On the occasion of the third anniversary of the signing of the Quirinal Treaty between Italy and France, the Italian Ambassador to Paris, Emanuela D'Alessandro, hosted a reception last night in the prestigious halls of the Hôtel de la Rochefoucauld-Doudeauville, the historic seat of the Embassy and symbol, together with the Palazzo Farnese in Rome, of the exceptional bond between Italy and France.
The event was attended by the French Minister Delegate for Europe Benjamin Haddad, the President of the Senate's Foreign Affairs, Defence and Armed Forces Commission, Cédric Perrin, the President of the Senate's European Affairs Commission, Jean-François Rapin, the Secretary General of the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Anne-Marie Descôtes, and numerous high-ranking personalities from the Italian-French parliamentary, institutional, political, economic and cultural world.
Welcoming the work carried out by Descôtes together with her Italian counterpart, Secretary General Ambassador Riccardo Guariglia, as 'guardians' of the Treaty, Ambassador D'Alessandro emphasised in her speech the very important results achieved in all the most important areas of bilateral cooperation thanks to the Treaty, particularly in today's context of serious international crises. "The Quirinal Treaty has imparted a new dynamic to Italian-French relations," pointed out the ambassador, who added: "In the full spirit of the Treaty, this dynamic goes far beyond the relationship between the two countries, guaranteeing a very important and decisive added value also on the European level.
In his speech, the Minister Delegate for Europe Benjamin Haddad said: 'Symbol of a strategic rapprochement between France and Italy, symbol also of our unwavering common will to pursue a European ambition together, the results of the Quirinal Treaty testify to the uniqueness of the bond of friendship between our two countries'. The minister then concluded: 'I express the wish that we will continue this form of cooperation, which must be creative and with which we must give new impetus to the European Union'.
Lastly, the reception included the ceremony for the awarding of a scholarship named after the Quirinal Treaty to a student from the Joint Master's Degree Course in Italian and French Law, established in 2000 by the Universities of Florence and Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne. This scholarship was financed by the CastaldiPartners law firm in the framework of a fifteen-year collaboration with the two Italian and French universities, aimed at supporting needy and deserving students in a course of study that has become a symbol of Franco-Italian integration.
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