Meloni calls for Europe to strengthen defence as US signals pullback

Euronews: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni closed her party’s annual Atreju rally on Sunday by defending her government’s record and calling on Europe to strengthen its own defence capabilities in response to US President Donald Trump’s shifting security strategy.

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“Trump has said most emphatically that the US intends to disengage and Europeans must organise to defend themselves: hello Europe,” Meloni said.

“For eighty years we outsourced our security to the US pretending it was free, but there was a price to pay and that price is called conditioning. Freedom has a price…