Italy’s Euro Zone membership is irreversible – Matteo Salvini

Matteo Salvini said on Monday that the euro was here to stay and he hoped that nobody in his far-right, eurosceptic party would ever again raise doubts over Italy’s membership of the single currency.

“To be clearer still, so that journalists stop feeding strange fantasies: the euro is irreversible,” he added.

During the European elections in 2014, Lega Nord had their campaign slogan “No Euro” and it presented prominent anti-euro campaigners among its candidates for May’s EU ballot, when it won 34% of the vote to become Italy’s largest party.

However Salvini, who had already distanced himself from calls to quit the currency during his recent time in government, made clear his party would never again stand on an “Italexit” ticket as he bids to portray a more moderate image.

“I say this once and for all, and then I hope that no one inside and outside my party will raise this issue again. The League is not thinking about Italy’s exit from the euro or the European Union”, Salvini told Il Foglio newspaper.

Via Il Foglio / Reuters