Anti-migrant Euroskeptic League
leader Matteo Salvini had talks Thursday with nationalist
Hungarian Premier Viktor Orban in Budapest and called for an
alliance between the European nationalist parties he leads and
the conservative European People's Party (EPP) that Orban
belongs to.
Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Salvini told a press
conference with Orban that his "stronger than ever" alliance for
the European elections hopes to have "dialogue" with the
European People's Party to "leave out the Left, which
wishes Europe ill".
"I'm part of a stronger than ever alliance, not rightist but
alternative to the bureaucrats", he said of the line-up of
nationalist and populist parties he has assembled.
"I hope we can dialogue with the conservatives to leave out
the Left, which wants the worse for Europe".
He said the goal was to "be decisive in Europe and govern the
change that will come in a different way than in the past".
Salvini's League is part of an alliance with French, German,
Polish, Hungarian and other nationalist and far-right parties.
Salvini added that "if Orban wins an alliance with the EPP is
inevitable".
Orban, for his part, called on the EPP, which his party is
part of, to "go to the right" and stressed that "we need an
anti-migration EU".
Orban has been in danger of being ejected from the EPP
because of his hard right policies.
Salvini also said that EU-imposed austerity policies had "put
peace at risk".
Earlier Thursday Salvini visited the wall Hungary has erected
along its border with Serbia with Orban.
"We want a different Europe, one that defends security and
boosts jobs, the family and the Christian identity of our
continent," said Salvini, whose anti-migrant League is forecast
to be the Italian party that will get most votes in this month's
European elections.
"You can only enter Italy, Hungary and Europe if you have
permission".
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