The first state visit after that of Giorgio Napolitano in October 2012, the first abroad by Sergio Mattarella after the pandemic: it began this afternoon among the Italian flags flying among the French ones from the Invalides to the Champs-Elysées the three days of the President of the Republic in Paris. A mission of crucial importance, which also wants to be the seal to a bond that today Paris has defined as "unique" between the two countries and to a personal relationship of friendship with Emmanuel Macron that has allowed the two countries to overcome the most difficult moment of the last years. It was May 1 two years ago when Mattarella landed in France after the months of frost between the two governments, which culminated in the recall of Ambassador Christian Masset to Paris. Those were the times of misunderstandings and misunderstandings,but the two presidents of the Republic were able to turn the page with a memorable visit to the places where Leonardo da Vinci lived in his last months of life. Today, more than two years later, the Minister for European Affairs, Clément Beaune, the man closest to Macron in the government, spoke of "a unique European bond between our two countries, essential and still undervalued". The visit, which will go live tomorrow morning when Mattarella is received at the Elysée, will continue in the afternoon when the president will deliver a speech at the Sorbonne. On his arrival, today, the first appointment at the Sèvres ceramics museum, just outside Paris, then the return to the hotel in the center of Paris where the head of state received a welcome visit from Giorgio Armani.There are many themes and implications of this relationship between France and Italy which is strengthened and which will also be sealed within the year by a treaty of enhanced cooperation, that 'Quirinal treaty' put in place in a bilateral meeting between the two governments when a driving the Italian one was Paolo Gentiloni. "There have not been such good relations between France and Italy for forty years," said the scholar Jean-Pierre Darnis interviewed in these days by Le Figaro. In place number 1 on the Rome and Paris agenda in recent months has been the initiative of the great European recovery plan to get out of the pandemic crisis, a revolution compared to the rigorous approach that had long been represented by Germany. And to win the biggest challenge,the two governments came together. With the arrival of Mario Draghi at the helm of the government, relations between Rome and Paris, thanks also to the particularly warm relationship with Macron, have further strengthened, at all levels. Ancient disagreements such as that over the presence in France of the former Red Brigades of the lead years have been resolved in recent months, with Macron responding to Italian extradition requests that have been repeated in vain for 25 years. The rivalry in Libya also gave way to the common understanding that only Turkey and Russia would benefit.Ancient disagreements such as that over the presence in France of the former Red Brigades of the lead years have been resolved in recent months, with Macron responding to Italian extradition requests that have been repeated in vain for 25 years. The rivalry in Libya also gave way to the common understanding that only Turkey and Russia would benefit.Ancient disagreements such as that over the presence in France of the former Red Brigades of the lead years have been resolved in recent months, with Macron responding to Italian extradition requests that have been repeated in vain for 25 years. The rivalry in Libya also gave way to the common understanding that only Turkey and Russia would benefit.
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04 July 2021 The first state visit after that of Giorgio Napolitano in October 2012, the first abroad by Sergio Mattarella after the pandemic: it began this afternoon among the Italian flags flying among the French ones from the Invalides to the Champs-Elysées three days of the President of the Republic in Paris.
A mission of crucial importance, which also wants to be the seal to a bond that today Paris has defined as "unique" between the two countries and to a personal relationship of friendship with Emmanuel Macron that has allowed the two countries to overcome the most difficult moment of the last years.
It was May 1 two years ago when Mattarella landed in France after the months of frost between the two governments, which culminated in the recall of Ambassador Christian Masset to Paris. Those were the times of misunderstandings and misunderstandings, but the two presidents of the Republic were able to turn the page with a memorable visit to the places where Leonardo da Vinci lived in his last months of life. Today, more than two years later, the Minister for European Affairs, Clément Beaune, the man closest to Macron in the government, spoke of "a unique European bond between our two countries, essential and still undervalued".
The visit, which will go live tomorrow morning when Mattarella is received at the Elysée, will continue in the afternoon when the president will deliver a speech at the Sorbonne. On his arrival, today, the first appointment at the Sèvres ceramics museum, just outside Paris, then the return to the hotel in the center of Paris where the head of state received a welcome visit from Giorgio Armani.
There are many themes and implications of this relationship between France and Italy which is strengthened and which will also be sealed within the year by a treaty of enhanced cooperation, that 'Quirinal treaty' put in place in a bilateral meeting between the two governments when a driving the Italian one was Paolo Gentiloni. "There have not been such good relations between France and Italy for forty years," said the scholar Jean-Pierre Darnis interviewed in these days by Le Figaro. In place number 1 on the Rome and Paris agenda in recent months has been the initiative of the great European recovery plan to get out of the pandemic crisis, a revolution compared to the rigorous approach that had long been represented by Germany. And to win the biggest challenge,the two governments came together.
With the arrival of Mario Draghi at the helm of the government, relations between Rome and Paris, thanks also to the particularly warm relationship with Macron, have further strengthened, at all levels. Ancient disagreements such as that over the presence in France of the former Red Brigades of the lead years have been resolved in recent months, with Macron responding to Italian extradition requests that have been repeated in vain for 25 years. The rivalry in Libya also gave way to the common understanding that only Turkey and Russia would benefit.
