European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen Italian premier Giorgia Meloni and the Netherlands' outgoing premier Mark Rutte brokered a quid pro quo with Tunisia's President Kaïs Saïed in June...

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni continues to exert diplomatic pressure on Tunisia and Libya as the Italian island of Lampedusa continues to receive unprecedented numbers of migrants from North Africa...

With European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen finding common cause with Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni such 'cash for migration deals' will be central to campaigning for the bloc's top jobs next year...

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen – flanked by Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and his counterpart Giorgia Meloni of Italy – swept up the steps of the Palace of Carthage on 11 June with €150 million in immediate budget support to President Kaïs Saïed – and a promise of a further €900m...

A career diplomat Orlando's appointment looks like a significant concession to Giorgia Meloni's right-wing government in Rome which has spent recent months trying to increase cooperation on energy access and migration control...

Having seen its oil and gas major Eni sign an $8 billion gas deal with the Libyan National Oil Corp in January Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has made clear that she is willing to pay more to Tripoli...

A week after the sinking of a boat carrying several hundred migrants off the Calabrian coast in southern Italy which killed more than 60 people European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wrote to Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni praising her government's tough migration policies...

Recent visits from the foreign ministers of France and Germany Catherine Colonna and Annalena Baerbock respectively to Addis Ababa and a successful European tour by Abiy hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni signals a slow resumption of European support and investment...

While business executives talked commerce Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's foreign and interior ministers engaged with their counterparts on reducing the flow of illegal migrants from Italy a key plank of Meloni's policies (see box How gas is changing the Mediterranean map)...

At the end of January the Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni was in Algiers signing a deal with Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune under which Italy would obtain a further 9bcm a year...