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Italy’s envoy to Paris summoned after Salvini’s swipe at Macron over Ukraine

Italian politician Matteo Salvini speaks before an image of French President Emmanuel Macron shortly after assuming a prominent role in his country's coalition government, June 2018 AFP

Salvini’s latest jab at Emmanuel Macron risks undoing recent Franco-Italian rapprochement, rekindling a history of clashes over migration and Europe.

The Italian ambassador to France has been summoned to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs after Matteo Salvini, Italy’s deputy prime minister, lobbed a barbed remark at Emmanuel Macron, telling the French president to go to Ukraine himself if he was so keen on sending troops.

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