Macron, thanks to those who gave me the idea of ​​the Quirinale Treaty

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 26 - "I want to thank those who allowed this process, first of all those of you, in September 2017 in Lyon during a Franco-Italian summit, who asked me why the equivalent of the Treaty did not exist between Italy and France of the Elysée ", which since 1963 has linked Paris and Berlin. "It seemed to be a question that documented a distance, to which I replied at the time: 'So let's make a Treatise on the Quirinale'". Thus the French President Emmanuel Macron, at the opening of the press conference in VillaMadama with Prime Minister Mario Draghi, recalled how the initiative (and the name) of the Italian-French treaty was born. The question at the Lyon summit was posed by the ANSA correspondent in Paris, Tullio Giannotti.

    "Then this idea was resumed in January 2018 in Rome by PaoloGentiloni, to whom I want to pay homage because at the time he greatly contributed to advance the work", Macron added, retracing the various stages. "We set up a disagreement committee, and I would like to thank all those who, on both sides of the Alps, have worked during all these years to progress along this path, I would say with good times and bad weather", he underlined, referring to the tensions between France and Italy that resulted in 2019 with the recall of the French ambassador, Christian Masset.

    "Finally, I would like to thank our parliamentarians, the members of the friendship committee, and obviously President Mattarell who has played an essential role throughout this period and who has watched over the success of these works," Macron concluded.

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