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United States – Italy
Joint Leaders’ Statement
April 18,
2025
President Donald J. Trump and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni
held their first official meeting yesterday in Washington, D.C., where
they confirmed their resolve to promote a mutually beneficial relationship and
further strengthen the U.S. – Italy strategic alliance across security,
economic, and technological issues.
U.S.- Italy Cooperation for Security
The U.S. and Italy underscore that the war in Ukraine must end, and fully
endorse President Trump’s leadership in brokering a ceasefire and delivering a
just and lasting peace.
The U.S. and Italy reiterate the unwavering commitment to NATO and to the
principle of developing their collective and individual capacity to contribute
to the Alliance’s goals. We therefore commit to ensuring our national security
and defense are aligned and funded to meet the challenges of today, and
critically, the risks of tomorrow.
Our defense cooperation must rely on a deep and extensive transatlantic supply
chain. We are facing a complex security environment, and we are ready to
further increase defense equipment and technology cooperation, including
co-production and co-development that strengthen U.S. and Italian defense
industrial capacity and protect it from foreign adversaries.
The U.S. and Italy reaffirm their shared commitment to counter illegal
immigration and to ensure that legal migration is used as a tool to benefit our
nations and not to create a security problem for our citizens. We will step up
our common efforts to eradicate international organized crime groups engaged in
migrant smuggling and human trafficking.
The U.S. and Italy confirm their joint effort to fight the production,
distribution, and sale of illicit synthetic drugs, especially synthetic opioids
and the criminal networks trafficking these drugs, which collectively damage
the health, security, and well-being of our citizens and people around the
world.
U.S. – Italy Cooperation for Shared Prosperity
The United States and Italy agree to work to ensure that trade between the
United States and Europe is mutually beneficial, fair, and reciprocal.
We highlight the importance of information technology to enabling free
enterprise across the Atlantic. We agreed that a non-discriminatory environment
in terms of digital services taxation is necessary to enable investments from
cutting-edge tech companies.
We welcome American investments in AI computing and cloud services in Italy to
maximize the opportunities of digital transformation and support Italy as the
key regional data hub for the Mediterranean and North Africa.
Developing a workforce that can deliver on the needs of our economies is
vital. The United States and Italy are proud partners in industrial
endeavors that will benefit employment in both countries, playing a vital role
for each other’s supply chains and strengthening our industrial bases.
Italy will contribute to the maritime renaissance of the U.S. shipbuilding
sector, while the U.S. will look into the investment opportunities offered by
the increasingly positive Italian business environment, including through the
incentives granted by the new Single Special Economic Zone (SEZ) established in
Italy.
The U.S. and Italy cooperate to strengthen energy security by further
encouraging the diversification of Italy’s energy supply source and by
increasing exports of U.S. liquefied natural gas to Italy in a mutually
beneficial manner.
The U.S. and Italy will work together to develop the India–Middle East–Europe
Economic Corridor, one of the greatest economic integration and connectivity
projects of this century, connecting partners by ports, railways, and undersea
cables and stimulating economic development and integration from India, to the
Gulf to Israel, to Italy, and onward to the United States.
Following the example of the President Trump’s successful Abraham Accords
approach, the U.S. and Italy will cooperate on crucial infrastructural projects
and consider leveraging on the Mattei Plan’s potential.
U.S. – Italy Cooperation for Technology
The United States and Italy recognize the need to protect our national critical
and sensitive infrastructure and technology, which is why we commit to using
only trusted vendors in these networks. There is no higher trust than our
strategic alliance, which is why there can be no discrimination when it comes
to U.S. and Italian vendors.
We are proud to partner on Space Technology, including through two Mars
Missions in 2026 and 2028, and lunar surface exploration on future Artemis
missions.
As we transition to and innovate on the technologies of the future, such as 6G,
AI, quantum computing, and biotechnology, we also commit to exploring
opportunities for enhanced partnerships in these critical industries that
protect our data from adversaries that would exploit it.
Invitation to Visit Italy
President Trump accepted Prime Minister Meloni’s invitation to pay an official
visit to Italy in the very near future. There is also consideration to hold, on
such occasion, a meeting between U.S. and Europe.
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