WARSAW/BRUSSELS: Far-right parties' hopes of forging a powerful new bloc in the new European Parliament suffered a blow on Wednesday when Poland's ruling nationalists ruled out joining such a grouping due to sharp differences over relations with Russia.
"When it comes to Mr Salvini, here we have a problem that he wants to create a new group with formations that we aren't able to accept," Kaczynski told Polish private Radio Wnet. Le Pen's party, the Alternative for Germany and Salvini's League all have relatively good relations with Russia, a stance that PiS, steeped in traditional Polish distrust of the Kremlin, does not share.PiS, which espouses traditional Catholic values and resistance to what it sees as Russian expansionism in Ukraine and elsewhere, won 27 of 51 seats allotted to Poland in the new European Parliament.
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