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.
24 of 89 positions match.
I
The place of religion in public life, and the moral questions law cannot avoid.
Restore Europe supports formal constitutional recognition of Catholicism as the principal public religion, and rejects the claim that the state can be morally or religiously neutral.
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.
II
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.
A safety net directed primarily at citizens, families and those genuinely unable to support themselves, expressing solidarity without becoming permanent avoidable dependency.
III
Membership of a political community, and the European order between nations.
Protection should facilitate self-sufficiency rather than permanent welfare dependency.
A non-citizen convicted of a qualifying serious criminal offence should ordinarily lose the right to remain and receive a permanent re-entry ban.
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.
The normal route requires around fifteen years of lawful residence before an application may be made, with demanding assimilation requirements.
Documented national descent may justify a substantially faster restoration route than ordinary naturalization.
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.
IV
Ownership, enterprise, credit and the dignity of labour.
Workers, employers, craftsmen, farmers and professions should participate in sectoral institutions setting standards, apprenticeships and labour conditions.
Finance should serve productive activity. Legitimate lending and reasonable return are accepted; exploitative interest and debt traps are not.
Housing should principally serve habitation and community rather than function as an endlessly appreciating financial asset.
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.
Workers may organize independently, while labour relations should move toward a corporatist system of permanent sectoral institutions representing workers, employers and professions.
V
What may be built, what should be deployed, and what must remain within reach.
Children should receive strong legal protection from social-media systems designed to maximize compulsive attention and psychological dependence.
Lawful cryptocurrency ownership and transfer should remain permitted, while fraud, theft and abusive centralized custody remain regulated.
VI
What is transmitted to the next generation, and who decides it.
Homeschooling should be legal and protected, because parents are the primary educators of their children.
Schools may teach factual reproductive biology, but moral formation on sexuality belongs primarily to parents and chosen religious institutions.
VII
Authority, its limits, and the treatment of those who break the law.
The death penalty may be legally available, but not mandatory, for the most aggravated forms of rape and child sexual abuse.
X
Strategic independence, and a standing presumption against unnecessary war.
Neither permanent alignment with Russia nor permanent ideological hostility toward Russia.
Restore Europe supports verifiable multilateral reduction and eventual abolition of nuclear weapons.
