{"id":714480,"date":"2026-01-23T03:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T03:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/714480\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T03:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T03:53:10","slug":"merz-and-meloni-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/714480\/","title":{"rendered":"Merz and Meloni \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c[Our] two countries have stable governments, especially if compared with France\u2019s,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is clear that Meloni and Merz still probably have a long path ahead of them, during which they can work together.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Safeguarding the relationship with Trump is crucial to both leaders, and both Merz and Meloni have sought to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/merz-seeks-dial-down-trump-trade-tensions-breaking-with-macron\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">avoid transatlantic blow-ups<\/a>. They have been supported in their firefighting by their foreign ministers, Johann Wadephul and Antonio Tajani.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiorgia Meloni and Friedrich Merz have represented the European wing most open to dialogue with President Trump,\u201d said Pietro Benassi, former Italian ambassador to Berlin and the EU. \u201cThe somewhat surreal acceleration [of events] driven by the American president is confirming a convergence in the positions of Italy and Germany, rather than between Italy and France, or France and Germany.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In contrast to the softly-softly approach in Rome and Berlin, Calovini accused Macron of unhelpfully \u201ccontradictory\u201d behavior toward Trump. \u201cHe acts as the one who wants to challenge the United States of America <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/emmanuel-macron-decoded-text-message-donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">but then sends texts<\/a> \u2014 that Trump has inelegantly published \u2014 in which he begs Trump to have dinner,\u201d he complained.<\/p>\n<p>Good chemistry<\/p>\n<p>Officials in Berlin now privately gush over the growing cooperation with Meloni, describing the relationship with Rome as dependable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cItaly is reliable,\u201d said one senior German government official, granted anonymity to speak candidly. It\u2019s not an adjective authorities in Berlin have often used to describe their French counterparts of late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201c[Our] two countries have stable governments, especially if compared with France\u2019s,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is clear that Meloni&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[5108,6641,6215,6659,2825,473,6906,34,2000,299,5187,6644,474,805,36,38,1945,11070,1824,2440,6084,50872,2199,43,22708,6657,2597,2443,48,1201,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-714480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-asylum","9":"tag-competitiveness","10":"tag-cooperation","11":"tag-crisis","12":"tag-debt","13":"tag-defense","14":"tag-democratic-party","15":"tag-emmanuel-macron","16":"tag-eu","17":"tag-europe","18":"tag-european","19":"tag-farmers","20":"tag-finance","21":"tag-foreign-policy","22":"tag-france","23":"tag-french-politics","24":"tag-friedrich-merz","25":"tag-german-politics","26":"tag-germany","27":"tag-giorgia-meloni","28":"tag-infrastructure","29":"tag-italian-politics","30":"tag-italy","31":"tag-macron","32":"tag-mercosur","33":"tag-migration","34":"tag-military","35":"tag-regulation","36":"tag-rights","37":"tag-trade","38":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115942392022606135","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}