MILAN — Right-wing populist leaders rallying in Milan predicted historic results in next week’s European Parliament elections that would allow them to transform European politics and return sovereignty back to the nations that make up the European Union. The leader of Italy’s right-wing populist League party, Matteo Salvini, was joining the leaders of 10 other nationalist parties in front of Milan’s Duomo cathedral on Saturday. The far-right and populist leaders in Milan are making one of the strongest challenges to the European status quo in decades, united under an anti-migrant, anti-Islam, anti-bureaucracy banner. Participants include far-right leaders Marine Le Pen of France’s National Rally and Joerg Meutten of the Alternative for Germany party alongside more moderate right-wing leaders. But Teneo said that result will mostly increase the influence of other centrist parties more than that of the nationalists.

Source: National Post May 18, 2019 16:41 UTC