Govt will go distance despite EU differences - Salvini (2)

(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 13 - Deputy Premier and Transport Minister Matteo Salvini has said that the differences at the EU level between the parties of Premier Giorgia Meloni's ruling coalition will not cause the government to cave in before the end of the parliamentary term.
    Salvini's League has joined the new Patriots for Europe group in the European Parliament founded by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
    The new group also includes Marine Le Pen's National Rally (RN) and it has lured Spanish ultraconservative party Vox and Austria's far-right Freedom Party (FPO) away from the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) caucus that Meloni's Brothers of Italy (FdI) party belongs to.
    The other main party in the ruling alliance, Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani's Forza Italia, is in European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's centre-right European People's Party (EPP). (ANSA).