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.
II
The household as the first institution, and what public policy owes it.
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.
Asylum is protection from genuine persecution or serious danger, not a general mechanism for choosing a preferred country of settlement.
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
Ownership, enterprise, credit and the dignity of labour.
Taxation is legitimate for the common good but should be fair, family-sensitive, non-confiscatory and compatible with broad ownership, productive work and subsidiarity.
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.
Therapeutic genetic medicine may be legitimate, while heritable enhancement and the instrumentalization of embryonic human life face a strong prohibition.
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.
Energy policy should be judged by reliability, strategic resilience, affordability, environmental stewardship and long-term human welfare rather than loyalty to one technology.
Fossil fuels should not be prohibited ideologically irrespective of their strategic or economic function, but unnecessary pollution and avoidable dependency should be reduced.
Renewable energy should be supported where technically sound, economically reasonable and compatible with landscapes, communities and grid reliability.
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
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.
Restore Europe is sceptical of permanent dependence on NATO and favours greater national and European strategic independence.
Neither permanent alignment with Russia nor permanent ideological hostility toward Russia.
Restore Europe does not make political alignment with either Ukraine or Russia an independent objective of European foreign policy.
Foreign aid should be limited, accountable and focused on concrete humanitarian or developmental needs rather than ideological nation-building or permanent dependency.
Economic sanctions are exceptional instruments for exceptionally grave cases, not routine tools of ideological alignment.
Restore Europe supports verifiable multilateral reduction and eventual abolition of nuclear weapons.
