Facing Barbs and Pressure From Trump, Europe's Leaders Close Ranks
European leaders are coordinating on defense and trade as 83% of Italians say they have no confidence in Trump, a survey found.
- After Trump questioned Italy's reliability and claimed Giorgia Meloni "groveled" for his attention, European leaders rallied to her side, thawing what had been a frosty relationship over her hard-right political roots.
- According to the survey, 83% of Italians have no confidence in Trump's foreign policy. Meloni refused to allow U.S. bombers headed to the Middle East to use a base in Sicily without parliamentary approval in March.
- Meloni solidified this shift in late June by meeting leaders from Germany, France, Britain, and Poland in Berlin, then convening with French President Emmanuel Macron in southern France for their first bilateral summit since the pandemic.
- European leaders are coordinating more closely on defense, tariffs, and foreign policy to confront wars in Ukraine and Iran, Russia, and China's trade deficit, while nationalist parties recalibrate stances as Trump's policies prove unpopular with voters.
- With a national election due by 2027, Meloni faces mounting political pressures, including fallout from the unpopular Iran war and her former, once-close ties to Trump.
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Facing barbs and pressure from Trump, Europe's leaders close ranks
U.S. President Donald Trump’s attacks on Italy’s premier have had an unintended consequence. After Trump questioned Italy’s reliability as a wartime ally and claimed Giorgia Meloni had groveled for his attention, European leaders rallied to Meloni’s side.
With her declining popularity and the general elections approaching, the Italian Prime Minister sees a strategic advantage in the break-upTrump mocks Meloni and the Italian Government suspends her visit to Washington If Giorgia Meloni thought she could leave behind her April dispute with Donald Trump over the Pope’s criticism of the US war against Iran, she had not counted on the US President’s ability to hold grudges. Trump recently revived ten…
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