The Guardian report­ed on 11 Sep­tem­ber that Euro­pean far-right lead­ers have attacked the “hate-mon­ger­ing left” fol­low­ing Char­lie Kirk’s mur­der at Utah Val­ley Uni­ver­si­ty. Hun­gar­i­an Prime Min­is­ter Vik­tor Orban claimed Kirk’s death was “the result of the inter­na­tion­al hate cam­paign waged by the pro­gres­sive-lib­er­al left.” The Euro­pean Par­lia­ment descend­ed into chaos as far-right MEPs demand­ed a min­ute’s silence for the Turn­ing Point USA founder, with sev­er­al lead­ers blam­ing vio­lent left­wing rhetoric for the assas­si­na­tion of the 31-year-old con­ser­v­a­tive activist. The arti­cle begins:

Euro­pean far-right lead­ers have laud­ed Char­lie Kirk, the influ­en­tial 31-year-old con­ser­v­a­tive US activist who was fatal­ly shot on Wednes­day, with sev­er­al also claim­ing his death was a con­se­quence of vio­lent left­wing rhetoric. The Euro­pean par­lia­ment briefly descend­ed into chaos as far-right MEPs demand­ed a min­ute’s silence to hon­our Kirk, a ris­ing star of Trump’s Maga move­ment, who was hit in the neck by a sin­gle bul­let as he addressed stu­dents at Utah Val­ley Uni­ver­si­ty. “Char­lie Kirk’s death is the result of the inter­na­tion­al hate cam­paign waged by the pro­gres­sive-lib­er­al left,” Hun­gary’s nation­al­ist prime min­is­ter, Vik­tor Orbán, alleged in a social media post on Thurs­day. “This is what led to the attacks on [the slo­vak prime min­is­ter] Robert Fico, on [the czech for­mer prime min­is­ter] Andrej Babiš, and now on Char­lie Kirk. We must stop the hatred! We must stop the hate-mon­ger­ing left!”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/11/europe-far-right-leaders-charlie-kirk-shooting-turning-point-usa

Key Points

• Jor­dan Bardel­la of France’s Nation­al Ral­ly denounced “dehu­man­is­ing rhetoric of the left and its intol­er­ance” that he claimed “fuel polit­i­cal vio­lence” and “poi­son eat­ing away at demo­c­ra­t­ic societies”
• Ger­many’s AfD leader Alice Wei­del called Kirk “a fight­er for free­dom of speech” who was “shot by a fanat­ic who hates our way of life and discussion”
• Euro­pean Par­lia­ment Pres­i­dent Rober­ta Met­so­la denied a request for a min­ute’s silence cit­ing pro­ce­dur­al rea­sons, prompt­ing MEPs from the Euro­pean Con­ser­v­a­tives and Reformists group to bang on their desks in protest
•  For­mer British PM Boris John­son called Kirk’s mur­der “a sign of utter des­per­a­tion and cow­ardice of those who could not defeat him in argu­ment,” describ­ing him as “a shin­ing new mar­tyr to free speech”

European GNCA Leaders & Charlie Kirk

All of the Euro­pean lead­ers iden­ti­fied in the Guardian arti­cle rep­re­sent par­ties that are part of the Glob­al Nation­al Con­ser­v­a­tive Alliance (GNCA). The GIOR pub­lished a report today titled “Char­lie Kirk & The Glob­al Nation­al Con­ser­v­a­tive Alliance.” The syn­op­sis of that report begins:

Char­lie Kirk’s polit­i­cal evo­lu­tion charts a shift from lib­er­tar­i­an youth activism to becom­ing a promi­nent ampli­fi­er of the Nation­al Con­ser­vatism move­ment. After found­ing Turn­ing Point USA in 2012 on a plat­form of free mar­kets and oppo­si­tion to lib­er­al acad­e­mia, he embraced Don­ald Trump’s pop­ulist nation­al­ism in 2016 and reori­ent­ed toward themes of sov­er­eign­ty, immi­gra­tion restric­tion, and Chris­t­ian traditionalism.

Down­load the full report here.

Disclaimer

The Glob­al Influ­ence Oper­a­tions Report (GIOR) employs AI through­out the post­ing process, includ­ing gen­er­at­ing sum­maries of news items, the intro­duc­tion, key points, and often the “con­text” sec­tion. We rec­om­mend ver­i­fy­ing all infor­ma­tion before use. Addi­tion­al­ly, images are AI-gen­er­at­ed and intend­ed sole­ly for illus­tra­tive pur­pos­es. While they rep­re­sent the events or indi­vid­u­als dis­cussed, they should not be inter­pret­ed as real-world photography.