A month ago, Europe’s extremist activists from the Identitarian Movement gathered with international far-right leaders to discuss a policy that is gathering momentum against the backdrop of the rise and normalisation of the far-right nationalist agenda of “remigration” across the Global North.
When in January 2024, the investigative German paper Correctiv revealed information about deliberations from a secretive meeting in the city of Potsdam, thousands of people across Germany took to the streets to rally against a rising political movement.
According to the reporting, on 25 November 2023, a small, but influential group of people met in Potsdam. The group included members of the rising far-right political party, the Alternative for Germany (AfD), members of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its fringe split-off, the “Value Union” (Werteunion) represented by the former director of the domestic intelligence service BVT (Federal Office of the Protection of the Constitution).
They met to listen to the key speaker Martin Sellner, a vocal preacher of the pan-European right-wing extremist group the Identitarian Movement. It was Sellner’s main thesis about “remigration” that created uproar in Germany’s civil society.
