July 2025 SUMMARY July 2025 confirms Italy’s proactive agenda-setting across energy security, defence finance and strategic diplomacy. Rome leveraged its G7 visibility to close headline deals—ENI’s 20-year LNG offtake from Venture Global’s CP2 terminal and a EUR 10 bln industrial package for Ukraine’s reconstruction—while Prime Minister Meloni used summits in Algiers and Addis Ababa to […]