G20, Biden: "Proud of the agreement on Minimum Tax. Thanks Italy, great job"

• G20 Rome, there is the US-EU agreement: the duties on aluminum and steel are off immediately

• Biden to Draghi: "Extraordinary work".

  Long conversation with Pope Francis

• G20.

  US advances: more balance in the energy market, minimum tax approval

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October 31, 2021 "I want to thank the Italians for the G20, for their hospitality, to congratulate Prime Minister Draghi, he did a great job in presiding over the G20 in a difficult year marked by great global challenges". "I believe he has achieved tangible results on these issues, in part thanks to the commitment the United States has brought to the table."

The American president, Joe Biden, said this in the final press conference of the summit, underlining how the summit focused on the problems of global recovery as well as those of the climate crisis. A conference during which Biden touched on all the topics that have seen the US as protagonists, starting with the Minimum Tax.

US President Joe Biden said he was "proud" of the

agreement

reached at the G20 summit in Rome. "It's a great achievement," he said during the press conference at the end of the summit.

"We will not switch to renewable energy overnight, in the meantime we will stop financing coal". "It is unrealistic to stop using petrol and gas all of a sudden, but we will reach zero emissions by 2050," the president said.

"Everyone - said Biden - knows that the idea of ​​moving with renewable energies is suddenly not possible, it is not rational. We cannot move immediately" but "we will make significant changes". "We will have to move faster for renewables" but "it will take time", he concluded.

"No punitive actions are needed to get people to make the ecological transition. Everyone knows where we are going and there must be no particular punishment for people."

"Everyone listened to me, everyone wanted to know how I felt, we had great support." "The agreements showed the power of America when it commits ", Biden emphasized.

"Relations with our EU friends have been further strengthened. Time to get to work. America is ready for new solutions." "We have all the foundations and tools to advance."

"Regarding the disappointment linked to the absence of Russia and China and their commitments, I can say that I am also disappointed. But we have approved a number of things, all nations have committed themselves to the reduction of coal and on what we will bring to COP26. Commitments that I believe will be carried out, significant progress even if much still needs to be done. Let's not focus on what Russia and China are not doing ".

Joe Biden said he was convinced that his big plans for infrastructure, welfare and climate will go to Congress. He said he hoped his maneuver would be approved by the end of next week. Dem leaders are thinking of a vote in the House already for Tuesday.

Paying more for oil to consume less? It's not possible because people have to go to work and take the kids to school and school buses have to go too. The idea that there is an alternative is not realistic, it will not happen quickly. When the cost of oil rises, it has an impact on working families, it would not be consistent. "

As for Iran's possible actions "against the United States, we will respond and continue to respond", but "it depends on them," US President Joe Biden said at the end of the G20 in Rome in a press conference. "I think Trump's decision to exit the nuclear deal was wrong. Now everything will depend on Iran's willingness to abide by the deal."

"All this is very personal. Pope Francis has become a person who gave great comfort to my family when my son died" - said American President Joe Biden, very moved, at the closing press conference of the G20. "He is a very empathic person, it was really a great relief to us when I lost a part of my soul, my son Beau," said the president with a broken voice, recalling when the pope prayed in Philadelphia with his family before restart. "He talked for 15 minutes and not in a generic way, he knew what a man my son was," she said.

"When I won the elections, the Pope called me to tell me how much he appreciated my work for the most fragile people". " He is a man who fights for peace not only in the Catholic Church but in the world ".