Italian PM Meloni to Trump: We Can ‘Make the West Great Again’
Italy’s populist prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, told President Donald Trump on Thursday that she believes, together, they can “make the West great again.”

Italy’s populist prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, told President Donald Trump on Thursday that she believes, together, they can “make the West great again.”
President Donald Trump meets with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in the Oval Office on Thursday, April 17.
Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is due in Washington on Thursday to meet with President Donald Trump. She is expected to make a personal appeal for less punitive tariffs on European Union (E.U.) trade with the world’s biggest economy.
The Italian Coast Guard recovered six bodies and was searching for up to 40 migrants missing after a rubber dinghy that departed from Tunisia sank in the central Mediterranean, the U.N. refugee agency said Wednesday.
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni on Tuesday called for “pragmatism” to prevent an EU-US dispute over tariffs from escalating into a full-scale trade war, and expressed support for U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts for a ceasefire in Ukraine.
Politicians in Britain and Europe flew into a complete meltdown after U.S. President Donald Trump announced a suspension of American aid to Ukraine, with some going so far as to suggest the leader of the free world is a “traitor” and a “Russian asset”.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni paid a visit to Pope Francis in the Gemelli Hospital in Rome Wednesday, bringing well wishes from the government and the Italian people.
Rock band Placebo’s frontman Brian Molko was charged with defamation after calling Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni a “fascist Nazi” from the stage in Turin.
Italian navy vessel Cassiopea has embarked 49 migrants during its patrols in the Mediterranean and is transferring them to new processing centers in Albania, the Interior Ministry said in a statement on Sunday.
President of Argentina Javier Milei and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni appeared to spend much of their time together during President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday.
President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration Monday will feature multiple heads of foreign governments among the dozens of VIP guests expected to attend, a first in American history.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni recently met with President-elect Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago club, thanking him for welcoming her to his Florida residence, adding she is “ready to work” with his incoming administration.
The Italian government on Thursday summoned the Iranian ambassador to demand the release of journalist Cecilia Sala, who was arrested without due process or clear charges in Tehran on December 19.
The leader of the Italian government coalition League party and Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini has been acquitted after facing six years in prison for blocking an illegal migrant boat from disembarking in 2019.
President Joe Biden has announced he will travel to Italy in January to meet with Pope Francis, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, and Italian President Sergio Mattarella.
Outgoing President Joe Biden is expected to conclude what will likely be his final major international trip as president this week, leaving Latin America following a series of embarrassing episodes including his bizarre departure into the Amazon Rainforest and G20 organizers omitting him from a group photo of world leaders on Monday.
President Joe Biden has 62 days left in office but it’s almost as if he has checked out already. The U.S. commander in chief was nowhere to be seen Monday as he missed the traditional gathering of world leaders at the final Group of 20 (G20) summit of his presidency, a group photo no-show officials simply attributed to timing.
Marking 1,000 days since Russia invaded neighbouring Ukraine, the leaders of the G7 nations committed to supporting Kyiv for “as long as it takes”.
The fate of Italian Prime Minsiter Giorgia Meloni’s central immigration policy of sending illegal boat migrants to Albanian detention centres is likely on course to be put in the hands of European Union judges in Luxembourg after Italian magistrates cited EU rulings to justify sending another round of illegals back from Albania to Italy this week.
Italy’s conservative Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni lost no time in celebrating Donald Trump’s victory, reaching out to him as well as her “friend” Elon Musk.
French President Emmanuel Macron and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky were among the world leaders who congratulated President-Elect Donald Trump on his return to the White House.
In 2016 European leaders felt free to insult Trump, but caution now seems to rule where a second Presidency looks eminently possible.
The Council of Ministers of Giorgia Meloni’s government in Italy approved a decree law on Monday evening officially declaring 19 nations as “safe” for returning illegal migrants, as a full-on constitutional battle has broken out over the Albania scheme.
A leaked email has shown that Italian leftists within the judicial branch are seeking to derail Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s immigration policies.
A constitutional battle has erupted in Rome as judges shot down a key element of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s Albanian migrant detention centre scheme and sent migrants back to Italy. Judges in Rome ordered the return of 12 migrants, ten
In what may shape out to be a significant political victory for Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, the European Union looks set to follow Rome’s lead on illegal immigration in setting up detention centres outside of the bloc to hold illegal migrants rather than allowing aliens to remain in European territory.
Giorgia Meloni’s conservative government has begun sending illegal migrants from Italy to offshore processing centres in Albania, with the maiden ship setting sail from the island of Lampedusa on Monday.
Crowds participated in anti-Israel and pro-Israeli protests and memorial in Europe on the eve of anniversary of the Hamas attacks on Israel.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni called for increased international effort to combat human trafficking networks engaging in child sex slavery and other forms of human bondage during her address at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.
Elon Musk presented Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni with the Global Citizen Award on Monday on behalf of the Atlantic Council.
During his first trip to Italy since taking office British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that the UK will seek to replicate Giorgia Meloni’s success in stemming the tide of illegal boat migrants, sparking a wave of criticism from leftist Labour Party lawmakers back in London.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov on Wednesday urged China to take a leading role in mediation on the Ukraine war.
The conservative government of Giorgia Meloni in Italy has called on the EU to scrap its green agenda scheme to ban the sale of new combustion engine vehicles by 2035.
Dividends have begun to pay off for Giorgia Meloni’s migration strategy as figures show a 64 per cent reduction in illegal arrivals.
The EU needs more migration to boost economic growth amid the birth rate decline among native populations, a top central banker has claimed.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni told Italian boxer Angela Carini, “I know you won’t give up,” and will one day “earn what you deserve” in “a competition that is finally fair.” Meloni’s comments were in response to Carini retiring from the ring at the Paris Olympics after 46 seconds of fighting Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, who has male chromosomes.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni arrived in Beijing on Saturday for a five-day visit intended to “relaunch” relations between Italy and China.
Italy and China signed a three-year action plan on Sunday to implement past agreements and experiment with new forms of cooperation.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni appeared visibly annoyed with President Joe Biden’s tardy appearance at the NATO summit.
A new alliance between Marine Le Pen and Viktor Orbán –the ‘Patriots for Europe’ — is now the third largest group in the EU Parliament.