Salvini hails Spanish vote as 'hammering' for Europe

(ANSA) - Milan, May 25 - Northern League leader Matteo Salvini hailed Sunday's outcome in local elections in Spain, where the anti-austerity Podemos party made big gains, as a "hammering" for Europe. Salvini also said Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski's defeat to conservative challenger Andrzej Duda was also a blow to the EU. "The electoral results in Spain and Poland are a nice big hammering for the defenders of a Europe of the banks and the slaves of Brussels," Salvini told his party's Radio Padania station.