G7 ‘Nearly Ceased to Exist’, Held Its ‘Most Ill-fated Summit’
SputnikNews.com
29.05.2017
Commenting on the results of the G7 Summit in the Sicilian city of Taormina, Italy, and the remarks of Chancellor Merkel that Europe “must now take its fate into its own hands”, German political analyst Alexander Rahr suggested that it is a chance for the Europeans to stop hiding behind the US and start working on their own policies.
Addressing a crowd at an election rally in Munich, Merkel said that in the last few days, she had “experienced” that Germany and other European countries no longer can “completely rely on others.”
“We Europeans truly have to take our fate into our own hands,” she stressed, adding that Germany and other European countries would do their best to stay on good terms with the US and the post-Brexit UK. “We have to fight for our own destiny.”
Merkel’s comments follow the two-day G7 Summit in the Sicilian city of Taormina and Donald Trump’s bid for more time to decide if the US would continue backing the 2015 Paris climate accords.
US media has recently reported that the president had allegedly informed his confidants that the United States will withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change.
Russia’s online newspaper Vzglyad sat down with German political analyst Alexander Rahr, director of the German-Russian Forum, well known for his insights into relations between Russia and the West, to talk on these issues.
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