The Movement’s headquarters are expected to be located in Brussels, Belgium, where they will start hiring staff in coming months, Bannon told The Daily Beast .
There will be fewer than 10 full-time staff ahead of the 2019 elections, with a polling expert, a communications person, an office manager and a researcher included. The staff is set to increase to up 25 people post-2019.
Bannon’s ambition is to rival Soros’s Open Society. Soros has donated some $32 billion to leftist causes since 1984.
The non-profit will conduct polling, targeted messaging and research for conservatives in Europe, who have been struggling without professional political support and big budgets.
Bannon has been meeting several conservatives, including Nigel Farage and members of Marine Le Pen’s Front National (recently renamed Rassemblement National) as well as Hungary’s Viktor Orban and prominent Polish politicians.
His conservative “supergroup” within the European Parliament could attract as many as a third of the lawmakers after next May’s Europe-wide elections.
“I’d rather reign in hell, than serve in heaven,” Bannon commented paraphrasing John Milton’s Satan in Paradise Lost.