European Parliament President Roberta
Metsola took a break from the institutional meetings she is
having in Rome on Friday to have a stroll in the centre of the
city with Mayor Roberto Gualtieri.
Metsola walked around the lively Campo de' Fiori square and its
street market, chatting with locals and trying a slice of
freshly baked pizza at a bakery.
She was with Gualtieri to inaugurate a 'Europe Space' dedicated
to her Italian predecessor David Sassoli, who died at the age of
65 last year.
She had meetings with Senate Speaker Ignazio La Russa and Lower
House Speaker Lorenzo Fontana and she is also having talks with
President Sergio Mattarella.
But the most hotly awaited meeting, with Premier Giorgia Meloni,
is not happening because Italy's first woman head of government
has had to cancel her engagements for this week because of flu.
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