Italy’s right-wing government led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Friday presented a new commercial strategy for the Arctic region.
The document was officially presented in Rome by Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, Defense Minister Guido Crosetto and University and Research Minister Anna Maria Bernini and aims to strengthen security cooperation and open business opportunities in the region.
The new strategy reflects the polar north’s growing geopolitical and economic importance, as President Donald Trump seeks to expand American influence by acquiring or seizing Greenland from Denmark.
In a statement, Meloni said Italy was “perfectly aware of how much this region of the world represents a strategic quadrant in global balances” and pledged to continue working to preserve the Arctic as “an area of peace, cooperation and prosperity.”
