(ANSA-AFP) - ROME, MAR 30 - Italy's Salvini to meet Orban
over new far-right EU alliance
Rome Italy's Matteo Salvini said on Tuesday he was planning to
meet the leaders of Hungary and Poland in a fresh attempt to
strengthen ties between far-right parties in Europe. "Creating a
shared charter of values, of freedom, of rights, of principles,
of future objectives ... will be the subject of the meeting with
the Hungarian and Polish prime ministers," the leader of the
anti-immigrant League party told reporters in Rome. The talks
with Viktor Orban of Hungary and Mateusz Morawiecki of Poland
were scheduled to take place in Budapest on Thursday, his office
said. Salvini said the three men would sign a declaration and
discuss cooperation on migration, health, education, foreign
policy and family values. Attempts -- including by Salvini -- to
unite the disparate set of far-right, eurosceptic and
nationalist parties in European Union countries under a single
political umbrella have failed in the past. The Italian noted
that if the European Parliament's two current far-right groups
were to merge, they would become the assembly's second-largest
group, massively gaining in influence. (ANSA-AFP).
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