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Italy's Salvini to visit Warsaw next month

12.11.2021 07:15
Matteo Salvini, the leader of Italy’s rightist League party, is expected to visit Warsaw next month for talks with the head of Poland’s ruling conservatives, Jarosław Kaczyński.
Matteo Salvini
Matteo SalviniPAP/EPA/LUCA ZENNARO

The visit is scheduled for December 3-4, the Italian party said in a statement, as cited by Poland's PAP news agency on Thursday.

The statement also said that Salvini's visit to Poland would be an opportunity to talk about a "new balance of power in Brussels" as well as the "protection of Europe's borders," the Polish state news agency reported, amid a migrant crisis on the Poland-Belarus border.

Earlier this year, Salvini, a top Italian politician, held talks on creating a new alliance of conservative groupings in the EU with Poland's conservative Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and Hungary's Viktor Orban during a meeting in Budapest.

The aim of that gathering was to establish an alliance that would be an alternative to the European People's Party, the largest centre-right political group in the European Parliament, public broadcaster Polish Radio's IAR news agency reported at the time.

The Polish prime minister said after the meeting that Europe needed a "renaissance" and a return to traditional values.

Morawiecki last month met with French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen on the sidelines of a European Union summit in Brussels.

Government spokesman Piotr Müller told reporters afterward that the conversation had focused on “cooperation between different groupings in the European Parliament."

While in Poland in January 2019, Italy's Salvini said he wanted Rome and Warsaw to join forces in reshaping the EU.

He was also quoted as saying at the time that Poland and Italy could become key players in a “new spring” in Europe.

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Source: PAP