A direct attack on French President Emmanuel Macron has been launched by the secretary of the League and vice-president of the Italian government Mateo Salvini.

“We reject the possibility of a European army under the command of a madman like Macron, who talks about nuclear war,” he said in Milan.

“As far as the war in Ukraine is concerned, the line of our government is solid. There is absolutely no possibility of sending our troops. There is no way we can use the Cohesion Fund funds to buy arms instead of developing the various regions of our country,” Salvini added.

“Tomorrow, in more than a thousand squares of our country, we will set up stands where citizens who want the war to end can come. I am proud of this initiative, at the same time as some people are talking about a common European debt, with the aim of buying weapons. It seems to me outrageous,” concluded the Italian vice-president of the government.

It should be noted that Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni has come out in favor of supporting Ukraine, but believes that sending European soldiers is not an appropriate solution.