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.
20 of 89 positions match.
I
The place of religion in public life, and the moral questions law cannot avoid.
Restore Europe opposes artificial contraception and rejects a public culture that treats permanent avoidance of fertility as the normal foundation of sexual life, without criminalizing private adult possession.
Unbelief, criticism and theological argument remain lawful. Deliberate desecration of the sacred may be prohibited.
III
Membership of a political community, and the European order between nations.
Naturalized citizenship may be revoked judicially in exceptionally serious cases such as fraudulent naturalization, treason or terrorism.
Europe should be a civilizational community of sovereign nations, not a centralized post-national state.
IV
Ownership, enterprise, credit and the dignity of labour.
Property is a source of independence and responsibility. The answer to concentration is wider ownership, not the abolition of property.
Taxation is legitimate for the common good but should be fair, family-sensitive, non-confiscatory and compatible with broad ownership, productive work and subsidiarity.
A mixed pension system should combine basic old-age security with occupational provision, personal savings, family property and intergenerational responsibility.
Housing should principally serve habitation and community, with policy aimed at widespread family ownership rather than permanent financial extraction.
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.
Citizens should retain meaningful private spaces free from permanent surveillance, with the detailed rules not yet settled.
A CBDC must not replace physical cash or become a compulsory, programmable system of transaction surveillance.
Lawful cryptocurrency ownership and transfer should remain permitted, while fraud, theft and abusive centralized custody remain regulated.
Permanent or indiscriminate facial-recognition surveillance of the general population should be prohibited.
Indiscriminate permanent retention of the communications metadata of the entire population should be rejected.
VI
What is transmitted to the next generation, and who decides it.
A plural education system including Catholic, private, classical, vocational and monastic schools, with public funding able to follow families.
Universities should retain genuine academic freedom while ceasing to operate as institutions of compulsory ideological propagation.
Public architecture should respect human scale, local materials and regional tradition, and historic fabric should be preserved wherever reasonably possible.
VII
Authority, its limits, and the treatment of those who break the law.
Punishment should be proportionate to gravity and culpability, protect society, provide restitution where possible and pursue rehabilitation where realistic.
Restore Europe accepts the traditional legitimacy of capital punishment in principle, reserved for exceptional cases involving the gravest crimes.
The death penalty may be legally available, but not mandatory, for the most aggravated forms of rape and child sexual abuse.
