League joining EPP not on the agenda - Salvini

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 4 - Deputy Premier and Transport and Infrastructure Minister Matteo Salvini on Sunday dismissed talk of his League party joining the centre-right European People's Party (EPP), saying such a move "is not on the agenda".
    The League currently belongs to the right-wing, Eurosceptic Identity and Democracy Party (ID) in the European Parliament.
    "I continue to work for an agreement between the centre-right parties in Brussels with the aim to be more incisive in some battles," Salvini told Trentino's Il T newspaper.
    "In recent years we have witnessed an axis between the EPP and the Socialists.
    "I don't think moderate and centre-right voters like that.
    "What does the EPP think about surrogacy, which I consider an abomination? Or about restrictions on the auto sector that have European businesses and workers on their knees?" (ANSA).