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Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni is vowing to take “extraordinary measures” to deal with an influx of migrants

Thousand of migrants reached the Italian island of Lampedusa on more than 100 boats this week

A flotilla of flimsy boats, crowded with migrants and launched from Tunisia is overwhelming a tiny Italian island south of Sicily

Ryanair Holdings chief executive officer Michael O’Leary blasted Italy’s new cap on airfares as “illegal” and impossible to comprehend, threatening to scale back some of the discount carrier’s flights on popular domestic routes if the government holds onto the measure.

By Giuseppe Fonte

G20 Summit drew to a close. The two day event involving the world's biggest economies was hosted in New Delhi amid an increasingly convoluted geopolitical landscape. Indeed the successful adoption of the G20 Leaders' Declaration has been dubbed a ‘coup’ for host PM Modi.

China's Belt and Road investment plan, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said Sunday, but doing so would not damage bilateral relations. «We have yet to make a decision,» Meloni told a press conference at the close of the G20 summit in New Delhi, a day after meeting for talks with Chinese Premier Li Qiang. Should Rome decide to quit, it «would not compromise relations» with China, Meloni said. Critics say the Belt and Road plan is a Trojan horse to increase China's influence and Meloni is under pressure to exit, but hopes to do so without inflaming tensions. The deal automatically renews in March 2024 unless Italy opts out by the end of this year. Meloni said the government was «evaluating the merits» of being part of the trillion-dollar investment scheme, which debt-ridden Italy joined in 2019. It is the only one of the group of leading developed democracies to have signed up. Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said earlier this month that the Belt and Road initiative «has not produced the results we were hoping for». The Italian PM is tipped to travel to Beijing for a state visit in the next few months, or at the start of next year, but would not be drawn on a possible date. «It makes more sense to go to China when we have more elements about our bilateral cooperation and how to develop it,» she said. Meloni's meeting with Li, their first face-to-face, came as a broad alliance of states at the G20 unveiled ambitious plans to create a modern-day Spice Route linking Europe, the Middle East and India, which signatories hope will offer a counterbalance to lavish Chinese infrastructure spending. Some analysts expect Meloni to pull out of Belt and Road while boosting other existing Italy-China accords. The meeting

Giorgia Meloni, reportedly on Saturday, privately signalled to China's Premier Li Qiang that Italy is seeking to exit the Belts and Roads Initiative (BRI) agreement was signed four years ago. Earlier in July this year, Italy's Defence Minister Guido Crosetto has said that the BRI was an "improvised and atrocious" made by Italy while signing with China.

Modi on Saturday held two separate bilateral meetings with Fumio Kishida, Prime Minister of Japan and Italian PM Giorgia Meloni, on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit in the national capital. During the meeting, with the Prime Minister of Japan, the leaders acknowledged the constructive dialogue of the two countries throughout the year on their priorities for their respective G20 and G7 Presidencies, particularly in bringing the concerns and aspirations of the Global South to the fore, the Prime Minister's Office said on Saturday. According to the PMO, the leaders held discussions on various facets of the India-Japan bilateral partnership, including on infrastructure development, technological collaboration, investments and energy. Both leaders reaffirmed their commitment to further deepening the India-Japan Special Strategic and Global Partnership.PM Modi also held a bilateral meeting with Giorgia Meloni, Prime Minister of the Italian Republic on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Delhi. This is the second visit of Prime Minister Meloni to India following her State visit in March 2023, during which bilateral relations were raised to the level of a Strategic Partnership. Prime Minister Modi appreciated Italy's support for India's G20 Presidency and Italy's joining of the Global Biofuel Alliance and the India — Middle East — Europe Economic Corridor. The two leaders noted with satisfaction the completion of 75 years of establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries. They also took stock of the progress in diverse areas of the India-Italy Strategic Partnership, and agreed to bolster cooperation in areas like defence and new and emerging technologies. They noted the need for G7 and G20 to work in consonance

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has met with Chinese Premier Li Qiang on the sidelines of the G20 summit

Narendra Modi on Saturday announced the launch of the Global Biofuels Alliance. A total of 19 countries and 12 international organizations have so far agreed to join the alliance, including both G20 members and non-member countries. India, Brazil and the US are the founding members of the alliance.

G20 Summit 2023 Delhi LIVE Updates: Traffic curbs come into force in New Delhi. Check details As per the media reports, PM Modi will be holding over 15 bilateral meetings between Friday to Sunday. All these bilateral meetings will be held on the sidelines of the G20 Summit set to be held under India's Presidency on September 9-10.

By Giuseppe Fonte and Elisa Anzolin

G20 Summit 2023 LIVE: Read all the latest updates at Mint's liveblog: Fellow G7 members Britain, Canada, Japan and Italy will be represented by their respective premiers Rishi Sunak, Justin Trudeau, Fumio Kishida and Giorgia Meloni.Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is coming and Argentina's Alberto Fernandez is expected, but Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is likely to skip the G20 Summit.United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will attend as an observer, with the heads of the IMF and the World Bank also in attendance.Other leaders expected to attend include Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Nigerian President Bola Tinubu.

Antonio Tajani travels to China this weekend, he'll be balancing two competing interests: laying the ground for Italy’s exit from a controversial investment pact with Beijing while also trying to avoid a rupture with the world's second-largest economy. During a three-day trip starting on Saturday, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s deputy will meet with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and other officials to discuss the possibility of leaving the Belt and Road Initiative, an investment pact designed to deepen economic ties with allies. Just before boarding a plane to China, Tajani said that the 2019 agreement had fallen short of expectations. “Belt and Road was a decision made in the past,” Tajani told Francine Lacqua in a Bloomberg Television interview on Saturday at the Ambrosetti Forum in Cernobbio, Italy.

By Giuseppe Fonte and Giancarlo Navach

draw India closer. In June Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, undertook a state visit to Washington, where he was feted by the White House, Congress and business leaders alike. Europe, too, has been trying to get cosier.

MILAN (Reuters) -Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Monday took «full responsibility» for last week's shock decision to impose a one-off bank tax that has been blamed for causing lasting damage to her government's credibility with financial markets.

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By Antonella Cinelli and Giuseppe Fonte

Italy the only major Western country to have taken such a step, according to a Reuters report. The Reuters report citing an interview said that Italy had signed the BRI agreement with China in order to bolster exports. Crosetto is part of an administration that is considering how to break free of the agreement, reports Reuters.