It risks being a G7 without Angela Merkel: the German chancellor is the first among the leaders of the Great Seven to decline (for now) Donald Trump's invitation to participate in person at the June summit in the United States, which holds its presidency on duty. A summit that the American president in recent days had sponsored as "the greatest example of the reopening" of America suggesting that it was held between the White House and Camp David, presidential residence in nearby Maryland, with the physical participation of leaders and non in videoconferencing, a solution hitherto globally adopted for summits and summits at the time of the coronavirus and which at first had also been designed for the G7 in the year of the pandemic.
The meeting, before the Covid-19 storm, was originally scheduled between 10 and 12 June and the tycoon wanted to host it at the Trump National Doral in Miami, Florida: the venue was later moved following the controversy. "To date, considering the overall situation of the pandemic, Angela Merkel cannot grant her personal participation for a trip to Washington," said the spokesman for Chancellor Steffen Seibert at Politico. From London, instead, the yes of Boris Johnson arrived: the same British Prime Minister announced it in a phone call to Trump, an interview in which there was also talk of the post-Brexit US-GB trade agreement. French President Emmanuel Macron and European Council President Charles Michel will be present "if conditions permit."
