Deputy Premier and Transport Minister Matteo Salvini said Sunday that he does not have a beef with French President Emmanuel Macron, a day after calling him a "warmonger", while stressing that he thinks the Macronmooted idea of sending Western troops to Ukraine was dangerous.
"I don't have anything against Macron, but a Europe that talks about sending its soldiers to the slaughter outside its borders is one that goes against the principles of the European Community, at a time when we should be working to defend our selves against Islamic terrorists," Salvini said an event for his League party in Rome.
On Saturday Salvini said that "with his words, Macron is adanger for our country and for this continent" during a Rome convention of the Identity and Democracy (ID) group that the League party belongs to at the European level.
"I don't want to leave a continent ready to enter World War III to my children," he said.
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