Portugal hosts far-right summit pushing 30-year remigration plan
More than 500 far-right activists and political representatives gathered in Portugal to formalize a 30-year plan to expel non-white populations, a concept rapidly shedding its fringe status following its adoption by the US administration.
The pan-European Identitarian Movement convened its second "Remigration Summit" on 30 May at the Quinta da Salmanha venue in the Portuguese coastal city of Figueira da Foz. The event drew over 500 attendees, including representatives of political parties and movements from Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, the UK and the United States. It followed a previous convention hosted in Milan, Italy.
The summit’s stated objective is to enact a 20- to 30-year policy of "remigration." Organizers describe the concept as “the answer to decades of replacement migration and multiculturalism that have disintegrated our nations to the point of dysfunction.” In practice, the plan involves “returning illegal immigrants and harmful legal migrants, and putting pressure on the non-assimilated parallel societies to reharmonise the nation culturally.”
This policy is rooted in the "Great Replacement" conspiracy theory, which baselessly claims hidden powers are plotting to replace white, Christian populations with non-white immigrants. While activists at a secret 2023 meeting in Potsdam, Germany, acknowledged that mass deportations of citizens are unconstitutional, they settled on applying legal pressure to force non-white citizens to leave. The end goal, as stated by Identitarian Movement figurehead Martin Sellner, is to “secure the ethnocultural continuity of European nations.”
What sets the Portugal gathering apart from previous extremist meetings is the direct involvement and institutional backing from the United States. The US State Department recently proclaimed the establishment of an Office of Remigration. This shift from the margins to the highest levels of the US government has fundamentally altered the political calculus for Europe's far right.
Two American guests headlined the Portuguese event: white nationalist Jared Taylor and Gregory Bovino, the former chief of the US Border Patrol. Bovino, who was dismissed after agents under his command killed a 37-year-old nurse in Minneapolis, spoke about tackling “illegal aliens destroying European culture.”
The normalization of "remigration" has been accelerated by rhetoric from the top of the US government. During a recent trip to Europe, Donald Trump told European leaders to “stop this horrible invasion,” stating that “this immigration is killing Europe.” Days ago, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used a commemoration speech in France to accuse European political elites of allowing “dangerous ideologies” to storm the continent's shores.
For European public life and institutional stability, this represents a critical inflection point. Parties like Germany’s AfD and France’s National Rally, which previously distanced themselves from the explicit deportation of non-white citizens, now operate in an environment where the concept is validated by Washington. As activists attempt to institutionalize these long-term demographic goals, European political and social cohesion faces a sustained, newly emboldened threat.
