{"id":369501,"date":"2025-08-24T10:21:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T10:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/369501\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T10:21:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T10:21:19","slug":"france-summons-italian-envoy-over-deputy-pm-ukraine-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/369501\/","title":{"rendered":"France Summons Italian Envoy Over Deputy PM Ukraine Remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/macron.jpg\" data-caption=\"French President Emmanuel Macron speaks with the media after a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and European leaders, amid negotiations to end the Russian war in Ukraine, at the French Embassy in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 18, 2025\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/macron.jpg\"  data- alt=\"\" title=\"macron\"\/><\/a>French President Emmanuel Macron speaks with the media after a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and European leaders, amid negotiations to end the Russian war in Ukraine, at the French Embassy in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 18, 2025<\/p>\n<p>France summoned <a href=\"https:\/\/stratnewsglobal.com\/europe\/italys-meloni-navigates-political-tightrope-amid-europes-defence-push\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Italy\u2019s<\/a> ambassador after the country\u2019s deputy prime minister criticised President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kyIyBxOzXtk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emmanuel Macron<\/a> for suggesting European troops could be deployed in Ukraine as part of a postwar settlement, a French diplomatic source said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Asked earlier this week to comment on French President Emmanuel Macron\u2019s appeals to deploy European soldiers in Ukraine after any settlement with Russia, Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini used a Milanese dialect phrase loosely translatable as \u201cget lost\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou go there if you want. \u201cPut your helmet on, your jacket on, and your rifle on, and you go to Ukraine,\u201d he told reporters, referring to Macron.<\/p>\n<p>Salvini, the populist leader of the right-wing League party and also Italy\u2019s transport minister in the nationalist, conservative government led by Giorgia Meloni, has repeatedly criticised Macron, especially over Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian ambassador was summoned on Friday, the diplomatic source said, marking the latest in a series of diplomatic clashes between Paris and Rome before and after Meloni took power in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ambassador was reminded that these remarks ran counter to the climate of trust and the historical relationship between our two countries, as well as to recent bilateral developments, which have highlighted strong convergences between the two countries, particularly with regard to unwavering support for Ukraine,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n<p>Macron, a vocal supporter of Ukraine over its war with Russia, has been working with other world leaders, notably British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, to mobilise support for Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(With inputs from Reuters)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"m-a-box-avatar-url\" href=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/b98e08d37140c4d00aa251c54eee6d59.jpg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-150 photo\" height=\"150\" width=\"150\" itemprop=\"image\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"French President Emmanuel Macron speaks with the media after a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, Ukrainian 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