… or xenophobic euroskeptics or both, and the ability of the European Union, if and when a new government is in office, to … Lega. Headed since 2013 by Matteo Salvini, a member of the European Parliament, the Lega, which was founded in 1991 from … euro area. (Salvini was, for example, often seen in the European Parliament and elsewhere wearing a “basta euro” (no …