Mattarella today in the Netherlands: The friendship between Italy and the Netherlands is particularly important: the two countries are linked by a relationship of great friendship and mutual frankness

The visit of the head of state Sergio Mattarella to the Netherlands is underway. «This week the President Sergio Mattarella and his daughter Laura are on a State Visit to the Netherlands. Together with King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima I welcomed them in Dam Square, where a state banquet will be offered to our guests tonight at the Royal Palace ». The Dutch Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, writes it in a tweet in Italian. «Tomorrow President Mattarella will visit The Hague, where I will welcome him at the Binnenhof for a lunch with the members of the government. The President will also lay a wreath of flowers at the 1940-1945 War Memorial in The Hague and in my presence », adds Rutte on Twitter.

“The friendship between Italy and the Netherlands is particularly important: the two countries are linked by a relationship of great friendship and great mutual openness”. President Mattarella said this on his first day of the visit. “Your presence – he added, addressed to a representation of fellow countrymen in the Netherlands – is a guarantee of a friendship that is not immobile but dynamic”.

Italy and Holland are linked by “friendship and high collaboration, they are founding countries of the European Union and allies in NATO, linked by the desire to find points of agreement”. This was stated by the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, meeting in Amsterdam a representation of Italians residing in the Netherlands on the first day of his state visit.

“We are 60,000 Italians in Holland, heirs of a tradition that began 2000 years ago and never interrupted, we come from the most traditional to the most innovative professions,” recalled the Italian ambassador in Amsterdam, Giorgio Novello.