{"id":14034,"date":"2026-05-08T10:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/14034\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T10:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:40:12","slug":"italian-premier-top-us-diplomat-hold-talks-in-rome-amid-strains-in-transatlantic-ties-under-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/14034\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian premier, top US diplomat hold talks in Rome amid strains in transatlantic ties under Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ilayda Cakirtekin<\/p>\n<p>08 May 2026\u2022Update: 08 May 2026<\/p>\n<p>Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio began talks Friday at Palazzo Chigi in Rome, according to Italy\u2019s ANSA news agency.<\/p>\n<p>Before meeting Meloni, Rubio also held talks with Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am convinced that Europe needs America, Italy needs America, but the United States also needs Europe and Italy. These are the transatlantic relations; Western unity is fundamental,\u201d Tajani reportedly told Rubio.<\/p>\n<p>Rubio arrived in Rome after meeting Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Relations between the Trump administration and many European governments have become increasingly strained over several issues, especially the Iran war, NATO burden-sharing, tariffs and Trump\u2019s confrontational rhetoric toward traditional allies.<\/p>\n<p>The relationship between Trump and the Vatican has deteriorated particularly sharply over the Iran war. <\/p>\n<p>Pope Leo XIV repeatedly called for peace, dialogue and de-escalation in the conflict, while criticizing military escalation and warning against civilian suffering whereas Trump responded with a series of public attacks, accusing the pope of being \u201cweak,\u201d \u201cterrible on foreign policy,\u201d and effectively enabling Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ilayda Cakirtekin 08 May 2026\u2022Update: 08 May 2026 Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and US Secretary of State&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5,3569],"class_list":{"0":"post-14034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-italy","8":"tag-italy","9":"tag-sitekeywords"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}