{"id":33373,"date":"2025-04-19T16:26:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T16:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/33373\/"},"modified":"2025-04-19T16:26:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T16:26:13","slug":"white-house-floats-us-europe-meeting-as-jd-vance-meets-giorgia-meloni-in-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/33373\/","title":{"rendered":"White House floats US-Europe meeting as JD Vance meets Giorgia Meloni in Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/logo-euronews-grey-6-180x22.svg.svg+xml\" width=\"180\" height=\"22\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>US Vice President JD Vance has met with\u00a0Italy&#8217;s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Rome for a second day of talks on tariffs, with the White House suggesting a broader US-Europe summit is under consideration when President Donald Trump visits.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been missing you,&#8221; Meloni jokingly told Vance as he entered the courtyard of Chigi Palace, the premier&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/icon-cross-10x10-grey-6.svg.svg+xml\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" alt=\"Close advertising\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>They had seen each other the previous day in the Oval Office, where Trump lavished praise on the Italian leader for her\u00a0crackdown on migration but didn&#8217;t yield on tariff plans that have increased tensions with the European Union and stoked fears of recession.<\/p>\n<p>The White House and Meloni&#8217;s office issued a joint statement that said Trump would visit Italy &#8220;in the very near future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is also consideration to hold, on such occasion, a meeting between US and Europe,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Meloni as bridge between US-EU<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meloni has positioned herself as a bridge between the Trump administration and Europe and was the lone EU leader to attend his inauguration.<\/p>\n<p>As the head of the far-right Brothers of Italy party, she is ideologically aligned with Trump on issues including curbing migration and promoting traditional values.<\/p>\n<p>But Italy and the US have diverged over\u00a0Meloni&#8217;s strong support for Ukraine, while Trump&#8217;s tariff threat has put pressure on Meloni to defend the EU&#8217;s trade interests on behalf of the bloc.<\/p>\n<p>Meloni said she hoped the second day of talks would serve to strengthen a longstanding friendship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe that Italy can be an extremely important partner in Europe and the Mediterranean for the United States of America,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a privileged relationship between us of which I am very proud.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A bond market panic led Trump to\u00a0partially pully back on his tariffs by pausing his 20% import taxes on the EU for 90 days and charge a baseline 10% instead.<\/p>\n<p>But with Meloni sitting by his side, Trump said on Thursday that he was in no rush to reach any trade deals.<\/p>\n<p>Vance reaffirmed the US-Italy friendship and told Meloni that he would brief her on some &#8220;interesting&#8221; developments in Russia-Ukraine peace negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Big trade negotiations&#8221; would continue, he said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/logo-euronews-grey-6-180x22.svg.svg+xml\" width=\"180\" height=\"22\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Like Trump, Vance seemed dazzled by Meloni&#8217;s Italian language even though he didn&#8217;t understand what she was saying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course, she could have called me a jerk and I wouldn&#8217;t know, but it would be in the most beautiful language imaginable, so I wouldn&#8217;t even get offended,&#8221; 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