Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini visited the wall Hungary has erected along its border with Serbia with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Thursday.
"We want a different Europe, one that defends security and boosts jobs, the family and the Christian identity of our continent," said Salvini, whose anti-migrant League is forecast to be the Italian party that will get most votes in this month's European elections.
"You can only enter Italy, Hungary and Europe if you have permission".
The "new Europe" that will emerge from the May 26 European elections should protect its external borders, Salvini said after meeting his Hungarian counterpart Sandor Pinter Thursday.
"We are counting on the new Europe that will be born after May 26 aiming to protect its external borders," he said.
Salvini said "the problem is not to redistribute the migrants already present but to stop them arriving".
The Italian minister stressed that it was Hungary's and Italy's objective to "revise all the commercial and financial accords with non-EU countries that do not facilitate the repatriation of their nationals".
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