G-7 summit in France a test of unity among world leaders

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Efforts to salvage consensus among the G-7 rich democracies frayed Saturday in the face of US President Donald Trump's unpredictable America-first approach even before the official start of the summit in southern France.

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Efforts to salvage consensus among the G-7 rich democracies frayed Saturday in the face of US President Donald Trump’s unpredictable America-first approach even before the official start of the summit in southern France.

Even as Tusk, who presides over the council of leaders of the 28-member European Union, said the last thing the bloc wanted was a trade dispute with the United States and called for “an end to trade wars,” he promised to retaliate against US products if Trump carries through on a threat to impose tariffs on French wine.

Macron threatened to block an EU trade deal with several South American states, including Brazil. Ireland joined in the threat. German Chancellor Angela Merkel disagreed, with her office saying Saturday that blocking the Mercosur deal won’t reduce the destruction of rainforest in Brazil, although she backed Macron’s proposal to discuss the fires at the summit.

Given lowered expectations the most important summit outcome would be “to do no harm,” said Holger Schmieding, chief economist at Berenberg Bank in London. “Have a discussion without a bust-up, no repeat of Charlevoix, please.”

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