Immigration
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The unkind remarks of the Minister of the Interior against the far-right president of the Italian Council, Giorgia Meloni, caused the cancellation of the visit to Paris of the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs. Against the backdrop of the rivalry with the RN on immigration.
This is not going to fix relations between the left and right banks of this government. At the Quai d’Orsay, where we were preparing to receive this Thursday evening in Paris, Antonio Tajani, the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, we contain his anger. But in the entourages of Foreign Ministers, Catherine Colonna, and her Secretary of State for Europe, Laurence Boone, unpleasant onomatopoeias have sprung from quite a few throats. And not against the cancellation of Rome… In diplomatic language, it gives: “The relationship between France and Italy is based on mutual respect, between our two countries and between their leaders. […] It is also in a spirit of solidarity that the French government wishes to work with Italy to face the common challenge represented by the rapid increase in migratory flows, in particular from the central Mediterranean. But behind the scenes, we are furious at the bad manners done to diplomats by Gérald Darmanin.
In the morning, guest of big mouths from RMC, the Minister of the Interior has indeed canonized the policy of the head of the Italian government, Giorgia Meloni, in terms of immigration. For him, the President of the Council is “unable to resolve migration issues” from his country. “Madam