VDL can count on Italy in Med says Meloni in Cairo

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 17 - European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen can count on Italy in the Mediterranean, Pemier Giorgia Meloni said as she visited Cairo with the EC chief to seal a major deal to stem migration Sunday.
    She said the initiatives to bring closer the two shores of the Med, boosting cooperation, were part of the strategy "which Italy has adopted for several months" and along this path, also taken by the EU, "Ursula von der Leyen knows Italy's position well and its support and she can always count on us. " Meloni was addressing an EU-Egypt summit in Cairo. (ANSA).