The summit of seven economies of countries richest in the world (as they used to say once upon a time) which opens today in Borgo Egnazia in Puglia it is the seventh presided over by our country. The first two were held on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, in Venice, first in 80 with a president Francis Cossiga and then, in '87, with Amintore Fanfani. The two G94s and one G2001 staged by Silvio Berlusconi in Naples, Genoa and L'Aquila, immediately after the earthquake. Then, the sixth in Taormina by the prime minister Paolo Gentiloni. But this summit chaired by Meloni has a peculiarity: it is the first that coincides with an undisputed electoral success of the Italian prime minister.
Will the G7 be able to address current problems, from wars to climate and development?
However, thinking that this is enough, in itself, to restore luster to a format in decline and resolve problems linked to two war (Ukraine and Gaza) or address global issues such as climate e development it runs. In Puglia the first to land (except for moving aboard a US aircraft carrier) was the American president Joe Biden who will have the first bilateral with the Meloni. French President Emmanuel Macron and the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz they are reaching Puglia trying to hide as much as possible all the wounds that the last European vote inflicted on them. If we then add that the English Prime Minister Altar is approaching a "death foretold" in the next elections and the heads of government of Japan and Canada are increasingly lower in the polls of their countries, we have a rather discouraging picture of the true leadership that the heads of state and government of the G7 they should exercise.
