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Italy’s Salvini hopes Macron’s support dwindles at EU elections

Posted on January 23, 2019 by AskTran.com

ROME (Reuters) – Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini said on Wednesday he hoped the French people would not choose President Emmanuel Macron’s party in European parliament elections later this year, drawing a sharp response from officials in Paris.

Relations between Italy and France, generally close allies, have worsened since the far-right League and anti-establishment 5-Star Movement formed a coalition government in Italy last year and took aim at pro-European Union Macron’s En Marche (On the Move) party.

France has already summoned Italy’s ambassador this week after Salvini’s fellow deputy prime minister, Luigi Di Maio, accused Paris of creating poverty in Africa and generating mass migration to Europe.

“Macron may no longer be our interlocutor (in the future),” Salvini said in an interview with Italian state-owned radio RAI. “His support is less than 20 percent. I hope the French people can shortly make different choices,” he said, referring to May’s European elections.

Salvini’s comment triggered an angry reaction from France’s foreign ministry.

“These unfounded statements should be read in the context of domestic Italian politics. They are unacceptable,” foreign ministry spokeswoman Agnes von der Muhll said in a daily online briefing.

Italy’s ambassador had been reminded of the “boundaries” that should be observed for Franco-Italian relations to remain friendly and cooperative, the spokeswoman added.

On Tuesday, Salvini said France was not interested in stabilising war-torn Libya, a staging point for smugglers who send migrants toward Europe on unsafe boats, because French energy interests there clash with Italy’s.

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Salvini, who is the leader of the League party, also said he is not concerned about the effect the dispute will have on the government’s effort to save troubled airline Alitalia.

Italian newspapers have reported that the French-Dutch airline Air France-KLM is in talks with Rome to take a stake in the carrier.

“There are other (players) in a position to take a share of Alitalia’s capital,” Salvini said.

Reporting by Giselda Vagnoni and Giuseppe Fonte in Rome, John Irish in Paris; editing by Steve Scherer and Toby Chopra

Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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