Giorgia Meloni said she wanted to 'make the West great again' in meeting with Trump

Italian PM Giorgia Meloni met Donald Trump in the Oval Office on 17 April .

She was the only European leader invited to Trump ’s inauguration in January and the first to meet with him since he imposed tariffs on European countries.

With the possible exception of Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán , Meloni is probably more aligned with him than any other head of government in Europe .

Meloni does not just mediate between the EU and the US but also between two different ideas of the West .

She is far more supportive of Nato than Trump , but more civilisational in her thinking than Von Der Leyen .

Meloni is not so much ending Nato but repurposing it for a clash of civilisations.