European far-right leaders gather ahead of EU elections

National Rally party leader Marine Le Pen said she knew she could count on Vox’s support in the European parliament to ‘begin to reorientate’ the EU.National Rally party leader Marine Le Pen said she knew she could count on Vox’s support in the European parliament to ‘begin to reorientate’ the EU.

The US hard right was represented by Matt Schlapp, the Donald Trump ally who chairs the American Conservative Union, and Roger Severino, vice-president of the powerful conservative Heritage Foundation thinktank. Vox’s leader, Santiago Abascal, used the event to call for like-minded groups around the world to vanquish the threat posed by the left. “While all defend our national sovereignty, we also know that we can’t do it alone,” he told the 10,000-strong crowd at the Vistalegre arena in the Spanish capital. “Faced with globalism and its socialist soul, we must respond with a global alliance that will defend common sense, because this is a shared threat.

The controversial Argentinian president – who was in Spain to attend the event, promote his latest book and meet with business leaders from Spanish multinationals such as Iberia, Santander, Telefónica and BBVA – had already made his thoughts on socialism plain at an event on Friday. Milei hit back on Sunday, referring to the corruption allegations relating to the wife of Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s socialist prime minister. Sánchez, who has called the allegations baseless and the brainchild of his political and media opponents, recently took five days out of the public eye

The Spanish government – which described Milei’s words as an unprecedented “frontal attack on our democracy, on our institutions, and on Spain itself” – said it would be recalling its ambassador in Buenos Aires. Speaking on Sunday afternoon, Spain’s foreign minister, José Manuel Albares, said the government expected a full public apology from Milei. “If such an apology is not forthcoming,” he said, “we will take all the actions we deem necessary to defend our sovereignty and our dignity.

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