The “Disgeel” meeting between the Premier and the French President lasted about three hours, immediately afterwards a joint press release was issued, here are the contents.
The long -awaited encounter between the French president began with handshakes and smiled Emmanuel Macron and the Italian premier Giorgia Melonithe two leaders, after the handshakes and the ritual photos, then held a bilateral meeting, which lasted for three hours, following which a work dinner took place between the two delegations.
France considers Italy “A fundamental partner»With” a key role in European choices “, in particular with regard to the conflict in Ukraine. This is the comment of the Elysée, as reported by the FP, shortly before the start of Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Palazzo Chigi. Here the French president held a bilateral meeting with the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni. The meeting was underlined, represents a useful moment to verify “our ability to advance together on essential issues”.
After the meeting, a joint press release was issued, where we read that “Italy and France, faithful to their role as founding nations of European construction, intend to strengthen their common commitment for a more sovereign Europe, stronger and more prosperous, especially peace oriented and capable of defending their interests and protecting its citizens”.
Among the topics covered as already reported, there was The theme of competitiveness, European automotive and energywhere “strong convergences on the European agenda for competitiveness and prosperity were recorded, to be implemented in an ambitious and accelerated way, on regulatory simplification, on public and private investments, on energy and the full application of the principle of technological neutrality and, more generally, on the conditions necessary to make European companies compete with equal arms”.
It has also been established to replicate this type of meeting, with the next summit to be held next year in France. In particular, The two leaders “have decided that the next bilateral summit will take place in France at the beginning of 2026also with the aim of evaluating and updating the work program that specifies the objectives of bilateral cooperation provided for by the Treaty of the Quirinale, which entered into force in 2023, in numerous sectoral areas, with particular attention to young people “.
Space also for hot themes in the geopolitical arena: «More than three years after the beginning of the Russian aggression and in the aftermath of the talks between Ukraine and Russia of Istanbul, The unshakable and without hesitation of France and Italy at Ukraine is even more necessary to reach a fair and lasting solutionwhile assuming an ambitious change of scale in European defense, both in terms of investments and support for the basis of industrial and European technological defense “.
The meeting also offered the opportunity to deal with other very relevant security issues for Italy and Europe, “in particular in the Middle East and Libya, and to coordinate their positions in terms of transatlantic relationships, as well as on the economic and commercial safety of the European Union (i.e. the issue of the duties, ed)”.
Finally, the two leaders underlined how France and Italy are determined to collaborate in the preparation of the next European Council and, more generally, “on the next multi -year financial framework, on migration, enlargement and reforms”. The thaw, between Meloni and Macron, therefore seems to be accomplished, at least apparently.
