Giorgia Meloni of Italy said on Tuesday, April 8, Washington would visit next week to talk to the president of the United States, Donald Trump, about tariffs, since the European Union seeks to avoid total commercial war. In comments to Italian companies confirmed by his office, the prime minister also announced plans to rebuild up to 25 billion euros ($ 27 billion) or existing EU funds to help mitigate the impact of Trump’s new radical tasks.
Meloni supported the EU to find a negotiated solution to the crisis, but said the situation required all the hands on the deck. “This is the negotiation that should see us all committed and at all levels,” he said. “And that involves me, which will be in Washington on April 17 and obviously I intend to address this problem with the president of the United States.”
Meloni, the leader of the extreme right -wing party of the Italian party, was the only EU leader invited to the inauguration of Trump in January and has tried to maintain the ties with the Republican despite the interruption caused by his policies.
“The Italian government has good relations with the Trump administration and our work could be useful to convince Americans to achieve a positive solution,” said Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, earlier in the day.
Meloni has criticized tariffs as “incorrect”, and repeated on Tuesday that “a commercial war between Europe and the United States does not adapt to anyone.” She said it was difficult to precisely evaluate the impact on Italy’s exports, of which approximately 10% go to the United States. But he warned against “panic and alarm” that said “risk doing more damage than the measure itself.”
She said the government would help affected companies, noting that the EU was urging member states to modify their plans to spend funds already assigned to “better invest the resources assigned in the new situation.”
Italy is the main beneficiary of the EU post-pandemic recovery plan, hoping to receive almost 200 billion euros in subsidies and loans in exchange for reforms by 2026. Meloni said his government had identified “approximately 14 billion bees.” Of this of this. Productivity. “
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Another 11 billion euros of the so -called EU cohesion funds for the development of poorest European countries could also be reused, he added. The European Commission would have to agree.
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