Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is meeting at the White House on Thursday with President Trump, in what her aides have called a high-stakes "commercial peace mission."European leaders are hoping Italy's right-wing premier can position herself as a bridge between the Trump administration and the European Union,

It took Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni exactly two sentences in the Oval Office on Thursday to signal to her host she was a kindred spirit.

Houston businessman Tilman Fertitta joined President Donald Trump and several Cabinet officials in the White House April 17 for a meeting with Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni. Fertitta, head of the Landry's entertainment empire and the wealthiest person in Houston,