The Weekly Forum - 11 June 2026

Lidewij de Vos’ magnificent speech to the Remigration Summit in Oporto is now online. Her message was simple: I am not afraid. She encouraged the attendees to stop living in fear – in fear of being labelled as this or that, in fear of being demonised. Fear, she said, is our opponents’ only weapon. She said she was speaking out for remigration because she wants to protect the future of the baby she is expecting. She regards it as her duty to do this - for herself, for her family and for her country. The British art historian, Kenneth Clarke, famously said that civilisations die when they lose self-confidence. Lidewij de Vos, and FVD generally, embody precisely that fearless self-confidence which is essential for our civilisation’s survival. That, indeed, is FVD’s political goal.

Watch Lidewij’s speech here  

A perfect example of the smear tactics Lidewij said she no longer fears was given after she returned from Oporto. In Parliament, following a speech she delivered, MP after MP lined up to label her views ‘extreme right’, ‘disgusting’ or even ‘filth’. Lidewij batted away these ridiculous attacks effortlessly. She then turned the table on her accusers, who claimed that she condoned or encouraged violence, by repeating that she supports peaceful protest and precisely wants an end to the terrible and repeated acts of violence committed against Europeans by asylum seekers. We have made a compilation of Lidewij’s speech in Parliament, the attacks from her colleagues, and various news reports so that people comprehend the scale of the gulf which separates FVD from the political cartel which is determined to demonise and even destroy the very nation it pretends to represent.

Watch the compilation here

As a result of all this, Lidewij’s and FVD’s international profile is growing. She was interviewed this week by Junge Freiheit, the well-established conservative newspaper in Germany. We have translated the interview into English. It is a sympathetic portrait in which Lidewij lays out with clarity what FVD is all about.

Read Lidewij’s interview here

FVD International’s director, John Laughland, was a speaker at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum this year, on a panel discussing whether there is any role for diplomacy in today’s chaotic world. John used the panel to present and develop Emmanuel Todd’s thesis that nihilism is the cause of the defeat of the West. Nihilism is the belief in nothing – the belief that nothing can be something and that reality can be created by thought. It is at the origin of Europe’s systemic politics of illusion – the belief that a man can become a woman, the belief that artificial states like Bosnia or Kosovo, or for that matter Ukraine, can have a genuine autonomous existence. Trapped inside a deeply ideological view of the world, European leaders are essentially incapable of diplomacy, which involves give and take and the language of interests, instead of the moral framing which – see the remarks about Lidewij above – infects all European political activity.

Watch John’s speech here

Our guest on The Forum this week was Alex Krainer, the former commodities trader turned geopolitical analyst. Alex is convinced that war is driven by banks seeking out ever new sources of collateral on which to issue ever more stratospheric levels of debt. They seek this collateral mainly in the form of the control over territory and natural resources. Alex is convinced that the West’s defeats in Ukraine and Iran mean that the latest grab by the financial system has failed and the house of cards can only collapse sooner or later. If you missed the show, watch back.

Watch The Forum here