The Quirinal Treaty soon signed: Macron will be in Rome on November 25 and 26
French president Emmanuel Macron and the president of the Italian council Mario Draghi will sign the treaty of the Quirinal, symbol of the rapprochement between France and Italy, on November 25 in Rome.
After having come to Rome at the end of October on the occasion of the G20, Emmanuel Macron will go to the Italian capital again next week.On April 25, this time he was expected to sign the Treaty of the Quirinal with Mario Draghi, according to the Reuters news agencies and the ANSA, citing "an Italian government" source ".The Franco-Italian treaty project has been in the making since January 2018, to strengthen the Paris-Rome axis.Approaching the upcoming departure of Chancellor Angela Merkel in Germany, this Treaty Treaty Transalpine could also activate a rebalancing of the forces in Europe.
The contours of the Franco-Italian Friendship Treaty
The precise details of the content are not yet known, but we know that it will affect the areas of economic, industrial and innovation cooperation, but also of culture, research and higher education.
The project announced and put on rails by Emmanuel Macron and Paolo Gentiloni then president of the Italian council, should initially have been finalized in the fall of 2018.The agreement had been frozen without being abandoned, with the coming to power in Italy of the populist coalition formed by the League and the 5 -star movement, and an ephemeral deterioration of relations between France and Italy.
The day after the signing of the Quirinal Treaty, on November 26, Emmanuel Macron should meet Pope Francis in the Vatican, reveals the newspaper La Croix.