Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni landed at Tunis-Carthage airport for her visit to the Tunisian Republic. It is the fourth visit to Tunisia in ten months, but the first under the Mattei Plan.
Meloni is accompanied by the Minister of the Interior Matteo Piantedosi, the Minister of University and Research Anna Maria Bernini, and the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Edmondo Cirielli. The Prime Minister will meet President Kais Saied in the morning at Palazzo Cartagine, before flying to Brussels for the European Council of Ministers. Italian sources point out that Italy continues to be strongly committed to supporting Tunisia, considered a fundamental piece of stability in the Mediterranean. Tunisia is among the African countries with which Italy collaborates most in the Horizon Europe research program (it received 50.8 million euros in funding) and in terms of the rate of graduates in STEM subjects, it is second only to Malaysia in the world.