Politics with tweets is a specialty of President Donald Trump, but this time it could cost a real diplomatic incident: during the night Trump, who in the meantime had already left the assembly to go to Singapore with Kim, blows up the agreement reached from the other big al G7 meeting in Charlevoix, Canada. The European countries, with Macron and Merkel in the front row in the role of mediators with the White House, had reached an agreement to limit tariffs and protectionist policies, including through the revision of the agreements governing the WTO. Trump initially seemed to have given the ok, but then on Twitter he opted for a head-on collision, blowing everything up and calling the landlord, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a "weak and dishonest". With a poisonous note: "Now we are evaluating duties on cars that invade the American market".
"We cannot accept that the United States is used as a piggy bank from which everyone steals", Trump had already said, leaving Canada, however at the same time opening up to "trade free from tariffs, barriers and subsidies ”. The reactions of the other G7 members were not long in coming: “We are sticking to the release, as approved by all participants”This is Brussels' reaction to Trump's tweet. The Canadian government is also dampening the controversy: "We are focusing on everything we did here at the G7 summit," Justin Trudeau's office said in a statement. "The prime minister hasn't said anything that he hasn't said before, either publicly or privately with President Trump."
Meanwhile the G7, always in contrast with the line of the USA and, in this case, also of Italy which hoped for a softer position, has also resolved the continuation of sanctions on Russia because it has not demonstrated that it applies the Minsk agreements. "Should its actions require it, we are ready to adopt further restrictive measures to increase costs for Russia", the member countries relaunched in the final communiqué. “We urge Russia to cease its destabilizing behavior, to cease undermining democratic systems and its support for the Syrian regime. We condemn the nerve gas attack in Salisbury."
