Poland and Italy will be part of the new spring of Europe – Matteo Salvini
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Italy’s far-right Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini said on Wednesday he wants his country and Poland to join forces to reshape Europe in his quest for a euroskeptic alliance ahead of elections in May.
“Poland and Italy will be part of the new spring of Europe, the renaissance of European values,” he said at a press conference in Warsaw with Poland’s Interior Minister Joachim Brudzinski.
The meeting was initiated by Brudzinski, who said the two discussed migration and EU border security.
Salvini added that they spoke about Poland and Italy’s cooperation on building a new continent.
“The Europe that will come to form in June (after May’s European Parliament elections) will lead us all rather than the one that exists today and is run by bureaucrats.”
The new alliance’s proposed objectives include uniting eurosceptics across the continent ahead of the European Parliament elections, set to take place in May.
Kaczynski, who runs Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party (PiS), has clashed with Brussels on a range of issues and said the EU should stop meddling in his country’s affairs, according to Reuters.
The EU elections are shaping up to become a pivotal battleground between groups that are liberal and pro-European Union, and populist eurosceptics, lead by Salvini.
Salvini said the EU elections were vital for creating a “reformist” bloc that could overhaul the Brussels institutions from within, Reuters added.
