It was not without pain, due to the differences on protectionism between Donald Trump’s US administration and the other governments, that the G7 countries (France, Germany, Italy, the UK, Canada, Japan and the USA) reached agreement, at the G7 summit in Taormina, Italy, on Friday 26 and Saturday 27 May, on a united message in support of free trade and the multilateral trading system, underlining their firmness against unfair trade.
The final declaration, which was the subject of bitter...