The European Union has made a
"tragic error" by washing its hands of the Catalonia referendum
issue, Lombardy Governor Roberto Maroni said Monday.
"The EU is acting like Pontius Pilate and trying to ignore a
very important issue," said Maroni, a leading member of the
once-secessionist Northern League.
Maroni said the League's October 22 illegal informal
consultative referendum on the independence of Lombardy and the
neighbouring Veneto region would be a "very different matter
indeed".
After a abandoning secessionist platform, the League under
young leader Matteo Salvini has successful shifted to an
anti-euro, anti-migrant 'patriotic' and sovereignty-linked
stance which is increasingly wooing supporters across Italy.
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