(AFP) Italy’s hardline Interior Minister Matteo Salvini called for a Europe-wide alliance against “mass immigration” at a triumphant annual gathering of his far-right League party on Sunday.
“I think of a league of Leagues in Europe, which unites all the free movements that want to defend their borders and the wellbeing of their children,” Salvini said to cheering crowds at his fifth party conference in the northern port of Pontida.
Salvini — who has forged alliances with other far-right European groups including France’s National Rally — earlier said that next year’s European Parliament elections will be a referendum on “a Europe without borders … and a Europe that protects its citizens.”
“I will tour capital cities, and not just European ones, to create an alternative to this Europe founded on exploitation … (and) mass immigration.”
