Premier Giuseppe Conte said
Friday that a bilateral meeting with French President Emmanuel
Macron on the fringes of the EU summit in Brussels was
"fruitful".
He said that Rome and Paris had agreed on a "method" to
approach the issue of the controversial TAV Turin-Lyon
high-speed rail link.
He said that the French and Italian transport ministers would
look at the cost-benefit analyses of the project to hold an
"open debate" on it.
The Italian government has not yet decided whether to press
ahead with the TAV.
The 5-Star Movement (M5S) is against it on cost and
environmental grounds.
But the other party in Conte's coalition government, the
League, wants the project to go ahead.
Macron, however, struck a different tone to Conte about the
TAV late on Thursday before the bilateral meeting.
"France has always had the same position," Macron said.
"Now it's an Italo-Italian problem".
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