The French government on Friday praised Italy's new coalition government between the pro-European Democratic Party and the grassroots 5-Star Movement and said the two countries should work together "with the rest of Europe".
"Italy has chosen Europe," under-secretary for European affairs, Amelie de Montchalin said in an interview with France's Radio Classique.
On the thorny issue of migration, de Montchalin said: "We cannot imagine that France can handle the questions of asylum and economic and climatic migration alone."
"There must be in agreement with the rest of Europe," she said.
Premier Giuseppe Conte's centre-left populist government which took office on Thursday, is widely expected to smooth ties with Brussels, respecting the bloc's fiscal rules and softening its stance on migration.
Relations between the EU and the previous coalition government between 5-Star and Matteo Salvini's eurosceptic far-right League party were frequently tense.
The 5-Star-League government, which was also led by Conte, collapsed last month when the League pulled out, hoping to trigger and win a snap election. Salvini's gamble went awry when Conte this week formed a new majority government with 5-Star and the centre-left.