Smoked Mercosur is served at the G7 banquet | The …

From Paris

Everything is possible at this summit of the G7: that Donald Trump leaves the smile smiling and breaks nothing until the Mercosur ends as a protectorate of the West. French President Emmanuel Macron faces an indecisive and dangerous task: to deactivate Trump's devastating eccentricities and prevent the summit from pbading through the ravine. Mission impossible to the French, country whose subtlety and the capacity of reflection are not mythical. For the moment, everything seems to be going well despite the trade war between the United States and China, the differences over Iran and Syria, the tax schemes, the environment and the irremediable volatility of M North. All this has something pathetic and childish: the fate of humanity depends on the pillow, the toothbrush or Trump's hairstyle. Two words work today as an antibody against toxicity that can turn the top of the seven most industrialized countries (United States, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy and Japan) into a bad joke: informal and fire. The first: the memory is an action and France raised the G7 summit informally to avoid repeating the last two G7 meetings where US President Donald Trump played to tear everything he had found to its scope: in the Canada Summit (2008) Trump refused to sign the final document and in Italy (2007), the United States rejected the text on climate change. In 2019, there will be no final statement of the 7th as it is an "informal exchange". The second: fire is the gift that Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and Mercosur sent to French President Emmanuel Macron. With the flames devoured by the Amazon and before the already mediocre performance of the leaders of the Latin American group Macron, they seized the opportunity to badume the fire and build a consensus narrative with the protection of the environment as a candy for the public opinion. He began by saying that because of Bolsonaro and his policy in the Amazon, he would oppose the agreement between the European Union and Mercosur. This leaves in the shadows the reality of seven fragmented countries and serves in addition to masking the responsibilities of the seven powers in the dramas of today: the global inequality promoted by all , Japan and its brutal fishing of whales, Germany and Canada. its multinational Bayer, owner of the Monsanto eco-terrorist society in Italy, and its contempt for the human condition in the face of the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean, the others as promoters and suppliers of weapons whose conflicts like the Yemen are fueled, are backed by dictatorships like the Egyptian or a region like the Middle East are burst (the list is inexhaustible). Mercosur saved the G7, gave Emmanuel Macron the courage to present himself as an international figure of defense of the environment and left the Mercosur countries with Brazil at his helm, incompetent underdeveloped, who need the protection of the world to survive. They are left alone to destroy the globe. Good and responsible are in Biarritz, the Mercosur children's garden. This is driven by the evangelical populism of Bolsonaro and the bourgeois populism that controls Argentina, the two most important countries of the group.

The French president has shown himself to the circumstances. The Bolsonaro smoke offering and the lack of intelligent and sovereign Mercosur reaction allowed him to build the story with which he presented the summit. In a speech addressed to his public opinion, the head of the French state asked the citizens to "answer the call of the oceans and the burning forest". According to Macron, '' we are all concerned. France is more concerned than the others around this table because we are Amazonians "(French Guiana). The president then announced that "with regard to the Amazon" we will not launch a simple call but a mobilization of all the powers "of Biarritz, and this" in badociation with the Amazonian countries to fight the fire and invest in reforestation. "Emmanuel Macron said that, for the first time, a series of initiatives would be implemented, aimed at reducing the speed of shipping and promoting" a coalition of actions on textiles ", a sector that: It appears as the second most polluting planet. Macron said companies in the sector would commit "with dates and goals." The ecological backbone with which the summit was articulated did not however leave other problems on the outside, starting with the same G7 architecture. Macron spoke of the need to "open" the group to the other major democracies of the world (unsurprisingly, those that make up Mercosur are absent). This is the possible case of the invited countries this year: India, Chile, Australia and South Africa.

Beyond these words, the secret of the summit is not Macron, but the unacceptable American president. What Trump does or does not do conditions the entire summit. Mr. North arrived in a good mood and had lunch with Macron for two hours. The most controversial issue between the two presidents is the tax that France has decided to levy on GAFA group companies, namely Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple. These formidable tax cheats on the planet will have to go through the French treasure chest. Trump does not like the decision, he describes it as "a stupid Macron" and, before arriving in Biarritz, repeats "I do not like what France did" and threatens to 39, apply very high taxes on imports of French wine. The French charm and the unbeatable ability of Macron seem to have sensitized the crazy Washington. The French presidency mentioned a possible joint press conference with Trump. The pbadage is narrow or unstable. On this road, there is also the Iranian question and the savage offensive of the players of the trump and their Saudi allies against Tehran. Macron met with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Friday in an attempt to mediate between Tehran and Washington. Recall that as soon as Donald Trump came to power, he left the nuclear deal signed in 2015 with Iran and activated a battery of sanctions against Iran. Macron wants Trump to soften the sanctions and resume the dialogue. The environment of the French president explained that Trump "wants an agreement with Tehran, but we have to organize it and the President of the Republic is trying to create a space for negotiation".

Until now, everything sounds like an American idyll. After lunch, Trump tweeted "there are a lot of good things" and it will be "a great weekend". The theme of the summit is not ecology but equality. Despite the official rhetoric and the principles of this summit, the G7 is the greatest architect of global inequality. An Oxfam report published a few days before the summit underlines the fact that "by adopting a neoliberal regime based on deregulation and privatization and, therefore, by modeling the global economy according to this model", members G7 have to increase inequality. The Oxfam figures are overwhelming. The NGO notes that "since the 1980s, income inequalities have worsened in all G7 countries: in these countries, 20% of the poorest population receive on average 5% of total wages, while 20% The richest% receives 45%. "Another fact: 40% of the millionaires in the world reside in the G7 countries.

There are two days on low heat, the Amazon and the internal summit. How will Macron calm the anti-multilateral impulse of the first world power (America First) at the heart of a multilateral conclave? Trump is the force and Macron his opposite face, the one that wisdom considers the most powerful and invisible human force: he uses it. The G7 summit is a fight between two men and, simultaneously, bad news and good news for the sovereignty of the South: the political and moral clumsiness of Mercosur has presented it as a banquet plate that leaders will take to Dinner Tonight takes place in a lighthouse. But it would suffice to see the pantomime of these powers, the crises in which they are plunged to understand that they have never been so close to freedom.

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