Obviously, Teutonic heads are dense as planks, because while Merz backed off of government surveillance and the possible banning of his rivals (especially after public exposure of the ludicrous 'secret intelligence report'), the German government has whipped around and trained its sights on other, less well-connected quarry.

Since the beginning of the year, something called 'The Remigration Summit' has been planned for Milan, Italy, this weekend. Many of the names of the reviled 'far-right' have been scheduled to speak, and ever since the summit was announced, skittish European leaders have been doing their best to throw a wrench in the event's occurrence.

The hyper-hysterical headlines haven't eased a bit, nor the shading of any coverage of the conference as if it were a major gathering of  Bond movie terrorist masterminds deep within a mountain fortress.

Only, these troublesome miscreants are much worse in EU eyes, as they all look and sound like Bond villains to us.

The Remigration Summit (ReSum), organized by an Austrian identitarian, is scheduled to take place in May 2025 in Milan, Italy. The summit aims to bring together various speakers and participants who advocate remigration. Other European ultranationalist leaders have joined him in calling for the summit, including the head of a Portuguese ultranationalist movement; the founder of a Flemish identitarian group, from Belgium; and an Italian identitarian activist. All are active on X. Following are details they and others have released about the summit.

“Together” to achieve “remigration by the millions”

On January 1, 2025, the organizer of the event, known for his far-right and anti-immigration views, pinned a post containing a video on his X account, in which he announces that the “First Remigration Summit” will take place in May 2025 and will rally activists, journalists and politicians. The pinned video features the summit's four prominent European ultranationalist figures. The post’s message states: “In 2024 the vision of Remigration became the hope of our entire continent. In 2025 we will organize the first Remigration Summit: in May we will gather activists, journalists and politicians to unite our ideas, reach and influence. If we work together, Remigration is inevitable.”

A month ago, the mayor of Milan was asking the Italian government for permission to block the gathering.

...Milan, "a city that has been awarded a gold medal for the Resistance, a model of hospitality and civil coexistence for decades, does not deserve the insult of a show-summit like the one launched by Martin Sellner (an Austrian far-right activist, ed.) and supported by all the reactionary groups that follow him. I am of the opinion that complex and multifaceted issues such as migration cannot and should not be addressed in this way: with the tone of this summit and with meetings that fuel hatred and inhumanity". This is what the mayor of Milan wrote Giuseppe Sala in a letter sent to the network “Nessuna persona è illegal” which had appealed to the mayor to ban the “Remigration Summit” in Milan.

I have to assume he wasn't successful, because this is the panicked Euractiv headline from four days ago. Sounds pretty much like everyone was still coming.

'Rogue's gallery,' no less.

‘Remigration’ conclave: Europe’s far-right to plot mass deportations at Italian gathering

A rogues’ gallery of extremists is expected to attend, but the exact location remains a secret.

Far-right leaders from across Europe will gather near Milan next week to promote 'remigration', a hardline plan to deport non-white immigrants and their descendants, regardless of citizenship, birthplace, or legal status.

The summit, shrouded in secrecy, aims to “define the concept, understand it, and implement remigration in Western political systems,” according to the organisers, a loose network of extreme-right figures from across Europe who insist that mass deportations are “inevitable”.

Among the headline speakers is Austrian far-right activist Martin Sellner, who gained notoriety in 2022 after German outlet Correctiv exposed a secret meeting where he pitched his remigration blueprint to members of the far-right AfD and other extremists.

But the summit and its participants, some of whom paid a healthy sum for VIP events, are suddenly in a bit of a pickle. 

In Italy, while the Milanese mayor might not have gotten his way, there are reports that Italian police have expeditiously removed one of the featured speakers, the hotel backed out at the last minute leaving 400+ attendees with nowhere to go, and there are a couple of the de rigeur Lefty protests scheduled since the location seems to have leaked.

...Among the headline speakers are Austrian far-right activist Martin Sellner, French ideologue Jean-Yves Le Gallou, Belgian politician Dries Van Langenhove, and Dutch commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek.

The location had been kept under wraps for security reasons but was later rumoured to be in Varese, just outside Milan.

This week, an email seen by Euractiv told attendees that a coalition of “press, politicians, antifa and Italian authorities” was doing everything possible to shut down the event – and that the chosen venue had “backed off from the contract.” Media reports confirm the hotel canceled the booking.

Roughly 400 people are expected to attend, and tickets – some priced as high as €250 for VIP access – have already sold out.

On Thursday, media reported that Danish far-right politician Rasmus Paludan was detained at Milan Malpensa airport and expelled from Italy, reportedly en route to the summit. Paludan is known for staging public Quran burnings, actions that have triggered widespread outrage and earned him bans in several countries.

 The Quran burning social pariahs are always the first to get booted - I would think he probably should have expected that.

...Meanwhile, two protests are set to take place in Milan in opposition to the summit – one organised by centre-left political parties, the other led by student groups and social movements.

As for the freedom-loving Germans, who need no lessons from us, they did their part to defend democracy by dragging a gaggle of young folks with tickets for the event off an airplane that was just about to leave for Italy.

Heavily armed German Stasi take German citizens off a plane and lock them up to prevent them from going to Italy for the Remigration Summit. Germany is dragging Europe down a very dark path! pic.twitter.com/PRIyCE9WUv

— Dries Van Langenhove (@DVanLangenhove) May 16, 2025

Arch criminals.

Young German patriots were arrested and locked up when they were boarding a plane to go to Italy for @resum25.

On the list of items taken from them:
“A tie with airplanes on it”
“A pullover with airplanes printed on it”

How long before Germany starts banning airplane prints? 🤡 pic.twitter.com/WLHvsDyvMR

— Dries Van Langenhove (@DVanLangenhove) May 16, 2025

So the German cops hauled the six men and two women away, interrogated them 'for hours,' according to reports, and then released them, but they are banned from traveling outside of Germany for two days (how long is that summit again...?), and they all have to check in with the German police physically twice a day to prove they didn't sneak out to Italy.

I'm serious.

8 young Germans are now banned from LEAVING Germany. If they try it, they commit a crime. They have to check in daily at their local police station. If not, they have to pay an extra fine. The democracy simulation is shutting down. pic.twitter.com/G9h1rJwnhW

— Martin Sellner (@Martin_Sellner) May 15, 2025

Seems a bit over-the-top, no?

...As for the German activists, six men and two women who were stopped at the airport, Sellner stated they were released after hours of interrogation. They must now report to the police station twice a day.

“Eight young Germans are now banned from LEAVING Germany. If they try it, they commit a crime. They have to check in daily at their local police station. If not, they have to pay an extra fine. The democracy simulation is shutting down,” wrote Sellner.

And why? Are they a menace to society? A danger to their fellow man? Conspirators of the highest order who must be prevented from meeting with the other diabolical members of their revolutionary cabal?

NEIN

The official word from the German government is that they are all banned from traveling because they are an embarrassment to the *checks notes* German government.

I'm serious.

WE CAN'T HAVE THESE NEANDERTHALS MAKING US LOOK BAD IN FRONT OF OUR FRIENDS

...“In the event of an exit from German right-wing extremists, there is a considerable risk of damage to the reputation of the Federal Republic of Germany due to the stays of German right-wing extremists who promote the transnational networking of the right-wing extremist scene, actively promote the inhuman ideology and give it more scope, thus harbors the risk of radicalization of other people and their trips for the development of financial resources and the like.”

Freilich also writes that “it is also due to the history of Germany that the arrival of the activist concerned gives the international impression that the Federal Republic of Germany supports the right-wing extremist ideas openly spread at the event or at least does not adequately address them.”

Essentially, the German state is attempting to make the argument that allowing the activists to attend the summit would be the equivalent of endorsing their beliefs and harming the reputation of Germany. If that is the standard, then apparently it could be argued that any activists Germany does not detain in the future for any conference is a sign that the German state officially endorses the contents of that conference? Such reasoning reaches into the realms of the absurd.

In Germany, you're free as a bird unless someone in power finds your behavior - or political beliefs - embarrassing.

Then out comes the cage, just that fast, to protect the national 'reputation.'

WOOF

I really don't think this US/DR deviation in concepts of what 'democracy' and 'freedom' mean is at all a language problem. 

But it's definitely a failure to communicate. 

The Germans should check out what an 'embarrassment' really is...and a mirror while they're at it.