Such a pro-European in what seemed to be his last political act, perhaps, putting Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, French President Emmanuel Macron and German President Franz-Walter Steinmeier in the same room, in convulsive days between Italy, France and Germany over immigration, a phenomenon he perhaps first tried to regulate. The secular State funeral of President Emeritus Giorgio Napolitano at Montecitorio inspired the hour-and-a-half-long meeting between Meloni and Macron, which Palazzo Chigi describes as "long and cordial", and during which the two leaders discussed major international issues, with a focus precisely on migration management and European economic priorities ahead of Friday's "Med 9" summit in Malta and next week's informal European Council in Granada. Precisely on the subject of immigration, today in the Council of Ministers should arrive the draft of the new decree to deal with the emergency, in which the use of the Coast Guard in hotspots in case of overcrowding is hypothesized, the possibility of the 50% increase in the capacity of first reception centers as an exception, the possibility of deportation in case of conviction for false proof of age. If on the French front, which has become hot after Paris' decision to tighten controls at the Menton-Ventimiglia border, the sky seems to be clearing, tensions with Germany remain high, despite Steinmeier's presence for Napolitano's final farewell: Berlin has let it be known that it will respond to Meloni's letter expressing astonishment at the funding of NGOs.
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