ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Well, Your Excellency, it is wonderful to see you again. And so soon after my re-election, which means that we're in position to continue to engage constructively as we have during the first three years of my prime ministership. And you as well have been successful in being re-elected and congratulations to you. Look, we have so much in common as Australia and Europe. We have common support for market-based systems, but also common views about human rights. We stand together with the people of Ukraine in the struggle against Russian aggression and we stand together on so many issues, including on the potential for us to further entrench our, or extend, our economic relationship through trade. We have common values as well, which in today's uncertain world, the fact that we share those values, including our commitment to democratic principles and human rights, is so important as we go forward. So I welcome very much the opportunity to meet with you again here in Rome this summer, for the first time. We have met all around the world now, over the last few years, but I look forward to this term being really an extension of the constructive relationship that we have between Australia and Europe, and of course it's our people-to-people links that helps cement that, of course, the diaspora in Australia. You have a Prime Minister called Albanese meeting with you in Rome and certainly the populations from all of the European countries are very significant and that provides opportunities for those relationships to be further developed. So, welcome and thank you for taking the opportunity of having this meeting today.
URSULA VON DER LEYEN, PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION: Thank you very much Prime Minister. Pleasure to see you again. Congratulations with your electoral win. This is amazing, it’s historic, so really congratulations from our part and very happy about that. And yes, we meet here in Rome to celebrate the new era in the Vatican. So perhaps you could say we also are looking forward to a new era between Europe and Australia. Because, as you said last time when we met, I think it was in G20 in Brazil, since then the geopolitical tensions have massively increased. The good thing is Australia and Europe are reliable partners. We are predictable, we share the same values as you just said. So we can offer to each other stability and we're very grateful for that. And this is the reason also that we do not only see you as a trading partner, but we see you as a strategic partner, and we would very much like to broaden this strategic partnership. For example, we have signed security and defence agreements with South Korea and with Japan, soon with the UK. We would be very pleased if we could develop such a security and defence partnership too, just to broaden the strategic partnership in many topics that we have in common. So thank you very much for making the time here and again congratulations on the second term.