German Chancellor Olaf Scholz had his first phone call with the new prime minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, on Friday. The German leader congratulated the head of government in Rome on the start of her leadership, said Scholz’s speaker Steffen Hebestreit. The two politicians also discussed the war in Ukraine, as well as “current bilateral and European policy issues”. The German social democrat and Italian leader of the radical right-wing party Brothers of Italy also expressed their interest in good cooperation and partnership in the EU, NATO and G7, added Hebestreit. This was the first conver…