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French President

Emmanuel Macron

and European Commission President

Ursula von der Leyen

arrived on the stormy shores of Cornwall ready to remind "Premier"

Boris Johnson

that his relaunch as a global leader necessarily requires complying with international treaties.


One day after his first and fruitful meeting with US President

Joe Biden

- "our relationship is indestructible" - the "premier" had no choice but to turn to starboard and dispatch with his former partners from the European Union, who arrived at the G7 summit ready to make you land.


"The Irish Protocol is the only solution and must be fully implemented," warned Ursula von der Leyen, before her personal meeting with Boris Johnson in Carbis Bay.

As a background, the "sausage war", the latest episode of tensions that do not cease after Brexit (caused this time by the end of the "grace period" on June 30 for the free movement of frozen meat products between Gran Britain and Northern Ireland).


"We cannot review in June what we already finished in December after years of negotiation," warned Emmanuel Macron.

"This is not serious".

"If after six months you cannot respect what you have negotiated, that means that you will

not respect anyone

," added the French president.

"I believe in the weight of the treaties."


Boris Johnson has tried to tiptoe over the Ulster issue, which has slipped against his will into his internationalist agenda for the summit, marked by

pandemic recovery

, vaccine diplomacy and climate change.


The "premier" took advantage of his first meeting with Joe Biden (whom he defined as "a breath of fresh air") to leave behind his "special relationship" with

Donald Trump

and seek what he himself defined on the BBC as "one more relationship meaningful and profound "with the new tenant of the White House.


However, most analysts criticized the signing of the so-called "new Atlantic Charter" (in homage to which Churchill and Roosevelt sealed in 1941) as a mere Johnson-style coup, as did his proposal. of a "Marshall plan" on climate change, which the "premier" intends to promote as a preamble to Cop26 in Glasgow.


Johnson confirmed the G7's commitment to donate 1 billion Covid vaccines, including 100 million from the UK (one-fifth of the doses purchased). The "premier" defended himself against the criticism received for not setting the bar higher (Joe Biden announced the donation of 500 million by the US) and claimed that his country is already one of the largest contributors to Covax, the global initiative of access to vaccines, with the equivalent of 630 million euros.


The G7 summit at the Carbis Bay "fort", guarded by more than

5,000 police officers,

has been designed to avoid disruption at all costs by demonstrations by environmental groups, practically confined to distant Falmouth, some 50 kilometers away, where the headquarters of the press has been set up.

It is estimated that the security device to shield the leaders of the seven richest countries on the planet - amplified by the Covid restrictions - has cost about 80 million euros.

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