Faced with the surprising crisis between Rome and Paris on migrants and a few days from the first anniversary of the signing of the Quirinale Treaty between Italy and France, “President Mattarella will try to mend. For a few days the climate will remain incandescent but at a certain moment realpolitik will return to be a necessity between Italy and France” and Macron and Meloni will talk to each other again “even if there can never be a honeymoon like during the Draghi government”: theirs will be a “cold but pragmatic” relationship. This is what the French political scientist Marc Lazar, professor emeritus of Sciences Po and president of the Luiss School of Government, claims in an interview with “la Repubblica”.
After all, yesterday too Sergio Mattarella made efforts to calm the waters and, with regard to the many crises devastating the international community, argued – on the occasion of the anniversary of the Nassiriyah massacre in Iraq, that this “also challenges Europe and requires the cohesion of the whole EU and full sharing in the country. A commitment that we must maintain consistently and continuously to defeat violence and offer a worthy future to humanity".
Other steps, in an attempt to mend the rift, are being initiated by the EU which is at work organizing a ad hoc summit on the migrant dossier looking for a balance point that is still far away at the moment. The summit, which would bring together EU interior ministers, could be convened at the end of November. A decision could be made by the Slovenian presidency next week.
USA: in Nevada the Democrats who win the majority in the Senate win
Instead, a different atmosphere is breathed on the other side of the Atlantic. US President Joe Biden is preparing to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on the strength of an electoral victory that kept the US Democratic Party from the Senate. The definitive confirmation came during the night when it became known that the Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto is reelected in Nevada. His victory gives the Democrats control of the Senate. The Democrat was re-elected and retained the seat for the Democrats thus rising to 50 seats in the Senate, to which is added the decisive vote of Vice President Kamala Harris. The Republicans remain stuck at 49 seats when one remains to be filled, the one in Georgia which will be decided in the December 6 runoff between Senator dem Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walke.
now Joe Biden he can leave more serene for China where he will meet the president Xi Jinping "stronger" politically after the outcome of the mid-term elections. The American president himself said so when commenting on the election results from Cambodia, where he is attending the ASEAN summit. "I know Xi Jinping, he knows me," he added, saying he has always had "frank discussions" with the Chinese president. The two, who have known each other since Biden was vice president, will meet face-to-face for the first time on Monday their current roles.
