![Women with "No Salvini" painted on their cheeks take part in a demonstration by anti-racism, anti-fascist groups to protest against a meeting of nationalist leaders in downtown Milan on May 18, 2019 The Italian populist deputy prime minister and Interior minister gathers Europe's disparate nationalists in Milan for a unifying rally hoping to see leaders of 12 far-right parties marching towards their conquest of Brussels after European parliamentary elections held from May 23 to 26, 2019. / AFP / Marco BERTORELLO](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/CPKINYTPUNPHYSQY2OVHYJKA4E.jpg?smart=true&auth=7bde040547f934e9e8fa182ae6e6f15e8df36c6d4befebfd06bfaeb2544f0766&width=400&height=225)
Women with "No Salvini" painted on their cheeks take part in a demonstration by anti-racism and anti-fascist groups in Milan on May 18, 2019. AFP
Women with "No Salvini" painted on their cheeks take part in a demonstration by anti-racism and anti-fascist groups in Milan on May 18, 2019. AFP
Thousands march for the EU ahead of parliamentary vote
Protesters have expressed concern over the rise of the far-right in the upcoming elections