From the stage in Brussels, PNFV president and Croatian MEP Stephen Bartulica accused British prime minister Keir Starmer of imprisoning people for tweets he “does not approve of”. Father Benedict Kiely, a Catholic priest from London, claimed he might face arrest for his conservative views on returning home. Paolo Inselvini, an MEP from the ruling Brothers of Italy party, urged the network and its allies to “defend Christian values, freedom of expression and dignity of human life” in the face of the woke assault.

Inselvini also accused progressive non-governmental organisations in the EU of “trying to do away with posts that speak an uncomfortable truth, such as that children are born from a man and a woman”. This was echoed by numerous speakers who said European NGOs and Marxists are seeking to create a “dictatorship of political correctness”, an “EUSSR via regulation”, and a “Europe of lies.”

Such accusations directly mirror Trump’s National Security Strategy, which was published in November last year and accuses the EU of undermining “political liberty and sovereignty, migration policies that are transforming the continent and creating strife, censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering birthrates, and loss of national identities and self-confidence”.

The Trumpian strategy goes on to reference the far-right ‘great replacement’ theory that claims white people in the Global North are being ‘replaced’ by immigration and low birth rates, warning of a risk that “certain NATO members will become majority non-European” in the coming years. At the Brussels summit, fears over the great replacement theory could be seen in another common theme: ‘gender ideology’.

The president of Peru’s Constitutional Court, Luz Pacheco, complained that people are unfairly accused of “homophobia” when they advocate for the family. Ugandan MP Lucy Akello warned that LGBTQ+ people are “forcing children into homosexuality” and received cheers when she claimed to have been a victim of a witch hunt over her support for Uganda’s 2023 Anti-Homosexuality Act. Laws “do not kill homosexuals”, she insisted last week, overlooking the fact that the act imposed the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality”.

Avoiding the great replacement theory, the US National Security Strategy says, will require the White House to “prioritise cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations”. The paper reserves praise for the “patriotic European parties” that the US believes are already leading that resistance through their “growing influence”.

The shape of that resistance was further outlined by the editor-in-chief of the European Conservative magazine, Alvino Mario Fantini, who asked the audience: “Are you ready to do the work so that the culture of the Judeo-Christian West will be saved?”

Fantini put forward a three-point plan to save the West, urging audience members to “defy them, the progressive elites” and “populate the culture with your own products; build parallel institutions. Schools, yes. We need alternative universities, not just Oxford and Cambridge. They're under the control of other people [...] It’s very important to create these networks.”

The third part of the plan, Fantini said, is cryptocurrency. He encouraged attendees “to use alternative finance mechanisms to create new payment processing systems, to create crypto-funded media, to take control of how the money moves and where it is stored...

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