Nicola Casarini is a senior associate fellow at the Istituto Affari Internazionali in Rome and a nonresident global fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington.
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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz while on a visit to Berlin in February: Honest discussion with Rome's G-7 partners is needed. © Reuters
Nicola Casarini is a senior associate fellow at the Istituto Affari Internazionali in Rome and a nonresident global fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington.