The message of the leaders of the seven most industrialized countries in the world is clear and unanimous: if the ship sinks, everyone will drown, poor and rich. Basically, you cannot save yourself from Covid-19, even in the richest hemisphere if the other part of the world is left to itself. It is therefore necessary to accelerate the production, distribution and inoculation of vaccines even in developing countries. Of the 7.5 billion dollars allocated, the largest amount will come from the United States for a total of 4 billion, the EU has doubled its contribution by 1 billion euros and Germany will allocate a further 1.5 billion. Italy is also working on a new contribution to be allocated to Act-A.
Alone in front of a screen, Draghi greets the other Six with a raised hand and a smile free from the mask, with whom he was already in the habit of dealing in part at the time of the ECB, especially with Chancellor Angela Merkel, while the Canadian Justin Trudeau replies. with the thumb up. And in his first speech as premier in the forum of the Great, Draghi underlines the value of health as a global public good, which must be regulated by shared rules and transparent principles: a priority on the Italian-led G20 agenda, which is already planned the Global Health Summit on May 21 in Rome, and which is now looking with interest at the proposal by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to set up a ‘G20 Emergency Task Force’ to develop a global vaccination plan.
In addition to the new funds for the Covax mechanism, the President of the European Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen, announced another 100 million euros in humanitarian aid for the vaccination campaign in Africa, while French President Emmanuel Macron had anticipated in an interview the proposal to allocate 3-5% of Western stocks to developing countries. To hurry is the imperative, because the virus must be beaten on time. The head of the Elysée therefore urged Europe and the United States to donate 13 million doses to Africa “as soon as possible” so that it can immunize and secure its 6.5 million health workers.
“The era of America First is over. America is back and the transatlantic alliance is back,” is the message that Joe Biden delivered into the hands of G7 leaders. Putin’s Russia “is a threat to our democracies”, said the American president speaking at the Munich Conference, warning of the risk of a return to a Cold War. “China’s economic abuses must be rejected,” he added, warning that the US and Europe must prepare for long-term “tough” competition with Beijing.
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