Watch the video: Merkel sees no bilateral problems with Italy – except for the European Championship.
To quote Angela Merkel (CDU): “In the bilateral agenda, I may say no major bilateral problems that we would have to discuss hotly now, except of course the question of how our teams are doing at the European Football Championship. We may have different emotions. But I think we’re both fair to acknowledge each other’s successes. But emotionally, of course, for our respective country. And the Italians are not playing bad so far. Even in football there is a commonality, because we thought that Mr Gosens was a very good player at Bergamo.”