“In the EU, the league changes: let’s go with the EPP”. Speak Crippa, Salvini’s deputy

Unloading the European ultra-right, opening up to the Populars in view of next year’s European elections, supporting Kyiv. The version of the Carroccio’s deputy secretary

Of course alliances matter. Moreover. “Covenants, whether you like it or not, qualify you, often against your intentions.” And in short Andrew Crippa appeals to Ecclesiastes. “There is a time for everything. And for us in the League this can no longer be the time of ambiguity. It cannot be so above all in international politics, where we are called to make precise field choices”. Were it for the Carroccio’s deputy secretary, the decision would be obvious. “On the side of Ukraine and NATO on the eastern front”. And then? “And then, we should leave the Identity and Democracy in Europe group”. Yet it is not done. Matteo Salvini hesitates. Others around him preach the need to “not distort one’s nature”. “For this we need a frank debate in the party”.