Former White House strategist Steve Bannon is spending the EU elections in a key battleground country.
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon has pledged to unite Europe’s far-right into an international alliance of populists, and the European Parliamentary elections will be the first test of whether his strategy is bearing fruit.
Germany’s far-right Alternative For Deutschland threw its weight behind the new populist alliance. The Finns Party, a populist conservative party that advocates for Finland to leave Europe’s visa-free Schengen zone and form a visa-free regime with Russia, also joined. Geert Wilders, the controversial leader of the Netherlands’ Party for Freedom, was there too.
Leader of Northern League party, Matteo Salvini embraces Marine Le Pen during demonstration ahead of the European elections in Piazza Duomo on May 18, 2019 in Milan, Italy. Pier Marco Tacca/Getty Images Marine Le Pen, the leader of the far-right National Rally Party in France, has voiced her support for Salvini’s coalition. But she has attempted to distance herself from Bannon in the run-up to the May 26 election, telling reporters that he has “no role in the campaign.” Bannon has called himself a simple “observer” of the election.
British Prime Minister Theresa May resigned in tears on Friday after failing three times to get a Brexit plan approved.
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