Heritage Foundation Holds Meeting to Discuss EU Dismantling After Project 2025 Success

On 14 March 2025, DeSmog report­ed that the Her­itage Foun­da­tion, archi­tects of Trump’s Project 2025 agen­da, con­vened a closed-door work­shop focused on pro­pos­als to over­haul the Euro­pean Union. The arti­cle begins:

The group that draft­ed a key blue­print for Don­ald Trump’s sec­ond term con­vened a meet­ing in Wash­ing­ton D.C. this week to con­sid­er pro­pos­als for bull­doz­ing the Euro­pean Union (EU). The Pol­ish inves­tiga­tive out­let VSquare revealed that the Her­itage Foun­da­tion gath­ered hard­line con­ser­v­a­tive groups on 11 March to hear how they would over­haul the cur­rent struc­tures of the EU. The “closed-door work­shop” fea­tured a debate on a new paper pro­duced by the lob­by groups MCC and Ordo Iuris enti­tled: “The Great Reset: Restor­ing Mem­ber State Sov­er­eign­ty in the 21st Cen­tu­ry”. The paper pro­pos­es dis­man­tling the Euro­pean Com­mis­sion and the Euro­pean Court of Jus­tice. It claims that the “EU is evolv­ing into a qua­si-fed­er­al state, lim­it­ing nation­al deci­sion-mak­ing pow­er” and is impos­ing “ide­o­log­i­cal­ly moti­vat­ed poli­cies on mem­ber states, with­out any man­date”. Under the plan, the EU would cease to func­tion in its cur­rent guise, and would instead be renamed the Euro­pean Com­mu­ni­ty of Nations (ECN)…

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Key Points:

• The Her­itage Foun­da­tion met with Euro­pean con­ser­v­a­tive groups to dis­cuss a paper propos­ing the elim­i­na­tion of core EU insti­tu­tions and gov­er­nance structures.
• Hun­gar­i­an gov­ern­ment-backed MCC and Pol­ish group Ordo Iuris are lead­ing the ini­tia­tive to trans­form the EU into a loos­er “Euro­pean Com­mu­ni­ty of Nations.”
• Her­itage Foun­da­tion pres­i­dent Kevin Roberts has explic­it­ly called for Euro­peans to “reclaim sov­er­eign­ty” from Brus­sels in recent pub­lic statements.
• The foun­da­tion has been hold­ing pri­vate meet­ings with far-right Euro­pean politi­cians from Hun­gary and Czechia who oppose EU cli­mate policies.