Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini
ITALIAN Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the nationalist League party Matteo Salvini announced a new European alliance of far-right parties yesterday ahead of the European Parliament elections.
The anti-immigration politician met like-minded European leaders and shared a stage with politicians from the Danish People’s Party, The Finns Party (FP) and the Alternative for Germany (AfD) at a hotel in Milan.
Mr Salvini pledged to create a new bloc to shake up the Parliament after next month’s elections and said the coalition aims to “be the force of government and change in Europe.”
From Reform UK to Trump, Orban and beyond, the far right is organised across borders and growing. Waiting for it to collapse is a fatal error – building an international, locally rooted left alternative is now an urgent necessity., argues ROGER McKENZIE
