2023-06-07 19:41:31
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz travels to Rome on Thursday to meet Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. It is the Chancellor’s first visit to the Italian capital since the leader of the far-right Fratelli d’Italia party took power in October.
Meloni was already in Berlin for her inaugural visit in February. At that time, Scholz had declared that he also wanted to cooperate closely with the new government. The plan of action already planned with the previous government to deepen relations was to be completed unchanged. Meloni, who had sharply attacked Germany as an opposition politician, struck conciliatory tones.
The talks on Thursday are likely to be regarding the Russian war of aggression once morest Ukraine, but also regarding EU issues such as European asylum policy. Parallel to the Scholz trip, the interior ministers of the European Union are trying to initiate a major reform of the European asylum system in Luxembourg. It is regarding a much more rigid handling of migrants with no prospects of staying and a duty to support the particularly heavily burdened member states at the EU’s external borders, which also includes Italy.
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