That #Italian Prime Minister Giorgia #Meloni will be the first #EU leader to meet with President Donald Trump since his day of tariffs is no surprise – she's backed him long before her ascension in 2022 to her country’s highest political office.
Meloni, who will arrive in Washington on Thursday, was among the first global leaders to congratulate Trump on his 2024 reelection victory and was the first European leader to meet with him after Election Day – traveling to Mar-a-Lago in January. She was also the only European Union leader to attend Trump’s inauguration.
But this week's scheduled visit is expected to be different.
Meloni, a one-time Euro-skeptic, will attempt to convince Trump to roll back at least part of his across-the-board, 10% tariffs on the EU that earlier this month sent European stock exchanges reeling. Some major European exchanges saw their largest one-day losses and largest one-day gains in decades over the span of a few days.
It’s a delicate point in U.S.-Europe relations, after Trump started his tariff campaign by announcing 25% tariffs on all steel, aluminum, and automobiles entering the U.S., then a 20% import tax on almost all other European Union exports to the U.S.
Trump has since postponed the 20% levies at least 90 days, and the European Union backed off its threatened counter-measures. But the 10-percent #tariff rate on EU products entering the U.S. remains in place, and the clock is ticking toward the end of the 90-day pause for the higher rate.
Meloni will arrive in Washington days after Trump bragged that countries were embarrassing themselves trying to convince him to reverse his tariff policies.
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However, the #technology has since been deemed inefficient, and its operation #unprofitable. Now, the 8-square-kilometer power plant will be decommissioned, leaving behind technological waste that will litter the Mojave Desert — a stark reminder of ambitious but ultimately impractical #environmental policies.
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