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Portugal’s Chega to join Orbán’s ‘Patriots for Europe’ alliance.

Portugal’s right-wing populist party Chega has announced its desire to join the new alliance of sovereignist forces in the European Parliament established in Vienna on Sunday.

The new political group was initiated by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, former Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, and Austrian opposition leader Herbert Kickl and their respective parties.

Shortly after the signing ceremony on Sunday, European right-wing parties began to express interest in joining the group, including Chega, Orbán’s press secretary Bertalan Havasi told news agency MTI on Monday.

Chega President André Ventura announced in a press conference his intention to join the group, telling reporters that “the fight against socialism is more important today than ever.”

The joining parties will create an independent political group in the European Parliament and, according to the founders’ plans, soon become the largest right-wing parliamentary group.”

As Remix News reported earlier, at the establishment of the group, Orbán said:

“We will not stand idly by and watch the emergence of a European superstate in which the parliaments of the member states degenerate into a kind of folklore, where sovereignty and the self-determination of individual states are empty phrases.”

“We want a Europe that once again shows itself and develops with pride, values, traditions, and diversity,” said the FPÖ’s Kickl, adding that “Europe does not want to be left to Macron, Von der Leyen or some left-wing experiment.”

Former Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš stressed that EU environmental policy should take more account of economic development in order not to jeopardize the competitiveness of the Community. Technically sound, economically viable, and socially just solutions must be found.

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The party’s leaders Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla outlined plans to make the AfD a party of government.

Coordinated efforts by the far left and municipal officials failed to disrupt the annual congress of the right-wing Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in the German city of Essen over the weekend. The congress followed months of infighting, but also big successes for the party in last month’s European elections. The party also reported that membership had surged by 60% since January 2023. 

According to protest organisers, 70,000 people took to the streets of Essen in a total of 32 demonstrations during the three-day congress. There were violent clashes between demonstrators and the police on Saturday morning, about which German media and politicians were largely silent.

In the congress hall itself, the party comfortably re-elected Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla as co-leaders, although attempts to centralise power within the party’s national committee and move towards having a general secretary were postponed.

On foreign policy, the party did not, in the end, debate motions restricting the ability of party representatives to travel abroad and speak to foreign media.

Alice Weidel received the largest applause of the weekend for declaring “Ukraine does not belong to the EU and not to Europe” as she voiced objections to fresh sanctions against Russian gas.

Weidel also defended her handling of the expulsion of the lead MEP candidate Maximilian Krah after his remarks appearing to relativise the guilt of SS soldiers and stated that her party had “grown up” and was ready to take the front stage in national and European politics.

The next task facing the party following the weekend congress is determining their alliances on the Right given the creation of a new faction for the European Parliament alongside newer nationalist parties, primarily from Eastern Europe.

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General Oleksandr Syrskyi reportedly defied President Zelensky, telling him the lack of air support would turn the counteroffensive into a meat grinder.

Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Oleksandr Syrskyi, much like his predecessor Valery Zaluzhny, has come into open conflict with the Ukrainian president’s office.

There is even talk of Syrskyi’s dismissal for refusing to carry out Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s orders to execute a ground offensive deemed by the army chief as “futile.”

According to the news site EADaily, the commander-in-chief was ordered to launch a major offensive but refused, saying that without proper equipment and air support, such a counteroffensive would turn into a meat grinder in which many soldiers would die.

A source quotes Syrskyi as telling Zelensky that his soldiers would be killed in a futile, unprepared attack.

If reports of a disagreement are accurate, they explain the recent scandal involving Marjana Bezugla, a member of Ukraine’s parliament, who denounced the chief prosecutor for refusing to allow her to travel to the frontline, which Bezugla said was an obstacle to her exercising her constitutional rights.

It was not yet known why the MP wanted to visit the frontline fighters and see for herself the conditions there, but the feud between Zelensky and Syrskyi may be a factor.

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Farage has managed to turn criticism from Channel 4 on its head, accusing the broadcaster of “election interference.”

Around 5,000 people paid an entry fee to attend an impressive Reform UK rally in Birmingham on Sunday despite despite increasingly intense establishment attacks on the party.

The political class first went for Reform leader Nigel Farage over his comments that the war in Ukraine was at least in part “provoked” by NATO and EU expansion. The Conservatives were particularly pleased with the opportunity to bash Reform, having spent weeks losing voters—and, more recently, donors—to the insurgent party.

But the saga hasn’t really done much to Reform’s position in the polls (believe them or not), which is still much higher than at the start of the general election campaign. One particularly amusing poll over the weekend suggested that Farage is still the favoured candidate to replace prime minister Rishi Sunak, should he resign as Tory leader after the election, well ahead of Tory bigwigs like Penny Mordaunt and Suella Braverman.

A more sustained attack has, however, focussed on Reform’s parliamentary candidates. The Guardian complained this morning, on July 1st, that “at least 30” individuals hoping to become Reform MPs “have cast doubt on human-induced global heating.” The party did, in fact, drop support for three of its candidates before the end of June following reports they had made offensive or racist comments.

But the party has managed to turn the criticism on its head, claiming the establishment media is attempting to carry out a hit job for purely political reasons. This is especially in relation to a Channel 4 exposé on what it described as a Reform party canvasser in Clacton, where Farage is standing to be MP. The individual, Andrew Parker, was caught on camera suggesting—in working-class tones—that illegal migrants ought to be shot, and calling Sunak a “f*****g* P**i.”

Only, Parker is a self-described “well spoken” actor whose own bio pages (now taken offline) say he specialises in both “rough speaking” and “secret filming.”

Parker has insisted that his acting is separate from his volunteering for Reform. Channel 4, claiming “we did not pay the Reform UK canvasser,” said: “We strongly stand by our rigorous and duly impartial journalism which speaks for itself.”

But Reform has reported the leftist broadcaster to the elections watchdog over what it called “scandalous election interference.” The party’s lawyers also branded the affair an “absolute scandal.”

It seems that, if anything, these attacks have done more to shore up support for Reform among its sick-and-tired-of-the-establishment base, which continues to give Farage and company extraordinary levels of support (so far as British politics is concerned) wherever he goes. You just cannot imagine these levels of enthusiasm for any of the mainstream parties.

Nor can one imagine any of the major parties receiving £400,000 (€470,000) in just 24 hours “entirely from small donors,” as Reform says it has just done.

Really, the only thing that can now get in Reform’s way ahead of the national poll on July 4th is a fear of a Labour ‘supermajority,’ and what this might mean for the country over the next five (if not ten) years.

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“We don’t want a European empire.”

The European Union should not become a federalized, centralized state, but should instead focus on ending mass migration and the war in Ukraine, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told national media in an interview on July 1, the day his country assumed the revolving presidency of the EU.

Orbán stressed that the leaders in Brussels “have made a power pact whose only aim is to dominate the political positions in Brussels for another five years, but it won’t work because you can’t govern against the people, and that makes those of us who want change even stronger. It will lift us up, it will increase our strength and we will achieve this change. If not in two weeks, then in two months, but it will happen,” he said.

“We do not want a Europe that takes away, diminishes and erases everything that is important to us as patriots,” Orbán added, according to Hungarian news outlet Infostart.

Orbán has formed a new alliance at the EU parliament level, with the new Patriots of Europe parliamentary group already attracting the biggest parties in Austria and Czechia, the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) and Czechia’s ANO, led by former Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš.

“This is the mindset of the people who have gathered, or are beginning to gather, under the banner that we three raised in Vienna on Sunday: the leaders of the largest Austrian party, the largest Czech party and the largest Hungarian party. We will be a large parliamentary group faster than anyone thinks now. In four to five more days, many people will be surprised,” added the prime minister, who also revealed that negotiations are underway with many political groups and that the formation meeting of the group will take place on July 8.

Asked how he would position the Alliance within the EU parliament, the prime minister said: “Our name means Patriots for Europe. We are patriots who are passionate about our country and who care about Europe,” he said. “We want strong European cooperation for the sake of our own country.”

“We do not want a European empire, we do not want a United States of Europe, we do not want a gray blob, a command-and-control system controlled from Brussels. We want national sovereignty and independence under our own national flags.”

One of the common themes of the group is its promotion of peace within Europe, with the group looking to bring together parties that do not want to prolong the war between Ukraine and Russia, but instead want a ceasefire and an end to hostilities. 

“What has gone wrong?” the Hungarian prime minister asked. “The people of Europe want peace. Today, instead of peace, the people of Europe are getting war. We want order and security, but instead the people of Europe are getting migration and the resulting threat of terrorism and crime.”

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While Biden was applauding Elton John’s profane declaration of war on Christian morality and headlining a ‘pride’ fundraiser, his administration was quietly announcing that it is walking back support for child ‘sex changes.’

(LifeSiteNews) — On the heels of a disastrous debate performance, President Joe Biden is working to shore up support from the Democratic base as the strategists who melted down on TV while he was being helped from the debate stage begin to realize that there is no easy way to replace the Biden-Harris ticket at this stage in the game. Both Barack Obama and Bill Clinton have come forward to endorse Biden staying in the race, and Biden’s family is apparently urging him to remain put. Biden, meanwhile, jetted into New York for two major LGBT events. 

Biden’s message on the debate stage was simple: He, Joe Biden, is a man of honor and integrity, and Donald Trump is a man with “the morals of an alley cat.” Biden reprised this refrain at a rally the following day, and his staffers posted the saying on X. This is coming from a man who hosted a “Trans Day of Visibility” on the White House Lawn, which resulted in a transgender-identifying man publicly exposing himself. At the unveiling of the Stonewall monument with pop star Elton John on Friday, Biden laughed and applauded when Elton John told the crowd that the LGBT movement was not giving up an inch of territory: “F*** that!”  

READ: Biden attacks DeSantis for protecting children from transgender mutilation: ‘Close to sinful’

Biden’s support for the LGBT movement has been a centerpiece of his administration, but interestingly, the New York Times reported on June 28 that it is quietly backing away from “sex changes” for minors. The Biden administration, along with the Trudeau government in Canada, has been one of the staunchest supporters of the most radical aspects of the transgender agenda, even as many European countries and medical institutions begin to condemn and move away from such practices. But now, according to the Times, the Biden administration has said it does not support transgender surgeries for minors, which the Times called Biden’s “most explicit statement to date on the subject.”

“The White House announcement was sent to The New York Times on Wednesday,” the newspaper said, “in response to an article reporting that staff in the office of Adm. [Richard “Rachel”] Levine, an assistant secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services,” had pushed a prominent transgender activist group to eliminate age limits for “sex change” surgeries in its “standards of care.”  

READ: ‘Transgender’ Biden official Levine behind removal of age limits in ‘sex change’ surgery guidelines

The Times continued:

The draft guidelines would have lowered the age minimums to 14 for [cross-sex hormones], 15 for mastectomies, 16 for breast or facial surgeries, and 17 for genital surgeries or hysterectomies. The final guidelines, released in 2022, removed the age-based recommendations altogether.

“Adm. Levine shared [his] view with [his] staff that publishing the proposed lower ages for gender transition surgeries was not supported by science or research, and could lead to an onslaught of attacks on the transgender community [sic],” an H.H.S. spokesman said in a statement on Friday evening . . .

The Biden administration did not disavow its support for dangerous, mutilating transgender hormonal interventions for children, however, the newspaper noted.

READ: Biden DOJ indicts doctor who exposed transgender child mutilation at Texas hospital

This may not seem like much, but it is a significant walk-back. Obviously, these surgeries are irreversible – once a mastectomy or castration is performed, the damage is permanent. But this is a fact that is both obvious and much-denied. Interestingly, the very same day, June 28, the Texas Supreme Court upheld the state’s ban on “sex changes” for minors to the outrage of the LGBT movement. The statement of the radical Biden administration, however, would seem to support this decision, meaning that they are slowly coming to the realization that the transgender agenda is causing immense damage and that they need to oppose “sex changes” for minors before lawsuits start taking the entire industry down. 

Make no mistake: The Biden administration wouldn’t be taking this position if they didn’t see the writing on the wall. While Biden, a president with the morals of an alley cat, was applauding Elton John’s profane declaration of war on Christian morality and headlining a “pride” fundraiser, his administration was quietly telling the New York Times that they are backing off support for “sex changes” for children. The cracks in the consensus are spreading faster now. 

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