The captions tell another story: “Girls just want spring and remigration,” “The average IQ of an Algerian person is lower than that of a German,” “Deport, deport, deport.”

Lukreta is one of many far-right groups dressing anti-immigration politics in the aesthetics of women’s solidarity, safety, and motherhood. Extremism researcher Juliane Lang described it as a “classic front organisation” in the orbit of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) political party.

Framing “remigration” as an issue of women's rights can, at first, look like an attempt to support their safety. But in Telegram networks associated with these groups, the same language leads deeper into anti-migration rhetoric and conspiracies.

Lukreta's Telegram channel shared a text warning that birth rates in Europe are falling “despite migration”. On Safe Abortion Day, it said a child is not something to “cancel” when it doesn't fit one’s lifestyle.

Another forwarded text described that while “others” were allegedly planning “birth jihad”, German women were turning away from motherhood towards polyamory, permanent singlehood, or lifelike baby dolls.

The same framing appears in Lukreta’s posts. In one campaign, the group mocked the idea that having a career should replace having children: “Having a career isn't my priority. Go ahead, report me.”

Far-right parties in Europe use the fertility crisis as a vehicle for these narratives. According to Eurostat, the EU fertility rate fell to 1.34 births per woman in 2024, the lowest level since comparable records began in 2001. The EU population still grew, reaching 450.4 million as of 1 January 2025, mainly due to migration, as natural change has been negative since 2012.

The far-right turns these figures into a conspiracy that Europeans are not simply having fewer children, but that the “native” population is being deliberately pushed out and replaced.

This is the logic of the Great Replacement, a far-right conspiracy theory popularised by French writer Renaud Camus in 2011. Spreading through identitarian movements and anti-migration campaigns since 2015, its most explicit forms have inspired terrorist violence, including the Christchurch attack in New Zealand in 2019.

But the idea also appears in mainstream politics through somewhat softer language about demography, family, borders, and national survival.

In May, the Patriots for Europe group in the European Parliament held a seminar on demography, family, and the “renewal of European fundamental values” in Riga, partially funded by the Parliament. “Without children, there is no future for the West,” Ainhoa García, the Spanish party Vox’s spokesperson for family and local affairs, said.

Speakers from Vox, Hungary's Fidesz, Portugal's Chega, Belgium's Vlaams Belang Jongeren and Latvia First spoke of falling birth rates as a political problem for Europe. Fidesz's Zsófia Koncz spoke of families as the basis of national survival, while Mercina Claesen, the chair of Vlaams Belang Jongeren, linked demography to pride in roots and history.

García had worked on the issue before Riga. Since January 2025, she's led a working group to respond to Spain’s “demographic emergency”. García told El Español that immigration was not the answer to low birth rates. In El Debate, she rejected abortion as both a right and a publicly funded service.

At CPAC Hungary in 2024, Dutch far-right influencer Eva Vlaardingerbroek claimed that the “native white Christian European population” was being replaced at an accelerating pace. The Great Replacement, she said, was “not a theory, but reality.” Her answer was a “strong Christian Europe of sovereign nation states” and a fight against Brussels and the elites. Hungarian Conservative wrote that the speech reached more than 50 million views on X in a week – Vlaardingerbroek thanked Elon Musk for its reach.