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The Italian minister reiterated his readiness for a mission to Hormuz after the war and Trump's no to tariffs. Rubio promised developments in negotiations with Iran and that &quot;not being able to count&quot; on Allies &quot;is a problem&quot;&quot;,&quot;isLive&quot;:false,&quot;articleUrl&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/video\/2026\/05\/08\/rubio-talks-to-meloni-and-tajani-about-us-italian-and-eu-relations-from-the-iran-war-to-tr&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:64320}\" data-sponsored=\"Partner content\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-poster-img c-article-media__img\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/75\/15\/33\/1536x864_cmsv2_a191da45-92f2-55bb-9be5-c7a3127be3df-9751533.jpg\" width=\"1536\" height=\"864\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"US Secretary of State Marco Rubio received in Rome by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at Palazzo Chigi\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"c-article-caption u-position-absolute\"><i id=\"article-caption-content\" class=\"c-article-caption__content\"><span class=\"c-article-caption__text\"><br \/>\n              US Secretary 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<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"c-article-summary\">\n        The US Secretary of State in talks in Rome with Meloni and Tajani. The Italian minister reiterated his readiness for a mission to Hormuz after the war and Trump&#8217;s no to tariffs. Rubio promised developments in negotiations with Iran and that &#8220;not being able to count&#8221; on Allies &#8220;is a problem&#8221;<br \/>\n    <\/h2>\n<div class=\"c-article-content js-article-content\">\n<p>Marco Rubio&#8217;s visit to Rome, after an audience at the Vatican with the Pope on Thursday, saw talks on Friday with the Italian government: a \u2018positive meeting\u2019, during which it was reiterated that the &#8220;American presence in Europe is important&#8221; and that Italy &#8220;does not want trade wars&#8221;, announced Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, who received the US Secretary of State before before he proceeded to Palazzo Chigi to meet Giorgia Meloni. <\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"c-ad u-show-for-mobile-only\">\n<div class=\"c-ad__placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt loading=\"lazy\"><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-ad u-show-for-desktop\">\n<div class=\"c-ad__placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt loading=\"lazy\"><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The conversation with the Italian premier lasted an hour and a half and touched on international current events in the Middle East. &#8220;We await a development in the coming hours&#8221; on the peace negotiations with Iran, said Rubio, who reiterated to Meloni how US President Donald Trump &#8220;has not yet decided on the withdrawal of troops&#8221; in Italy, but that he personally is a &#8220;strong supporter of Nato&#8221; and the possibility of having forces in Europe &#8220;that we can deploy in other emergency situations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With Meloni we have not talked about bases,&#8221; the US secretary of state said at a press point at the US embassy in Rome, &#8220;but some countries like Spain by denying use have created unnecessary dangers for us.<\/p>\n<p>As for Lebanon, there will be talks &#8220;probably next week&#8221; and &#8220;Italy can do something more in helping to resolve the situation because of its expertise and presence on the ground,&#8221; Rubio continued, who also returned to the &#8220;very positive&#8221; visit to Leo XIV.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was an important meeting to exchange our views and explanations on what we are doing. I updated them on the situation in Iran and expressed our views on why this operation was important and the danger Iran poses to the world,&#8221; he said further.<\/p>\n<h2>Tajani and Rubio&#8217;s conversation at the Farnesina<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;I reaffirmed Italy&#8217;s full support for diplomacy as the only way to avoid further escalation in the Middle East and ensure freedom of international navigation,&#8221; Tajani wrote on X after the meeting, &#8220;when conditions allow, in Hormuz we are ready to contribute to a multilateral naval initiative, and of a defensive nature, to ensure freedom of navigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Italian minister also reiterated &#8216;that it is important to have an American presence in Europe to strengthen NATO and of course it is also important to have a strong commitment from Europeans in this regard, which the Europeans are doing&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>It is necessary &#8216;for Western nations to protect their economic interests&#8217;, the US State Department announced in a note at the end of the meeting where &#8216;bilateral cooperation as well as global and regional security challenges were discussed&#8217;, wrote the Secretary of State&#8217;s spokesman, Tommy Pigott.<\/p>\n<p>On the agenda of the talks at the Farnesina were the strengthening of Italy&#8217;s and the EU&#8217;s relations with the US, the crisis in Iran, the future of the ceasefire in Lebanon and the Unifil mission, the situation in Ukraine, Venezuela and Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Italy is in favour of &#8216;a big market&#8217; that includes Europe, the US, Canada and Mexico,&#8221; Tajani finally said regarding the new threat of tariffs on the auto sector launched by US President Donald Trump last week.<\/p>\n<p>During his meeting with Tajani <strong>,<\/strong> Rubio presented a family tree attesting to his Piedmontese, as well as Cuban, origins, in the presence of the president of the Piedmont Region and the mayor of Casal Monferrato.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>        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