Today, Germany and Italy can look back on a long journey together. They have always stood side by side in the major decisions concerning the European Community and the Atlantic community. The quality of German-Italian relations is also measured by the fact that short-term differences of opinion, such as those that existed temporarily during the reunification process, have not left any lasting repercussions.
The subject of the following discussion, German-Italian relations in the light of the personal friendship between Helmut Kohl and Giulio Andreotti, is that phase.