Global Economy

Key Facts

—The meeting. France’s Emmanuel Macron and Italy’s Giorgia Meloni held their first official bilateral summit on June 25 at the Villa Eilenroc in Antibes, on the French Riviera.

—The first in years. It was the first such summit held under the 2021 Quirinal Treaty, a pact meant to bind France and Italy as closely as France and Germany.

—The agenda. Nine ministers from each side met on defence, civil nuclear energy, the space industry and transport infrastructure.