In Rome, the prime minister of Greece accompanied nine ministers with the aim of boosting trade. Hellenic Train, migratory and defensive cooperation on the agenda.

A bilateral meeting of Georgia Meloni and Kyriakos Mitsotakis is taking place today in Rome, as part of the second Supreme Council of Cooperation of the two countries. The first was organized in 2017 in Corfu, with then Prime Ministers Paulo Gentiloni and Alexis Tsipras.

In the work, which is currently underway in Villa Pamfili of the Eternal City, nine Greek ministers and many others in Italian participate.

Bilateral relations and further increase in trade are the main position on the agenda of talks. At the same time, the situation in the SE Mediterranean is expected to be discussed, as are developments in the Ukrainian and the Middle East.

At the same time, a series of bilateral agreements will be signed, including, inter alia, the areas of infrastructure, civil protection and digital technology.

Hellenic Train

The topic of today’s agenda also has the theme of Hellenic Train, whose main shareholder is the Italian Ferrovie Dello Stato. The Greek side calls for modern trains, staff training and upgrading of all services.

Last Thursday, to address these issues and to make a first assessment and exchange of views, Deputy Minister of Transport, Konstantinos Kyranakis, the Italian Minister of Transport and Vice -President of the Government Matteo Salvini and the Head of the Government and Vice -President Matteo Salvini. It is noted that in the past, the Italian side had been particularly stood in the inefficient nature of this investment.

Migratory and border guard high on the agenda

The main position in the debate of the two prime ministers are also expected to have the migration and the guard of the European Union’s external borders, issues on which Athens and Rome policies are moving in the same direction.

The Italian prime minister, while participating in the Conservative Eurogroup, has a dialogue with a number of members of the European People’s Party. Recently, for example, he said he judged many of the positions of the new German Chancellor Friedrich Mertz.

Strengthening defense cooperation

Finally, it is also likely to be decided to strengthen the Italian-Greek defense cooperation. A particularly critical issue, taking into account a recent visit to Rome of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, as well as the signing of the cooperation of the Italian group Leonardo with Turkish company Baykar to produce state -of -the -art defenders. Greece, in this regard, considers that the cooperation of European Union Member States with third countries in security and defense must be a clear, common framework of values.