Italy’s Meloni will test its subtlety as the European Union-US Bridge on meeting Trump in Washington

Milan-Italian Premier Georgia Meloni will test its subtlety as a bridge between the European Union and the United States, when she meets U-Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday, the first European leader faced face-to-face with Trump, since he announced, and then suspended 20% on European exports.
Meloni held a meeting at a significant turn in the trade war as the leader of Italy, but that too, in a sense, has been “night” to represent the European Union. A spokesperson of the Commission said this week that he is in close contact with Ursula von Der Leyen, chairman of the European Union Commission, and “Outreach … closely coordinated,”.
“We know that we are in a difficult moment,” Meloni said this week in Rome. “Most of all, I know well what I represent, and what I am defending.”
The European Union is defending, “the most important commercial relationship in the world, called”, in which the annual trade reaches the 1.6 trillion euro ($ 1.8 trillion).
Trade talks come under the rights of the European Commission, which is insisting on the zero-to-zero tariff deal with the US. However, in a conversation with the European Union, the Trump administration officials have yet to publicly rely on Trump’s insistence that all foreign imports should be charged a base line 10% tariff. He stopped an anti -anticipatory growth for 90 days by 20%.
Experts say this stagnation has some hopes for negotiations, and Meloni’s margin for progress is more in achieving clarity on Trump’s goals.
“This is a very delicate mission,” said Fabian Zuleg, the chief economist of the European Policy Center Think Tank at Brussels. “The entire business is agenda, and when she is not officially interacting, we know that Trump likes such informal exchange, which is a conversation in a sense. So this is a lot on his plate. ,
As a far-flung party leader, Meloni is ideologically aligned with Trump, including curbing the migration with Trump, promoting traditional values ​​and promoting doubts towards multilateral institutions. But there have been clear differences in Meloni’s unwavering support for Ukraine.
After being the only European leader to participate in the January 20 inauguration, Meloni has responded with a study as sudden change in US policy under Trump has provoked the trans-eleventh alliance. After Trump’s exchange of Trump’s hot White House with the President of Ukraine, he condemned the tariff as “wrong” and warned that “dividing the West would be disastrous for all.”
“She has been very cautious,” “said Wolfango Pickoli, an analyst at London -based Tenaneo Consultancy.” This is the same when we have an equivalent that is changing every day. ,
Italy maintains a 40 billion euro trade surplus with the United States, the largest with any country, which is full of hunger for Americans for the Italian Sparkling Wine, Permigiano Razigno Hard Paneer and Parma Ham, and are full of foods such as Italian luxury fashion. All these are important for the Italian economy, and are mostly supported by small and medium-sized producers who are core-coat voters.
In Milan, ISPI Think Tank Vice President Antonio Villafanka said, “In all, I think she will focus on very strong economic and trade relations that is with the United States with Italy, not only in terms of exports, but also services and energy.” “For example, Italy may also consider importing more gas from the US.”
The meeting comes against the background of increasing concerns over global uncertainty created by increasing tariff wars. The forecast of Italy’s growth for this year has already fallen from 1% to 0.5%.
Meloni is also expected to increase Trump’s demand for Trump’s NATO partners to increase military expenses by 2% of gross domestic product. Italy costs the lowest in Europe at 1.49% of GDP.
However, experts warned against raising expectations on any concrete progress.
Pikkoli said, “The best strategy is to be very attentive: go there, get a meeting, get the opportunity of photo,” Picoli said. “If he is able to come back, and makes him realize how Washington wants to frame future relations on business, defense and Ukraine policy, it will be a huge victory.”