The country’s populist interior minister, Matteo Salvini, recently met with Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban, sharing a vision for the continent with sturdy borders
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, centre and Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini, third right, visit the Hungarian-Serbian border on May 2, 2019.Italy’s populist interior minister is uniting Europe’s right-wing parties under an anti-migrant, anti-Islam, anti-bureaucracy banner for this month’s European Union elections, pledging to reshape the continent from its technocratic heart in the EU’s base in Brussels.
Salvini’s influence is clear in the growth of a euroskeptic political group in the European Parliament, Europe of Nations and Freedom, or ENF. The group counts far-right movements like France’s National Rally and the Netherlands’ Forum for Democracy at its core, and has expanded to include Alternative for Germany alongside more moderate Nordic parties.
Orban demurred when asked if his party would join ENF. But his intention to court Salvini seems clear. He told Italian daily newspaper La Stampa that while former Premier Silvio Berlusconi, a stalwart in the group that suspended Fidesz, remains his “best friend” in Italy, Salvini is the future.Salvini is pledging to put politics at the centre of EU decision-making and to sideline bureaucrats in Brussels who he says set policies without consideration for what the majority of Europeans want.
Salvini also attended the annual World Congress of Families when it was held in Verona at the end of March. The ultra-conservative coalition based in the United States has anti-abortion, LGBT-hostile positions that contrast with Salvini’s more liberal views, but playing a wide field gives him cachet with socially conservative Italian voters.
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