The European Union is occupied by squatters and the united centre right will free it, League chief Matteo Salvini told a rally of his rightwing Identity and Democracy (ID) caucus in Florence Sunday, eyeing a historic win at next year's European Parliament elections.
"Next year, for the first time in the history of the European institutions, the united and determined centre-right can free Brussels from those who occupy it illegally," Salvini told the Free Europe! event of the ID group in the European Parliament.
Centre-right Forza Italia leader Antonio Tajani has ruled out working with some ID members including, most recently, anti-Islam Dutch election winner Geert Wilders.
"Tajani is wrong to say that he will never team up with Marine Le Pen and Alternative for Germany (AfD)," Salvini told the rally, at which Le Pen, leader of France's National Rally, said "we are movements of democratic and patriotic resistance".
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