European Far-Right Leaders, Meeting to Condemn the E.U., Are Greeted With Boos
At a news conference, Mr. Wilders, leader of the Dutch Party for Freedom, called on the European Union to adopt more restrictive immigration policies
and said the conference would serve to usher in a new era of cooperation among like-minded parties.
The members of the European Parliament, including Marine Le Pen of France
and Geert Wilders of the Netherlands, met as part of the nationalist Europe of Nations and Freedom coalition at a heavily fortified hotel just outside the city center in the Czech Republic, which has seen a rise in far-right politics and nationalist rhetoric.
#MENFCongress pic.twitter.com/sRoyazsaBM Tomio Okamura, the Czech-Japanese leader of the SPD, said the gathering on Saturday was to demand a reformed European Union based on the tightest
possible cooperation of sovereign nations, guided by mutual benefits without any dictate from Brussels, while maintaining free movement of people, goods, capital and services.
Wilders said that In 30 or 50 years, the Czech Republic will be surrounded by countries with population where 20 percent of people will be Muslims.
16, 2017
PRAGUE — As European far-right leaders gathered in Prague on Saturday for a two-day conference to unify their stance on immigration
and other issues, they were met by throngs of protesters who booed, shouted "Shame" and denounced populism and xenophobia.
Though no public agenda for the conference was made public, the group introduced the Belgian right-wing politician Gerolf Annemans as the Europe of Nations
and Freedom’s new president and visited the Czech Parliament on a guided tour.
Jan Cemper said that In the Czech Republic, there is an increasing number of attacks against minorities due to the policies of the Czech SPD party,