Portugal’s May 2025 elections. 

In his speech, Faria described migration as a “weapon” which is used to enact “demographical (sic) warfare” against Europe. He pointed to “Pakistani-indo immigrants” in Portugal who “reject our culture and build parallel societies” as an example of how “we are being erased,” calling for attendees to “[put] our people first… and reclaim what is ours.” He also used the phrases “Portugal for the Portuguese” and “Europe for the Europeans.” The leader of Chega, Andre Ventura, stated that the goal of his party is to return “Portugal aos portugueses” (“Portugal to the Portuguese”). Slogans such as these are associated with anti-immigrant rhetoric and acts of hate. Groupo 1143, an anti-Muslim hate and harassment group in Portugal, revived in 2023 by neo-Nazi Mario Machado, uses the slogan in its protests. The slogan also appeared in a hateful rally against the “Islamization of Europe,” a term purporting that Europe has too many Muslim (i.e., brown and black) people, one month before the 2025 Portuguese parliamentary elections. 

United Kingdom

Representing the United Kingdom was Kenny Smith, founder and leader of the Homeland Party, formed in May 2023 and described by the anti-racist organization Hope Not Hate as “Nazi, fascist and ethnonationalist.” The Homeland Party is closely associated with Patriotic Alternative (PA), an organization led by British neo-Nazi Mark Collett, as many PA members in Scotland and the West Midlands defected following Homeland’s formation. The Homeland Party has a platform policy dedicated to remigration, and Smith is heavily involved in pushing remigration in the United Kingdom. They also organized “The Big Remigration Conference” in April 2025 in the United Kingdom. Featured speakers at the event included Lena Kotré, who also spoke at the Remigration Summit, and Renaud Camus, who coined the term “The Great Replacement.” Smith’s speech was titled “Grooming Gangs: The Price of Not Having Remigration,” a topic co-opted by the far right, and Elon Musk, to stoke fear about immigration. Homeland Party International Relations Officer Martin Kuziel also attended.

United States

Jacky Eubanks is a former Trump-endorsed GOP candidate for the Michigan House of Representatives and Michigan’s state senate. She was also a field representative for Turning Point USA (TPUSA), Charlie Kirk’s far-right organization and a supporter of Project 2025. Kirk and his team at TPUSA routinely put on college campus events, now at more than 850 colleges, that explicitly target young men as potential Trump supporters and register them to vote. Eubanks’ views are aligned with Christian Nationalism, her focus being the removal of reproductive and LGBTQ+ rights. Following the 2020 presidential election, Eubanks was part of the election denial movement, falsely claiming that Trump won the election in Michigan. In 2022, she infamously campaigned on outlawing contraception, viewing a “successful society” as one that can’t exist “outside of the Christian moral order.” Further, Eubanks stipulated that abortion and gay marriage “lead to chaos and destruction and a culture of death.” 

In her speech, Eubanks compared America’s origins to Europe, claiming that “the founding stock of the US came from Europe,” referencing white people as the “founders” of America. She also spoke out against the H1B visa, designed to “help employers who cannot otherwise obtain needed business skills and abilities from the U.S. workforce.” Eubanks advocated for “American policies [to] not only consist of mass deportations but include a complete moratorium on all immigration until assimilation“.

Cyan Quinn, representing the White Papers Policy Institute (WPPI), was the other American speaking at the Remigration Summit. WPPI aims to “craft policy alternatives that promote the collective interests of Western Peoples who seek self-determination,” which includes several articles about American immigration policy, such as cheering on Donald Trump’s Afrikaner refugee policy as a “Westerners only refugee admittance policy,” and his mass deportation operation as the first step in “The Great Repatriation,” a grandiose remigration-like plan to deport Hispanics and “undue (sic) years of mass immigration related damage to the demographic character of American communities.” Quinn has attended and reported on mainstream white nationalist events such as the 2023 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), where she interviewed attendees with questions relating to “the subject of the South Africa farm murders,” a common white supremacist talking point relating to the “white genocide” conspiracy, which Donald Trump himself recently endorsed.

In Quinn’s presentation, she proposes Europeans borrow from WPPI’s own “American Repatriation Policy Platform,” which references Trump’s $1,000 self-deportation stipend, and suggests that paying migrants to leave now will save countries money in the future. To encourage legal residents and citizens to leave the United States, Quinn proposes a $72,000 “repatriation payment.” She also made a similar proposal directed at the United Kingdom.

Other Attendees

Other attendees to the Remigration Summit included far-right activists, white supremacists, and neo-Nazis from across the globe. Most notable was Jared Taylor, founder and leader of the white nationalist organization American Renaissance, to which several speakers at the summit have ties. Le Gallou spoke at the 2019 American Renaissance Conference, Dries Van Langenhove spoke at the 2023 conference, and Martin Sellner spoke about remigration at the 2024 conference.  

Canadian neo-Nazi streamer Brandon Martinez, who has been producing antisemitic, misogynistic, and racist material for years, including recently interviewing white nationalist Richard Spencer, was also present. 

From Australia, members of the British-Australian Community (BAC) attended, an organization claiming to “represent the interests of Anglo-Celtic Australians” to “foster a sense of shared heritage.” BAC writes articles about declaring “war on multiculturalism” and publishes YouTube videos blaming sexual assaults on immigration.

Keith Woods, an Irish Groyper, “raging antisemite,” and self-described ethnonationalist, was present alongside members of the National Party. Woods gifted Sellner his book, Irish Nationalism.

Portuguese far-right YouTuber Alexandre Gazur advertised his presence at the Remigration Summit. Gazur is a co-organizer and promoter of Reconquista protests, and a member of Chega. He’s known for his antisemitism, pointing to “Jewish control” of the world. In response to the release of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism’s (GPAHE) Portugal country report, Gazur accused GPAHE of being “funded by [liberal philanthropist] George Soros,” a common antisemitic and conspiracist trope. Gazur believes that there is an ongoing “population substitution” of the Portuguese people, a reference to the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory, and has argued that “deportation of all immigrants” who use the health service “for free” would solve “90% of all [the system’s] problems.” On his Telegram channel, he regularly shares posts from American, Holocaust-denying white supremacist Nick Fuentes and neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin. Gazur posted a photo of himself standing next to American Jared Taylor on May 17.

From Sweden, far-right “journalist” Christian Peterson attended. Peterson, who has been reported as being a “far-right extremist with a deep hatred for Islam,” is best known for developing a fake romantic relationship with Somali-born activist Bilan Osman in a grotesque plan to “expose” what he believes are the flaws of Islam. Peterson has previously been involved with the far-right political party Alternative for Sweden, and has been documented threatening political opponents with hangings and home visits.