For Chancellor Angela Merkel, the G7 summit in Cornwall is the last appearance of the heads of state and government of the 7 most developed industrialized countries.
For the first time Joseph Biden will take part as US President. « We can do it. ‘We can do it! », I think that is the motto. Sure! « , Said Boris Johnson in 2019, alluding to the Chancellor’s 2015 saying Minister as a guest of the government in Berlin, where he was welcomed by Angela Merkel. Today the situation is reversed. Angela Merkel is taking part in the meeting for the last time among her colleagues from the G7. And he, the Briton, is now hosting the G7 summit in Cornwall, which the « long-term » German Chancellor is also attending. « I am one of those who can express what they want very clearly, » said Merkel at one of the numerous G7 summits. Everyone has understood that by now or just had to accept it with difficulty. This is your 15th G7 summit. The German Chancellor saw a lot and survived politically: Berlusconi, Sarkozy and Trump. Everyone comes and goes. She was the only one left.
The chairman of the Munich Security Conference, Wolfgang Ischinger, once said: « The Chancellor is a benchmark for building trust and gives the Chancellor her sincere compliment. » Predictable. Reliable! ”And that does not apply to every participant in important conferences. « I’ve never seen a head of government who constantly questions the decisions of his predecessor, » said Chancellor Merkel at the G8 summit in Japan in 2008.
But everything has changed since Trump. Ischinger calls it a turning point in German-American relations, because until Trump’s arrival Germany did not care whether there was a Democrat or a Republican in the White House. « They were all our friends. But that is no longer the case, » said Ischinger at the time. Europe and Germany must help Biden now so that America can help the world again. Ischinger expresses this more dramatically and says that Biden will lose in the next elections if he cannot explain to the Americans why his cooperation-based policy is good for them.
Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas points out that with Biden the Renewal begins of something that was once taken for granted in international relations. « To be honest, we have waited a long time for this. In recent years there have been incidents under the previous US administration that raised fears that the international order would be permanently damaged. » Incidentally, Ischinger has the answer from the USA, Japan, Canada, Italy, Great Britain and France, who may be wondering what the fate of the G7 will be without Angela Merkel – also with a view to the upcoming elections in Germany. The answer is: « Don’t be afraid of Germany. We will stay in continuity. What is written in small letters can change, but what is written in capital letters stays. And that is good news. »
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