G7 leaders will try to agree on Sunday, August 25, emergency measures against forest fires in the Amazon but also, what looks more difficult, on a recovery of the global economy depressed by the commercial war between Washington and Beijing.
The day began with a much awaited image of the first meeting between Donald Trump and Boris Johnson since he took the reins of the UK in the midst of the Brexit crisis.
While Boris Johnson regretted on Saturday the "considerable barriers" that hinder British exports to the United States, calling on Donald Trump to lift them, the US president said Sunday morning that the United Kingdom can conclude "a very big deal commercial "with the United States once the Brexit achieved, while stating that Boris Johnson was the man of the situation to bring his country out of the European Union.
For his part, the new British Prime Minister said that trade negotiations with the United States would be difficult, but that there were huge opportunities for British companies in the US market.
No decision taken on a return to G8 format
Donald Trump also answered a question about the possible presence of Russia in the G7 organized in 2020 by the United States. The US president said the issue was the subject of a "heated discussion" among G7 leaders on Saturday night but he did not know if the country would finally be reinstated in the G7 in 2020.
After this breakfast, Donald Trump and Boris Johnson will join Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel, Shinzo Abe, Giuseppe Conte and Justin Trudeau to discuss global security and the state of the economy. In recent weeks, worrying signs have emerged in Germany, China and the United States, raising fears of a marked weakening of growth globally.
Europeans and Japanese blame some of the blame for the trade war between Washington and Beijing, who still outbid Friday by announcing new customs taxes.
With AFP and Reuters