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1. ❌BRUSSELS THREATENS TO BLOCK HUNGARY’S MIGRANT BUSES: Hungary recently announced plans to send buses full of illegal migrants to Brussels in response to make Brussels understand the consequences of their failed policies. The EU also recently fined them hundreds of millions of dollars for enforcing borders and they refuse to financially support Hungary’s measures to protect its southern border.
And now, Brussels mayor Philippe Close is threatening to block the incoming migrant buses. I wonder why they don’t want them? 🤔🤔No clue.
Brussels prides itself on being an international city that welcomes migrants and refugees from across the world. If this is true, why would Mayor Close not welcome these migrants from Hungary with open arms?
WATCH: EU-US Forum Founding Board Member Matt Mowers spoke with Dana Loesch on her show yesterday to discuss the impact of Brussels’ failed open borders agenda. Watch a clip HERE.
“’These folks have been so wrong for so long, and they’re living the impacts of it every single day,” Mowers said.
2. IMPRISONED FOR BORDER ENFORCEMENT: Matteo Salvini, Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Minister of Interior, is facing six years in prison for refusing to allow a ship of migrants from landing in Italy in 2019. The ship then stayed at sea for weeks and the prosecutors in Sicily are accusing Salvini of alleged kidnapping for preventing a ship carrying more than 100 migrants from landing in Lampedusa in 2019, according to Euronews.
Salvini said,
“[The ship spent] more than twenty days of sailing in the Mediterranean while holding all these illegal immigrants on board when it would have taken just 72 hours to reach Spain…. This Spanish ship was never prevented from going anywhere, except to Italy because we could no longer be the refugee camp for all of Europe. No government and no minister in history has ever been accused or put on trial for defending the borders of his own country… I declare myself guilty of defending Italy and Italians. I declare myself guilty of keeping the promise I made.”
The Sicilian prosecutors are arguing that “between human rights and the protection of state sovereignty, it is human rights that must prevail in our fortunately democratic system.” Despite Salvini’s common-sense enforcement of Italy’s borders, he may face up to six years in prison.
Under Salvini’s governance that imposed port restrictions for NGO migrant ships, illegal ships entries were reduced by 80%, from 42,700 to 8,691.
What They Are Saying:
- @MLP_officiel: For having wanted to put an end to migrant trafficking and protect the Italian borders when he was Minister of the Interior, @matteosalvinimi is subjected to real judicial harassment aimed at silencing him. The trial and the 6-year sentence requested against him are extremely serious at a time when the migratory submersion is increasing everywhere in Europe. We are in solidarity and more than ever at your side, Matteo
- @Antonio_Tajani: I reiterate what I said this morning: @matteosalvinimi did his duty as Minister of the Interior to defend legality. Asking for 6 years of prison for this reason seems an unreasonable choice and moreover without any legal basis.
- @EUUSForum: Prosecutors are requesting a six-year prison sentence for @matteosalvinimi for the crime of defending Italy and its people.
Only few dare to do what Matteo did, and we must stand with and support him. - @PM_ViktorOrban: Europe’s bravest patriot punished for stopping #migration. Those who defend Europe are constantly penalized. What is going on? @matteosalvinimi is our hero!
- European Conservative: Patriots’ Support for Italy’s Salvini “Unshakable” As He Faces Prison for “Doing His Duty”
3.WHATEVER IT TAKES: The French far-left is threatening to take down the current government and refuse to meet with the newly appointed center-right PM Michael Barnier.
We will do everything to try to bring down this government…Once this government has fallen, the President of the Republic will rally around the institutional logic, which wants him to entrust [power] to the only existing relative majority… the NFP” – New Popular Front’s Benjamin Lucas.
😳😳Is a new French Revolution in the near future? Remember, this is all a reaction to Macron not appointing a COMMUNIST to be prime minister (which didn’t have the Assembly support it needed anyway). And on Tuesday, the NPF launched an impeachment campaign against Macron for the first time in the Fifth Republic.
Le Pen commented on the impeachment, “In an attempt to make people forget its multiple compromises with Macron, the far-left is defending a procedure for impeaching the President of the Republic that has no chance of succeeding given the divisions on the left.”
The far-left’s lack of reality is astonishing, even despite Barnier’s vows to appoint those on the other side of the aisle to his government.
🚨EU COMMISSION ANNOUNCED: Commission President, Ursual von der Leyen, proposed her Commission’s leadership. Her theme for the commission is “competitiveness in the twin transition.”
The highlights ⬇️
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- Europe’s left and far-left are in charge of 24 out of 26 appointments. (Patriots and ECR with the other two positions)
- Italy’s Raffaele Fitto (ECR) is the only conservative who received one of six executive VP positions. (VDL did not create an immigration sport for him)
- After VDL’s low-key reward-system for nations who put forth females for Commission slots, 40% are women compared to previous 22% who were first appointed with 4 of the 6 EVPs to be held by women.
- Sticking it to Hungary, Ursula gave them the responsibility of animal welfare and health.
- Renew was rewarded for their election losses
And don’t forget, there’s an executive vice-presidency for clean, just and competitive transition.
More on the New Commission:
- POLITICO: What just happened? A beginner’s guide to von der Leyen’s European Commission
BRENTON OUT: Just before von der Leyen announced her new Commission posts, France’s incumbent nominee and current EU Commissioner for Internal Market and Services, Thierry Breton resigned on Monday after attacking his boss, von der Leyen, for “questionable governance,” to which the president asked Macron to switch him out.
And yes, this is the same Thierry Breton that called for Elon Musk and his platform X to implement political censorship against Trump’s interview with Musk because of the “risk of amplification of potentially harmful content,” and that it would “incite violence, hate and racism.”
ALSO IN THE NEWS:
- European Conservative: “Silent Coup”: How the EU Hijacks Crises To Erode National Sovereignty
- POLITICO: Breton to Musk: See you on Mars?
- European Conservative: Brussels To Subtract €200 Million Fine From Hungary’s Share of EU Budget
- POLITICO: From queen to empress: Inside Ursula von der Leyen’s power grab
- Breitbart: Terror Plot Foiled: Syrian Migrant Allegedly Plotted to Kill German Soldiers on Their Lunch Breaks
- European Conservative: Germany: Migrant Released After Attacking Christian Pensioner Goes on To Assault Nine
- Washington Post: Europe grapples with its decline
- European Conservative: EU To Push for Wider and Stricter Smoking Ban in Outdoor Areas
- Bloomberg: Europe’s EV sales Plunge Has Carmakers Seeking EU Relief
- WSJ: Meta to European Union: Your Tech Rules Threaten to Squelch the AI Boom
- Automotive News Europe: European automakers call for ‘urgent action’ as EU emissions deadline looms
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SPAIN’S PLAN TO REGULATE THE PRESS: For the sake of combatting DISINFORMATION, the Spanish government is taking dramatic steps to regulate the press. The proposal named, “The Democratic Action Plan,” will begin a media register that dictates media companies’ shareholders, financing sources, and how much governments agencies can spend on advertisements with each outlet.
Those who do not comply with the government-controlled-media option will be labeled as “pseudo-media,” a favorite political term of the spanish socialists used to dismiss those not aligned and who speak and value different things than the socialists.
The socialists claim the new governing body over the media won’t be partisan or ideological, but it is set to be headed up by a former staffer of the sitting socialist President…
Even spicier – the Prime Minister’s wife has been investigated by a conservative media outlet for corruption and influence-peddling. A coincidence? We think not.
The center-right leader called the proposed media regulations “banana-republic conception of power… Censorship and persecution of anyone who dares to criticise you. We haven’t seen anything like this since Franco.”
What They Are Saying:
- AP: EU vows retaliation if Hungary sends buses of migrants to Brussels
- Euronews: EU to use ‘all powers’ to stop Orbán from bussing migrants to Brussels
- The Brussels Times: ‘Simply unacceptable’: European Commission lays into Orbán’s migrant bus plan
- @EU-USForum: The mayor of Brussels has said he will block any migrant buses coming into Brussels.
For someone who supports open border policy, isn’t it odd he suddenly doesn’t want to accept ‘asylum seekers’ into his city? - @JoeyMannarino: Hungary is taking a clue from Ron DeSantis & Greg Abbott.
When the EU sends migrants to live in Hungary, they will immediately be sent on buses to Brussels, Belgium. That’s the capital of the European Union.
Viktor Orban is a boss who does NOT play games!🔥 - @HananyaNafali: Hungary is now giving illegal immigrants a free bus ride straight to Brussels! After being fined for not letting them into the EU, Hungary’s sending them right to the heart of the EU.