Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni met with US President-elect Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida to discuss the tariffs Trump recently announced against several countries, as well as the arrest of Italian journalist Cecilia Sala in Iran, according to a well-informed source cited by Bloomberg.
Meloni’s trip to Florida comes just days ahead of her scheduled meeting with outgoing US President Joseph Biden in Rome, as reported by the US agency.
Biden plans to visit Italy and the Vatican on January 9.
Iranian authorities arrested Italian journalist Cecilia Sala on December 19, just days after Italian authorities, following a U.S. request, detained Swiss-Iranian citizen Mohammad Abedini Najafabadi at Milan’s Malpensa Airport. The United States accuses Najafabadi of involvement in deadly drone strikes, and Italian authorities continue to hold him in custody.
Since Donald Trump’s election as U.S. President, several foreign leaders have visited him, including Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Argentine President Javier Milagros, and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
