The European parliamentary elections are just six weeks away, and the “populist” parties — those that support national sovereignty and oppose mass immigration — are expected to make big gains. To leverage their power and strategize collectively, the major nationalist parties in a number of different countries are forming new alliances for after the election.

Giorgia Meloni is the leader of the anti-immigration party Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy) and a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. In the following video Ms. Meloni discusses one of the new populist alliances.

Many thanks to He Ha for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Here’s a report on another pan-European nationalist initiative led by Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini (hat tip Reader from Chicago):

Germans, Danes, And Finns Join Salvini’s Populist ‘Supergroup’ Populist Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has added several new parties to his European Parliament alliance, announcing the inclusion of conservatives and populists from Finland, Denmark, and Germany. The populist “supergroup” set to be headed by the Italian deputy prime minister also contains the Danish People’s Party (DF), the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD), and the True Finns party, with Salvini meeting with key figures from all three parties in Milan on Monday, Il Giornale reports.

Video transcript: