ROME (AP) — Italy’s anti-migrant interior minister says the far-right political spectrum includes “the true defenders of European values.”
Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, who leads the right-wing League party, said Saturday that during European Parliament elections in May “we have the occasion to send a force into government in Europe that’s not socialist.”
Salvini, who is also a deputy premier in Italy’s new populist, euro-skeptic government, was speaking at a political forum in Rome that was organized by a small far-right Italian opposition party.
Later slated to speak at the forum was Steve Bannon, a former strategist for U.S. President Donald Trump. Bannon has been encouraging the formation of a united, transnational front to push politics in the European Union far to the right.
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