ROME — Italy’s right-wing parties are poised to abandon anti-EU politics, according to a leaked blueprint for power designed to reassure international markets and allies.

A draft of the right-wingers' joint program for government, agreed by representatives of the parties on Wednesday and seen by POLITICO, stated that Italy is “a fully fledged part of Europe” and pledged its “full adhesion” to European integration.

The document also said, if elected, the next Italian government will seek changes to the terms of its pandemic recovery fund deal with the EU, since the Ukraine war and inflation have changed the context significantly.

The pro-EU declaration is likely to be broadly welcomed by investors and European politicians as well as officials in Brussels, with opinion polls showing an alliance of right-wingers led by Giorgia Meloni is on course to win power in the September 25 election.

Bond traders and European governments had been concerned that the downfall of Prime Minister Mario Draghi's coalition would trigger a period of upheaval with a new, untested right-wing coalition taking over.

Historically the far-right League party held positions hostile to Europe, suggesting that Italy should leave the euro, while its ally, Meloni's Brothers of Italy, was more ambiguous. The other main partner in the coalition, Silvio Berlusconi’s center-right Forza Italia, was traditionally pro-European.

As recently as last year the League and Brothers signed a declaration with other populist parties in Europe calling the EU “a tool of radical forces that would like to carry out a cultural, religious transformation and ultimately a nationless construction of Europe”, and called for the EU to be reformed with “a set of inviolable competences” maintained by member states.

But with elections on September 25 looking almost certain to bring a right-wing coalition to power, the leaders are seeking to reassure financial markets and international allies, by making it explicitly clear that any formerly anti-European leanings are now history.