The summit of pragmatism between Macron and Meloni, seen from Paris

“The vote on the new Migration Pact signed by the Italian government was an important fact. It changed things. The French president he is a pragmatic like the premier, he let the ministers attack her, of course, but now he will work for the thaw”, says Les Echos reporter Pierre de Gasquet, former correspondent from Rome and Milan

Paris. “As has often happened in recent years, France and Italy have experienced a situation of roller coasters, ups and downs, rock bottom has been reached and the slope has risen again. But then, fortunately, pragmatism arrives to overcome tensions”. Pierre de Gasquet, grand reporter of Les Echos, habitué of the Ambrosetti Forum and fine connoisseur of Italian-French bilateral relations (he was a correspondent in Rome and Milan), is convinced that today, after months of nervousness and reciprocal diplomatic both perception and again Giorgia Meloni is above all a pragmatic leader, who knows how to put certain borderline positions on the back burner, and team up at a European level. One of the confirmations is the agreement of 8 June, according to Pierre de Gasquet, when Italy, unlike Poland and Hungary, voted in favor of the compromise on the reform of the asylum system at European level, which provides for a mechanism of solidarity to share responsibility for taking care of migrants and faster processing of asylum requests.