Premier Giorgia Meloni said Friday
that she would remain in opposition in Europe unless a
"compatible" majority could be found amid speculation her
Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group may try to replace the
Socialists and Democrats (S&D) as partner of the European
Peoples' Party (EPP) after next month's European elections.
"I can't be with the Left in the EU," she said in an interview
with Skuola.net.
"I think that a compatible majority must be built in Europe too.
With rainbow majorities you can't do anything.
"We can find synergies in the centre right, but never with the
Left".
She added: "I will defend national interests without being part
of others' majorities in the European parliament".
Meloni's rightwing Brothers of Italy (FdI9)party is a domestic
partner of the centre-right post Berlusconi Forza Italia (FI)
party, which is in the EPP, and of the rightwing League party,
which is in the other rightwing group, Identity and Democracy
(ID).
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