In recent years, the debate on migration, borders and national identity in the European Union has become increasingly intense. Against this background, the Save Europe Act has emerged, an initiative that aims to collect one million signatures from EU citizens and force the European Commission to propose concrete legislative measures to protect indigenous European populations in the field of migration policy. border control and demographic issues.
The initiative was officially launched on May 31, 2026 at a conference on the topic of remigration in Porto, Portugal. The main organizers are Dutch political commentator and activist Eva Vlaardingerbroek and Austrian activist Martin Zellner. They have prepared a detailed core document that summarizes the demands shared by various patriotic and conservative groups in Europe. In just a few days, it has garnered 100,000 signatures and is now approaching half a million – evidence of the enormous anger and anxiety among ordinary Europeans, making it one of the fastest growing ECIs in recent times.
Organisation and structure of the initiative
The Save Europe Act uses the formal mechanism of the European Citizens’ Initiative introduced by the Lisbon Treaty, which allows citizens to propose new policies or legislation if they collect enough signatures from at least seven Member States. Organisers have set up a coordination team responsible for collecting signatures, communication and legal preparation.
The charter of the initiative is published on the official website and contains specific proposals, divided into several main areas.
First and foremost – a complete stop to substitution migration. This includes a moratorium on non-Western and non-European immigration, both legal and illegal. Borders must be closed and guarded effectively, not turned into a gateway for millions of newcomers from the Middle East, Africa and Asia, who often bring with them incompatible cultural patterns, high crime and huge costs for European taxpayers.
Secondly, accelerated deportations of illegal migrants, criminal elements and those whose asylum applications have been rejected. The absurd practice of people without the right to stay in Europe are delayed for years, consuming social benefits, housing and medical services at the expense of the local population, must be put to an end.
Third, the creation of a European system of remigration. This means the organised, voluntary or incentive return of unassimilated migrants to their countries of origin, the abolition of social benefits and incentives that act as a magnet for mass migration, with the aim of easing the burden on European taxpayers and restoring the demographic balance in favour of indigenous peoples.
Fourthly, the protection of the ethno-cultural identity of European nations. The initiative openly recognizes the right of indigenous Europeans – French, Germans, Italians, Dutch, Bulgarians and everyone else – to preserve their historical lands, culture, traditions, language and demographic majority. This is a fundamental right that globalists are trying to declare “racism”. SEI’s main document highlights the danger of indigenous peoples becoming a minority in their own countries due to the combination of low birth rates among Europeans and mass imports of population from radically different civilizational circles.
The organisers stress that the Save Europe Act is not an anti-European project, but an attempt to use the existing European mechanism to achieve policies that, in their opinion, better meet the interests of indigenous peoples. They have prepared legal arguments and are ready for possible corrections to the text in order to meet the registration requirements.
These demands are not radical; they are normal, natural and reasonable; they reflect the instinct for self-preservation of any healthy nation. For decades, European elites – from liberal left to “moderate” right – pursued policies of open borders, multiculturalism and “diversity” that have proved disastrous. The result is visible everywhere: no-go zones in big cities, an explosion of crime, strain on social systems, cultural conflicts and demographic inversion.
Why does the EU bureaucracy want to block the initiative?
The European Commission has already sent an official warning to organisers that the initiative could be refused registration as it was allegedly “clearly contradictory” to the EU’s fundamental values. Specifically, terms such as “ethno-cultural continuity”, “indigenous peoples” and “demographic replacement” are attacked. According to Brussels bureaucrats, the desire to preserve European identity constitutes “ethnic discrimination”.
This is a classic example of double standards. When an African or Middle Eastern leader talks about preserving his culture and people, it is patriotism. When a European says the same thing – it is “racism”. When migrants organize themselves in parallel societies and impose their own norms, this is “enrichment”. When Europeans want to defend their own – this is the “far right” and it must be censored.
Unelected bureaucrats don’t want democracy and civic participation if it goes against their ideology. They prefer to block a legitimate instrument like the European Citizens’ Initiative rather than face reality. And the reality is that millions of Europeans are tired of the experiment in mass migration, tired of terrorist attacks, of rape gangs in cities, from the cars that burn in the suburbs, from the cultural substitution in schools and from the feeling that they live in their own country as foreigners.
The wider context and background
The Save Europe Act comes after a long period of public debate on migration issues. Since 2015, when the EU experienced a major migration crisis, the topics of border control, integration and cultural compatibility have become central to the political life of many countries. Movements and parties have emerged in various countries demanding stricter rules, from reforms in the Dublin Agreement to national deportation measures and restrictions on welfare benefits for new arrivals.
Vlaardingerbroek and Zellner position their initiative as a summary of these demands at European level. They refer to data on demographic changes, burdening of social systems, problems with integration in certain communities and cases of cultural conflicts, which are reflected in national statistics and reports. According to them, without policy adjustment, the risk of further tensions remains high.
For Bulgaria, the topic has a specific dimension. As a country at the EU’s external border, we are facing migratory pressure along different routes. The demographic crisis, the low birth rate and the emigration of young people make the issues of identity and integration particularly sensitive. Many Bulgarian citizens follow European policies in this area, as they directly affect national security, the economy and social services. The Save Europe Act offers a vision for a pan-European approach, which can also be discussed in a Bulgarian context.
What follows and importance of the initiative
In the coming weeks and months, it will become clear whether the Save Europe Act will overcome administrative hurdles and reach the required one million signatures. The organizers continue the campaign with an emphasis on informing citizens and collecting signatures from different countries. Even in the event of a partial rejection or the need for changes to the text, the campaign has already achieved significant visibility and has shown the level of public interest in these topics.
The ECI as a tool is designed precisely for such cases – to enable citizens to directly influence European politics. The Save Europe Act tests how this mechanism works when proposals are controversial and touch on key issues such as identity and migration.
The Save Europe Act is not just another abstract declaration of the kind that liberal elites like to sign in closed meetings in Brussels or Strasbourg. It gives voice to a silent majority that is tired of lies about “enrichment” and “human rights” that apply only in one direction. activists, useful idiots and the media infiltrated by the same ones. The goal is a clear, concrete and uncompromising mandate to restore the sovereignty, security and ethno-cultural continuity of the European peoples
Europe is at a crossroads. One direction leads to the continuation of the suicidal experiment – low birth rates, mass immigration, replacement of Europe’s indigenous population, cultural dilution and finally the loss of the continent. The other – to borders closed to invaders, high birth rates among the indigenous population, remigration, mass deportations, national sovereignty and pride, not shame of our European heritage.
Now, before we have all become minorities in our own countries.
FULL TEXT OF THE CHARTER:
I.Preamble
We, the Peoples of Europe, Motivated by a deep love and sense of responsibility for our nations, descendants and shared civilization, turn to the European Commission. Recognizing that the native peoples of Europe, comprising the ethnic, cultural and linguistic communities of the Member States, possess an inalienable right to preserve their collective identity, heritage and way of life, as rooted in the principles of national sovereignty and self-determination;
II.Recitals
1. Acknowledging that Article 4(2) of the Treaty on European Union affirms respect for the national identities of the Member States, inherent in their fundamental political and constitutional structures, including regional and local self-government;
2. Acknowledging further that Article 22 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union requires the Union to respect cultural, religious and linguistic diversity, which must include the protection of the historic cultures and traditions of Europe’s nations against erosion through demographic replacement;
3. Attesting how replacement migration, both legal and illegal, over recent decades has violated that right by causing significant damage to the social cohesion, public services, security, and ethnic and cultural continuity of the European nations, leading to parallel societies, increased crime and the marginalization of native populations in their ancestral homelands.
4. Underlining the urgency of the matter by acknowledging the imminent reality that the native peoples of Europe risk becoming minority populations in their own homelands if radical changes to the asylum and migration system are not made;
5. Determining that migration does not solve the ageing population crisis, but instead places further strain on European welfare systems and worsens the fundamental problem of low birthrates amongst the native population;
6. Declaring that a sovereign Europe must prioritize the well-being, security and demographic continuity of its own peoples above policies that effectively replace and harm the native populations;
III.Our Demands
We therefore demand that the European Commission exercise its right of initiative under the Treaties to propose and advance the following legislative and policy measures without delay:
- Article 1Declare a formal moratorium on new non-Western/non-European immigration channels, including the suspension of asylum processing for economic migrants and applicants from safe countries of origin, the halting of new study and family reunification visas for non-Europeans, and the strict limitation of legal migration channels until social cohesion and cultural continuity in the Member States are restored.
- Article 2Establish a fundamental reform of the existing EU migration and asylum systems during the time of this moratorium, including a total reform of the current migration framework focusing on external border protection, physical and technological barriers at the frontiers, rapid screening, and immediate return mechanisms.
- Article 3Ensure the systematic and accelerated return (remigration) of illegally staying migrants, rejected asylum seekers, and persons who have committed criminal offences or pose a threat to public order, with full mutual recognition of return decisions across the Union and enhanced cooperation with third countries for readmission.
- Article 4Establish a harmonized EU-wide framework for broader remigration, including voluntary and incentivized remigration measures for non-European migrants who are unintegrated or constitute a serious cultural or financial burden to Member States, in order to reduce enforcement costs and support the restoration of demographic balance.
- Article 5Remove social welfare incentives and benefits that function as pull factors for migration, including restrictions, in accordance with Union law, on access by non-citizens and recent migrants to selected welfare benefits and support systems, so as to reduce incentives for further migration, lessen the burden on European taxpayers, and encourage remigration.
IV.Declaration
We further declare that these measures are essential to uphold the rule of law, democratic legitimacy, and the long-term survival of European civilization as a community of distinct peoples with shared yet sovereign identities.
Important Note
This European Citizens’ Initiative cannot contain every measure that would be necessary to secure the future of Europe and its peoples.
The ECI procedure is formally limited in scope. For that reason, the legal text of this initiative must be confined to a narrower set of demands, even though further measures would clearly be needed. These include, among others:
- family policy and demographic renewal
- cultural continuity and identity
- the constitutional self-preservation of the Member States
- broader civilizational and historical questions concerning Europe’s future
Their absence from the legal text of the initiative does not mean that they are secondary. It means only that the instrument of a European Citizens’ Initiative does not allow every necessary question to be included within one formal submission.
