Italian, German extremists unite in European Parliament

Right-wing populists are currently distributed to the EU Parliament. German AfD and Italian Legs want to establish a parliamentary group where all radical right-wing parties join.

The parliamentary group will be named “The European Alliance of People and Nations” (EAPN), said AfD Chairman Jörg Meuthen after meeting with other right-wing populist and radical parties in Milan.

He was at a meeting of Italian party chairman Lega. Meuthen, who is also the main AfD candidate for the European Parliament elections, was named the initiative as the initial “exchange for something new”. “We are expanding our union, our family. We work for a European dream”, Matteo Salvin said.

Parliamentary Group With Other Right Partys

These parties are first unique in unanimous with regard to xenophobic orientation. So far, however, this grouping has been joined only by the Danish folk party and the Finnish party “Finnishes”. Rightist parties, meanwhile, are being represented separately in several groups in the EU parliament.

Change Europe, not destroy it

Mostly regarding the issue of migration these parties want to exert pressure. We want to reduce it to zero illegal migration to the EU. In the EU, on external borders in the future, only those who have received our license” must enter, Meuthen said.

The new parliamentary group will not destroy Europe, but will change it. Because in the current form Europe for many citizens has become a bad dream, Salvin said.

Requesting a Lead Candidate

Salvin declared that there would be other allies at a subsequent event on May 18th in the cathedral square in Milan. It will be decided for a representative candidate, I myself do not have such ambitions, said Italy's deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvin. The Alliance hopes to emerge as the largest parliamentary group after the elections.

According to AfD polls in Germany in the European Parliament elections in late May, it could win by nine to 11 per cent of the vote. In past EU elections in 2014, only a year after its establishment, this party managed to get seven percent and is represented by seven deputies in the European Parliament/ DW.