Divided G7 starts tough summit with trade tensions high on agenda
On climate and biodiversity, Marcon urged the summit to answer the emergency calls of the ocean and the forests burning in Amazon while regretting the division between Europe and the US.
The trans-Atlantic rift cuts even deeper days ahead of the summit as Trump offered to buy Denmark's Greenland and, when rejected, called the Danish prime minister's statement "nasty" and cancelled, via a tweet, his planned visit to the European country.
On the eve of the summit he reiterated criticism of a French proposal to levy a tax aimed at big US technology companies and threatened again to retaliate by taxing French wine. Last month, he blasted Macron's "foolishness" in a tweet.
EU will respond in kind if Trump slaps tariffs on French wine, warned Donald Tusk, president of the European Council, in his pre-summit briefing earlier this morning.
"If Trump uses tariffs for political reasons, it could be dangerous for the whole world, including the EU," he added. "Trade wars among G7 members will lead to eroding the already weakened trust among us."
"It is increasingly difficult, for all of us, to find common language and the world needs more of our cooperation, not less," he said, adding "this may be the last moment to restore our political community."
