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Meloni sells it as a victory, but the agreement with Trump is a billion-dollar bill for Italy and a trophy for America. Europe is silent, Italy celebrates...
After six months of negotiations with tensions, concessions and vain hopes, the "Turnberry Agreement" in Scotland sealed a bitter reality for the Italian government and all of Europe: the agreement with Donald Trump was neither victory nor salvation, but a pure act of imposition.
Giorgia Meloni's Italy, under a celebratory discourse that tries to mask reality, has accepted a pact that is essentially humiliating. A package that includes:
· $750 billion for oil and gas purchases from the US,
· Another 650 billion forced investments on American soil by Italian industry,
· And a "friendship" tax that many call unimaginable to actually implement.
Moreover, Trump, or as critics mock him, “Daddy” in the guise of Caesar and Pope, declared that countries that do not sign a deal will face tariffs of 15 to 20%. In other words, Europe negotiated for six months only to achieve something that is just as bad, if not worse, than what will be offered to countries that did not sit at the table at all.
While Berlin (under the leadership of Chancellor Friedrich Merz) warns of serious consequences for the German economy and Paris describes the agreement as “unilateral”, official Rome chooses to deceive itself with pompous language: “the risk has been averted”, “the quota of 15 is affordable”, “Western unity preserved”. But these are only illusions.
In fact, this agreement marks the end of the privileged transatlantic partnership. In the eyes of Trump's Washington, Europe is no longer an ally but a burden, a competitor that must be disciplined with trade measures and political pressure. The "MAGA" rhetoric, which many on the European right saw as electoral folklore, has become state doctrine.
For Giorgia Meloni, who aligned herself with Trump in a shared narrative of "making the West great again," this agreement is a serious diplomatic blow and a shock to Italy's economic sovereignty. Because in this "grand pact," the only winner is America.
Everyone else, including Italy, will pay to escape US tariffs, work to strengthen the US economy and beg for the "mercy" of a leader who knows no friends, only money./ Pamphlet
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