Catherine Colonna, French Minister of Foreign Affairs, went to Rome to promote reconciliation between France and Italy. The matter was urgent, the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella to go to Paris on June 7 to inaugurate the Capodimonte exhibition at the Louvre.
However, she will not have made an official apology from the France, as Antonio Tajani had requested on a whim. "We are not in a diplomatic crisis with Italy," she said before her visit, "if there was indeed a moment of oscillation, of astonishment"