A European citizen’s initiative launched earlier this year by two white supremacists seeking the mass deportation of people through so-called ‘remigration’ has been formally rejected by the European Commission.
“It will not be registered by the commission,” said Roxana Mînzatu, the EU commissioner for social rights.
Speaking to reporters in Brussels on Wednesday (22 July), Mînzatu said the initiative lacked a legal basis. A more detailed brief said the initiative would have constituted discrimination grounded on race and ethnic origin.
Yet the so-called “Save Europe Act” had still amassed almost 600,000 signatures (as of publication), including from ultranationalist politicians, ethno-nationalist activists, and various European Parliament lawmakers who were all demanding the EU keep the continent predominantly white and Christian.
Hungary’s former prime minister Viktor Orban had signed it, as did his newly-minted MEP Balázs Orbán. So too did Germany’s Björn Höcke, the far-right chair of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Thuringia, previously fined for using Nazi-era slogans, plus Maximilian Märkl from Germany’s Identitarian Movement.
