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Reuters
Reuters
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By Alvise Armellini and Elizabeth Pineau

Italy wants French apology over migration 'insults'

FILE PHOTO: Italy's Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani speaks to the media ahead of the arrival of a plane carrying evacuees from Sudan, at Ciampino airport near Rome, Italy, April 24, 2023. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane/File Photo

France must apologise to end a dispute over over what Rome considers insulting remarks, including some over its handling of immigration, Italy's foreign minister said on Friday, while also signalling the spat might be short-lived.

The minister, Antonio Tajani, called off a visit to Paris at the last minute on Thursday after French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said Italy's right-wing Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni had been "unable to solve the migration problems on which she was elected".

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