The United States has been

"clumsy"

in the matter of the submarine contract that earned it the ire of

France, this partner "of extreme value,

" Joe Biden said in Rome on Friday when meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron. "What we did it was clumsy and not very elegant, "said the US president of the Aukus alliance, adding that France was in his eyes" an extremely valuable partner. "

Both met this Friday in Rome, at the headquarters of the French embassy to the Holy See, for their first face-to-face meeting after the serious dispute over submarines.

"We have to look to the future," Macron said, welcoming President Biden with strong smiles and handshakes at the Villa Bonaparte residence.

The French president has asked for

"concrete decisions" that "initiate a process of trust" between France and the United States

after the Aukus crisis, in addition to a "clarification" on his commitment to defending Europe.

On the other hand, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi received Joe Biden in Rome today, and both stressed

"the strength of the transatlantic alliance"

with Europe, on the eve of the G20 leaders' summit.

The two met in the Roman Chigi Palace, seat of the Italian Government, and during the almost hour that the meeting lasted, topics such as the management of the pandemic, the fight against climate change, the imposition of the economy and

"the reinforcement of the rules-based multilateral system ",

according to official Italian sources.

In addition to the bilateral relations between Italy and the United States, and their respective recovery plans after the health crisis, they defended the Atlantic alliance and "the usefulness of the development of a European defense" also for that pact.

Both spoke of "a complementary relationship" in matters of defense and security.

They also discussed the main

international crises, such as Afghanistan,

or the situation in the Mediterranean and Libya.

Biden arrived in an armored car at the Roman Palace Chigi, seat of the presidency of the Government, an hour and twenty minutes late after entertaining himself with the pope and after briefly visiting the head of state, Sergio Mattarella, at the Quirinale.

Draghi and his wife, Maria Serenella Cappello, received the US president and his wife Jill in the parade ground of the palace, where a picket of honor was deployed, and then the anthems of both countries were heard.

Biden's caravan was slowed down when one of about thirty cars that made it up was involved in a minor traffic accident leaving the Vatican, leaving no injuries.

Biden also expressed his position on the alliance with Europe in the meeting he had with Mattarella, to whom he said that his country "has returned," according to Quirinale sources, in a veiled reference to the years of tension in the Donald Trump administration.

And he argued that the relationship with the European Union is a "fundamental piece" of US policy.

The US president will conclude his first Roman day with a bilateral meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron, in which they will address the recent diplomatic crisis between the two countries over the sale of submarines to Australia.

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