Italy's Northern League calls for EU to be 'demolished'


  • World
  • Thursday, 11 Dec 2014

Northern League party leader Matteo Salvini gestures during a news conference at the Foreign Press Association in Rome, December 10, 2014. REUTERS/Tony Gentile

ROME (Reuters) - In a European political landscape increasingly populated with insurgent, anti-system parties, Italy's eurosceptic anti-immigrant Northern League is the latest to profit from a groundswell of hostility to the European Union.

The League's 41-year-old leader, Matteo Salvini calls the euro a "criminal currency" and wants to demolish the Brussels consensus that has dominated European politics since the end of World War Two. He is also, at odds with mainstream leaders, an admirer of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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