Populist EU Leaders Seek ‘Renaissance,’ Fail to Form New Party
- Orban, Salvini, Morawiecki discuss joining forces at EU level
- Hungarian leader has the most riding on the negotiations
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Three populist leaders called for a “renaissance” in the European Union to realign it along traditional family values but failed to overcome divisions toward establishing a new party to vie for influence at the highest EU levels.
The prime ministers of Hungary and Poland, Viktor Orban and Mateusz Morawiecki, and Italian Deputy Premier Matteo Salvini agreed in Budapest on Thursday to continue talks on an EU-wide platform aimed at uniting the continent’s populist and far-right forces. No breakthrough was announced, underscoring divisions that hinder their efforts to subvert the political mainstream, despite the leaders’ rhetoric.