President Sergio Mattarella on Friday highlighted Italy's "extraordinarily solid" relations with Germany during a visit by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to the Quirinale palace in Rome.
"It is a pleasure to be able to converse with you and underline how solid - to say solid is insufficient - our relationships are: they are really extraordinarily solid," said Mattarella.
The president added that bilateral relations between the countryhave been further "strengthened by the recent action plan signed by you and Premier Meloni in Berlin, which will certainlyincrease our cooperation even further in every respect".
"Welcome," concluded Mattarella.
In November Meloni and Scholz signed an Action Plan between Italy and Germany as part of the intergovernmental summit in Berlin.
The signing took place at the Chancellery after the bilateral meeting between the two heads of government.
The plan aims to boost cooperation both on a bilateral and on a European level.
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