Italy's Salvini, Luxembourg's Asselborn Stage War of Words
- Two ministers clashed on immigration issue at Vienna meeting
- Salvini’s League currently most popular party in Italy
Jean Asselborn and Matteo Salvini meet in Austria on July 12.
Photographer: Barbara Gindl/AFP/Getty Images
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Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini and Jean Asselborn, Luxembourg’s minister for foreign affairs, are locked in a bitter war of words about European migration.
The feud started at a Vienna conference on Friday. Salvini posted a video on his Facebook page of an exchange with Asselborn, who interrupted the Italian’s speech with a profanity after Salvini likened African immigrants to slaves.