The Chancellor is touring to Italy with 9 ministers. Friedrich Merz now sees Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni as an in depth associate. The two do not at all times agree.
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/italien-bundesregierung-zu-besuch-in-rom-eine-schwierige-liebe-a-2971da82-a2fa-4642-8847-4a1c5a8adc3c#ref=rss