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Italy's Salvini to meet Orban over new far-right EU alliance

Meeting planned ins Budapest on Thursday

30 March, 15:22
(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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