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Policy Catalogue

Version
Version 0.2
Date
Framework
European Integral Restorationism
Entries
89

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.

Status legend

Manifesto Core
Explicitly established by the Manifesto of European Integral Restorationism.
Agreed Policy
A position specified for this catalogue after the manifesto was written.
Derived
Strongly implied by the manifesto or by an agreed position, but the implementation is not settled.
Open
No position has been adopted.

39 of 89 positions match.

I

Constitutional, Religious and Moral Order

The place of religion in public life, and the moral questions law cannot avoid.

  • Agreed PolicyConstitutional, Religious and Moral Order

    Abortion

    Restore Europe holds that human life must be protected from conception, and that elective direct abortion should be prohibited.

  • Agreed PolicyConstitutional, Religious and Moral Order

    Blasphemy and Sacrilege

    Unbelief, criticism and theological argument remain lawful. Deliberate desecration of the sacred may be prohibited.

II

Family, Demography and Social Order

The household as the first institution, and what public policy owes it.

  • Agreed PolicyFamily, Demography and Social Order

    Welfare and Social Assistance

    A safety net directed primarily at citizens, families and those genuinely unable to support themselves, expressing solidarity without becoming permanent avoidable dependency.

III

Nation, Citizenship, Immigration and Europe

Membership of a political community, and the European order between nations.

  • Manifesto CoreNation, Citizenship, Immigration and Europe

    Nation and Historical Continuity

    The nation is an intergenerational historical community, and European peoples have a legitimate interest in maintaining cultural and historical continuity.

  • Manifesto CoreNation, Citizenship, Immigration and Europe

    Immigration

    Immigration should be limited to levels compatible with genuine integration, social stability, infrastructure capacity and demographic continuity.

  • Agreed PolicyNation, Citizenship, Immigration and Europe

    Asylum and International Protection

    Asylum is protection from genuine persecution or serious danger, not a general mechanism for choosing a preferred country of settlement.

  • Agreed PolicyNation, Citizenship, Immigration and Europe

    Asylum, Work and Public Assistance

    Protection should facilitate self-sufficiency rather than permanent welfare dependency.

  • Agreed PolicyNation, Citizenship, Immigration and Europe

    Deportation of Non-Citizen Criminal Offenders

    A non-citizen convicted of a qualifying serious criminal offence should ordinarily lose the right to remain and receive a permanent re-entry ban.

  • Agreed PolicyNation, Citizenship, Immigration and Europe

    Citizenship: General Principle

    Citizenship is membership of a historical political community rather than a function of residence, and Restore Europe rejects automatic territorial birthright citizenship as a general rule.

  • Agreed PolicyNation, Citizenship, Immigration and Europe

    Naturalization

    The normal route requires around fifteen years of lawful residence before an application may be made, with demanding assimilation requirements.

  • Agreed PolicyNation, Citizenship, Immigration and Europe

    Citizenship by Descent and Restoration

    Documented national descent may justify a substantially faster restoration route than ordinary naturalization.

  • Agreed PolicyNation, Citizenship, Immigration and Europe

    Voting Rights After Naturalization

    Naturalized citizens should wait a further four years after naturalization before receiving full voting rights.

  • Agreed PolicyNation, Citizenship, Immigration and Europe

    Eligibility for High Public Office

    The highest offices of the nation are reserved for citizens with a birth, descent and historical connection to the country rather than acquired citizenship alone.

  • Agreed PolicyNation, Citizenship, Immigration and Europe

    Dual Citizenship

    Dual citizenship between European countries is generally accepted; non-European citizens naturalizing into a European nation would be expected to renounce their former citizenship.

  • Agreed PolicyNation, Citizenship, Immigration and Europe

    Revocation of Naturalized Citizenship

    Naturalized citizenship may be revoked judicially in exceptionally serious cases such as fraudulent naturalization, treason or terrorism.

  • Manifesto CoreNation, Citizenship, Immigration and Europe

    Europe as a Civilization of Nations

    Europe should be a civilizational community of sovereign nations, not a centralized post-national state.

  • Agreed PolicyNation, Citizenship, Immigration and Europe

    European Union: Institutional Relationship

    Restore Europe supports fundamental reform of the European Union into a limited framework for cooperation among sovereign European nations, with most political powers returned to the member states.

IV

Economy, Property, Finance and Work

Ownership, enterprise, credit and the dignity of labour.

  • DerivedEconomy, Property, Finance and Work

    Taxation

    Taxation is legitimate for the common good but should be fair, family-sensitive, non-confiscatory and compatible with broad ownership, productive work and subsidiarity.

  • Agreed PolicyEconomy, Property, Finance and Work

    Pensions

    A mixed pension system should combine basic old-age security with occupational provision, personal savings, family property and intergenerational responsibility.

  • DerivedEconomy, Property, Finance and Work

    Detailed Housing Restrictions

    Housing should principally serve habitation and community, with policy aimed at widespread family ownership rather than permanent financial extraction.

V

Technology, AI and Human-Scale Life

What may be built, what should be deployed, and what must remain within reach.

  • DerivedTechnology, AI and Human-Scale Life

    Cryptocurrency

    Lawful cryptocurrency ownership and transfer should remain permitted, while fraud, theft and abusive centralized custody remain regulated.

  • DerivedTechnology, AI and Human-Scale Life

    Communications Metadata Retention

    Indiscriminate permanent retention of the communications metadata of the entire population should be rejected.

VI

Education, Culture and Public Life

What is transmitted to the next generation, and who decides it.

  • Manifesto CoreEducation, Culture and Public Life

    Purpose of Education

    Education should transmit civilization before attempting to transform it, with serious study of Christianity, history, classical civilization, the sciences and the arts.

  • Agreed PolicyEducation, Culture and Public Life

    Universities and Academic Freedom

    Universities should retain genuine academic freedom while ceasing to operate as institutions of compulsory ideological propagation.

  • Agreed PolicyEducation, Culture and Public Life

    State Schools and Christianity

    State schools should have a Christian civilizational orientation rather than a secularist one.

VII

Government, Justice and Public Order

Authority, its limits, and the treatment of those who break the law.

  • Manifesto CoreGovernment, Justice and Public Order

    Authority, Democracy and Subsidiarity

    Power should be exercised at the lowest competent level. Elections, representation and constitutional limits coexist with a rejection of philosophical liberalism.

  • Agreed PolicyGovernment, Justice and Public Order

    Free Speech and Public Doctrine

    Broad political and academic discussion is protected; speech that directly incites violence, terrorism or criminal conduct is not.

IX

Environment, Land and Settlement

Stewardship of an inheritance that was not made by us.

  • DerivedEnvironment, Land and Settlement

    Energy Policy: General Doctrine

    Energy policy should be judged by reliability, strategic resilience, affordability, environmental stewardship and long-term human welfare rather than loyalty to one technology.

  • DerivedEnvironment, Land and Settlement

    Climate Policy

    Environmental stewardship includes prudent climate mitigation and adaptation, but climate policy does not justify unlimited centralized control or policies that impose disproportionate hardship for negligible benefit.

X

Foreign Policy and Defense

Strategic independence, and a standing presumption against unnecessary war.

  • Manifesto CoreForeign Policy and Defense

    Foreign Policy Doctrine

    Strategic independence rather than imperial ambition, guided by prudence, legitimate national interest and a strong presumption against unnecessary war.

  • DerivedForeign Policy and Defense

    NATO

    Restore Europe is sceptical of permanent dependence on NATO and favours greater national and European strategic independence.

  • Agreed PolicyForeign Policy and Defense

    Russia

    Neither permanent alignment with Russia nor permanent ideological hostility toward Russia.

  • Agreed PolicyForeign Policy and Defense

    Ukraine

    Restore Europe does not make political alignment with either Ukraine or Russia an independent objective of European foreign policy.

  • Agreed PolicyForeign Policy and Defense

    United States

    Constructive cooperation with the United States without political, military, technological or cultural dependency.

  • Agreed PolicyForeign Policy and Defense

    China

    Pragmatic relations with China combined with strong protection against strategic dependence and control of critical infrastructure.

  • Agreed PolicyForeign Policy and Defense

    Israel and Palestine

    No permanent alignment with either Israel or Palestine; policy should focus on innocent life, regional stability, lawful diplomacy and concrete European interests.

  • DerivedForeign Policy and Defense

    Foreign Aid

    Foreign aid should be limited, accountable and focused on concrete humanitarian or developmental needs rather than ideological nation-building or permanent dependency.

  • Agreed PolicyForeign Policy and Defense

    Military Service and National Preparedness

    A strong volunteer military, trained reserves and a physically capable population are preferred to routine universal peacetime conscription.

  • Agreed PolicyForeign Policy and Defense

    Nuclear Weapons

    Restore Europe supports verifiable multilateral reduction and eventual abolition of nuclear weapons.