Cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, space, electric cars as well as freedom of information : these are some of the topics that touched Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani and the owner of Twitter, Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk.
An opportunity served by government officials to make the entrepreneur understand that Italy is "the" place to invest in Europe.
The tycoon, who is on a tour of Europe, made a surprise stop in Rome before going to French President Emmanuel Macron tomorrow to talk about electric vehicles. Arrived this morning directly from Texas with a private flight landed in Ciampino, he was seen around the streets of the capital aboard a white Tesla with an Italian license plate.
"We talked about many things, cybersecurity, space, electric cars and industrial policy, Twitter and freedom of the press that does not exist in many parts of the world", underlined the Foreign Minister at the end of the tour at the table with Musk, recalling that these are all sectors where Italy has avant-garde manpower and technology. He also spoke with the Italian minister about the Italian Chico Forti detained in Florida.
Leaving Palazzo Chigi at the end of the morning, the Tesla owner went to a restaurant in the center of Rome for a frugal working lunch and then returned to the Prime Minister's office in the afternoon for an appointment with the premier . In about an hour and a half meeting Giorgia Meloni and Elon Musk had the opportunity to share an exchange of views on the issue of market deregulation in Europe and on the problem of the birth rate.
In the evening the transfer to Paris where tomorrow it will be Macron's turn to talk about the possible construction of the next Tesla gigafactory in France.
(Unioneonline/D)
