Divorce Italian style: Meloni-Trump row bringing Europe closer together?

Summary

Has Trump whispering run its course? Ask the departing Keir Starmer who famously brought that letter of invitation from the king to the Oval Office or Hungary’s ousted leader Viktor Orban. And how about the very public breakup with the only European leader invited to Donald Trump’s second inauguration last year. Beyond the spat over whether Italy’s Georgia Meloni begged the US president for a selfie at last week’s G-Seven summit… there’s the growing divide between Rome and Washington over trade Ukraine, Greenland, Israel, Lebanon and the war in Iran.