The future head of the Italian government, Giorgia Maloni, called for a “Europe of patriots” on Sunday in a video message to a rally of the Spanish far-right Vox party in Madrid, France Presse and Agerpres reported.

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In his message, the leader of the Fratelli d’Italia party spoke for “a bolder Europe (…) to respond to major international crises.”

“Long live Europe, patriots!” said Maloney, who began talks with his coalition partners, Matteo Salvini’s League and Silvio Berlusconi’s conservative Forza Italia party, to form a government to take office at the end of October.

“After a few days in Italy, we will be called to turn these ideas into a concrete government policy, as our friends in Poland are already doing,” she said.

Like Hungary, Poland is at loggerheads with Brussels over its lack of respect for the rule of law.

Georgia Maloney assured that she will work for the ideas of her political family “to reach power in more and more European countries.”

“In Spain, Italy and probably in all of Europe, the majority of citizens are no longer in the utopias and ideology of the left, and we demand that we take responsibility for governance,” the Italian politician emphasized.

She welcomed the recent election victory of the right-wing and far-right alliance in Sweden, which includes the Sweden Democrats, a formation born out of the neo-Nazi movement.