The two parliamentary presidents will attend the swearing in of 23 Swiss recruits. A meeting with the management of the Istituto Svizzero di Roma is also planned in the course of their visit to Rome.
During the official visit, Ms Carobbio Guscetti will also be received by her Italian counterpart Roberto Fico, the president of the Chamber of Deputies, and a working meeting with some members of the Italian Parliament is planned. Ms Carobbio Guscetti will be accompanied by the president and vice president of the Delegation for Relations with the Italian Parliament (Del-I), National Council member Marco Chiesa and Council of States member Fabio Abate.
A year after the last official meeting – held a few weeks after the election of Roberto Fico as President of the Chamber of Deputies – this scheduled working visit is evidence of the common desire to maintain and strengthen parliamentary relations, and of the friendship that binds the two countries.
Italy is Switzerland’s third most important trading partner. Around 320,000 Italian citizens live in Switzerland; they make up the largest foreign community in the country and play an important social role in relations between the two countries, contributing among other things to increasing the importance of the Italian language in Switzerland.
The two parliamentary presidents will be accompanied by Ambassador Claudio Fischer, head of International Relations and Multilingualism at the Parliamentary Services.