13/04/2011 (Agence Europe) - Italy's MFE rejects idea of regional armies. Italy's European Federalist Movement (MFE), which recently elected Franco Spoltore of Pavia (Lombardy) as its new national secretary, has issued a statement recommending the transfer of defence and security sovereignty from the nation state to the EU. The MFE opposes the idea mooted by the Lega, an Italian regionalist party, of setting up small regional armies in Italy, like the National Guard in the United States. The...