(ANSA) - Vienna, September 14 - Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Friday "I am convinced that in a few months' time we'll find ourselves governing Europe together with Viktor Orban".

Addressing a press conference with Austrian Vice Chancellor Heinz Christian Strache, Salvini said "the sanctions against the Hungarian government and people are a political act, a madness by that leftwing Europe that is not resigned to change".

Salvini and Orban recently hailed each other as "heroes" of each other at a meeting in Milan.

Orban's nationalist Fidesz party and Salvini's anti-migrant Euoskeptic League are expected to be among the populist parties who will do well in the European Parliament elections on 23-26 May next year.

