“Make Europe Great Again”: Conservative Conference to Take Place in Romania Next Week

JP magazine has been invited to cover the Make Europe Great Again (MEGA) conference, which will take place in Bucharest, Romania, on April 27-28.

Organized by the Institute of Conservative Political Studies “Mihai Eminescu” and the conservative party Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), the event aims to address the challenges faced by Europe and the entire world. According to the organizers, these challenges represent an existential threat posed by the “neo-Marxist globalist left bent on disfiguring society and corrupting people’s minds and souls.” The Romanian conservatives believe that the only safeguard against this “unprecedented madness” is “conservatives and patriots.”

The European Union (EU) has been at the forefront of enacting socialist policies over the past couple of decades. One such policy concerns the destruction of borders and the facilitation of mass migration from Africa and the Middle East. While specific approaches vary from one country to another, broadly speaking, the bloc has put in place liberal immigration rules that have led to such grave consequences as an increased strain on local economies, a spike in crime, and the degradation of European cultural identity. In recent years, several countries, including Hungary, Italy, Poland, Austria, Denmark, Greece, Switzerland, Norway, and the Baltic states, have taken steps to address security and cultural concerns by strengthening immigration measures. These measures range from enacting restrictions on the entry of refugees and migrants to increasing border controls, erecting barriers along their borders, imposing stricter eligibility criteria for obtaining residence permits, criminalizing illegal border crossings, and increasing deportations. Immigration, which remains one of the thorniest issues in the European political debate, will be a central topic of discussion at the event.

Another topic of interest is the protection and strengthening of traditional family values. Much like major conservative parties, AUR views the traditional family as “the basic cell of any viable society” and “opposes gender ideology, particularly the introduction of gender-ideology-based sexual education in schools, publicly funded abortion, legal abortion-on-demand, … homosexual marriage, euthanasia, medically assisted suicide, publicly funded transsexual surgery, and other Freudo-Marxism-inspired ‘innovations’ meant to fluidize, relativize, and eventually abolish the traditional moral paradigm and the natural, biological realities.” This principled stance was reiterated by the party’s leader, George Simion, in a February interview with JP at CPAC.