Pressure builds on Italy’s Meloni to shun Trump as she gears up for 2027 election
Donald Trump
ROME — Italy's right-wing Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni can no longer afford to keep U.S. President Donald Trump happy when she faces a battle to win reelection next year. In the first year of Trump's presidency, the instinctively transatlanticist Meloni styled herself as the European leader best placed to build bridges with MAGA. And over the course of 2025, she embraced a relationship in which the U.S. leader praised her as "highly respected" and a "friend." But the bills from the war in Iran
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