Europe does not know anything anymore

The G7 meeting in Canada could very well take place. President Donald Trump will return to Washington a day earlier, and left the European leaders, Canada, Australia and Japan’s premiers in the sun, baked in armchairs, free to admire the feathers of the tribal chiefs from the reservation in which they were received.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer posed with a concerned face what seems to betray that he really did not understand what was happening, as Nicușor Dan with his hands clasped on the desk looking for the confirmation of the President of the Republic of Moldova. The Merz Chancellor met with Donald Trump and said they had another « open exchange of opinions » on Ukraine – in translation, another misunderstanding on Ukraine. The Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, gave her eyes again in her characteristic style, after a few whispers in her ear by President Emmanuel Macron.

A few days before the meeting in the Canadian reserve, Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced that he opposes the merger between Commerzbank and the Italian Bank UniCredit, even talking about hostile to the Italians. The reason was explained by the president of Commerzbank, former heads of the Bundesbank, Jens Weidman – such a fusion could be equivalent to the mutualization of debts to the EU, a step that would lead to a slightly more united Europe, something Germany does not want. Merz does not see with good eyes either the European projects with France for the development of a new European fighter plane or a new tank model, due to the fierce competition between the « national champions » in the defense industry. And this almost guarantees that there will be no « European industrial champions ». Disputes also exist between France and the United Kingdom, Paris going to the Security agreements to the fishing quotas in the sea.

Another European leader who is self -evident about the vitality of the EU project is the head of the European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde, who recently wrote an article about euros as a global currency, even while the governments of Italy and Germany are arguing because of two banks.

The United Kingdom, Germany and France have recently proposed the drastic descent of the threshold to buy oil in Russia on international markets and needed G7 acceptance. The current threshold was set in 2022, at $ 60 barrel, at a time when international quotations were about $ 100 per barrel, so that Russia was deprived of these revenues. By creating a ghost oil fleet, Russia has given the sanction. Now, when the price of oil has dropped to nearly $ 60 barrel, European allies will descend the ceiling to $ 40.

Donald Trump preferred to return to Washington, but not before declaring in front of the press that eliminating Russia from G8, in 2014, was « a big mistake. » « I do not say that Russia should be part of a G8 group now, because many have happened. But it was a mistake. Obama did not want Putin, and the leader of your country, the great leader of your country, not wishing Putin, » Trump told the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carry, sending an arrow to the former Liberal Prime Minister Trudeau. « Putin was not enemy then. If I had been president, this war would not have happened. If I had been a member of G8 then it would not have been war. » Later Trump, Trump, seemed open to the idea that China became part of the group of the most developed economies in the world, along with Russia.

The accredited press at the meeting has endeavored to show that President Trump left the G7 meeting due to urgent decisions about the war between Israel and Iran. This was also the President Macron. Trump cut her briefly: « Wrong! Haboo has no reason to return to Washington, it has no connection with fire. It is something much more important. Whether it does it intentionally or not, Emmanuel never understands. » Leaving Washington earlier, Trump did not have the scheduled meeting with Volodimir Zelenski, expected at the G7 sum on June 17.

The world becomes multipolar. Donald Trump is right that, without Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, there can be very important meetings in the geopolitical environment of the 21st century. « What if a G7 meeting were announced and no one would have? Or if the person that matters the most would leave? What was still behind the G7 summit in Canada. There are most of them in this format, they also come with the president of Ursula von der Leyen and the president of the European Council, Antonio Costa.