The European Conservative

The European Conservative is a pan-European Hungarian conservative English-language publication registered in Budapest, Hungary, with an editorial office in Vienna, Austria, and news offices in Brussels, Belgium and Rome, Italy. It publishes articles, essays, interviews, and reviews about different kinds of conservative, traditionalist, reactionary, and right-wing thought in Europe and across the world.

The European Conservative originally began in 2008 as an informal, four-page newsletter written and edited by a group of volunteers associated with the Center for European Renewal (CER), a pan-European conservative organization originally based in The Hague, now in Amsterdam.

The CER was formally founded in 2007, after a first exploratory meeting in 2006 held at Kasteel De Vanenburg in Putten, which brought together conservative scholars and writers from across Europe and the United States as well. The CER now organizes an annual Vanenburg Meeting, named after the location of that first 2006 meeting.

Among the founders of the CER are the German publisher and writer Caspar Freiherr von Schrenck-Notzing (1927–2009), the Polish historian and philosopher Miłowit Kuniński [pl] (1946–2018), and the British political philosopher Roger Scruton (1944–2020). Other key figures involved with the CER are Dutch ethicist and political philosopher Andreas Kinneging of Leiden University, political scientist András Lánczi, the former rector of Corvinus University in Budapest, and R. R. Reno, editor of First Things magazine.

Five editions of The European Conservative were published intermittently over a two-year period by a group of volunteers associated with the CER and the Vanenburg Meeting, before production was paused at the end of 2010.^{[citation needed]}

In 2012, former speechwriter, financial journalist, and editor (and co-founder of the CER) Alvino-Mario Fantini volunteered to take over as editor, working with a group of remote volunteers. The publication was re-designed, and new content and features were added (e.g., a cover image, book reviews, ads). The page count was also increased. Distribution of the publication continued in limited print runs but also as a free .pdf distributed by email and available online. But since 2019, The European Conservative has been an independent quarterly published by the European Conservative Nonprofit Ltd., in collaboration with the research organization CEDI/EDIC in Vienna, the Italian think-tank Nazione Futura in Rome, and the Bibliothek des Konservatismus in Berlin.

The publication's current Editor-in-Chief is Alvino-Mario Fantini, who has also previously written for The American Spectator, Crisis, The New Criterion, Far Eastern Economic Review, Catholic World Report, The American Conservative, and The Wall Street Journal Europe. He is also a frequent public speaker, and has appeared at various events organized by ADF International, Austrian Economics Center, New Direction, De Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame, CEFAS at CEU-San Pablo University, the ID Group at the European Parliament, and the National Conservatism conferences.

Over the years, The European Conservative has published material by people closely associated with the CER, as well as by other well-known authors, such as Anthony Daniels (Theodore Dalrymple), Remi Brague, Ryszard Legutko, Chantal Delsol, Mark Dooley, Todd Huizinga, Charles Coulombe, Alberto Fernandez, Roger Watson, among others. In recent years, it has also published less-well-known authors and emerging scholars from around the world, particularly those working in languages other than English.