How Italy's Salvini Wants to Replace Merkel as EU's Power Broker
- Salvini strategist lays out European election ambitions
- Sets 30 percent of Italy’s vote in May as the benchmark
Matteo Salvini.
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Matteo Salvini’s bold ambition is to replace Angela Merkel as the cornerstone of Europe’s political order, using elections in May as the sharp edge.
After riding to power last year on a populist groundswell, the Italian deputy prime minister is taking his campaign to remake the European Union along more nationalist lines to the next level, according to his strategist Guglielmo Picchi, a former Barclays Plc investment banker.