The Weekly Forum - 18 June 2026

Following the change of government in Hungary, a new push is underway in the EU to abolish the national veto in the few areas where there still is one. This push is supported by the Dutch government but firmly opposed by Forum for Democracy. It will simply be the final nail in the coffin, as Ralf Dekker MP admirably explained in a recent speech. The EU is a colossal mechanism for wealth extraction, taking money from richer states and giving it to poorer. The amount of money sucked out of the Netherlands runs into the hundreds of billions of euros and will rise to a trillion by 2050. None of this can be justified economically or politically. Instead, FVD wants Nexit.

Watch Ralf Dekker’s speech here

Above all, the EU is becoming a military alliance, whereas its original goals were economic. This is highly dangerous, since it is evolving into a bloc. Instead of seeking détente with the biggest country in Europe, ‘Europe’ is on the path to confrontation and war. What started out as a peace project has become a war project. When Russia invaded Ukraine, the EU’s and NATO’s initial position was that it would provide support but not weapons. Very quickly, this was abandoned – huge numbers of tanks, fighter jets, long-range missiles and other weapons have been sent. NATO is now up to its neck in the war. Provoking Russia ever more insistently is evidently its and Ukraine’s strategy. Are we not already at war with Russia, Ralf Dekker MP asked in committee. Is that what we want?

Watch Ralf Dekker’s speech here

As Europe gears up for war with Russia, it seems also to be creating the conditions for civil war at home. Asylum seekers pour into Europe by the thousands every day – 1,000 per week into the Netherlands alone. Syrians who ‘fled Assad’ remain unrepatriated and often attack shopkeepers in Utrecht and Amsterdam. The EU Migration Pact has entered into force which will naturally continue to promote migration and prevent remigration. When will this stop? At what point will governments decide this is unsustainable? Tom Russcher MP put all these questions to the Dutch minister in committee.  

Watch Tom Russcher’s speech here

FVD International’s director, John Laughland, attended and spoke at a Remigration Summit in Oslo on 13 June. He laid out the various policy reforms which are essential to bring it about – economic, legal and demographic. The current dysfunctionality of our tax and monetary systems – both of them short-termist - are a direct cause of the most short-termist policy of all, mass migration. Like so much of our policy today, it is based on privatising the profits and socialising the losses, an unsustainable policy mix which will destroy us from within.

Watch John Laughland’s speech here

The wonderful Pascal Lottaz was our guest on The Forum this week. A lecturer in politics at Kyoto University, the young Swiss academic also runs the highly successful Neutrality Studies podcast. We discussed the likely fall-out from the war in Iran.  

Watch The Forum with Pascal Lottaz here