Italian PM warns that Europe will be the loser in a conflict with America as leaders try to figure out how to respond to the president’s pressure.

Italian leader Giorgia Meloni said Friday she hoped Donald Trump would end the war in Ukraine so she could nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Trump said he was uncertain whether NATO would support the United States if assistance were ever requested, comments that many European leaders viewed as dismissive of two decades of allied cooperation.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni reacted to Donald Trump's recent criticisms of NATO, asserting that proposals to cut transatlantic ties are impractical and harmful to European security.

Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Sunday that U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to impose tariffs on countries opposing

Friedrich Merz and Giorgia Meloni both cite constitutional objections to joining initiative, which the EU's foreign policy arm warns the US president will have too much power over

Anti-US protests in Nuuk, Greenland, 17 January 2026.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Giorgia Meloni and Donald Trump have previously clashed over tariffs - Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters The US has scrapped plans to hit Italian pasta makers with punitive tariffs, marking a ...

On Thursday, Trump unveiled his "Board of Peace", initially designed to oversee the Gaza truce and the territory's revival, but which has morphed into a mechanism aiming to resolve all sorts of international conflicts.