The centre-right should present itself
at next year's European elections with the same perimeter it has
in Italy, Premier Giorgia Meloni said on Thursday.
"The dynamics of the European elections are much more complex:
you can be part of different European political families and
govern very well in Italy and, I would go further, try to govern
together in a different Europe after the next European
elections," Meloni told reporters at the artisans' trade fair
Artigiano in Fiera.
The centre-right should be in Europe "with the perimeter we
already know in Italy", she added.
"Our goal must be to further Italy's role in Europe and to think
about building a majority in the European Parliament that might
have more vision than we have seen in the past," concluded
Meloni.
The premier heads a coalition government comprising her own
right-wing Brothers of Italy (FdI), the right-wing League led by
Deputy Premier Matteo Salvini and centre-right Forza Italia (FI)
led by Deputy Premier Antonio Tajani.
Forza Italia is a member of the centre-right European People's
Party (EPP), the League belongs to the European party Identity
and Democracy and FdI is a member of the European Conservatives
and Reformists Group.
Salvini has been pressing hard for an alliance between the EPP
and parties like his right-wing League so it is not necessary
for it to agree a new pact with the Socialists.
However, Tajani, has ruled out teaming up with groups considered
by some to be far right, such as Germany's AfD and France's
National Rally.
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