Meloni calls for US talks on eradicating tariffs

Madrid, Spain. Italy’s Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, said Thursday that the imposition of US tariffs on products from the European Union (EU) is a “wrong choice, but not a catastrophe,” so she called for “avoiding alarmism” and negotiating with Washington. “I think the election of the United States is a wrong choice, I think it doesn’t favor the European and American economy, but I also think we don’t have to feed, let’s say, the alarmism I’m …

The Prime Minister spoke on the sidelines of the visit to the Amerigo Vespucci ship, stressing that solutions will be found at national and European level to the tariffs imposed by Donald Trump. Next week he will meet representatives of the affected categories

The fourth stop of the Mediterranean tour is underway. This is the second time that the Prime Minister has boarded, after her visit last January to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (ANSA)

Italy's Meloni calls for 'frank' EU-US talks on scrapping tariffs

Italian PM Giorgia Meloni said on Thursday that Europe must hold "frank" talks with the US over the elimination of new trade tariffs, stressing that reprisal would not be the best response to Washington's move.

In Italy, more than anywhere else, we must be wary of clichés. Long marked by violence, transalpine democracy seems today to be more appeased than ours, so quick to impose oukases and forbidden. On Sunday 30 March, Giorgia Meloni was invited to the congress of the Centralist Party Azione (Action).

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Thursday that Europe should hold frank talks with the US on the complete abolition of customs duties.