Leaders under pressure at home are shifting their problems onto the world stage, Matteo Salvini has said

Europe is obstructing efforts to reach a Ukraine peace deal because leaders facing trouble at home are shifting their political problems onto the international stage, Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini has said.

Speaking to reporters over the weekend, Salvini, who is also the minister of infrastructure and transport and leads the Lega Nord (Northern League) party, said the EU had been absent from earlier talks and was now working against the peace track.

“Now it seems to me that it [Europe] is boycotting the peace process, perhaps…

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