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Traveling to Rome, Italy, Emmanuel Macron met the new Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Sunday 23 October. The journalist Anne Bourse, live from Rome for the 8 Hours of France 2, Monday, takes stock of this interview.
Emmanuel Macron has been traveling to Rome, Italy, since Sunday October 23. The Head of State, who will be received by the Pope on Monday, met the new Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Sunday evening. A one-on-one that took place discreetly “for political and ideological reasons”has indicated the journalist Anne Bourse, special correspondent in Rome for the 8 Hours of France 2, Monday. “The cleavage between the two leaders is great. It was finally last night, in a large hotel, that Emmanuel Macron and Giorgia Meloni saw each other for a little over an hour”added the journalist.
Giorgia Meloni was invested Saturday at the head of Italy, taking the oath as president of the Italian Council of Ministers. “Impossible for Emmanuel Macron not to see Giorgia Meloni”, underlined Anne Bourse. Emmanuel Macron is like this “the first head of state to speak with the post-fascist leader”, continued the special envoy for France Télévisions. The meeting between the two leaders was described as “franc” and “pragmatic” by France, while the meeting was judged “fruitful” for Giorgia Meloni.