Szijjarto: Salvini deserves gratitude, praise

Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto on Friday said Italy's right-wing League leader Matteo Salvini deserved "gratitude and praise", in a Facebook comment reacting to Italy's senate revoking Salvini's immunity. Szijjarto said the liberal mainstream press had presented the development as a victory, yet "it was Salvini who did not want to allow illegal migrants, human smugglers and their allies, the so-called NGOs, to laugh in the face of Italian and European laws, violate all existing regulations and arbitrarily call at port in Italy, thereby illegally entering Europe."