The Save Europe Act has passed 700,000 signatures less than three months after its launch, pushing the pan-European anti-immigration and remigration campaign towards its one-million target despite the European Commission’s refusal to register it as an official European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI).
Announcing the achievement on her X page, Dutch activist and co-founder Eva Vlaardingerbroek said that the next steps are ‘reaching one million and going to court’ against Brussels.
The initiative, launched on 31 May by Vlaardingerbroek and Austrian activist Martin Sellner, demands a moratorium on new non-Western and non-European immigration channels, stronger external borders, rapid screening and return procedures, systematic deportation of illegal migrants and rejected asylum seekers, mutual recognition of return decisions, restrictions on migration-related welfare incentives, and an EU-wide framework for voluntary and incentivized remigration.
The European Commission recently refused to register the Save Europe Act as an official ECI on 22 July, stating that its distinction between Western and non-Western migration, and its stated objective of preserving Europe’s ethnic and cultural continuity, constituted discrimination based on race and ethnic origin. The Commission ruled that the initiative was therefore ‘manifestly contrary’ to Article 21 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and the values contained in Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union.
The organizers fiercely dispute that interpretation and are now preparing to challenge the refusal in court. Such a route is legally available: organizers of previous ECIs have brought actions for annulment against Commission registration refusals, and EU courts have previously overturned Brussels’ decisions where their reasoning failed legal scrutiny.
Nevertheless, the pace of the campaign is already remarkable and shows increasing demand among European citizens to stop incentivized mass migration into the EU while simultaneously returning illegal migrants already there. The Save Europe Act passed 100,000 signatures within three days of its launch and half a million in little more than a month.
The team behind the initiative is also noteworthy: Vlaardingerbroek has described the growing volunteer network as the beginning of a genuinely pan-European patriotic movement. ‘Don’t let anyone tell you Europe is lost. Hundreds of thousands of patriots have already pledged to save it, and we are growing by the day,’ she said in a post on X.
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