As soon as she came to power three years ago, the post-fascist Giorgia Meloni toned down her ideological radicalism and adopted softer, more pragmatic approaches, although internally she has not slackened her ultraconservative agenda. With this attitude, she has consolidated her hold on power and carved out a niche for herself in Europe, where she soon found the complicity of Commission President Ursula von del Leyen, who even held her up as a model for addressing immigration. Two other factors have made her indispensable in continental geopolitics: her commitment to supporting Zelensky's Ukraine against Putin's Russia and her rapport with US President Donald Trump, who saw her as the best ideological ally in Europe. Thus, Meloni has become indispensable and has managed to normalize, both domestically in Italy and externally on the international political scene, the rise of a far-right party to power. This has also helped to put an end to the endemic internal political instability in Italy.

Before it exploded the war in Ukraine, almost 40% of all gas consumed in Italy came from Russia. But the war and sanctions imposed by the Kremlin forced the transalpine country to find alternative sources of supply. After Libya and Algeria, with which Rome signed several gas agreements, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Argentine President Javier Milei signed a memorandum this Friday to advance a project that will allow the production and export of liquefied natural gas (LNG).

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has become the first European leader to meet with US President Donald Trump since the outbreak of the trade war. The Republican president sounded optimistic about the trade negotiations during the meeting with the Italian right-wing leader. "There will be a trade agreement, 100%," Trump assured Meloni. "Of course there will be a trade agreement. They want it and we will do it, I hope so, but it has to be a fair agreement," the tycoon insisted.