ROME - On Thursday, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will join the small club of foreign hard-right leaders who have visited the Biden White House.
That invitation was never extended to Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro, and the Biden administration has notably excluded Hungary's Viktor Orban from its democracy summits. But Meloni, Italy's first female prime minister and the head of its most right-wing government since the end of World War II, is a rare breed of hard-right leader: one who has earned a reputation as someone Washington and Brussels can do business with.