Roger Scruton, the conservative thinker who inspired Orban, Meloni and Retailleau by Eugénie Bastié

"Five years ago, the British philosopher died of a devastating cancer. Critic of multiculturalism, defender of the nation and tradition against the pride of deconstruction, he continues to inspire several European conservative leaders.

On December 3, 2019, Prime Minister Viktor Orban traveled in person to the Hungarian embassy in London to present him with the National Order of Merit, his country's highest distinction. Roger Scruton appeared with tears in his eyes, in a wheelchair, his silver-blond lion's mane destroyed by chemotherapy. Barely a month later, on January 12, 2020, he died of illness. The populist leader, ostracized by the European community, praised the British philosopher. “As we learned from our beloved professor, conservatism is anything but an ideology: it is the antidote to ideology. » Viktor Orban and Roger Scruton have known each other for a long time: they met in 1987 when the future leader was the young leader of the liberal opposition. After the fall of the Iron Curtain, then the arrival of Orban to power, Scruton continued its privileged links,…"

Eugénie Bastié

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