Some European Leaders Pushing Back Against Migration and Islamic Extremism

While most of Europe remains globalist, a number of politicians are taking a stand against illegal immigration, asylum acceptance, and particularly against allowing Islamists into their countries.

Right-wing parties now hold over one-quarter of seats in the European Parliament, 187 out of 720, following the June 2024 elections. Leaders including Italy’s Giorgia Meloni and Hungary’s Viktor Orbán have driven EU policy toward tighter border controls. Germany’s interior minister participated in a summit at the Zugspitze with leaders from Austria, Denmark, and Poland, all of whom have adopted stricter migration stances.

In late March 2026, the European Parliament voted to advance new deportation legislation shaped by conservatives and the far-right, with trilogues expected in spring 2026, and a proposal expanding powers for EU border agency Frontex is forthcoming.

Alice Elisabeth Weidel, born February 6, 1979, has served as co-chairwoman of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) alongside Tino Chrupalla since June 2022 and has led the AfD parliamentary group in the Bundestag since October 2017.

She holds an unconventional profile: she has two adopted boys with a female Sri Lankan-born partner, speaks Mandarin, and previously worked at Goldman Sachs and the Bank of China. In Germany’s February 2025 federal election, she led the AfD to second place with over 20 percent of the vote.

The AfD currently holds 151 seats in the Bundestag, making it the largest opposition party. In a recorded speech, Weidel declared: “The danger does not come from without, it comes from within. It has been rising from the globalist elites in Brussels and in too many European capitals, and precisely because it wears a mask of benevolence, it is so diabolically dangerous. They flood our countries with illegal mass migration. They force our own people to feed, house, and privilege these masses while crime explodes and terrorism stalks from within.”

She has also stated that Germany was seeing “an explosion of foreigner criminality and migrant violence,” and at the January 2025 AfD party congress called for borders to be “closed completely” to undocumented migrants, using the term “remigration” multiple times.

Geert Wilders, leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV), heads the largest party in the Dutch parliament and is one of Europe’s most prominent anti-immigration politicians. He has described Islam as “not a religion” but a “totalitarian ideology” akin to National Socialism, compared the Quran to Mein Kampf, campaigned to have it banned in the Netherlands, and formally called for the “de-Islamization” of the Netherlands.

Wilders called for the mass repatriation of approximately 60,000 Syrians residing in the Netherlands and declared that criminal dual nationals must lose their Dutch citizenship and be expelled. His 10-point plan proposes deporting any migrant convicted of sexual or violent crimes under a “one offense, and you’re out” policy. At a May 2025 press conference he stated: “We’re done. The gloves come off today. We’ll talk to everyone, but we bow to no one.”

Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister of Hungary, posted on X in September 2025: “They said migration could be managed; we said it must be stopped. Today in Hungary the number of illegal migrants is ZERO. No street gangs, no antisemitism, no violence, no unrest. Hungary belongs to the Hungarians, and Europe must belong to the Europeans.”

In July 2025 he posted: “If you let migrants in and legalize their residency, they become part of your society, even though they are nothing like you. Different in appearance, language, and values, yet here to stay. From that moment on, there is no way back.”

At a January 2026 press conference he stated: “We will not accept Brussels telling us who we can live with.” He has also said: “If you take masses of non-registered immigrants from the Middle East into your country, you are importing terrorism, crime, anti-Semitism, and homophobia,” and that “there is a clear correlation between the illegal immigrants who are flooding into Europe and the spread of terrorism.”

French EPP MEP François-Xavier Bellamy, on the EU deportation law passed March 26, 2026, stated: “We will impose a simple principle: who comes to Europe illegally cannot stay.”

French President Emmanuel Macron, though a centrist, has addressed the issue directly. In a 2020 speech he declared: “What we must tackle is Islamist separatism. A conscious, theorized, political-religious project is materializing through repeated deviations from the Republic’s values.” He also stated that “Islam is a religion which is experiencing a crisis today, all over the world,” and that “Islam in France must be freed from foreign influence.”

Following pro-Islamist demonstrations in Germany in support of the Druze massacre in Syria, CDU member Christopher Forster stated: “Those who demonstrate in favor of fundamentalist regimes have nothing to do with German values. If Syria is now ‘safe’ for them, then that is where they must return.”

In the United Kingdom, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage pledged at his party’s September 2025 conference in Birmingham to ban the Muslim Brotherhood, stating: “We will stop dangerous organisations with links to terrorism operating in our country. Why we’ve been so gutless about this, both the Conservative and Labour, I don’t know. All across the Middle East, countries have banned and proscribed the Muslim Brotherhood as a dangerous organization.”

When asked in September 2025 whether Trump was right to say sharia is an issue in London, Farage answered: “Is he right to say that Sharia is an issue in London? Yes.” Responding to a Muslim Eid prayer gathering in Trafalgar Square in March 2026, he called it “an open, deliberate, willful attempt, not at the private observance of a different religion, but the attempt to overtake, intimidate and dominate our way of life.” Farage said that while some Muslim immigrants integrate into British society, which he supports, others are “coming here to take us over.”

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