Nationalist EU Parties Plan to Join Forces After May Elections

Matteo Salvini, Italy's Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the far-right League Party, poses with Olli Kotro from the Finnish ECR party, Joerg Meuthen from the the German EFDD party and Anders Vistisen from the Danish ECR party, as he launches the start of his campaign for the European elections, in Milan, Italy April 8, 2019. REUTERS/Alessandro Garofalo

MILAN—Nationalist parties plan to join forces following next month’s European Union parliamentary election, looking to create a new bloc to shake up the EU, officials from four groups said on April 8.

The move shows growing confidence amongst right-wing and sovereignist parties that for the first time since the EU was formed 60 years ago they can win enough seats in parliament to have a major say in how the continent is run.