(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 2 - French President Emmanuel Macron on
Thursday warned against the growth of "nationalists" at the June
European elections but excepted Premier Giorgia Meloni form
their ranks telling the Economist that she had a "European
approach" and noting that she had "supported the asylum and
migration pact".
Of the other nationalist parties, Macron said "they're all
pro-Brexit in disguise" and were trying to "take Europe hostage
with the same false discourse".
Meloni is chair of the European Conservatives and Reformists
(ECR) group, which includes Spain's Vox, Poland's Law and
Justice, Eric Zemmour's French Reconquete (Reconquest), the
Sweden Democrats, and the Finns Party, a group which is led by
Meloni's Brothers of Italy (FdI) party and is soon set to see
the arrival of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's Fidesz
too.
The ECR was founded by former British Prime Minister, now
foreign minister, David Cameron in 2014.
The Tories left it after Brexit in 2016.
Meloni has followed a domestic nationalist agenda but has
cleaved to pro-EU and pro-NATO lines, especially regarding the
war in Ukraine. (ANSA).
Macron says no nationalists but Meloni has pro-EU stance
They're all hidden pro-Brexit but lauds Italy PM