Kamiel Vermeylen

@Andric1961 I understand the Commission will propose that new MS’ voting rights could be stripped by QMV.

True. But Hungary was also a loyal EU member in 2010. Then Viktor Orbán came. There is concern that Montenegro, tomorrow or the day after, could also produce an Orbán and then block the EU. This question remains unresolved.

Montenegro is allegedly the “frontrunner” among EU candidate countries. The EU-Commission indicates it could very soon, by 2028 or 2029, become the first new member since Croatia in 2013. But is that realistic? Discussed this with Montenegro’s President Jakov Milatović. ⬇️

To say Viktor Orban was a democrat after all because he admitted defeat is quite a stretch considering he manipulated the entire electoral system to his hand and in the end fell victim to the monster of his own creation. Tisza only got 53% of the popular vote.

@James7Holland Wasn’t your boss in Russia previous week?

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has just called to congratulate us on our victory.

@tomvangrieken @PM_ViktorOrban Na zestien jaar het armste en meest corrupte land van de EU - is dat wat jij van Vlaanderen wil maken?

🇭🇺🗳️ Vandaag een moderne versie van David tegen Goliath. @PM_ViktorOrban tegen Peter Magyar. Een premier die aan de kant van zijn volk staat en die tegen oorlog en open grenzen is. Aan de andere kant een opportunist die gesteund wordt door de ganse EU-propagandamachine, door figuren zoals George Soros en door buitenlandse financierders. Vandaag bepalen de Hongaren niet alleen de toekomst van Hongarije, maar ook die van de EU. Daarom verdient Fidesz meer dan ooit de steun van het @vlbelang en steun ik complexloos @PM_ViktorOrban. 💪🏻

@Nicolas10424851 @jdceulaer In ronduit abominabele staat. Al hoeft dat natuurlijk niet te verbazen als je weet dat al die miljarden in de zakken van Orbán zijn club verdwijnt. Daarover meer in onderstaande documentaire en artikel. youtu.be/9NQEcLIiOpM?is… direkt36.hu/en/ennyire-res…

@kmlvrmln @jdceulaer Vertel eens.

Beste Donald Trump, ik hoop dat de Hongaren zondag uw vriend Orbán eruit flikkeren demorgen.be/ts-be0c1826/

@Nicolas10424851 @jdceulaer Al eens in een Hongaars ziekenhuis geweest de afgelopen jaren, met al hun karakter?

@jdceulaer Zou je het niet jammer vinden moest het karakter daar verloren gaan dan?

Chaos in Beirut as Israel carries out a wave of airstrikes across the country hitting what it said were more than 100 targets in ten minutes.

@gillesDM92 @PieterBauwens

@PieterBauwens Hilarisch, deze analyse.

Gisteren werd nog gelachen met de onderhandelingen tussen de VS en Iran, die enkel in het hoofd van Trump zouden plaatshebben. Vandaag is er een staakt het vuren. Misschien wat meer voorbehoud maken in de verslaggeving over de VS.

@Antikeburg Haven't you seen this James Holland eurobashing-influencer on here? Works in the EU-Parliament for ADR-MEP Fernand Kartheiser, who got expelled from ECR for his pro-Russian manoeuvres.

Why is the Luexembourgish Parliament so Germany coded 😭😭 Mf’s even got the light blue “Alternative” party that is far right and eurosceptic.

VP Vance at rally with Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán in Budapest: "When the rest of Europe threw open its gates, you said no. When strange activists came to tell you to erase your heritage, you said no…To Hungary, Hungarians must always come first."

Given Trump’s Easter threats to carry out new war crimes in Iran, we should think one or two steps ahead about a coup attempt connected to the war. And then deter it. (1/17)

The Vice President is abroad campaigning for a dictator. The President is threatening to wipe out an entire civilization. Congress is on recess. This is a total collapse of American moral leadership — at a historic scale.

Ik trok naar Hongarije en volgde Viktor Orbán en Peter Magyar op campagne. knack.be/nieuws/wereld/…

@James7Holland You're the guy working for the MEP that got expelled from ECR because he was meeting with Putins aides, isn't it?

EU govts are engaging in election interference in other EU countries‼️ We saw it in Romania already, and it’s wrong on so many levels. Those who want to escalate war with Russia and a militarised EU see Orban as their biggest obstacle, so they want him gone, and don’t care how.

@CatherineBelton hvg.hu/360/20260318_m… Have you seen this?

A spokesperson for Buskirk, who also is a co-founder of 1789 Capital, the investment firm where Donald Trump Jr. serves as a partner, said he had “no affiliation with MCC, never has, and did not attend these conferences. Any statement suggesting otherwise is false.”

Public records appear to show the most prominent member of Vance’s closest circle with connections to Orbans Hungary is Chris Buskirk, head of the Rockbridge Network, the secretive fundraising credited with helping fuel Vance’s rise to the vice presidency washingtonpost.com/world/2026/04/…

@EuropaeDraconis @mepassistants This one for example, but also look at Robert Steuckers, who was guest speaker at their first event. x.com/VanderweePiete…

@kmlvrmln @mepassistants Russians will try to infiltrate rightwing movements whether EU or anti-EU. What info do you have on the duginist connections of CC? I saw comments on X so I stopped following them on Substack as a precaution - but do you have a source confirming this?

A pro-European right has always existed, it's nothing new. The novelty is the emergence of a dedicated pan-European federalist hard/far right. The development of a right-wing version of pan-europeanism (something that goes much further than merely being pro-EU) is not abnormal per se. Just like you can have a left or liberal interpretation of what a pan-European/federal Europe should be, there's no reason why there would not be a conservative one. The issue (as pointed in the article) is that while these new movements claim to be "conservative" and mostly seek to differentiate themselves from the far-right (by formally rejecting nationalism), at least some of them have developed an internal dissonance/contradiction that actually puts them in the far-right family, the Ave Europa civil war being the prime example. While having critical views of immigration is not problematic in principle, these movements approach it in a manner that is more reminiscent of the far-right than conservatives. Conservative usually link uncontrolled migration to pressure on the social model, insecurity, etc. These movements use these arguments as well BUT also justify their opposition to immigration with outright ethnic or culturo-religious argument, an absolute dog-whistle for far-right identitarian supremacist. One just need to look at the answers from their supporters to any tweet questioning these movements to immediately see that discourse popping up, focused on a paranoïa that European ethnic groups will go extinct (the good old far-right Great Replacement narrative). Their argument to deny their belonging to the far-right family is exclusively limited to "we're pro-EU and not pro-Russian" which, while indeed excluding parts of the traditional far-right, puts aside their whole identitarian discourse that is deeply far-right in nature. If we link this to current EU politics, this shows the weakness in the new EPP motto that defines the far-right exclusively as being anti-EU, pro-Russian and anti-rule of law, leaving the door open for this emerging branch of the far-right (though one could discuss whether they would ACTUALLY be compatible with the rule of law). It suits the short-term political objectives of the EPP to weaken the left, but also lets the far-right fox in the henhouse. Bottom-line is that these emerging pan-European groups are far-right and not conservative in nature. Again, this is not abnormal per se, but they mislabel themselves to feed their growth and attempt to gain legitimacy/acceptability. What makes them interesting, is that they signal the reinforcement of the "civilisational" far-right wing, partly in reaction to the war in Ukraine and the return of Trump. Contrary to the nationalist wing of the far-right (which is arguably still the majority), they don't see Europe as anathema but as a geopolitical, societal and identitarian necessity to defend European ethnic groups against external threats, be it Russia, muslims, non-European ethnic groups or the US. The identitarian and somewhat supremacist DNA of the far-right remains, but its focus is the "European civilisation" more than the nation-state. The million dollar questions are 1) whether this branch of the far-right will become dominant/mainstream within the far-right family or whether it will fracture and go its own way and 2) what role they will play in the on-going debate about the union of the rights.

@VanderweePieter @pedersschaefer @CharlemagneClub This indeed isn't quite a well researched piece.

@pedersschaefer @CharlemagneClub Charlemagne Club was co-founded by Yaro Deli. You can read about Yaro Deli's other membership here: rvdj.be/sites/default/… You can read about his leader here: humo.be/nieuws/feniks-… Or here: knack.be/nieuws/wereld/… They're Duginist, useful idiot scum.

A group of young conservatives in Brussels told me they's seeing more and more young me throughout Europe who feel “politically homeless.” Why? Too pro-Europe for right-wing nationalists. Too right-wing for the pro-EU mainstream. Super important trend to watch! Groups like @AveEuropae and @CharlemagneClub key here, as well as accounts like @euromaximal @NXT4EU