{"id":619495,"date":"2026-06-16T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=619495"},"modified":"2026-06-16T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T06:00:00","slug":"remigration-the-save-europe-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=619495","title":{"rendered":"Remigration & The Save Europe Act"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remigration & The Save Europe Act<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by ‘eugyppius’ via American Greatmess,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

In 2024, the Austrian Identitarian activist Martin Sellner began serious efforts to push his\u00a0concept of remigration<\/a>\u00a0into the political mainstream,<\/strong> and since then the German state and its civil society collaborators have extended him every assistance.<\/p>\n

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Gregory Bovino, ex-Customs and Border Patrol Chief, appears with (from left) Eva Vlaardingerbroek, Martin Sellner, and Alfonso Gon\u00e7alves at the second Remigration Summit in Portugal last week.<\/em><\/p>\n

Domestic intelligence agents and activist journalists at Correctiv\u00a0collaborated<\/a>\u00a0to convict Sellner and Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland of planning the mass deportation of naturalized Germans in a late 2023 meeting in Potsdam.\u00a0They called this small private meeting a \u201cSecret Plan against Germany\u201d and drew not-so-subtle comparisons to the notorious Wannsee Conference<\/a>.<\/strong> Ensuing anti-AfD protests lasted months, even as litigation succeeded in deconstructing much of the slander Correctiv had propagated. The hysteria cost AfD some support ahead of the European elections, but it also succeeded in making \u201cremigration\u201d a household word throughout the Federal Republic\u2014something that Sellner and his Identitarians could never have achieved on their own. Unbelievably, the Correctiv reporting was turned into a theater piece, and the actual Wannsee Villa where Nazi government officials and SS leaders met to plan the Final Solution in 1942 received a sign advising visitors of Sellner\u2019s Potsdam meeting and \u201cthe . . . obvious . . . link between today\u2019s ethno-nationalist fantasies of deportation and the historic Wannsee Conference.\u201d<\/p>\n

For their next act, authorities toyed with legally doubtful schemes to ban Sellner from Germany, while police devised pretenses to disrupt the speaking events Sellner had scheduled in the Federal Republic to present his book on\u00a0Remigration<\/em>. <\/strong>All this meant more press and more eyeballs for Sellner\u2019s cause. When Sellner co-organized the inaugural \u201cRemigration Summit\u201d last spring in Italy, authorities tried to prevent the attendance of several German Identitarian activists by temporarily banning them from leaving the country, and they did the same again when the second \u201cRemigration Summit\u201d convened in Portugal last week. In each case, their restrictions ensured that small conferences held in other countries and attended by no more than a few hundred people could remain the subject of reporting and controversy here at home.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know to what degree the German approach to Sellner\u2019s remigration program reflects a calculated strategy, and to what degree it\u2019s just all the pinched head girls in the state bureaucratic apparatus having a collective aneurysm over the latest politically naughty thing to come across their desks.<\/strong> Either way, the unique German system of \u201cdefensive democracy\u201d requires an enemy against which to array its defenses, and in the decades since the Berlin Wall fell this enemy has become \u201cthe extreme Right\u201d\u2014concentrated like the old Communist foe in the eastern states of the former DDR, embodied by Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland rather than the SED, and constructed as an equal if not greater threat to Our Democracy. Because, unlike the Communists, this enemy does not really exist, it requires regime propagandists to engage in heavy revisionism\u2014for example, by casting as an NSDAP successor a populist-Right party with politics broadly equivalent to the 1980s-era CDU, and by building up and deploring particular villains like Sellner.<\/p>\n

Now, political dissidents and activists of all stripes have a curious relationship with establishment discourse. <\/strong>The one is like oil and the other is like water; they cannot occupy the same space. In the past years, the myth that Diversity Is Our Strength and that mass migration might fix our pension plans, alleviate our cultural ennui, and improve our culinary offerings has collapsed. Anti-migrationism has gone mainstream in many circles, driving right-populists to seize upon remigration as the new cause. I would imagine that a similar process unfolded from the establishment perspective; as major politicians and journalists decided the time had come to put the brakes on the steady stream of younger males streaming into our country from the Global South, they needed to draw a new line in the sand to differentiate themselves from the populist rabble-rousers.<\/p>\n

Thus, with the help of literally everybody from Chancellor Olaf Scholz\u2019s benighted traffic light government to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution to Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland to Martin Sellner and his Identitarians, remigration became the new anti-migration. Which is fine, as far as it goes; people should support the causes they want, and nobody would dispute that, particularly in the last ten years, a great many people have forced their way into Europe, where they have proceeded to abuse our social welfare systems, violate the law at disproportionate rates, and substantially degrade the quality of life. If I could push a button and make these people leave, I would.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, this problem does not come packaged with any easy solutions<\/strong>, and I am less and less certain (1) how remigration is supposed to work and (2) whether the newly ascendant and highly dogmatic remigrationists on the Right have any path toward realizing their vision. While remigrationists preach the manifold benefits of putting migrants on airplanes back to the Global South, the migrants\u2019 native countries in many cases refuse to accept them, mass migration continues, if at a somewhat slower pace, the AfD remains firewalled out of German politics, our elaborate NGO machinery continues to push migrationist humanitarianism, a broad elite consensus resists even efforts to deport many of those who are here illegally, and primary EU law confounds remigrationist proposals at numerous points. Remigration would prove a tall order if 85 percent of Germans reversed their stance on the idea tomorrow. Sellner\u2019s full, heavily technocratic vision, meanwhile, would require broad institutional buy-in and support from all major parties, including large parts of the Left, over a period of decades. We are talking about a new social consensus to compel or encourage the mass resettlement of entire populations, as deep and broad as the consensus that until recently existed behind climatism. That probably can\u2019t happen without serious generational turnover or some kind of serious political upheaval.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I do not write this as a condemnatory political ninny or an incurable contrarian. I consider Sellner a friend, and I am\u00a0even his translator<\/a>. Yet personal considerations like these aren\u2019t enough to blunt my skepticism.<\/p>\n

The most recent initiative in remigration land is something called the\u00a0Save Europe Act<\/a>, rolled out by Sellner and Dutch political activist Eva Vlaardingerbroek at the Remigration Summit 2026 in Portugal.<\/strong> Basically, there\u2019s an EU procedural mechanism known as the\u00a0European Citizens\u2019 Initiative<\/a>\u00a0(ECI), whereby ordinary people can bring a legal proposal for consideration directly before the European Commission. To do this, they need only gather a million signatures in support and meet a few other requirements. Among other things, the Save Europe Act demands \u201clegislative and policy measures\u201d to impose a \u201cmoratorium\u201d on non-European migration, to deport \u201cillegally staying migrants, rejected asylum seekers,\u201d and criminals, to \u201cestablish a harmonized EU-wide framework for broader remigration\u201d and to \u201cremove social welfare incentives and benefits that function as pull factors for migration.\u201d<\/p>\n

All of that sounds great, as does the fact that Sellner and Vlaardingerbroek claim to have gathered well over 200,000 \u201csignatures\u201d so far. Unfortunately, reality tends generally to be less great. To begin with, Sellner and Vlaardingerbroek have yet to register the Save Europe Act with the European Commission at all. The signatures they are collecting\u2014really, just email addresses\u2014are part of an internet publicity campaign and have no wider significance.<\/strong> According to me, chances that the Commission agrees to register the Save Europe Act as a formal ECI are quite low, for the Commission may reject any proposal that \u201cis . . . manifestly contrary to the values of the Union.\u201d If Sellner and Vlaardingerbroek do manage to squeeze their initiative through registration and the Save Europe Act becomes more than a buggy website, then they\u2019ll still need to collect a million signatures\u2014not from random internet people, but from verified citizens of EU member states. And if they meet that hurdle, they\u2019ll compel a response from the Commission and a hearing in the European Parliament. Even in this best-case scenario, there is no chance that the Save Europe Act becomes law, inspires any laws, or changes anything at the EU level at all.<\/p>\n

Defenders of the Save Europe Act who have bothered to read the fine print accept that they are not on the path to making Remigration official EU policy. <\/strong>They argue instead that publicity surrounding the Save Europe Act will \u201cmove the Overton Window\u201d and normalize remigration as a concept. These arguments neglect the fact that remigration has already been normalized; as I wrote above, since 2024, it has become almost a household word in Germany, if one denoting a very bad and fascistic concept approximately on par with outright genocidal fascism. Otherwise, I have learned to be wary of intangible, immeasurable ends in the world of political activism. Western politics abounds with activists who are changing perceptions, challenging conventions, deconstructing myths, complicating assumptions, correcting prejudices, deepening understandings, and now moving Overton Windows, and the only thing these projects and their goals have in common is that nobody can work out what any of them mean in concrete terms.<\/p>\n

Mass migration has been an absolute curse.<\/strong> People want the migrants to stop coming, and they want the ones who are already here to go back home. They feel impotent to change the situation, and it\u2019s natural that they should support social media campaigns promising at the very least to give them a voice. That\u2019s fine, and most of this is probably harmless, but the truth is that we\u2019re not going to petition the migrants away<\/strong>. I\u2019ve read so many appeals to the Overton Window at this point that the concept has become quite threadbare for me, but if anything has shifted mass media discourse these past years, it is not activist campaigns but the manifold and quite serious problems caused by mass migration itself. As in so many other areas\u2014from COVID to climatism\u2014retarded elite policies are failing and unwinding themselves, but we\u2019re not yet winning.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of ZeroHedge.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nTue, 06\/16\/2026 – 02:00<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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