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Matteo Salvini's proclamation earlier this month that Italy and Poland would form an 'axis' against Franco-German dominance was no bombast. (Photo: EUobserver)

Salvini and Kaczynski - the new 'axis' powers?

It is a measure of how much Europe's political centre of gravity has shifted that the recent meeting between Matteo Salvini and Jaroslaw Kaczynski in Warsaw has been a major political event in the EU.

Only a few years ago the meeting between the leader of the Italian League party and the leader of the Polish Law and Justice party would have been little more than a get-together of nationalist politicians, isolated at home and uninflu...

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Angelos Chryssogelos is a fellow in the research cluster Global Populism/Challenges to Democracy of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.

Matteo Salvini's proclamation earlier this month that Italy and Poland would form an 'axis' against Franco-German dominance was no bombast. (Photo: EUobserver)

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Angelos Chryssogelos is a fellow in the research cluster Global Populism/Challenges to Democracy of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.

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