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The Italian Prime Minister has also held contacts with White House staff. According to sources, the aim is for the summit to be held with a technical focus and without political clashes...
Three days ago she had called the Turkish President, not only to talk about the proceedings of the summit. As the summit organizer and host country, Giorgia Meloni had asked Recep Tayyip Erdogan to organize the sessions in the most technical way possible. After all, the duration of the annual NATO meeting has been reduced to a minimum by the Turkish side, precisely to avoid the summit once again becoming the scene of a clash between Donald Trump and the European allies, whom he accuses of not doing enough.
Erdogan is a close friend of Trump, but also enjoys very good relations with Giorgia Meloni. However, less than 24 hours later, the White House resident published another attack on social media, this time accompanied by an implicit form of misogynistic denigration. To avoid awkward encounters, even stricter protocol measures than usual will be needed.
Yesterday, Giorgia Meloni held a series of quick phone calls with her closest ministers in the government. During these conversations, the line she announced after the G7 summit was reaffirmed: "there will be no more answers."
To formulate a different response would mean giving the right to those who only seek confrontation. This stance remained unchanged even after, shortly after noon, Meloni arrived at her office in the Chigi Palace.
However, Meloni has also spoken with important figures from Donald Trump's own staff, writes Marco Galluzzo for Corriere .
Her relationship with Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump's husband, is both discreet and consolidated. There has long been a constant practice of consultation between them. It seems that in the last few hours, before or immediately after the publication of the sexist meme that Trump directed at Meloni, contacts between them have been renewed. They have had the opportunity to clarify some issues and to establish that even within the White House staff there is irritation about the president's latest statement.
Beyond explaining the dynamics and rebuilding the personal relationship that appears to have been damaged, Trump has likely not forgotten the G7 video where Meloni seemed to be explaining something to him with his index finger pointed at him.
The American president spends a large part of his time reading the comments, both Italian and American, on posts related to his recent exchanges with Meloni during the G7 summit at the Evian resort in France.
It is precisely these comments that fuel a rift of a personal, not political, nature, for which there seems to be very little room for repair.
Another important detail has reached the Italian government from Trump's staff: the matter became even more personal when Meloni decided to respond with a video, declaring that "Italians and I never beg each other", to the mocking words he had received after the G7 summit.
Trump himself has complained about this. He has attacked many European leaders, from Emmanuel Macron to Friedrich Merz, but he considered it an insult that the only one who responded publicly was the Italian prime minister.
Immediately after the events, at the Chigi Palace, among the members of the delegation that will participate today in the NATO summit together with Meloni, the idea was also circulating that the Prime Minister should be absent from part of the official dinner. That she should not attend at all or perhaps arrive late. The voices are different and, ultimately, it is possible that Meloni will decide only at the last minute.
However, any change from protocol, whether in schedule or program, would play in the US president's favor. What is known for sure is that Meloni will not sit at the same table as Trump, as protocol has provided for many different tables for around forty guests.
"It won't be cold, but ice," her staff members say in a low voice. Knowing Giorgia Meloni's character, this is not difficult to believe.
It is very likely that she will use the summit to focus on Italy's objectives: to ensure that the final declaration clearly includes a NATO approach that guarantees not only the protection of Europe's eastern flank, but also its southern one, as well as strengthening the protection of member countries' strategic infrastructures, which are now considered assets of comparable importance to military ones.
As a counterbalance, Italy will present a plan to increase defense spending to 3.5% of Gross Domestic Product within three years. /Adapted Pamphlet /
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