Kevin McCarthy is in Rome. Flanked by a bipartisan delegation of United States MPs, the Republican Speaker of the US Lower House is visiting the Eternal City for a series of high-level meetings, including with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, President Sergio Mattarella and his Italian counterpart Lorenzo Fontana.

Shared dossiers and consolidated ties. According to an official note, the focus of the meeting between the Italian and US Speakers was the conflict in Ukraine, stability in the Mediterranean, strengthening the role of parliamentary diplomacy, and the international geopolitical scenario.