{"id":2222367,"date":"2024-04-16T13:56:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T17:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brussels-police-try-to-shut-down-conference-featuring-orban-farage-other-leading-european-conservatives\/"},"modified":"2024-04-16T13:59:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T17:59:52","slug":"brussels-police-try-to-shut-down-conference-featuring-orban-farage-other-leading-european-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brussels-police-try-to-shut-down-conference-featuring-orban-farage-other-leading-european-conservatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Brussels Police Attempt to Close Conference Hosting Orban, Farage, and Prominent European Conservatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbrussels-police-try-to-shut-down-conference-featuring-orban-farage-other-leading-european-conservatives%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2222367&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A conservative\u200c conference in Brussels, \u2064focusing on topics like \u2064abortion and gay \u2062marriage, was closed by \u2063police after being deemed &#8220;ethically conservative.&#8221; The \u200devent aimed to defend national sovereignty \u200cand revive national traditions. The Alliance\u200c for Defending\u2062 Freedom filed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kari-lake-files-new-election-appeal-to-arizona-supreme-court\/\" title=\"Kari Lake appeals election to AZ Supreme Court.\">legal \u2063challenge<\/a> against the shutdown, citing violations\u200b of freedom \u200cof \u2064speech and assembly in Europe. The conservative conference in Brussels was shut down by\u200c police for being \u2062labeled &#8220;ethically conservative.&#8221; It centered on defending national\u2063 sovereignty and revitalizing national traditions.\u200b The Alliance for Defending Freedom\u2064 legally challenged the closure, citing \u2062infringements on freedom of speech and \u200dassembly in Europe.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">A conference featuring conservative views on subjects like abortion and gay marriage was <a href=\"https:\/\/adfinternational.org\/nat-con-legal-challenge?p=46744\">shut down<\/a> by police in Brussels after the mayor of the district where it was located claimed it was \u201cethically conservative\u201d and focused on \u00a0the defense of \u201cnational sovereignty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNatCon brings together public figures, journalists, scholars, and students who understand that the past and future of conservatism are inextricably tied to the idea of the nation, to the principle of national independence, and to the revival of the unique national traditions that alone have the power to bind a people together and bring about their flourishing,\u201d the conference website <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalconservatism.org\/natcon-brussels-2\/about\/\">states<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe challenges to national sovereignty posed by the EU\u2019s drive towards ever-closer union create a unique opportunity for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/evangelical-leaders-joy-reid-committed-slander-against-christians\/\" title=\"Evangelical Leaders: Joy Reid Committed \u2018Slander\u2019 Against Christians\">political conservatism<\/a> to present an alternative vision for Europe,\u201d the conference website continues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Alliance for Defending Freedom filed an emergency legal challenge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cADF International is supporting an emergency legal challenge against the mayor\u2019s order to shut down the conference, arguing it is contrary to the fundamental rights to freedom of speech and freedom of assembly \u2013 the pillars of truly democratic societies,\u201d Paul Coleman, the Executive Director of ADF International and a speaker at the conference on National Conservatism, said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/adfinternational.org\/nat-con-legal-challenge?p=46744\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cOpen dialogue is supposed to be at the core of European politics; yet here in the capital of the EU, a thoughtful exchange on policy has been shut down by unilateral decree,\u201d he continued. \u201cThis is a watershed moment where the true censorship crisis in Europe is on full public display. The crushing of political opinions opposed by those in power is something that should be relegated to the darker chapters of European history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThis is what cancel culture looks like,\u201d Coleman said outside the third venue the conference had tried to use for the event. \u201cThis is the third venue that they have tried to put this conference on. The first venue canceled the event; the second venue canceled the event late last night and now this venue agreed to host the conference and the police, which you can see behind me, have shut it down \u2026 This is the definition of cancel culture; this is the state of free speech in Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The conference reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/catholicherald.co.uk\/cardinal-muller-appears-at-national-conservatism-conference-in-brussels-amid-threats-and-harassment-from-antifa\/\">finally went ahead<\/a> at the third venue on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1713368476293000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0HZF-chSmGRTwvVi8yTUG1\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Emir Kir, the mayor of the Saint-Josse-ten-Noode district in Brussels, stated he issued a shutdown order because the conference\u2019s \u201cvision is not only ethically conservative (e.g. hostility to the legalization of abortion, same-sex unions, etc.) but also focused on the defense of \u2018national sovereignty,\u2019 which implies, amongst other things, a \u2018Eurosceptic\u2019 attitude.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">He added that the conference had to be stopped \u201cto avoid foreseeable attacks on public order and peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we have is a systematic attempt to sabotage everything to do with the conference,\u201d MCC Brussels Executive Director Frank Furedi, an organizer of the conference, <a href=\"https:\/\/brusselssignal.eu\/2024\/04\/brussels-mayor-threatens-to-cut-power-to-conservative-event\/\">told<\/a> the Brussels Signal.\u00a0\u201cThey then threatened to cut electricity and all that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The National Conservatism conference <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalconservatism.org\/natcon-brussels-2\/confirmed-speakers\/\">hosted<\/a> former UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman, Brexit Party founder Nigel Farage, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, and Catholic leader Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig M\u00fcller from Germany.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels police closed a conservative conference on abortion and gay marriage. 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