European National Conservatives Push to Classify Antifa as Terror Group Following Trump’s US Designation

Euro­pean con­ser­v­a­tive politi­cians are work­ing to repli­cate Don­ald Trump’s clas­si­fi­ca­tion of Antifa as a ter­ror­ist orga­ni­za­tion across the con­ti­nent, with sev­er­al coun­tries express­ing sup­port for the des­ig­na­tion. On 23 Sep­tem­ber 2025, The Euro­pean Con­ser­v­a­tive report­ed that the Patri­ots for Europe group in the Euro­pean Par­lia­ment is gath­er­ing sig­na­tures for a res­o­lu­tion declar­ing Antifa a ter­ror­ist enti­ty, while Hun­gary has already announced it will fol­low Trump’s lead in mak­ing the clas­si­fi­ca­tion. The arti­cle begins:

Euro­pean con­ser­v­a­tives are hop­ing to repli­cate Don­ald Trump’s plans to des­ig­nate Antifa as a ter­ror group in the U.S. across the Con­ti­nent. Hun­gary has already made it clear that it will fol­low Trump’s lead, with Prime Min­is­ter Vik­tor Orbán say­ing last week that “Antifa is a ter­ror­ist organ­i­sa­tion.” For­eign Min­is­ter Péter Szi­jjártó also wrote to EU top diplo­mat Kaja Kallas over the week­end about how “this vio­lent far-left net­work has car­ried out bru­tal attacks across Europe, includ­ing in Budapest,” and insist­ing that Europe must align its steps with the U.S., the lead­ing force in the glob­al fight against ter­ror­ism. Hun­gar­i­an MEP András Lás­zló added that espe­cial­ly fol­low­ing the death of Char­lie Kirk, “it is clear this organ­i­sa­tion can no longer be allowed to fester.”

Read more: https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/ep-patriots-for-europe-motion-designate-antifa-terrorist/

Key Points

• Bel­gian MEP Tom Van­den­driess­che is lead­ing the Patri­ots for Europe motion to file a res­o­lu­tion on Octo­ber 1st.
• Hun­gary’s Prime Min­is­ter Vik­tor Orbán and For­eign Min­is­ter Péter Szi­jjártó have pub­licly sup­port­ed the designation.
• The Ger­man AfD par­ty promis­es to clas­si­fy Antifa as a ter­ror group if elect­ed to power.
• The Euro­pean Par­lia­ment pre­vi­ous­ly vot­ed against lift­ing the immu­ni­ty of an MEP arrest­ed for Antifa-linked attacks in Hungary.

The AfD, Vlaams Belang, Vik­tor Orban, and Patri­ots for Europe are core parts of the Glob­al Nation­al Con­ser­v­a­tive Alliance in Europe.

How MAGA and National Conservatives Use Antifa Conspiracy Theories to Deflect Far-Right Violence

MAGA in the US has strate­gi­cal­ly deployed antifa as a cen­tral scape­goat in con­spir­a­cy the­o­ries designed to deflect respon­si­bil­i­ty from far-right vio­lence and mobi­lize con­ser­v­a­tive oppo­si­tion to anti-fas­cist move­ments. The most promi­nent man­i­fes­ta­tion occurred fol­low­ing Jan­u­ary 6, 2021, when pro-Trump forces imme­di­ate­ly spread dis­in­for­ma­tion claim­ing that antifa, rather than Trump sup­port­ers, was respon­si­ble for the Capi­tol vio­lence, with right-wing radio hosts and con­ser­v­a­tive pun­dits ampli­fy­ing base­less claims that reached mil­lions of lis­ten­ers with­in hours of the attack.

This con­spir­a­cy the­o­ry gained insti­tu­tion­al sup­port when US offi­cials includ­ing Repub­li­can Con­gress­man Matt Gaetz and Texas Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton pro­mot­ed the false nar­ra­tive that antifa sup­port­ers had infil­trat­ed the mob, despite the FBI direct­ly refut­ing such claims and find­ing “no indi­ca­tion” of anti-fas­cist move­ment involve­ment. The fab­ri­cat­ed antifa nar­ra­tive serves broad­er GNCA objec­tives by cre­at­ing a com­mon ene­my that uni­fies nation­al­ist move­ments across bor­ders, with anti-fas­cist pro­test­ers now reg­u­lar­ly tar­get­ing con­ser­v­a­tive events orga­nized by GNCA insti­tu­tions such as Hun­gary’s Math­ias Corv­i­nus Col­legium in Brus­sels, where demon­stra­tors flew rain­bow pride flags and Pales­tin­ian kef­fiyeh while protest­ing the Orban-linked think tank’s activities.

The GNCA’s anti-antifa mes­sag­ing func­tions as part of a coor­di­nat­ed dis­in­for­ma­tion strat­e­gy that por­trays anti-fas­cist activists as vio­lent extrem­ists while posi­tion­ing far-right move­ments as vic­tims of left­ist per­se­cu­tion, there­by legit­imiz­ing author­i­tar­i­an respons­es to demo­c­ra­t­ic oppo­si­tion. This nar­ra­tive con­struc­tion allows GNCA lead­ers to char­ac­ter­ize any resis­tance to their illib­er­al agen­da as “ter­ror­ism” while deflect­ing atten­tion from doc­u­ment­ed con­nec­tions between far-right par­ties and extrem­ist orga­ni­za­tions, cre­at­ing a rhetor­i­cal frame­work that enables the alliance to present itself as defend­ing democ­ra­cy against rad­i­cal left­ist threats despite its own anti-demo­c­ra­t­ic activities.

Exter­nal References:
1. Many Charged In Jan. 6 Riot Refute Base­less Claim That Antifa Stormed Capi­tol — NPR
2. Jan. 6 riot­ers the far right claimed were antifa keep get­ting unmasked as Trump sup­port­ers — NBC News
3. A Guide to the Right’s Unhinged Con­spir­a­cy The­o­ries about Jan. 6 — Rolling Stone

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