G7 2021 in Cornwall, bilateral Draghi-Biden

The second day of the G7 work has begun in Carbis Bay, Cornwall. On a sunny day, after yesterday’s clouds, three working sessions will be held: the first on economic resilience and the G7 partnership with developing countries, the second on foreign and security policy -focus on Russia and Afghanistan- finally, the third on health issues, with a view to strengthening global health systems. And the ‘Carbis Bay Declaration’ that the G7 leaders are preparing to adopt goes precisely in this direction, so that the “global devastation” triggered by the Covid pandemic will never repeat itself in the future. For the discussion on health, the G7 leaders will be joined today by the leaders of South Korea, South Africa, Australia and India, and the United Nations Secretary General. The day will conclude with a dinner among the leaders on the beach of Carbis Bay, a barbecue signed by chef Simon Stallard of the Hidden Hut in Portscatho. On the Italian front, there is great expectation for the bilateral between Mario Draghi and Joe Biden, set for 18.35 local time.Challenge China, here is a global infrastructure planIt is called ‘Build back better world’, rebuilding a better world, the plan for the global infrastructure that Joe Biden and the leaders of the G7 launch from the Cornish summit for “a strategic competition with China and to commit to concrete actions to meet the enormous need for infrastructure in low and middle income countries”. This is what we read in a statement released today by the White House delegation at the G7 summit. In explaining the initiative, a White House source recalled how “the United States and many of our allies and friends around the world have long been skeptical of China’s Belt and Road Initiative”. “We have seen – he continued – the Chinese government show a lack of transparency, low environmental standards and labor laws and an approach that has left many countries in worse conditions”. “But until now we have not offered a positive alternative that reflects our values, our standards and our way of doing business”, explained the White House official, presenting “the ambitious, global infrastructure initiative with our partners. which will not only be an alternative to the Belt and Road Initiative but which will beat it because it will offer a higher quality choice “. A choice, he concluded, which confirms the “confidence we have in our development model that reflects our common values.” Jogging and swimming for Johnson before the summit A bit of jogging and a swim in the icy waters of the Atlantic, in Cornwall . Boris Johnson in a ‘sporty version’ before taking part in the second day of the G7, which sees him as the host at ‘Carbis Bay’. This morning, portrayed by photographers, the British prime minister first allowed himself a cool-down jog, then plunged into the water for a short swim. also referred to as the ‘sausage war’, they raid the G7 in Cornwall. The host Boris Johnson will talk about it in his meetings with the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyden, the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, the French President Emmanuel Macron and the German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the sidelines of the summit. Following this, in their multilateral meeting, G7 leaders will discuss a plan to prevent new pandemics within the first 100 days, then meet in the evening for a beach barbecue, and watch a Cornish seafaring show. could be ruined by the outcome of the talks on the full implementation of the Northern Ireland Protocol scheduled for late June but which London is ready, according to Downing Street, to unilaterally postpone the passage of frozen meat across the Sea to avoid the ban. Ireland, effectively a border between the United Kingdom and the European Union. The European Union, in turn, has anticipated its intention to respond to possible violations of the agreement signed by Johnson himself. The British Prime Minister denounces that the EU adopts an “excessively burdensome” approach to post-Brexit trade agreements for Northern Ireland. The agreement, the protocol, effectively keeps Northern Ireland in the single European market to avoid a land border between Ireland and Ireland, effectively moving the border to the Irish Sea. Johnson, as a spokesman anticipates, will underline the problems that the protocol creates in Northern Ireland and “the risks it poses to the agreement in its current form, hence the need to find urgent solutions”. Macron already said yesterday that “nothing is negotiable in the agreement that must be fully implemented”. For London, the priority remains to identify “urgent and radical solutions within the framework of the protocol”, as explained a spokesman. But, he added, “we keep all options on the table”, including that of the unilateral extension of the semester of grace before its full implementation. The Carbis Bay G7 “is not the forum in which it necessarily seeks to define an immediate solution” to the issue.