Her comments came during the unveiling of its manifesto for the June 8-9 European elections in Strasbourg on Tuesday evening.
“Our first objective will be to defend our nations from attempts to deprive them of their powers,” she told a rally of the conservative parties including Spain’s Vox, Poland’s Law and Justice, Eric Zemmour’s French Reconquete (Reconquest), the Sweden Democrats and the Finns Party.
The group is led by Meloni’s Brothers of Italy (FdI) party and is soon set to see the arrival of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz too.
“‘Doing less, doing better’ is our mantra,” she continued.
“The principle of subsidiarity is our compass.
“It is this that makes Europe strong and united, an impressive network of culture, economies, histories and opinions that make us what we are.”
The Meloni-led ECR is hoping to forge alliances to upset the centre-left-centre-right-liberal coalition currently leading the EU.
In the current 9th European Parliament, the centre right and Christian Democrat European People’s Party (EPP), which features Italy’s post Berlusconi Forza Italia (FI), a domestic ally of Meloni’s, formed a coalition with the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats and Renew Europe to elect Ursula von der Leyen as president of the European Commission.
As well as Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani’s FI, the other Italian domestic coalition member is other Deputy PM and Transport Minister Matteo Salvini’s League, which belongs to the Identity and Freedom (ID) caucus at the EP along with Marine Le Pen’s Natonal Rally and Alternative for Germany.
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