G7 Summit: Inequality as a leitmotif | Macr …

From Paris

The summit of the group of 7 most industrialized countries on the planet that begins this Friday in the French city of Biarritz is an abyss without parachutes and a contest of rudeness, teasing, narcissism and provocations.

The French head of state, Emmanuel Macron, will have to rally hard to make the summit of the G7 the spirit with which the former French president Valery Giscard of Estaing had it. Created in 1975. At that time, Giscard wanted to build a space concertation Compared to rumors that bother many of his guests, Macron looks like a wise man trying to limit the vertiginous speed of ridicule. Opportunities are no longer lacking. The G7 2019 is a cacophonic concert between opereta and guignol (puppet play).

It is not necessary to be very imaginative to listen to the comic melody: Italy arrives without government (Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, resigned) and stained with inhumanity for his handling of the migratory crisis in the Mediterranean (especially with the Open Arms lifeboat), US President Donald Trump comes with his idea of ​​buying Greenland under his arm, a near war with Iran in the Persian Gulf and another trade war with China, its great British ally, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, comes with the firm intention to blackmail its European partners: either they accept a renegotiation of Britain's exit from the 39 European Union, or there will be a hard Brexit. In turn, German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives in Biarritz in the midst of a political crisis and Canadian leader Justin Trudeau arrives in Europe, weakened by a corruption scandal. With these peppers, plus the ecological twilight of the planet as a dominant aroma, the theme of the summit chosen by Paris has also remained: "the fight against inequalities".

In fact, we have perhaps never seen anything so unequal and so funny in the higher spheres of world power. Some leaders have kept the inspiration for the dialogue and the elegant postures, others are addicted to doors and slamming quirks. The West has always considered countries of the South with paternalism. Maybe now condescension is changing region. Just think that those who want to buy Greenland and thus trigger a diplomatic crisis with Denmark, another who leaves a ship at sea with dying people and others with a few destructive initiatives and with their diminished legitimacy, l 39; West does not play its more coherent role For reference, the last G7 summit held in Canada (Quebec). Donald Trump withdrew the US signature from the final declaration, threw a candy on the face of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and then accused Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, of being "dishonest".

Emmanuel Macron explained that during this G7 summit to be held from August 24 to 26 (United States, France, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Canada and Japan), it will be "to recover the sap G7, that of exchanges and dialogue. "With the first world power embelesada with a locomotive that attacks everything, the sap of the dialogue has a taste of bitter coffee.The repairers of the world have lost their tools and even their power. The seven countries of the group have lost their influence, together they represent 40% of world GDP and barely 12% of the world's population, and the G7 has refused to evolve and open up the game to other emerging powers to become a portrait of impotence and the comedy of international relations.It is precisely what Emmanuel Macron explained a few days ago. State said that before, the international order rested on the heg Western emotion since the eighteenth century: in this case, France, then in the nineteenth century, Britain and the United States of America. But this hegemony is in question today. "

At the end of the G7 summit in Quebec, Macron described it as a "theater of shadows and divisions". In 2019, it will be his turn to direct an even darker and fractured theater. Macron admitted that he did not share with Donald Trump his ideas about "the world order or its goals". However, the game play of permanent confrontation will not work. The questions are not lacking: Iran and the tax imposed by France to the giants of the Internet, the GAFA (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon) are already two issues of rupture. On the GAFA tax, Trump spoke in a tweet about "Macron's stupidity". However, the French president has not given up denouncing a "crazy system" in which these companies escape all taxes. As for Iran, Macron will meet with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Friday in anticipation of a rapprochement with Washington, an idea that the Minister of the North strongly denies. All diplomatic tasks are described with a very confusing line and objectives in the dark. It will be difficult to get something. Perhaps in this upset modernity, the greatest success is to avoid ridicule.

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