April 16, 2024 – 11:37 am
There has been another development in the matter of the National Conference of Conservatives (NATCON) scheduled to be held on Wednesday and Thursday by the Matthias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) office in Brussels, and according to a post shared by the organizers on the X (formerly) Twitter platform on Tuesday morning, they are still finding a venue. To hold the event. HVG writes.
As written here, the conference, which is expected to attract six hundred participants, will be held at the event venue at Claridge's in accordance with the original program points. The new location change was necessary because NATCON was originally supposed to be held at a venue called Concert Noble, but the owners eventually backed out. The organizers then turned to the Sofitel Brussels Europe hotel, which rejected the request on Monday after Mayor Etterbeek consulted with the hotel's operators.
Not only is Prime Minister Viktor Orbán planning to deliver a speech at the conference, but the list of speakers includes Brexit mastermind Nigel Farage, as well as far-right French politician Eric Zemur and former Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. In a recent post by organizers, it was stated that city authorities had also contacted the operators of the third site because, they wrote, “local politicians will do anything to protect political institutions.”
The level of public interest surrounding the event can be well indicated by the fact that anti-fascist organizations had previously planned to hold a demonstration at the conference venue, but when it emerged that the owner of the Sofitel hotel had also said no, the organizers of the anti-fascist demonstration did. The fascist demonstration informed the MCC that if they did not hold a national conservative conference at all, a big celebration would be held in Brussels.
