European far-right conference resumes after judge rules its shutdown unconstitutional [Video]

• The National Conservative conference was canceled in Brussels when the city’s mayor ordered police to prevent people from entering after a group of anti-fascists threatened to disrupt the meeting.
• A legal challenge stayed the closure order, and Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo called the attempted shutdown “unconstitutional.”
• The conference comes ahead of Europe-wide elections. Mainstream parties fear disenchanted voters might support further right candidates.

An international conference of far-right politicians and supporters resumed in Brussels on Wednesday after the organizers launched a legal challenge against the authorities in the Belgian capital who feared the event could pose a threat to public order.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban was due to speak at the National Conservative conference, a gathering of strident nationalists and fundamentalist Christians, a day after Nigel Farage, the man credited with taking Britain out of the European Union, addressed the crowd.

French far-right figurehead Eric Zemmour had been scheduled to criticize the …