Orban & Le Pen Blast EU at Patriots Europe Rally in France: National Conservative Vision on Display

The Patri­ots Europe ral­ly in France demon­strat­ed grow­ing uni­ty among the con­ti­nen­t’s nation­al con­ser­v­a­tive move­ments. On June 10, 2025, The Euro­pean Con­ser­v­a­tive report­ed that over 6,000 sup­port­ers gath­ered in Mor­mant-sur-Vernisson for a “Vic­to­ry Day” event fea­tur­ing Marine Le Pen, Vik­tor Orbán, and oth­er Patri­ots lead­ers who reject­ed EU fed­er­al­ism and called for a “Europe of nations” based on sov­er­eign­ty, Chris­t­ian her­itage, and secure bor­ders. The arti­cle begins:

In the rur­al heart of France, where the green fields still echo the epic deeds of old Europe, more than 6,000 peo­ple gath­ered this Mon­day, June 9th, in Mor­mant-sur-Vernisson at an event dubbed ‘Vic­to­ry Day,’ an homage to the Rassem­ble­ment Nation­al’s (RN) his­toric win in the Euro­pean elec­tions in 2024. Lead­ers of the Patri­ots, the third largest par­lia­men­tary group in the Euro­pean Par­lia­ment, and thou­sands of sup­port­ers met in the small town near Paris to assert a new vision for Europe: one of nations, roots, and sovereignty.

Read more: https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/not-provinces-of-an-empire-patriots-gather-in-france-to-call-for-a-europe-of-nations/

Key Points

• Le Pen declared “We are not provinces of an empire” while reject­ing EU trans­for­ma­tion into a “uni­tary state” that strips mem­ber nations of their competencies.
• Orbán pro­claimed that Hun­gary has become “the night­mare of the Euro­pean Union” and “the last bas­tion of Chris­t­ian Europe” in his defense of tra­di­tion­al values.
• Span­ish VOX leader San­ti­a­go Abas­cal declared “Every pass­ing day is one day clos­er to Marine Le Pen becom­ing Pres­i­dent of France” to enthu­si­as­tic crowd response.
• Lead­ers denounced what they called Brus­sels’ “deal with the dev­il to flood Europe with migrants, dilute the pop­u­la­tion and wipe out Euro­pean culture.”

Nation­al Con­ser­vatism in Europe: Net­works, Influ­ence, and Polit­i­cal Realignment

The Glob­al Nation­al Con­ser­v­a­tive Alliance (GNCA) in Europe is char­ac­ter­ized by a surge in move­ments and par­ties that pri­or­i­tize nation­al sov­er­eign­ty, tra­di­tion­al val­ues, and skep­ti­cism toward supra­na­tion­al gov­er­nance, as seen in the grow­ing influ­ence of the AfD in Ger­many, the Par­ty for Free­dom in the Nether­lands, and the Law and Jus­tice-aligned pres­i­den­tial vic­to­ry in Poland. These par­ties often form transna­tion­al alliances, notably through events like the Nation­al Con­ser­vatism Con­fer­ences, where Amer­i­can and Euro­pean leaders—such as those linked to CPAC and the Trump admin­is­tra­tion—forge ide­o­log­i­cal and oper­a­tional bonds.

Hun­gary, under Vik­tor Orbán, exem­pli­fies the con­sol­i­da­tion of pow­er through media con­trol and legal reforms —a mod­el echoed by oth­er right-wing gov­ern­ments and sup­port­ed by think tanks and events that draw both protest and inter­na­tion­al atten­tion, as seen in the Brus­sels think tank protest. This net­worked move­ment, while diverse in nation­al con­text, is unit­ed by oppo­si­tion to immi­gra­tion, mul­ti­cul­tur­al­ism, and lib­er­al demo­c­ra­t­ic norms, and is increas­ing­ly adept at lever­ag­ing dis­in­for­ma­tion and iden­ti­ty pol­i­tics to expand its reach.

The rise of nation­al con­ser­vatism is not iso­lat­ed to Europe but reflects a glob­al trend, with its Euro­pean vari­ants often influ­enc­ing or being influ­enced by devel­op­ments in the Unit­ed States and beyond. Exter­nal analy­sis under­scores that this ide­o­log­i­cal wave is reshap­ing the Euro­pean polit­i­cal land­scape, chal­leng­ing the EU’s inte­gra­tionist agen­da, and rais­ing con­cerns about demo­c­ra­t­ic back­slid­ing, insti­tu­tion­al cap­ture, and the poten­tial for for­eign influ­ence, par­tic­u­lar­ly from Rus­sia, as nation­al con­ser­v­a­tive actors seek to rede­fine the main­stream right and recal­i­brate the bal­ance between nation­al iden­ti­ty and Euro­pean unity.

Exter­nal References:

1. The Rise of Nation­al Con­ser­vatism: A Glob­al Perspective

2. Geostrat­e­gy from the Far Right – Stiftung Wis­senschaft und Politik

3. The nation­al con­ser­vatism is spread­ing – Mod­ern Diplomacy

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.