After the G7 meeting, Donald Trump told reporters that the Italian prime minister agreed with him that Russia should be readmitted to the group./An Italian proposal to end a ban on the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development lending to small and medium-sized businesses in Russia,(
Conte raised the merits of a softer approach toward Russia on more than one occasion during last month’s G7 summit in Canada, according to two sources who were at the summit. Both the diplomatic sources also said they had the feeling that Italy’s line on Russia is being dictated by Salvini.(