Fighting Trump is a bad idea, Meloni privately told EU leaders
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni urged EU leaders to avoid conflict with U.S. President Donald Trump, arguing that Europe stands to lose the most. Meloni's advice came during a summit in Brussels, where leaders were strategizing their response to Trump's tariff threats and his demand to seize control of Greenland from Denmark.
At a summit in Brussels on Thursday, Meloni told her EU counterparts that fighting Trump was a bad idea because Europe has everything to lose from a conflict with America, according to four people briefed on the leaders’ conversations who were granted anonymity to detail private conversations.
Instead, she urged them all to remain calm and not write Trump off as crazy or unpredictable, as some officials have privately described him during a whirlwind start to 2026 on international affairs.
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