Professor Emeritus of History and Political Sociology at Sciences Po, Marc Lazar holds the Chair of "Franco-Italian Relations for Europe" at the Luiss University of Rome.
On May 4, in response to criticism from Jordan Bardella, president of the National Rally, about his immigration policy, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin castigated the inability to "solve migration problems" of Giorgia Meloni, "Madam President of the Council" as she asks to be appointed, immediately triggering a new diplomatic tension between Paris and Rome. This demonstrates once again that the Franco-Italian relationship is characterized in the long term by an incessant swing between, on the one hand, the rather agreed celebration of the love that the "Italian cousins" would share the same culture and united by common interests, and, on the other, without even mentioning Mussolini's declaration of war on June 10, 1940, Scrambles more or less...
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