Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will attend U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration on Monday, officials from her office said on Friday, in a trip that should further strengthen her ties with the U.

Lago, an invitation to Monday's inauguration and good relations with Elon Musk, Italy's Giorgia Meloni has positioned herself as the closest mainstream European leader to Donald Trump.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, whose rise to power in Rome two years ago sparked panic among the European political establishment, may now be the continent’s best hope to have one of its own in the good graces of the Trump White House.

A Milan judge has ordered Italy's tourism minister to stand trial on false accounting charges at her former publishing company.

An Italian judge has ordered Tourism Minister Daniela Santanche to stand trial on false accounting charges at a publishing group she used to own, judicial and legal sources said on Friday. Judge Anna Magelli,

The Italian Minister of Tourism, Daniela Santanche, will stand trial for alleged falsification of financial statements at her former publishing company. Santanche, who is a member of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s far-right Brothers of Italy party,