One step further. After Vox’s participation in a far-right European summit in Portugal last Saturday, where deputy Rocío de Meer advocated generating an “exit effect” for immigrants, even second-generation ones who do not conform to certain cultural patterns, the party president, Santiago Abascal, supported this Wednesday the initiative of one of the main white supremacist activists, the Dutch Eva Vlaardingerbroek, who advocates for mass deportations of “non-European” citizens, legal or illegal, because they endanger “the native peoples of Europe” and their “ethnic continuity.” Abascal’s support for the initiative comes a day after it was publicly backed by former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
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“There are young Europeans who are not willing to stand idly by while their nations and future are taken from them. Our friend Eva Vlaar is one of them,” Abascal posted on X, along with a video of Vlaardingerbroek in which she and the also extremist Austrian Martin Sellner ask for signatures in support of their initiative.
The proposal calls for the execution of large-scale deportations of immigrants and the implementation of immediate repatriation mechanisms (known in Spain as hot returns). It also urges the suspension of asylum application processing for those it calls “economic migrants,” the halting of study and family reunification visa grants for “non-Europeans,” and the elimination of access to aid and social benefits for “non-citizens and recent migrants,” without specifying which.
The text emits an unmistakable racist tone, identifying European peoples with “ethnic communities” and contrasting the “native population” and the “indigenous peoples of Europe” with “non-Western/non-European” immigrants, who would have caused “serious damage” to “social cohesion” and threaten “the ethnic and cultural continuity of European nations.” In their view, immigration not only does not alleviate Europe’s aging but worsens it by putting “the demographic continuity of its peoples” at risk.
The promoters’ goal is to collect one million signatures in seven different EU countries to present it as a European Citizens’ Initiative and force the European Commission to take a stance on its content, thus bringing the openly racist far-right agenda to the community institutions. Orbán’s support in Hungary and Abascal’s in Spain represent significant sponsorship for their campaign.
Although the proposal does not include them among the measures currently requested, the promoters state in the text their intention to address in the future a debate on Europe’s “cultural continuity and identity,” what they call the “constitutional self-preservation of member states,” and “civilizational and historical issues.”
There are young Europeans who are not willing to stand idly by while their nations and future are taken from them. Our friend @evavlaar is one of them. https://t.co/rOS3tdcCLu
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— Santiago Abascal 🇪🇸 (@Santi_ABASCAL) June 3, 2026
Eva Vlaar, as she shortens her name on social media, 29 years old, was linked to the Forum for Democracy, a Dutch far-right party, and is banned from entering the United Kingdom, which she considers no longer “a free country.” A convert Catholic since 2023, she transitioned from politics to an anti-vaccine and natalist commentator on television.
Her companion in the promotional video, Martin Sellner, is a far-right radical founder of the Austrian Identitarian Movement and directs the so-called Institute for Re-immigration, the neologism coined by ultras that implies mass deportations of immigrants, even their children with European nationality if they do not adapt to certain cultural patterns, even if they comply with the laws. Sellner, 37, has caused major scandals in his country and neighboring Germany. In 2024, the investigative website Correctiv revealed that leaders of the far-right party Alternative for Germany met with him to discuss a deportation plan that would create a model state in North Africa to relocate unassimilated German citizens, as well as those who help refugees in Germany.
After the publication that Vox sent Rocío de Meer to Portugal, the first party leader to advocate mass deportation of immigrants, MEP Herman Terstch defended that his party is not racist but at the same time denounced alleged “racism against whites and Spaniards in particular” and emphasized that the “natives of European nations,” “white in their overwhelming majority,” will act in “pure self-defense.”
For his part, Vox Secretary General Ignacio Garriga defended on Monday that Rocío de Meer’s participation in last weekend’s summit in Figueira da Foz “makes perfect sense,” since his group is the only one that defends “mass re-immigrations to safeguard” the identity, security, and prosperity of Spaniards. “We do not regret it nor lower our heads,” he added, despite acknowledging “disagreements” with some participants.
The Portuguese meeting, with half a thousand attendees, brought together parties, political movements, and activists individually under the umbrella of what they understand as the risk of disappearance of European nations due to immigration of non-white people. Representatives of Vox, Alternative for Germany (AfD), and the aforementioned Dutch Forum for Democracy (Fvd) attended the summit. However, Vox’s partners in the European Parliament, such as the Portuguese Chega or the French National Rally, did not attend.
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