Duties and fires in the Amazon, but also Brexit, are the hot topics of the G7 meeting underway in Biarritz, in the French Basque country. The outgoing Italian prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, is also taking part in the summit, who on Saturday already met individually with both the landlord Emmanuel Macron and the president of the United States Donald Trump. There was a brief conversation with Trump, aimed at reaffirming mutual esteem and the importance of continuing bilateral relations. In fact, the tycoon does not digest these global summits, moreover often inconclusive as it could be this time too.
The big names on the planet, Macron and Merkel in the lead, have launched an appeal against the fires in the Amazon, on which, however, President Bolsonaro from Brazil returned the accusations to the sender, putting his hands forward: the fires do not justify "the imposition of international sanctions". And he sends the army. Meanwhile, Trump offers US help to Brazil to deal with the lines, while on the tariff front he attacks Macron, threatening to tax French wines. For his part, the EU "will respond to any duties imposed by the USA on French wines", warns the president of the European Council Tusk.
Syria, North Korea, Ukraine, Libya and Iran are also discussed at the summit. In this regard, the French president urged "to work very hard" in the belief that "we share the same goals". “We will achieve a lot this weekend”: this is the hope expressed by the American president, Donald Trump, during the working lunch with Emmanuel Macron, even if so far we have seen little. Eyes also on the Brexit front: "To avoid a no deal on Brexit, the European Union will have to "get rid" of the backstop on Ireland contained in the current agreement for the British exit from the union", he said British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
