Meloni and Trump Move From Idyll to Nightmare

El Pais

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Last January, Giorgia Meloni reached her peak of flattering Donald Trump by saying that she expected to be given the Nobel Peace Prize. She was his top advocate in Europe despite her attacks on the EU, the imposition of severe trade tariffs, her threats to invade Greenland and the violations of international law in Venezuela or Iran. All this without any real benefit to Italy, but Meloni presented herself as the privileged interlocutor with the …