Italy's ambassador to Paris, Emanuela D'Alessandro, was received at the French foreign ministry last Thursday after recent comments made by Deputy Premier and Transport Minister Matteo Salvini on French President Emmanuel Macron, French newspaper Le Figaro reported Saturday in a column on political rumours, adding that the ambassador was allegedly reminded by French officials that the Italian minister's words "contradicted the Quirinale Treaty" between Italy and France. The embassy confirmed "a meeting at the Quai d'Orsay", seat of the foreign ministry in Paris, stressing however that the ambassador had not been summoned by French officials.
Earlier this month, Salvini said there will never be an EU army led by a "mad" French President Emmanuel Macron, amid French-led moves to set up a European army and possibly send peacekeepers to police a future Ukraine peace deal.
"The European army commanded by that madman Macron who talks about nuclear war, no, never", said Salvini last week after the French leader offered France's nuclear umbrella to protect the Union against possible future Russian threats.
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