A summit’s obituary. At least with dinner as in use in the funeral of New Orleans. What G7 will come? Always assuming that one will come again. What we have under the eyes is now clinically dead: he still breathes, among official shots, embalmed press releases and catwalks overlooking, but the heart of the political function has stopped beating for some time. The G7 no longer represents the economy of the world (less than 30% of the global GDP), it does not regulate conflicts, not called the global agenda. In the meantime, the Brics+ exceed 38% of the GDP and continue to add places to the table.
Unfortunately it has become a self -referential device that runs empty. More than a G7, it looks like a GX: x as unknown, crazy variable. Because unknown is the actual number of the participants (6, then 7, 8 with Russia, again 7, except to have one that reaches 20), but above all the purposes are unknown, evanescent the methods, null the results. So what geometry are we going? A G4, with the United States, China, India and – if he ever becomes an adult – a European Union Able to overcome the role of multilateral bank with a blue flag? A USA-Vatican G2with Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff of history, to act as a moral bank to the West Empire?
Or a G1, with the Vatican only To evoke still principles and values in a world that has lost both? Or, more simply, A G0: the dissolution. No architecture. No synthesis. No cohesion. Only the law of the strongest, with jacket, tie, hackers and drones.
In the meantime, while the real world advances between declared and non -declared wars, The G7 lives disconnected, out of syncure, out of time. The 2025 summit in Kananaskis, among the Canadian lakes, touched the bottom of the insignificance. The final press release? A list of words-spugn: “concern”, “unit”, “dialogue”, “support”. Thinking from hundreds of diplomats to work unnecessarily for months, so as not to disconnect anyone. And not to commit anyone. A neolingual that only serves to cover the void. Like a frog inflated by itself, the G7 has gone from global centrality to self -referential provincialism. Each minister demands his thematic “mini g7”on dossier that move nothing. It has become a formal container, a liturgy that is repeated only to demonstrate that it still exists. But it no longer exists. Like the UN Security Council, the WTO, the relics of Bretton Woods: institutional ruins of the post-1945 world, now overcome by reality.
But who has unmasked all this? Donald Trump. Rough and brutal, but also ruthlessly lucid. In 2018 he left the Canadian G7 to go to Singapore by Kim Jong-un. He raised the press release in flight, humiliating Justin Trudeau with a night tweet. Since then, the G7 has never recovered. Although everyone continues to smile and sign, as if those signatures still had a weight. And now, seven years later, Canada returns the landlord. Guests change, but the feeling remains: a club that no longer commands anything. There is talk of Kiev, Gaza, Ai and quantum technologies. But The protagonists of true power are missing who moved elsewhere: Beijing, Delhi, Pretoria. Global decisions no longer pass from Taormina or Kananaskis. No more Apulian scenography are needed, Chinese servers are enough.
NATO? Arranged. The next vertex at the Hague risks repeating the same scheme: large smiles, small results. The United States oscillates between isolationism and utilitarian interventionism, ready to slip into conflicts – such as that between Israel and Iran – only if there is an immediate dividend. Multilateralism exists only in press releases. Europe? Lost. Weakened macron. Merz IlPhone. Meloni still dazzled by the Italian G7 of 2024, when the surprise arrival of Pope Francis in Borgo Egnazia created a jolt. The only happy, the Melpignano family, landlady, who saw Borgo Egnazia fly higher than Starlink.
Yet, already in the eighties, someone had understood. Giulio Andreotti described the G7 as “a press conference with eight heads with a single notebook: that of Washington”. But it was Francesco Cossiga To try to break the script: at the 1980 G7 in Venice proposed a real opening to the third world, to the OPEC, to the non -aligned countries. They gave him the madman. With hindsight, he was a visionary. Now that “out” world has grown. The Brics+ widen, Africa gets up, India aims at leadership. And we, gathered between former Capiclasse around an empty table, believe that it is still a look between Berlin, Paris and Washington to change the world.
While the others write the future between algorithms and generative, we cling to increasingly obsolete and anachronistic mechanisms. And even the Vatican, in this desert of vision and leadership, ends up seeming more authoritative. Leo XIV – conservative pontiff, globalameric – embodies a form of soft power Unpublished: no armies, but words that weigh. And in the void of frightened and lost democracies, there are those who start wondering if the Pontiff is not the only true leader of the West. If nothing else, he is the only one to really believe in something. And then he is right Gianni Castellaneta – Formidable ambassador to Tehran and Washington – When, with Morettian irony, he wonders: “Better to be there or not to be there?”. Trump, in his own way, has already replied: better to leave, making himself known. “Continue your dinner too,” he seemed to say. “I go to deal with Iran.”
A gesture that destroyed the choreography of the G7nailing others to their irrelevance. The ways were certainly not aristocrats, but on the merits – it is up to admit – he was fully right. And Giorgia Meloni, after seducing the international stage, what should he do? Maybe take care of a little more than Italy. Where, for example, the leaders of fundamental public investee such such as SACE, SIMEST, INVITALIA and many others are still missing. Less flights and more Piazza Colonna because, in addition to the seagulls, from Chigi’s windows you can see too many crows flutter especially around the electoral law.
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