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Italy’s Meloni to meet Trump amid US- Europe trade tensions

ROME - Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is heading to the White House for a meeting on Thursday with President Donald Trump, seeking to ease tensions over U.S. tariffs on European goods and position herself as a bridge between Washington and Brussels. Read more at straitstimes.com.

On Thursday, the Prime Minister will talk with Trump about tariffs, liquid gas, defense spending and relations with China. Friday he will meet with J.D. Vance at Palazzo Chigi. Next week it will be the turn of the Minister of Economy: bilateral in Washington with the Secretary of the Treasury. Heavy traffic on the Ro...

Can Giorgia Meloni reach Donald Trump in the ongoing trade spat? Both France's Emmanuel Macron and Britain's Keith Starmer have failed. But the Italian prime minister is being praised at the White House ahead of a trip there this week.

Italy’s Meloni, an Admirer of Trump, Is Due at Washington To Press the Principles of Free Trade

Unlike more vociferous European allies, she is likely to talk about how free enterprise prospers via unfettered commerce between countries.

A government deficit divided by two in one year (3.4% of GDP) and a surplus trade balance of €55 billion. These figures at the end of 2024 are those of Giorgia Meloni, President of the Council of Ministers, whose French counterpart, François Bayrou, should inspire. Already because remaining 890 days at the head of a government, especially in Italy, is a miracle in such an unstable economic and geopolitical period.

The Prime Minister's agenda has been released