Nationalist, anti-immigration parties plan to join forces following next month's EU parliamentary election, looking to create a new bloc to shake up the European Union, officials from four groups said on Monday. 'We want to reform the European Union and the European parliament, without destroying
1 / 4Salvini launches the start of his campaign for the European elections, in MilanMatteo Salvini, Italy's Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the far-right League Party, poses with Olli Kotro from the Finnish ECR party, Joerg Meuthen from the the German EFDD party and Anders Vistisen from the Danish ECR party, as he launches the start of his campaign for the European elections, in Milan, Italy April 8, 2019.
"We want to reform the European Union and the European parliament, without destroying them. We want to bring radical change," said Joerg Meuthen, the chairman of the eurosceptic Alternative for Germany party . Meuthen told reporters that the new group within the EU parliament would be called the European Alliance for People and Nations and would initially involve at least 10 parties.
Monday's event was organised by Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, who heads the far-right League. Besides the AfD, the conservative Finns Party and the rightist Danish People's Party, also pledged to support the initiative. Europe's sovereignist parties share the broad ideological goals of curbing the EU's perceived liberal course and returning power to the member states' capitals. But they often have very different economic and social policy ideas, making it often hard to create a coherent group within the EU parliament.
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