Nicholas Farrell Nicholas Farrell

Giorgia Meloni is Europe’s most important leader

Donald Trump meets Giorgia Meloni in the Oval Office (Getty Images)

Giorgia Meloni has confounded her critics yet again as she proves herself to be the most important leader in the European Union. She has shown in the past two days that she is the vital bridge between America and Europe.

As a result, Italy looks set to play a major role on the world stage which it has never done before since the founding of the Italian Republic in 1948 after the defeat of Mussolini’s fascist regime.

In Washington on Thursday, where Meloni met Donald Trump for a bilateral summit, she achieved a major breakthrough when the US President accepted her invitation to come to Rome ‘to meet Europe’ about tariffs. The meeting will take place ‘in the very near future’, according to a joint press statement issued later. ‘There

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