‘A LAST chance for Europe. It’s two minutes to midnight.’ This is how Eva Vlaadingerbroek launched the first-ever patriotic European Citizens’ Initiative, putting all her beauty and rhetorical skills behind it. She needs a million signatures to force the European Commission to meet with the petitioners face-to-face and to make them take a stance on remigration and the future of Europe as a whole. You can listen to and watch her pitch here
The Save Europe Act, which Eva describes as the first patriotic European Citizens’ Initiative, demands that the political elite halt replacement migration, secures the borders and protects the ethno-cultural identity of European nations. Very cleverly, it exploits the European Citizens Initiative and premises itself on the EU’s own treaty commitments. Not for nothing is Eva a lawyer!
The Charter, reprinted below can be found on their website here.
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I.PREAMBLE
‘We, the people of Europe, motivated by a deep love and sense of responsibility for our nations, descendants and shared civilisation, turn to the European Commission. Recognising that the native peoples of Europe, comprising the ethnic, cultural and linguistic communities of the member states, possess an inalienable right to preserve their collective identity, heritage and way of life, as rooted in the principles of national sovereignty and self-determination.’
II.RECITALS
1. Acknowledging that Article 4(2) of the Treaty on European Union affirms respect for the national identities of the member states, inherent in their fundamental political and constitutional structures, including regional and local self-government.
2. Acknowledging further that Article 22 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union requires the Union to respect cultural, religious and linguistic diversity, which must include the protection of the historic cultures and traditions of Europe’s nations against erosion through demographic replacement.
3. Attesting how replacement migration, both legal and illegal, over recent decades has violated that right by causing significant damage to the social cohesion, public services, security, and ethnic and cultural continuity of the European nations, leading to parallel societies, increased crime and the marginalisation of native populations in their ancestral homelands.
4. Underlining the urgency of the matter by acknowledging the imminent reality that the native peoples of Europe risk becoming minority populations in their own homelands if radical changes to the asylum and migration system are not made.
5. Determining that migration does not solve the ageing population crisis, but instead places further strain on European welfare systems and worsens the fundamental problem of low birth rates among the native population;
6. Declaring that a sovereign Europe must prioritise the well-being, security and demographic continuity of its own peoples above policies that effectively replace and harm the native populations.
III.OUR DEMANDS
We therefore demand that the European Commission exercise its right of initiative under the treaties to propose and advance the following legislative and policy measures without delay:
ARTICLE 1
Declare a formal moratorium on new non-Western/non-European immigration channels, including the suspension of asylum processing for economic migrants and applicants from safe countries of origin, the halting of new study and family reunification visas for non-Europeans, and the strict limitation of legal migration channels until social cohesion and cultural continuity in the member states are restored.
ARTICLE 2
Establish a fundamental reform of the existing EU migration and asylum systems during the time of this moratorium, including a total reform of the current migration framework focusing on external border protection, physical and technological barriers at the frontiers, rapid screening, and immediate return mechanisms.
ARTICLE 3
Ensure the systematic and accelerated return (remigration) of illegally staying migrants, rejected asylum seekers, and persons who have committed criminal offences or pose a threat to public order, with full mutual recognition of return decisions across the Union and enhanced cooperation with third countries for readmission.
ARTICLE 4
Establish a harmonised EU-wide framework for broader remigration, including voluntary and incentivised remigration measures for non-European migrants who are unintegrated or constitute a serious cultural or financial burden to member states, in order to reduce enforcement costs and support the restoration of demographic balance.
ARTICLE 5
Remove social welfare incentives and benefits that function as pull factors for migration, including restrictions, in accordance with Union law, on access by non-citizens and recent migrants to selected welfare benefits and support systems, so as to reduce incentives for further migration, lessen the burden on European taxpayers, and encourage remigration.
IV.DECLARATION
We further declare that these measures are essential to uphold the rule of law, democratic legitimacy, and the long-term survival of European civilisation as a community of distinct peoples with shared yet sovereign identities.
IMPORTANT NOTE
This European Citizens’ Initiative cannot contain every measure that would be necessary to secure the future of Europe and its peoples.
The ECI procedure is formally limited in scope. For that reason, the legal text of this initiative must be confined to a narrower set of demands, even though further measures would clearly be needed. These include, among others:
· family policy and demographic renewal
· cultural continuity and identity
· the constitutional self-preservation of the member states
· broader civilisational and historical questions concerning Europe’s future
Their absence from the legal text of the initiative does not mean that they are secondary. It means only that the instrument of a European Citizens’ Initiative does not allow every necessary question to be included within one formal submission.
Clearly, this is an EU initiative and only people with EU passports living here can sign. But surely this is the model for a Save Britain Act, for a cross party member declaration and detailed policy commitment in the UK.
Is there anything here that Messrs Farage, Lowe and Habib or even Ms Badenoch disagree with? If so they need to spell it out and why.
