President Donald Trump welcomed Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni to the White House Thursday, as she became the first European leader to have face-to-face talks with him since he announced and then partially suspended 20% tariffs on European exports.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is scheduled to visit the White House on Thursday for a meeting and lunch with President Donald Trump. Meloni, leader of Italy’s most right-wing government in decades,

Meloni is walking a tightrope between her ideological affinity to the president and her ties with European allies, who have criticized Trump's tariff hikes and his decision to exc