He hails a fantastic woman sweeping all before her in Europe. She praises a strong and shrewd defender of the West. Donald Trump and Giorgia Meloni are fast forging a new transatlantic "special relationship".
Giorgia Meloni’s presence at Donald Trump’s inauguration aimed to reinforce her status as a privileged interlocutor of the new US administration. But this position carries risks for Italy and the EU.
The Italian leader has the potential to serve as a key European ally in the quest for peace in Europe and the Middle East.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, whose rise to power in Rome two years ago sparked panic among the European political establishment, may now be the continent’s best hope to have one of its own in the good graces of the Trump White House.
After forging unexpectedly fond ties with President Biden, Italy’s right-wing Premier Giorgia Meloni is poised to leverage a more natural alliance with incoming President Trump that positions her as a key interlocutor between the U.
The linked cases of Iranian engineer Mohammad Abedini and Italian reporter Cecilia Sala are the latest flashpoint between Tehran and Washington.
Critics noted the meeting's absence, but ECR Secretary-General Antonio Giordano, who was in Washington with Meloni, played down its significance to Euractiv, stating Meloni spent four hours with Trump, a meeting that had a positive outcome.
Defence spending is also likely to prove a bone of contention between Italy and Washington, with Trump calling for Nato members to hike their military budgets to 5 per cent of output. Italy currently spends barely 1.5 per cent of its gross domestic product ...
Premier Giorgia Meloni landed in Washington DC on Monday to attend Donald Trump's inauguration as president of the United States for the second time. Meloni, the leader of the right-wing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party,
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C., has partnered with Italy’s prestigious Cineteca Di Bologna on a curated film screenings’ series called “Stories That Matter” that will launch with Oscar-shortlisted documentary “Daughters.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, one of the European leaders closest to Donald Trump, said on Thursday she believed the U.S. president-elect would defend Western interests once he took office and would not abandon Ukraine.