Brussels police move to shut down Farage and Orbán’s right-wing jamboree
“Tinpot dictatorship” fumed one of the National Conservatism Conference organizers.
Police in Brussels moved on Tuesday to shut down an ongoing gathering of Europe’s hard-right elite.
The National Conservatism Conference was set to welcome Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán and U.K. politician Nigel Farage over the next two days, but law enforcement arrived two hours into the event at the Claridge venue, near the European Quarter, to inform organizers that the event would be terminated.
“The authorities decided to shut the event due to possibility of public disorder,” a police officer heard by POLITICO told one of the organizers. The shutters had already come down on the venue where Brexit architect Farage was due to give a keynote speech at 11 a.m.
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