The scenario of the G7 meeting held in Canada could not be much more majestic than Kananiskisan enclave in the rocky with impressive peaks and crystalline and icy turquoise lakes. That nature that removes breathing can also be Brutal and wildand it is the perfect metaphor of this summit, where despite the apparent strength of the diplomacy hay earthquakesand as happened in another in Canada seven years ago, the President of the United States, Donald Trumpit’s a Disruption element.
The Commercial War which has launched the Republican has gained a central place in this conclave. And a mission shared by Alemania, France and Italy, The three European nations represented in the G-7, as well as by the United Kingdom, Japan and Canada, is to try to keep Trump’s tariff fury, that he has returned to the group for the first time in his second term, and seek advances in the negotiation he has imposed against the clock in the negotiation of many his tariffs, which erroneously calls “reciprocal”, which except agreement will begin to apply the July 9.
Friedrich Merz, Emmanuel Macron y Giorgia Meloni They are doing a common front. They held a meeting on Sunday, before Monday the German Foreign Minister held a bilateral meeting with the American shortly before the official start of the summit. And in a statement they were “determined to speak” with the US government “to see if we can find a solution.” “There will be no solution at this summit“They acknowledged,” but perhaps we can approach a solution with small steps”.
Tariffs and defense
On the agenda when writing these lines He had not planned Trump’s meeting with the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the president of the European Council, António Costaand according to sources from the ‘Bloomberg’ agency, the only sure thing is a meeting between the European Secretary of Commerce, Maros Sefcovic, and the US trade representative, Jamieson Greer.
Von der Leyen and Costa, however, have already publicly sent their messages to Trump and on Sunday at a press conference they warned him that his protectionist policies endanger The European capacity to raise, as the American claims, their defense expensethat the Republican He wants me to reach 5%.
“Let’s keep trade between all fair, predictable and open, We must all avoid protectionist measures. It is an important message that the G7 can send to the markets and the world, ”said Von der Leyen.
Avoid schism
The last time Trump was in a G7 Summit in Canada was in 2018, then in Quebec. That appointment in his first term, also marked by his commercial war, left the Historical photo of the leaders surrounding him and he with crossed arms and impassive gesture and ended like the Rosary of the Aurora, No statement and with Trump insulting the host, Then Justin Trudeau.
Now they have changed not only him politically, but the form of the other leaders to try to address him. And this Monday Mark Carney, Fourth Prime Minister of Canada, whose electoral victory would not be understood without Trump’s speech calling the annexation of Canada, opened the summit pointing to Trump as a transforming leader who has “anticipated the enormous changes” that the world lives and takes “daring steps to deal with them.” Between compliments, in any case, critical messages of Carney could also be read, which must also negotiate the Free Trade Agreement between the two countries and Mexico that Trump has broken unilaterally. “Nostalgia is not a strategy”, He said.
To try to avoid a schism like 2018 at this 50 g17 meeting there was already DThat is the end of a joint statement And he had chosen to leave alone segmented statements, But even in many of them Trump makes the long -awaited unity difficult or impossible. It was ruled out that he supported an urging Israel and will go to the de -escalated. And in the goal of achieving a consensual position on the war in Ukraine, the Republican again demonstrated his close to the Russian leader, Vladimir Putin.
Hours before the meeting scheduled on Tuesday in Kananaskis with the Ukrainian President, Volodímir Zelenski, Trump I criticized again publicly that Russia from G-8 will be expelled After the invasion of Crimea. “It was a big mistake,” he said. “Putin speaks to me, he does not speak to anyone else, and he is not happy with that. Basically he doesn’t talk to the people who threw him, and I agree with it. ”
To questions from a journalist, Trump has even gone beyond and has also favorable to include Beijing in the group. “It’s not a bad idea. I don’t care if someone wants China “he has declared.
