Kalergi Plan

The Kalergi Plan is a conspiracy theory falsely claiming that Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi or European elites planned to replace white Europeans through immigration and interracial mixing.

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Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi: An Austrian-Japanese political thinker who founded the Pan-European movement and advocated European integration. His writings and political proposals are misrepresented as evidence for the alleged plan.
Quote mining: The practice of extracting words from their context to make a source appear to support a claim. Selective excerpts from Coudenhove-Kalergi are used to manufacture apparent evidence.
Pan-European identity: A sense of shared political or cultural belonging among people across European countries. Coudenhove-Kalergi promoted European unity, not a secret program to replace its population.
Racism: A system of beliefs, practices, or institutions that ranks people and distributes power by racial categories. The theory portrays racial mixing and nonwhite immigration as threats to white people.
Pan-European Union: A political movement founded in 1922 to promote European unity and cooperation. The movement he founded is often folded into claims about a secret elite project.
Great Replacement conspiracy theory: A racist conspiracy theory alleging that elites are replacing white populations through immigration and demographic change. The Kalergi Plan is often presented as an earlier or more specific version of this claim.
European federalism: A political approach that proposes sharing sovereignty between European states and common institutions. The theory recasts a public constitutional proposal as evidence of covert demographic engineering.
Xenophobia: Fear, hostility, or prejudice directed toward people perceived as foreign. Its claims frame immigrants as instruments of an attack on European populations.
Practical Idealism: A 1925 book by Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi outlining his political and social philosophy. Passages from this book are selectively quoted to support the conspiracy theory.
White genocide conspiracy theory: A racist conspiracy theory claiming that immigration and changing social norms are intended to destroy white people. The alleged plan supplies a supposed architect for this broader conspiracy narrative.