Rightist Hungarian Premier
Viktor Orban will skip a meeting of European 'sovereigntist'
parties called by Euroskeptic and anti-migrant League leader
Matteo Salvini in Milan Monday, a source close to the Nepszava
newspaper said Thursday.
Orban, the source said, does not want to break with the
European People's Party (EPP), and is hoping to avoid expulsion
from it and steer it rightwards after the May European
elections.
Therefore, the source said, he is "not interested" in
Salvini's initiative.
Interior Minister and Deputy Premier Salvini is organising
an event in Milan to bring together "all European allies of the
League" to "propose a reform to the European Union", he said
last month.
"About 20 movements to propose a new Europe of nations with,"
Salvini said.
Among the 'sovereigntist' rightwing nationalist parties
invited were Orban's Fidesz, France's National Rally of Marine
Le Pen, Germany's AfD, and Poland's Law and Justice party.
Salvini aims to forge a panEuropean alliance for the European
elections at the end of May.
But Orban's Fidesz is not sending any representative to the
Milan gathering, the source said Thursday.
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