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Nicolas Baverez: "The G7 at the bedside of the West"

2021-06-15T16:07:34.335Z


CHRONICLE - The return of the United States to predictable diplomacy and readable strategy, after the killing game of the Trump years, is salutary.


Since its birth in the 1970s, the weight of the G7 in the world economy has fallen from 80% to 40% as a result of globalization and its inability to take stock of the major transformations of the 21st century.

For democracy as for the West, the 2020s will be decisive.

Either they begin their rebirth with the exit from bubble capitalism, the evolution towards an inclusive society, the overhaul of the citizens' pact and of a new alliance to defend political freedom.

Either economic stagnation, rising inequalities and the paralysis of institutions set in, leaving the field open to democratures, fanatics and demagogues.

After four chaotic years where Donald Trump was the autocrats' traveling companion, Joe Biden's European tour, punctuated by the G7 meeting in Cornwall, the NATO summit in Brussels, then the meeting with Vladimir Poutin, is of importance. capital city.

The stake is not to regulate the immensity

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Source: lefigaro

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