The meeting of the Group of Seven (G7) to be held in Italy from 13 to 15 May can hardly be called a demonstration of the West’s power. The summit will be an event for the weakest politicians, the European version of Politico reported.
Politico estimates that the summit participants will include “six lame ducks and (Italian Prime Minister) Giorgia Meloni.” Most G7 leaders are now facing a host of domestic political challenges and crises, including amid the recent European Parliament elections, and are “desperately clinging to power.”
“With the exception of Meloni, all the leaders at the G7 summit are pretty weak,” former U.S. permanent representative to NATO Ivo Daalder told the publication.
According to the expert, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will not win the next election, and the same fate may await US President Joe Biden. Daalder also labelled German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron as weak and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as “the walking dead.” Finally, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida also has “serious problems at home.”
The only member of the G7 meeting in a strong position was Italy’s head of government, Giorgia Meloni, Politico pointed out. Against the background of the high results that her party “Brothers of Italy” showed in the recent elections to the European Parliament, she has the opportunity to play a decisive role in the formation of policy in Brussels, summarised in the publication.
Recall, earlier, the former adviser to the Minister of Defence in the administration of former US President Donald Trump, retired Colonel Douglas McGregor said that over the past twenty years, an aggressive foreign policy has harmed the United States itself.