Meloni goes to Trump: assembly with “a very high stake” ” | EUROtoday

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The White House has introduced this system of as we speak’s assembly on the White House of President Donald Trump with the Italian premier Giorgia Meloni. At 12.05 (18.05 in Italy) there’s a lunch within the cupboard room between the 2 leaders (closed to the press), then an hour after the bilateral within the oval research (with the pool of reporters of the White House and Italian journalists).

New York Times: “More hope than fear”

A gathering with “a very high stake”. Thus, on the eve, the New York Times defines the assembly. Meloni’s go to, the final of a collection of European leaders who went to the White House to “fatterate” Donald Trump and “improve relationships” with him, “arouses more hopes than fear”, because of the “unique position that occupies in the continent”, all the time writes the New York Times. “Her right background has long placed it as a potential Trump ally, to whose settlement she was invited unlike other European leaders – recalls the American liberal newspaper – these credentials have contributed to feeding speculations on the fact that Meloni could bring an” Italy -First “approach, trying to make agreements for its country and threatening to undermine the European unit”.

For the New York Times it might not be like this: the newspaper cites many diplomats and officers who reject these issues, “in part because in recent months Meloni has made a name as a collaborative player on the European scene”. In any case, “for Meloni fans, this is a moment full of opportunities, for others, it is an important test to understand if it can use its affinity with Trump to help Italy and Europe”.

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The premier arrived in Washington within the early American afternoon (the night in Italy): he slept on the Blair House, the residence proper in entrance of the presidential palace reserved for illustrious international company. Before her already Silvio Berlusconi and Matteo Renzi had benefited from the Palazzetto, who in current weeks has opened the doorways, amongst others, for Emmanuel Macron and Keir Starmer.

However, an actual press convention isn’t excluded, even when this system isn’t but outlined. Trump has one other dedication at 4 pm (22 in Italy), when a collection of government orders will signal. And this speaks volumes about Trump’s unpredictability and on the warning of Palazzo Chigi who, on this mission, additionally prevented sending the same old “background” data on the eve. Moreover, the New York Times nonetheless notes, the Italian premier dangers “his political capital in Europe and at home for a meeting with possible negative results”. So higher preserve a low profile, with out creating too many expectations.