Giorgia Meloni bolsters ties with Trump world

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

73% : Di Giuseppe said that when he met Trump late last year, the Republican candidate described Meloni as "trustable".
65% : "He may say to her, 'how much are you spending again?'"During her years as a fringe opposition figure, Meloni was a regular attendee at US political gatherings where Trump was speaking and praised him as an inspiration for Italian politics.
62% : In early 2020, she was a guest at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington addressed by Trump.
54% : "Trump has been president once already for four years and the world didn't fall apart."
53% : The Italian premier has developed a strong bond with tech mogul Elon Musk, tapped by Trump to spearhead "drastic reforms" of the federal government in case of victory.
48% : Now, her allies believe she will emerge as Trump's go-to European partner if he is re-elected, boosting her relevance to EU peers with whom she has had fractious relations.
47% : "Italian-American businessman Andrea Di Giuseppe, who is an MP with Meloni's party representing Italians living in North America, said Meloni is the "most credible" among conservative leaders in Europe and the obvious choice for Trump to talk to.
44% : Antonio Giordano, a Brothers of Italy MP who attended this summer's Republican National Convention, said Meloni would be the "natural interlocutor" for Trump if he "wants to understand how to better deal with Europe".
39% : "Trump has this obsession with defence spending," Tocci said.
36% : "Trump doesn't want a dependent Europe -- he wants an ally to talk with but not a dependent Europe," said Giordano.
32% : But he warned that Trump is likely to play European countries against each other, leaving Meloni with tough choices and potential difficulties in balancing relations with Washington and Brussels.
25% : In that she contrasts sharply with Europe's biggest Trump cheerleader, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who ended a flurry of controversial trips to Moscow and Beijing in July with a stop in Mar-a-Lago to meet Trump.

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