JD Vance visits Italy and Vatican after tangling with pope on migration

JD Vance disembarks Air Force Two (Kenny Holston/The New York Times via AP)

US vice president JD Vance has arrived in Rome for meetings with the Vatican’s second in command and Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni, fresh off the Italian leader’s visit to the White House a day earlier.

Ms Meloni, who has positioned herself as a bridge between the US and Europe, received praise from President Donald Trump for her crackdown on migration during a meeting at the Oval Office on Thursday.