Overview
- Roughly 600 activists, influencers and right‑wing politicians met in Portugal on May 31 for a 'Remigrationsgipfel' led by Identitarian figure Martin Sellner.
- Sellner announced plans to create an 'Institut für Remigration' to network politicians, researchers and media actors and to coordinate Europe‑wide campaigns aimed at stopping migration and removing millions of non‑Western migrants.
- Former U.S. border chief Gregory Bovino attended and offered his operational experience to European actors despite his January 2026 dismissal after a deadly Minneapolis raid, highlighting efforts to transfer hardline enforcement methods.
- Several AfD figures were present or on stage while the party leadership publicly distances itself, showing internal tension between local members who engage with Sellner and national organs wary of reputational and legal risk.
- Journalists faced restricted access and a reportedly aggressive drone incident at the venue, and Germany’s domestic security service frames the movement’s ethnopluralist ideology as aiming at ethnically defined societies and expulsions, raising concerns about cross‑border radical coordination.