Italy’s Meloni and France’s Macron are meeting in Paris following a spat over migration policies

PARIS (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni is set to meet with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris to mark the improvement of relations between the two countries after their latest dispute over migration issues. The French presidency said talks on Tuesday are meant to prepare for the European summit later this month in Brussels and the NATO summit to be held in Vilnius, Lithuania, next month. Macron and Meloni are expected to reaffirm their joint support of Ukraine in military, humanitarian, economic, diplomatic and judicial terms. The trip comes weeks after Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani abruptly canceled a visit to Paris in protest of the French interior minister’s criticism of his country’s migration policy.