A different Europe with fewer taxes
and obligations and greater security for citizens is possible
and must be achieved, Deputy Premier and Transport Minister and
leader of the right-wing League party Matteo Salvini said in a
social video posted on the sidelines of the EU Transport Council
in Brussels on Monday.
"I am here today in Brussels as a minister to avoid a new
European tax, this time on Italian ports," said Salvini
referring to the extension of the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme
(ETS) to the maritime sector.
"This is the Europe we do not like. The one of the car tax, of
Chinese electric cars for everyone, of the housing tax that
would cost Italian families up to 50,000 euro," he continued.
"The League and its allies want a different Europe: fewer taxes
and obligations and more security, protection of borders, health
and employment for European citizens," said Salvini.
"Changing Europe is possible, indeed it must be done," he
concluded.
On Sunday Salvini told a rally of the right-wing Identity and
Democracy (ID) European caucus members in Florence that the
centre-right needs to remain united in order to boot out
"squatters" at next year's European Parliament elections.
"The centre-right in Europe can only bring about a revolution if
it is united, not a small Italian political polemic," Salvini
said at the end of the convention of the 'sovereignists' and
allied parties of the League in Europe.
ID is an alliance of nationalist, right-wing populist and
eurosceptic European political parties founded in 2014.
Deputy Premier and secretary of the centre-right Forza Italia
Antonio Tajani has ruled out working with some of its members
including the rightist anti-Islam Dutch election winner Geert
Wilders.
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