Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Friday said she considered Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who backed Donald Trump in his victorious presidential campaign, a person with "added value" and a good interlocutor. "I consider Elon Musk an added value at this time, a person who has certainly done some extraordinary, important things, and I think that he should and can be an interlocutor," she told reporters in Budapest, on the margins of a European leader summit.