{"id":17703,"date":"2026-02-07T21:15:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T16:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/?p=17703"},"modified":"2026-02-07T21:19:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T16:19:55","slug":"italy-wont-join-trumps-board-of-pea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/2026\/02\/07\/italy-wont-join-trumps-board-of-pea\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy won\u2019t join Trump\u2019s \u2018Board of Peace\u2019 over constitutional concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;\">Italy won\u2019t join Trump\u2019s \u2018Board of Peace\u2019 over constitutional concern<\/span><\/b><\/h2>\n<h5><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Rome:<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;\"> Italy has ruled out participation in US President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cBoard of Peace,\u201d citing constitutional restrictions,<a href=\"http:\/\/@Antonio_Tajani\" target=\"_blank\"> Italian Foreign Minister<\/a> Antonio Tajani said Saturday.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 data-start=\"349\" data-end=\"607\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;\">Trump introduced the \u201cBoard of Peace\u201d at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January, and 19 countries have since signed its founding charter. However, Italy\u2019s constitution prohibits the country from joining an organization led by a single foreign leader.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 data-start=\"609\" data-end=\"839\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;\">Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, an ally of Trump, had previously acknowledged potential \u201cconstitutional problems\u201d with joining, while suggesting that the framework could be revised to accommodate Italy and other European nations.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 data-start=\"841\" data-end=\"1072\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;\">On Saturday, Tajani indicated that such changes are unlikely. \u201cWe cannot participate in the Board of Peace because there is a constitutional limit,\u201d he told the ANSA news agency. \u201cFrom a legal standpoint, this is insurmountable.\u201d<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 data-start=\"1074\" data-end=\"1210\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;\">Tajani made the remarks a day after meeting US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and US Vice President JD Vance at the Olympics in Milan.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 data-start=\"1212\" data-end=\"1501\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;\">Originally intended to oversee reconstruction in Gaza, the board\u2019s charter is not limited to Palestinian territory and seems designed to operate alongside\u2014or potentially rival\u2014the United Nations. Key US allies, including France and the UK, have also expressed reservations about joining.<\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy won\u2019t join Trump\u2019s \u2018Board of Peace\u2019 over constitutional concern Rome: Italy has ruled out participation in US President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cBoard of Peace,\u201d citing constitutional restrictions, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said Saturday. Trump introduced the \u201cBoard of Peace\u201d at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January, and 19 countries have since signed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":17704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2297,2299],"tags":[3736,3724,3737],"class_list":["post-17703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-antonio-tajani","tag-board-of-peace-gaza","tag-italian-foreign-minister"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17703"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17707,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17703\/revisions\/17707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}