Mission rebibochage for the boss of the Quai d'Orsay, Catherine Colonna, who flies this Thursday, May 25 to Rome. His colleague from the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, had set fire to the Franco-Italian relationship by declaring (on RMC) that "Mrs. Meloni (Prime Minister of Italy) and her far-right government chosen by Mrs. Le Pen's friends are incapable of solving the migration problems on which they were elected"! Fury on the other side of the Alps, the Francophobe Matteo Salvini (number 2 of the government) unleashing lightning, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Antonio Tajani canceling with a simple tweet his first official dinner at the Quay scheduled for the same evening and demanding an "apology" from the France. No apology Thursday for the discreet Colonna, with a more polite style than Darmanin, but, according to a person close to the file, she intends to play "a stabilizing role as diplomats know how to do". Implied, the antithesis of the "commedia dell'arte" prized by politicians in Rome as in Paris.
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