FLORENCE, ITALY – Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi met Japanese premier Shinzo Abe during the Italian-Japanese bilateral meeting in Florence, Monday May 2, 2016.
Abe said he and his Italian counterpart Renzi shared a view that an acceleration of structural reforms in leading economies had to be accompanied by greater flexibility on budgetary policies.
The meeting was held in Palazzo Vecchio, the site of the city council. It is the third time that the Italian prime minister meets an international institutional figure in Florence. The first time Renzi and the German Chancellor Angela Merkel addressed the Europe from the Galleria dell’Accademia with the stands in front of the David’ statue by Michelangelo; last October Renzi invited the crown prince of the United Arab, Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, in Palazzo Vecchio for the two-States meeting.
Renzi and Abe had lunch with their wives in the Palazzo Vecchio hall Sala degli Elementi, then they crossed the path of the Prince (the connection between the Palazzo Vecchio and the Uffizi Gallery) to reach the Uffizi, Vasari Corridor and Palazzo Pitti.
Renzi and Abe were welcomed by the director of the Uffizi Gallery, Eike Schmidt. The two leaders walked the Uffizi gallery and admired closely masterpieces such as the Majesty of Giotto, the portraits of the Dukes of Urbino by Piero della Francesca, the Tondo Doni by Michelangelo, the Birth of Venus and The Primavera by Botticelli
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