{"id":37163,"date":"2023-05-07T14:54:37","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T14:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/italy-calls-for-clearer\/"},"modified":"2023-05-07T14:55:44","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T14:55:44","slug":"italy-calls-for-clearer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/italy-calls-for-clearer\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy calls for clearer apology from France over migration &#8216;insult&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ROME (Reuters) &#8211;     Italy remains dissatisfied with the apologies offered by Paris after a French minister accused Rome of mishandling the influx of migrants, Italy&#8217;s foreign minister Antonio Tajani said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Clearer words are needed,&#8221; Tajani, who is member of the conservative Forza Italia party, told Italian state-owned television RAI in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope that the French government changes its position and that an apology comes that represents a contrast to the positions adopted by the Interior Minister. I will be happy to accept them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said last week that Italy&#8217;s right-wing Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni had been &#8220;unable to solve the migration problems on which she was elected&#8221;. Darmanin added that Meloni was &#8220;lying&#8221; to voters that she could end the migrant crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Tajani called off a visit to Paris at the last minute on Thursday in a sign of protest over what he considered an &#8220;insult&#8221; to Italy.<\/p>\n<p>French government spokesman Olivier Veran sought to defuse tensions on Friday, telling CNews he was sure there had been no desire on the part of the Darmanin to ostracise Italy.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Giselda Vagnoni; Editing by Peter Graff)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/italy-calls-for-clearer\/file-photo-italian-foreign-minister-wants-french-apology-over-insults-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ4605J-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ4605J-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROME (Reuters) &#8211; Italy remains dissatisfied with the apologies offered by Paris after a French minister accused Rome of mishandling the influx of migrants, Italy&#8217;s foreign minister Antonio Tajani said on Sunday. &#8220;Clearer words are needed,&#8221; Tajani, who is member of the conservative Forza Italia party, told Italian state-owned television RAI in an interview. &#8220;I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":37164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1222],"tags":[1223],"class_list":["post-37163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-world-news","tag-updated"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ4605J-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37165,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37163\/revisions\/37165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}