Three weeks before the European Parliament elections, the global far right gathered in Madrid last Sunday in an unprecedented display of its international coordination. Hosted by Spain’s neo-Francoist Vox, the three-day event ended in a mass rally with speakers that included France’s Marine Le Pen, Portugal’s André Ventura, Argentine president Javier Milei, and Israeli Likud minister Amichai Chikli — as well as, via video, Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni and Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán.

The closing event, attended by more than ten thousand people, kicked off with a video denouncing the United Nations’ development goals as an “ecofeminist” conspiracy while distorted images of Bill Gates and Greta Thunberg flickered on screen. It was quickly followed by the ex–Donald Trump official Mercedes Schlapp leading a pro-Zionist chant of “Viva España! Viva Israel!”

While clear contradictions between the various far-right discourses were on display, the collective animosity toward shared, overlapping enemies and an allegiance to forms of reactionary authoritarianism outweighed any differentiating factors. Vox could both invite neo-Nazi Holocaust denier Pedro Varela and declare Israel “an international reference in the fight against Islamic terrorism,” while Milei’s anarcho-libertarianism and Le Pen’s chauvinistic protectionist rhetoric could both be warmly received.