Italy Germany, from the migrant dossier to the Stability Pact all the knots on the mission table

Transferring the language of football to the diplomatic level, we could say that Italy-Germany is never a match, a bilateral match like the others. The face-to-face meeting to be held today at Palazzo Chigi between Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is inevitably destined to leave its mark. Even for the moment: Germany is in recession and Italy is growing more than the European average, an exceptional fact but one that does not leave us indifferent at all given that the Germans are the main trading partner, the first buyers of Italian products.

The fate of Ita

Another plot that has just been celebrated is Ita’s marriage to Lufthansa of which Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti gave the latest details yesterday evening during the Council of Ministers and which will certainly be one of the main courses of the meeting also in view of the start of the authorization procedure by the European Commission.

Collaboration between the two governments

And then again there is the action plan between the two countries at stake which has been in preparation for some time and which could be accelerated by promoting greater collaboration at an institutional level between the two countries on the most important dossiers. Scholz will probably also talk about it during the conversation at the Quirinale with the Head of State Sergio Mattarella. But it will be above all in face to face with the premier that it will be understood whether Italy and Germany are destined to strengthen mutual collaboration.

The topics: from migrants to the new stability pact

Starting with the main issues at the top of the European agenda: from migrants to the new stability pact up to energy autonomy with reference also to that southern hydrogen corridor which would help guarantee the diversification of supply sources and make Italy the ‘energy hub that Meloni has spoken about several times, referring to his Mattei Plan for Africa.

Third meeting between Meloni and Scholz

And perhaps it is no coincidence that this third meeting between the two (the first took place on 3 February in Berlin while the second took place on the sidelines of the G7 meeting in Hiroshima on 20 May) was preceded by the visit of the Prime Minister in Tunisia for the conversation with the president Kais Saied and then from the conversation in Rome the day after with the Libyan premier Dbeibah where energy investments were at the center and above all the migrant emergency and the consequent support to curb departures towards Italy. Even before Scholz landed in Rome from Germany, they officially announced that the migration issue will be one of the main topics on which the two heads of government will discuss. The hope is to find “a good and sustainable solution for everyone,” said Steffen Hebestreit, spokesman for the German Chancellor.