Family
The family formed around marriage is the fundamental social institution, and public policy should make marriage and child-rearing materially realistic.
Positions
This catalogue answers a narrow question: what does Restore Europe hold on this issue? It does not replace the manifesto. The manifesto sets out the worldview; this sets out searchable, topic-by-topic positions.
Where Catholic moral teaching is clear, Restore Europe generally adopts it as the moral baseline, and states civil-law implementation separately. One departure is recorded explicitly: on capital punishment Restore Europe takes the older traditional allowance for exceptional cases rather than the contemporary abolitionist position.
The catalogue distinguishes the constitutional order Restore Europe seeks from European law as it currently stands. Several positions — on nationality, on deprivation of citizenship, on speech, on the public standing of religion and on capital punishment — would require constitutional or treaty change before they could be enacted in particular European states. Where that is so, the entry says it.
Version 0.2 settles the questions version 0.1 had left open: the European institutional relationship, asylum, deportation, wages, taxation, pensions, housing, labour representation, digital identity and currency, biometric surveillance, genetic engineering, sentencing, the energy mix and every standing question of foreign policy. Where a v0.2 formulation revised an earlier entry, the newer text governs.
Every question in this catalogue carries a position. Entries marked Derived follow the direction of the manifesto without their implementation being fixed, and several name the legal or treaty change they would require. Positions are revised as the movement decides; the version and date above say which text you are reading.
19 of 89 positions match.
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The household as the first institution, and what public policy owes it.
The family formed around marriage is the fundamental social institution, and public policy should make marriage and child-rearing materially realistic.
III
Membership of a political community, and the European order between nations.
The nation is an intergenerational historical community, and European peoples have a legitimate interest in maintaining cultural and historical continuity.
Immigration should be limited to levels compatible with genuine integration, social stability, infrastructure capacity and demographic continuity.
Europe should be a civilizational community of sovereign nations, not a centralized post-national state.
IV
Ownership, enterprise, credit and the dignity of labour.
Corporations are legitimate instruments but remain subordinate to the common good, and concentrated corporate power may be restrained.
Workers, employers, craftsmen, farmers and professions should participate in sectoral institutions setting standards, apprenticeships and labour conditions.
Housing should principally serve habitation and community rather than function as an endlessly appreciating financial asset.
Work has dignity but is not the purpose of human existence. Economic progress should increase security, leisure and command over one's own life.
V
What may be built, what should be deployed, and what must remain within reach.
Technological development is not synonymous with human progress, and should be judged by its effects on autonomy, family, community and work.
AI may be used as a tool but should not displace human judgment merely because automation is technically possible or economically efficient.
Automation may remove genuinely degrading labour, but removing human participation from productive activity is not an unquestioned good.
Citizens should retain meaningful access to physical money and to face-to-face public services.
Citizens should retain meaningful access to repairable products, against unnecessary disposability and technological lock-in.
Citizens should retain meaningful private spaces free from permanent surveillance, with the detailed rules not yet settled.
Children should receive strong legal protection from social-media systems designed to maximize compulsive attention and psychological dependence.
VI
What is transmitted to the next generation, and who decides it.
Languages, dialects, festivals, music, cuisine and craftsmanship should remain living parts of ordinary life rather than museum pieces.
VII
Authority, its limits, and the treatment of those who break the law.
Power should be exercised at the lowest competent level. Elections, representation and constitutional limits coexist with a rejection of philosophical liberalism.
IX
Stewardship of an inheritance that was not made by us.
Nature is an inheritance entrusted to humanity rather than a commodity without limit or a divinity, and should be stewarded accordingly.
X
Strategic independence, and a standing presumption against unnecessary war.
Strategic independence rather than imperial ambition, guided by prudence, legitimate national interest and a strong presumption against unnecessary war.