Former US president Barack Obama
opened his keynote speech at the Seed&Chips food innovation
summit in Milan Tuesday by saying that "I bring you the
greetings of Michelle, and I tell you that we will come back to
Italy often".
He said "we remember our trips to Tuscany, Rome, she
remembers her trip to Milan for the Expo with Sasha and Malia.
So I say we will return to Italy very often".
Obama thanked former premier Matteo Renzi and former Milan
mayor Letizia Moratti for setting up the Expo in Milan, and went
on to praise Italians who emigrated to the US.
"The United States would not be what it is without the
contribution of generations of Italian immigrants, who also had
to undergo discrimination, but who with faith, conviction and
hard work succeeded everywhere and strengthened the United
States".
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