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‘European Spring’: Italy’s Salvini Building Alliance with Poland to ‘Save Europe’

Populist Italian deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini has met with the Polish government seeking to form a “new European Spring” to combat the “French-German axis” in a battle for the future of Europe.

Victoria Friedman

10 Jan 2019, 10:01 AM PST

Polish Interior Minister Joachim Brudzinski (R) and Italian deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini shake hands after their meeting in Warsaw on January 9, 2019. (Photo by Janek SKARZYNSKI / AFP) (Photo credit should read JANEK SKARZYNSKI/AFP/Getty Images)