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LONDON — In Italy and France, nationalist leaders like Giorgia Meloni and Marine Le Pen have toned down their euroskeptic language in recent years in the pursuit of power.
In Romania, the sixth most populous country in the EU, the Trump-aligned nationalist George Simion is showing no such restraint.
“What they want to do in Brussels is to destroy Europe,” Simion, 39, said in an interview during a visit to London for the CPAC GB conference of activists on the right. “All the measures taken in the last 15-20 years destroyed the economy in Europe. We are going on the wrong path.”
The views of Simion, a former football hooligan who relishes a fight with the establishment, matter: His party, the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), has a huge lead in opinion polls and may soon get a chance to put its case to voters if a snap election is called.
