Hungary is threatening to send migrants directly to the European Union (EU) capital of Brussels, Belgium if disputes with the EU over penalties imposed on Hungary for controlling its borders are not resolved. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has imposed a €200 million (~$222.5 million) penalty and a daily fine of €1 million (~$1.1 million) on Hungary for turning away illegal immigrants at its border instead of allowing them to claim asylum.
Gergely Gulyas, who heads Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s office, says negotiations with the European Commission will begin in September. He warns that failure to reach an agreement will result in Hungary issuing “one-way tickets to Brussels” for migrants. Gulyas wants a swift resolution to the dispute to avoid daily fines piling up.
The European Commission has not commented on Gulyas’s remarks.
The current situation mirrors tensions in the United States, where pro-borders Texas is bussing illegal immigrants to states like New York, where state officials oppose a border wall construction and promote “sanctuary” policies.
The row is just the latest between the EU and Hungary. Orbán’s government also faces pushback from the bloc for a law banning the promotion of LGBT ideology to children in schools and media.
The EU is also clashing with Bulgaria over new legislation along similar lines.
Hungary is threatening to send migrants directly to the European Union (EU) capital of Brussels, Belgium if disputes with the EU over penalties imposed on Hungary for controlling its borders are not resolved. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has imposed a €200 million (~$222.5 million) penalty and a daily fine of €1 million (~$1.1 million) on Hungary for turning away illegal immigrants at its border instead of allowing them to claim asylum.
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Britain’s ruling Labour Party wants to lower the voting age to 16, likely believing this will secure a lasting grip on power. However, a youth demographic once considered reliably left-wing is increasingly turning towards right-wing populist Nigel Farage’s Reform Party.
Farage, known for championing Brexit and reduced immigration, is resonating with young Britons disillusioned by mainstream politics. Recent polling by J.L. Partners reveals that 23 percent of 16 to 17-year-olds support Reform, trailing Labour but well ahead of other parties. Among young males, Farage’s message is particularly persuasive, with Reform tying with Labour at 35 percent.
J.L. Partners director Scarlett Maguire notes Britain’s youth are “turning away from mainstream news sources,” and “anywhere where you might then have more buy-in to the political system is ceasing to apply.”
Farage’s savvy use of social media, especially TikTok, and an appearance on television’s I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here show have made him a more relatable figure to Gen Z.
“Something remarkable is happening out there,” he said ahead of Britain’s July 4 snap election. “There’s an awakening in a younger generation who have had enough of being dictated to.” His party outpolled the establishment-right Conservatives, who had been in power since 2010, among voters under 30. Populist parties in Continental Europe, such as Poland’s Confederation and France’s National Rally, are achieving similarly strong results among the youth.
Farage’s rising influence among the youth suggests a growing appetite for political alternatives, challenging the assumption that young voters will automatically back the left.
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Britain's ruling Labour Party wants to lower the voting age to 16, likely believing this will secure a lasting grip on power. However, a youth demographic once considered reliably left-wing is increasingly turning towards right-wing populist Nigel Farage’s Reform Party.
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Police in the German city of Bremen state that unknown suspects set fire to a vehicle owned by a former populist lawmaker who was almost murdered in 2019. In the early morning of Thursday, August 8, a Volkswagen was set on fire in a public parking lot in the city. Firefighters were able to contain the blaze before it could set fire to a nearby apartment building.
The vehicle is said to belong to Frank Magnitz, a former member of the German parliament for the anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. Police say they are investigating a possible political motive for the attack.
In 2019, Magnitz was savagely beaten, nearly to death, while walking down a street in Bremen after leaving a local theatre. Antifa militants took credit for the attack on a platform associated with far-left extremism. However, no arrests were ever made, nor were any suspects named in the case.
The attack matches similar assaults carried out by the notorious Antifa-aligned Hammerbande (Hammer Gang) group. The Hammer Gang terrorizes political opponents by beating them bloody with claw hammers.
Members of the Hammerbande traveled to Budapest, Hungary, last year, where they attacked both populists and random bystanders in a rampage across the city.
An Italian national connected to the gang was arrested by Hungarian police but was later elected as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP), giving her immunity from prosecution.
Police in the German city of Bremen state that unknown suspects set fire to a vehicle owned by a former populist lawmaker who was almost murdered in 2019. In the early morning of Thursday, August 8, a Volkswagen was set on fire in a public parking lot in the city. Firefighters were able to contain the blaze before it could set fire to a nearby apartment building.
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Reform Party leader Nigel Farage is asking for Parliament to be recalled as disorder spreads across the United Kingdom in the wake of a mass stabbing, allegedly by Rwandan migrants’ son Axel Muganwa Rudakubana, in Southport. The Member of Parliament (MP) for Clacton-on-Sea says he is “appalled” by the violence, but the “fracturing of our communities as a result of mass, uncontrolled immigration, whether illegal or illegal,” must be addressed.
“Ever since the soft policing of the Black Lives Matter protests, the impression of two-tier policing has become widespread,” Farage noted. Police forces do appear to be taking a much more combative approach towards what Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is labeling “far-right thugs” than they did towards BLM or more recent ethnic minority rioters in Harehills, Leeds. There is also little evidence of officers moving against roving mobs of armed Muslims currently roaming the streets in response to the protests.
“The majority of our population can see the fracturing of our communities as a result of mass, uncontrolled immigration, whether legal or illegal. Yet to attempt to debate this in the public arena leads to immediate howls of condemnation,” Farage lamented.
“A population explosion without integration was always going to end badly. I have said this for many years,” he added.
Reform Party leader Nigel Farage is asking for Parliament to be recalled as disorder spreads across the United Kingdom in the wake of a mass stabbing, allegedly by Rwandan migrants' son Axel Muganwa Rudakubana, in Southport. The Member of Parliament (MP) for Clacton-on-Sea says he is "appalled" by the violence, but the "fracturing of our communities as a result of mass, uncontrolled immigration, whether illegal or illegal," must be addressed.
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A journalistic watchdog has published a scathing review of a prior report from a George Soros-funded group, which alleged members of the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party were holding a secret conference to discuss deporting all people with a migration background from Germany, even if they are citizens.
The Übermedien expert group slammed the leftist activist group Correctiv for its misrepresentation of the facts. The watchdog also blasted the German mainstream media for being entirely uncritical of the claims made by Correctiv about a conference in Potsdam earlier this year that was attended by members of the AfD and Austrian anti-mass migration activist Martin Sellner.
The Correctiv report, which won awards in German media and sparked left-wing protests involving hundreds of thousands of people, is deeply flawed, according to the watchdog, noting a recent court case in which Correctiv outright admitted there was no formal talk of plans for the mass expulsions of migrants by the AfD.
“It has long been obvious how problematic Correctiv reporting and its reception are. And at the same time, how much a critical examination of it is lacking in large parts of the serious press,” the watchdog said.
FAKE REPORTS PROMPTED BANS FROM GERMANY.
Martin Sellner spoke at the Potsdam conference about the “remigration” of illegals and those who refuse to integrate into German society to their homelands, but Correctiv was accused by Übermedien of taking a few fragments of sentences he said, twisting them, and comparing his ideas to Naziethnic cleansing.
The watchdog was especially disturbed by the comparison to the Wannsee conference made by Correctiv in its reporting. The Wannsee conference was the first major meeting to decide on the implementation of what would become the Holocaust.
As a result of the misleading report, Martin Sellner was banned from entering Germany, despite the internal open borders of the European Union (EU) and the close links between Germany and Austria.
SOROS GROUP INVENTED ‘DEPORTATION OF MILLIONS’ PLAN.
Übermedien also notes that only two people in the conference spoke about remigration, but Correctiv implied that the entire conference was actively planning to deport millions of people from Germany.
The Correctiv report even opened by saying, “High-ranking AfD politicians, neo-Nazis and financially strong entrepreneurs came together in November in a hotel near Potsdam. They planned nothing less than the expulsion of millions of people from Germany.”
Correctiv had to note that Sellner had not said that he wanted to use unlawful means to deport anyone, and that others had even said deporting those with German passports was impossible.
REPORT DIVIDED THE POPULIST RIGHT.
The Correctiv report also had some repercussions on the AfD’s relations with other European populist parties. French National Rally (RN) leader Marine Le Pen said she was reconsidering her party’s then-alliance with the AfD because of the report.
Following the European Parliament elections, the AfD had to go its own way and split from other leading populist parties, forming the Europe of Sovereign Nations (ESN) group along with other smaller parties from across Europe.
Le Pen and others joined with Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban to form the Patriots for Europe group, whhile Italy’s Giorgia Meloni remains in the more establishment-friendly European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), effectively splitting the populist right.
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A journalistic watchdog has published a scathing review of a prior report from a George Soros-funded group, which alleged members of the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party were holding a secret conference to discuss deporting all people with a migration background from Germany, even if they are citizens.
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Reform Party leader Nigel Farage has taken Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to task for his response to the disorder following the deadly mass stabbing of a number of young girls by a migration-background teenager in Southport, England. Starmer, of the leftist Labour Party, has promised a draconian crackdown on the “far right” in response to the disorder, contrasting with his disinterest in contemporary riots and disorder involving ethnic minorities.
“[Starmer’s] conclusion [is] very simple, it’s all the far right, as if they’re causing all of the problems. No, the far right are a reaction to fear, to discomfort, to unease that is out there, shared by tens of million of people,” Farage said.
“Let me be clear: I don’t support street violence. I don’t support thuggery of any kind,” the Brexit leader stressed. “But I am worried not just about the events in Southport, but about societal decline that is happening in our country. Law and order, folks, on our streets, is breaking down.”
“This Prime Minister hasn’t got an earthly clue how to deal with it,” Farage added, calling for tougher prison sentences for knife criminals and more use of stop-and-search powers by police, without being afraid to use them against people who are not white.
“Mr Starmer, just to blame a few far-right thugs, to say that’s the root of our problems, doesn’t work,” he concluded.
Reform Party leader Nigel Farage has taken Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to task for his response to the disorder following the deadly mass stabbing of a number of young girls by a migration-background teenager in Southport, England. Starmer, of the leftist Labour Party, has promised a draconian crackdown on the "far right" in response to the disorder, contrasting with his disinterest in contemporary riots and disorder involving ethnic minorities.
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A populist member of the German regional parliament in Brandenburg has been criticized for speaking to schoolchildren aged nine to 12 in Potsdam about rape gangs and knife crime. Alternative for Germany (AfD) member Dennis Hohloch told media he felt it was his duty to warn the children. Germany—and Europe at large—has faced waves of migration from Africa and the Middle East, leading to rising social tensions and crime.
The AfD politician’s opponents, however, are calling the remarks inappropriate. Critics, like Social Democrat Steffen Freiberg, Brandenburg’s current Minister of Education, said that Hohloch should have been aware that teachers cannot state personal political views to their students, while others claimed the subject matter was not appropriate for children that age. Hohloch says the criticism is an attempt to silence him on certain topics and that he will not stand for it.
Brandenburg will see an election in September, and the AfD is currently the most popular party in the region. In prior polls, its support was surgingamong German youth.
Sexual assault and incidents of rape have become major issues in Germany. The National Pulse previously reported that a study documenting incidents of attacks shows that sine since 2015, as many as 7,000 German women and girls have been assaulted or raped by migrants, and that migrants are greatly overrepresented in sex crime statistics.
Attempts have been made to silence other AfD members recently. AfD politician Marie-Thérèse Kaiser was fined by a German court in May for daring to quote official German crime statistics during a debate, noting the alarming rates of sexual crimes among Afghan migrants in particular.
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A populist member of the German regional parliament in Brandenburg has been criticized for speaking to schoolchildren aged nine to 12 in Potsdam about rape gangs and knife crime. Alternative for Germany (AfD) member Dennis Hohloch told media he felt it was his duty to warn the children. Germany—and Europe at large—has faced waves of migration from Africa and the Middle East, leading to rising social tensions and crime.
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Geert Wilders, leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV), has receiving packages at his offices in the Dutch parliament stuffed with toilet paper and feces. The Dutch populist, whose party came first in the Dutch elections last year and is now part of the ruling coalition government, said on X (formerly Twitter), “Ok, it’s not a letter bomb, but still: would the person who sent me packages with toilet paper and feces via the Dutch Parliament address today and a few times before please stop doing so, it’s really too sick for words.”
For years, Wilders has been on the receiving end of death threats due to his anti-Islam views. He has previously called for the Quran to be banned in the Netherlands. For instance, aPakistani cricket player was sentenced to 12 years in prison last year for putting a bounty on Wilders’s head worth three million rupees (then around €21,000/$22,500) in 2018. Khalid Latif was tried in absentia in the Netherlands, and remains at large in Pakistan.
Earlier this year, Wilders softened his rhetoric on Islam and said he was scrapping prior proposals to ban the Quran and mosques, in order to make progress on agreeing a coalition with the establishment right.
While Wilders may have changed his public stance on Islam, he remains a steadfast supporter of Israel. He has suggested in the aftermath of the October 7 attacks that Palestinians should be relocated to nearby Jordan, arguing it was always intended to be the Palestinian state.
Several Arab states, including Jordan, Bahrain, Yemen, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), condemned Wilders for his suggestion.
Ok het is geen bombrief maar toch: wil diegene die vandaag en al een paar keer eerder pakketjes met toiletpapier en ontlasting naar me stuurt via het adres van de TK daar mee kappen, het is echt te ziek voor woorden en de medewerkers van de TK zitten er ook niet op te wachten.
Geert Wilders, leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV), has receiving packages at his offices in the Dutch parliament stuffed with toilet paper and feces. The Dutch populist, whose party came first in the Dutch elections last year and is now part of the ruling coalition government, said on X (formerly Twitter), "Ok, it's not a letter bomb, but still: would the person who sent me packages with toilet paper and feces via the Dutch Parliament address today and a few times before please stop doing so, it's really too sick for words."
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Representative Matt Gaetz has visited the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT) in El Salvador, where President Nayib Bukele has confined thousands of gang members to dramatically lower the Latin American country’s once-notorious crime rates.
“The people in the United States of America are very grateful for the State of Exception, and we’re very grateful that CECOT exists so that these criminals are not harming the people of El Salvador or harming the people of the United States,” said the Florida Congressman, in reference to the state of emergency Bukele has instituted to smash El Salvador’s gangs.
“A lot of the people behind me would have found a way to make their way to the United States and harm Americans, and we are grateful to President Bukele and his administration for establishing security and the State of Exception, and for all the good work people do here to keep everyone else safe,” Gaetz continued.
“El Salvador is a country on the rise because people are safe and they are hopeful,” he added.
TRUMP.
Bukele, whodefended former U.S. President Donald J. Trump when Democrats were attempting to exclude him from primary ballots, earned many international supporters on the populist right for his achievements in slashing crime. However, Trump appeared to criticize him at the recent Republican National Convention.
“A certain country and I happen to like the president of that country very much, but he’s been getting great publicity because he’s a wonderful shepherd of the country. He says how well the country’s doing because their crime rate is down,” Trump said.
“In El Salvador, murders are down 70 percent. Why are they down? … [T]hey’re down because they’re sending their murderers to the United States of America,” he argued.
It is likely Trump is signaling he expects a streamlined deal on deporting Salvadoran criminals, such as MS-13 gang members, when he is reelected.
As President, Trump enjoyed good relations with Bukele, signing a cooperation agreement with the populist leader and praising him for doing “an incredible job with MS-13.”
“He realizes what a threat they are, and they have been very, very tough, and we all appreciate that,” Trump said in 2019.
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US Congressmen visit CECOT (Center for the Confinement of Terrorism)
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Representative Matt Gaetz has visited the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT) in El Salvador, where President Nayib Bukele has confined thousands of gang members to dramatically lower the Latin American country's once-notorious crime rates.
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The German state of Brandenburg will hold state elections on September 22, with a significant political shift underway. According to the latest survey conducted by the opinion research institute INSA, the right-populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) is expected to be the strongest party, with 24 percent of the vote. The left-populist Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) is also rapidly gaining strength, and is now nearly on par with the establishment right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the leftist Social Democrats (SPD).
The survey indicates that the BSW has surged to 17 percent support in the polls. The party was launched earlier this year by Sahra Wagenknecht, formerly of the Left (Die Left) party. Like the AfD, it is highly critical of mass migration. BSW also rejects net zero policies and wants to halt weapons shipments to Ukraine.
The governing SPD, under Brandenburg Minister President Dietmar Woidke, is currently polling at 19 percent, down from 26.2 percent in the previous state election. Many other parties on the left of the political spectrum have also seen decreases in popularity.
The rise in popularity of populist parties is a trend seen across Europe, including France, where Marine Le Pen’s National Rally nearly doubled their seats in the French parliament earlier this month.
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The German state of Brandenburg will hold state elections on September 22, with a significant political shift underway. According to the latest survey conducted by the opinion research institute INSA, the right-populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) is expected to be the strongest party, with 24 percent of the vote. The left-populist Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) is also rapidly gaining strength, and is now nearly on par with the establishment right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the leftist Social Democrats (SPD).
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