Both sides have an interest in cooperating in the European Parliament. PiS is a founding member of the European Conservatives and Reformists — the European Parliament's third-largest grouping. However, the looming departure of the U.K. Conservatives thanks to Brexit will dramatically shrink the party, so it needs fresh blood. [...]
A new Salvini-led grouping incorporating nationalists and populists from across Europe could give PiS much more heft in the European Parliament, and buttress its defenses in its ongoing dust-up with Brussels over charges that it is violating the EU's legal and democratic principles. [...]
Salvini insists that Northern European countries should accept migrants arriving in Italy, while Kaczyński has built his electoral support on refusing any reallocation of asylum seekers. Salvini is also against extensive EU cohesion funds being granted to Central Europe in the next multiannual EU budget, while PiS is advocating for continued generous financial flows.
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