"We are working to create a new European group: I am in contact with the Poles and the Hungarians. Joining the EPP is not on the agenda".
Matteo Salvini, in a few words, shuffles the cards, confirming the struggle of the League in the search for a new location in Europe.
For some time Giancarlo Giorgetti has been weaving a canvas in Europe to impose a change, however, until now, the secretary had always said he was not interested in "shirt changes".
But politics is now running fast, along the Rome-Brussels axis.
So, now that the deputy is committed to leading economic development, he is directly taking the lead with a surprise move.
On his 48th birthday, during an interview with Annalisa Chirico, between an appeal to vaccination and safe reopening, Salvini makes it clear that he wants to get serious in Brussels.
The farewell of Prime Minister Viktor Orban from the EPP sets everything in motion in the 'sovereign' camp, so he understands that the time has come to go beyond the borders of the Euroscepticism of the past to seek new convergences.
The first appeal to join in the new project is launched precisely to the Hungarians and the Poles.
After Trump's defeat and the farewell of the 'Giallorossi' at Palazzo Chigi, the League sees joining the Draghi government as a great opportunity to get out of the 'extremist fort' and change the balance in the Europe that matters.