Italy's Salvini: EU election to be referendum on migration

ROME (AP) — The leader of the right-wing party in Italy's populist government told tens of thousands of supporters Sunday he wants to turn next year's European Parliament election into a referendum on immigration and job security.

Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini also laid out at his League party's annual gathering a vision of uniting the political movements in several European countries that say they want to prevent national interests from being eclipsed by European Union agendas.

"I am thinking of a League of Leagues that will put together all the free, sovereign movements" in various countries, Salvini said at the event held in sweltering heat in Pontida, northern Italy.