Italy-France: finally thaw between Meloni and Macron. Ukraine, migrants and support for businesses at the center of the phone call

Between Italy e France and between the Italian premier Giorgia Meloni and the French President Emmanuel Macron it's finally thaw. It took weeks but Meloni, probably recommended by the President Sergio Mattarella, seems to have finally understood that sovereignty can also win elections but leads nowhere and that Italy alone counts for less than the two of spades. This is why the axis between Italy and France is essential: for the two countries and for theEurope. Palazzo Chigi announced that the two Presidents held a "cordial telephone conversation yesterday, during which the main issues at the center of the European and international agenda were addressed".

ITALY-FRANCE: SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE, DEFENSE OF EUROPEAN COMPETITIVENESS AND FIGHT AGAINST ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

The "widely shared" themes of the "cordial phone call" on which Meloni and Macron "have agreed to continue to discuss" are three, namely: 1) "full support forUkraine“, which means guaranteeing the supply of new weapons to Kiev which will allow Ukraine to repel the bloody Russian offensive and not to present itself as losers at the peace table when the time comes for negotiations; 2) “the urgency of identifying effective solutions at European level to support the competitiveness of European companies” in the face of Biden's massive state aid plan for American companies: in short, “Made in Europe” as the recent Macron document says which seems to have convinced von der Leyen to move; 3) the "contrast to theillegal immigration” through effective control of the external borders of the European Union.

ITALY-FRANCE: THE ROLE OF THE QUIRINALE AND AMBASSADOR MASSET

If we are not rediscovering the Treaty of the Quirinale, on which Mattarella and Macron had worked hard and which Meloni had initially snubbed, we are not far away and it is a great good that calm returns between Italy and France, on which diplomacy and in particular the dynamic French ambassador have worked a lot in Rome, Christian Masset. It is the growing integration between the two economies that is pushing towards cooperation. It is no coincidence that at the end of December theFrench Embassy in Italy, together with the French Ministry of the Economy, has released a very detailed report on the economic relations between the two countries which, photographing the state of the art which shows that France is the third supplier of Italy which in turn is the third of Italy, in reality it had an evident political value and aimed at the full recovery of political relations between Palazzo Chigi and the Elysée. That document, anticipated by FIRSTonline with the title "Italy-France, cold political relations between Meloni and Macron but business booming" revealed how trade flows and cross-investments were "steadily increasing" and contributed to making Italy's GDP and France a third of the GDP of the entire EU and how the economic reality itself pushes towards the overcoming of political discrepancies. Fields of bilateral economic cooperation – fromindustry ai services – they are wide but it is the which can give a further boost to cooperation: a recent survey has highlighted that the French increasingly indicate Italy as their favorite holiday destination. But, in addition to tourism, energy, defense and security are the fields in which collaboration can and must grow with an eye to the national interests of the two countries but also to the opportunity to steer Europe's course.

After the capture of the mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, which has favorably impressed the chancelleries and European public opinion, the newfound harmony between Italy and France is, therefore, another good news that gives confidence to our country, with all due respect to the sovereigns but with great relief of the Quirinale and the Italians .