Speaking at Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome, Meloni said Trump had made clear that the US intends to disengage from Europe and that Europeans must organise their own defence.
“Trump has said most emphatically that the US intends to disengage and Europeans must organise to defend themselves: hello Europe,” Meloni stated.
“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.”
Meloni’s comments come amid tensions between the EU and the Trump administration.
She called for a stronger European defence structure capable of engaging with global powers on equal terms.
“We have spoken in unsuspected times of the need to strengthen our defence and security capacity and claimed when no one else did the need to finally create a European NATO norm of equal strength and respect to the American one,” she added.
