(ANSA) - PARIS, 07 JAN - "We are very lucky to have a President of the Republic (Sergio Mattarella) and a President of the Council (Mario Draghi) so courageous, pro-Europeans and friends of France": the French President, Emmanuel Macron, on the occasion of a conference joint press in Paris with the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, thus answering a question on the Quirinale.
"I am not in the habit of commenting on domestic political issues, including in a friendly country" like Italy, Macron later specified.
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