One Belt, One Road, and Seven (Not So) Giants…

... needed especially in the Southern and Eastern parts of the continent. Yet the G7 has been more about gossip on Mr Trump’s private life than political solutions. The world economy has shifted East and its most important body has doubtless become the G20. Interestingly, Western media have dedicated little attention to the OBOR Forum (whose initiatives can bring real change to billions of people) and by contrast focussed extensively on Mr Trump’s wife or handshakes at the NATO and G7 Summits. Sicily, where the G7 was held, has a youth unemployment rate close to 50%, and a persistent record of organised criminal activity. Europe needs and deserves better; Mr Macron, if he is really committed to change the EU’s course (and win ...