Today it seems like an eternity ago, but in reality only five months have passed since the memorable kneeling: On January 23rd of this year, at a joint press conference with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Rome, Meloni expressed her hope that Donald Trump might one day be awarded the Nobel Prize after he had established a “just peace” between Ukraine and Russia. It was the greatest possible ingratiation to the US President that the right-wing nationalist Prime Minister and (at the time) avowed supporter of Trump could have come up with.
