Italy's Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini plays host to the fellow leaders of many of Europe's nationalist and right-wing political parties at the "Identity and Democracy" conference in Florence. "I think today is an extraordinary day and I dare say historic, because today marks the renaissance of the Europe that can be reborn," Salvini says. Jordan Bardella, president of the French National Rally, tells the conference that "it is because we love Europe that we fight the policies conducted by the European Union," adding that immigration is "the existential question for our identity." IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES