As with every major meeting of world leaders, the delegations that arrived in Rome for the G20 were greeted by demonstrations by climate advocates.
The summit is being held in the Italian capital this Saturday and Sunday, and this is the first time since the start of the pandemic that heads of state and government have all met in person.
Joe Biden, the second American president only to be Catholic since John F. Kennedy, met the Pope at length on Friday. François joined the demands for climate action and called on the American head of statestrong gestures during the Cop26 next week.
Then it was the President of the Italian Council, Mario Draghi, whom Joe Biden went to meet, to revive, he said, transatlantic relations.
During this interview, they jointly recognized “the usefulness of developing a Europe of defense”.
The G20 summit is to be held at the “La Nuvola” congress center in the southern part of the Italian capital.
Access to the area will be limited and there will be a strong police presence, with 500 soldiers joining the police teams. Assault rifles, bulletproof vests and ballistic shields, all the equipment is mobilized to ward off any threat. And that of the militants of the Italian and European ultra-left is not the least.
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