Europe's anti-immigration forces could be strengthened by an Italian-Polish initiative to form a right-wing alliance for upcoming European Parliament elections, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Thursday.
Orban, one of the European Union's toughest opponents of mass immigration, said he would like to see anti-immigration parties gain a majority in the May elections as well as the EU's executive Commission and European Council of national leaders.
Italy's deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvini, said during a visit to Warsaw on Wednesday that Italy and Poland should join forces in a euro-sceptic alliance to contest the European vote.
Orban said he was "fed up" with the fact that whenever the European People's Party, to which his ruling Fidesz party also belongs, looks for allies, it looks to the left, parties he called pro-immigration.
He also said he considered French President Emmanuel Macron the leader of Europe's "pro-immigration forces," and therefore he had a duty to oppose him, and said no compromise was possible with Germany over migration despite what he called "constant pressure" from Berlin on his government to take in immigrants.
Autor: gf / Źródło: TVN24 News in English, Reuters
Źródło zdjęcia głównego: Shutterstock