Far-Right Europeans Gathering To Plan A Continental Ethnic Cleansing

Remigration is mired in transnational controversy given its push for racist ethnic cleansing. In November 2023, Sellner delivered a lecture on remigration to high-ranking members of Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany, AfD), a far-right German party endorsed by JD Vance which has been declared far-right extremist, pending an appeal, by the German intelligence services. Also at the lecture were members of the white nationalist Identitäre Bewegung (Identitarian Movement, IB) and neo-Nazis. 

In April 2024, members of the neo-Nazi group Junge Tat (Youth Action) in Switzerland launched a campaign called “Vision Remigration,” which aimed to push remigration to policymakers in Europe, though the group stopped posting on their Telegram channel in January 2025. This year, in Italy, members of the far-right Lega party, including MEP Roberto Vannacci, have said that remigration is “necessary in some cases.” The Lega Giovani Branch, based in Como, proposed “the introduction of a remigration plan for all immigrants who commit crimes or show a clear refusal to integrate into our society.” Lega is part of the current governing coalition in Italy.

Outside of Europe, remigration is supported by extremists in Canada, the Proud Boys in the United States, and even the long-standing white nationalists at American Renaissance, who, under the leadership of Yale graduate Jared Taylor, invited Sellner to deliver a lecture on remigration during a conference in November 2024. Now, the remigration summit comes on the cusp of Donald Trump’s administration enacting a mass deportation policy scarily similar to Sellner’s proposal. 

Speakers And Goals Of The Summit

Announced speakers at the Remigration Summit feature Identitarians and far-right activists from across Europe, all with worrisome histories of peddling “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory rhetoric and white nationalism. This is likely not an exhaustive list, as the organizers hinted in a Twitter space that politicians and high-caliber influencers could make an appearance. 

Martin Sellner, one of the organizers and speakers, once belonged to an openly neo-Nazi group called “Stolz und Frei” (Proud and Free), was mentored by Gottfried Küssel, who was imprisoned twice in Austria for “Nazi revivalism,” and once stuck a swastika poster onto a synagogue in Baden bei Wien, Austria. 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. This earned him admiration from the Christchurch mosque attacker, who, inspired by the conspiracy theory, killed 51 people and injured another 89 in a series of mass shootings targeting two New Zealand mosques. During a subsequent investigation, it was revealed the shooter donated nearly $1,700 to the Identitarian movement and exchanged emails with Sellner, though no charges were brought against Sellner. He was, however, barred entry into the United States in 2019 amid these links. 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. 

Dries Van Langenhove, another organizer of the summit and speaker, 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.

Afonso Gonçalves, an organizer of the summit and 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.”

Italian Identitarian activist Andrea Ballarati, who helped to organize the summit, will be its host. Ballarati has a Twitter account and often posts about the “Great Replacement.” In 2022, Ballarati was documented as being the President of 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.

Jean-Yves Le Gallou, announced as a speaker on April 1, 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.” Le Gallou spoke alongside American white supremacists such as Patrick Casey, former leader of the American Identity Movement (AIM), Nick Fuentes, and Jared Taylor, at the 2019 American Renaissance conference.

Eva Vlaardingerbroek, announced as a speaker on April 3, is a prominent Dutch far-right activist 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 as a party member in November 2020. After leaving formal politics, Vlaardingerbroek became an online political commentator, appearing on television, podcasts, and social media. 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. 

The summit’s organizers are confident in the gathering’s importance, emphasizing that recent successes in making remigration mainstream transnationally “has been the pivotal point for this work.” In a Twitter Space hosted by Sellner, Gonçalves, and Ballarati, they discussed the summit’s origins and goals. The idea for the conference began with celebrating far-right ideas becoming more mainstream in the European populace. Citing previous collaborations between Sellner and Gonçalves, they emphasized a need for “an event for the identitarian right and..the pure right wing,” compared to other conferences meant for “conservative circles” which are “too liberal in their outlook.” Most importantly, they highlighted the need to make remigration a policy proposal transnationally by “shift[ing] the overton window enough so that the concept we’re proposing (i.e., remigration) is acceptable and becomes policy.” 

The Remigration Summit, at the time of publishing, has not publicly announced a new venue after Dolce Milan Hotel Malpensa cancelled the summit’s reservation, which was booked under the name “Azione, Cultura, Tradizione” (“Action, Culture, Tradition”, ACT), an organization which Ballarati was documented being president of in 2022. Ticket purchases are also payable to ACT. While the hotel chose not to expand on their reasoning for the decision, local police implemented security and surveillance plans after the venue was made public. Ballarati acknowledged the cancellation and claimed they would be looking into booking a new venue outside of the Verese province (where Milan is located), and instead “maybe” finding one in the Piedmont region (where Turin is located). 

There is no question that the idea of “remigration,” regardless of its heinous ethnic cleansing, is spreading transnationally, including in the U.S. Several of the speakers and organizers for the Remigration Summit have connections to American far-right actors. As Trump implements a mass deportation policy aligned with Sellner’s remigration proposal, these Europeans may see themselves growing even more influential, especially in the U.S., as their bigoted ideas become mainstreamed.