The G -7 snubs Putin in Brussels

The intensity of security measures is usually directly related to the significance of an event. Brussels has awakened Wednesday besieged by police to host the G -7 marked by an absence: the first meeting without Russia in the last 17 years of which were once the seven major industrial powers of the world, a snub explanatory challenge Vladimir Putin in Ukraine in recent months. Putin, still, plan like a ghost throughout the summit. The U.S. president, Barack Obama, tests on European soil his new doctrine: leading the world through international coalitions without resorting to force; America has gone in a short time to believe that he could fight two wars at once to appreciate its border with Iraq and Afghanistan. But beyond the U.S. strategy, the G -7 will address as a main dish Quote relations with Russia and the situation in Ukraine after the elections won by Petro Poroshenko, a veteran with a fluid relationship with Putin, giving you margin to approximate simultaneously Moscow and the EU.

“Ukraine is the top of the agenda, it will be time to evaluate the latest aspects of the situation in Ukraine and its environment, and to continue working to overcome this and other challenges,” said President of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy. Van Rompuy and José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, have dinner tonight with the leaders of the U.S., Germany, France, UK, Canada, Japan and Italy, in the G -7 has almost 40 years of history: the first date was in Rambouillet (France) in 1975; Russia was not far off from 1997.

Obama will present to the G7 his new energy plan as an example for a global agreement on climate change, and make a call to Europe to keep the pressure on Russia and reduce its energy dependence on Moscow. But European leaders have parallel agendas: just after the G -7, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President François Hollande, are seen in bilateral meetings with Putin in the vicinity of the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Normandy landings. Hollande also plans to hold a private meeting with Obama.

The decision to leave Russia out of the G – 7 was taken in March, after the annexation of Crimea, a region of eastern Ukraine is already under Russian sovereignty. Since then, both the U.S. and the EU – heavily dependent on Russian gas and oil – imposed two waves of economic sanctions against Moscow, which have been a harsh punishment for the Russian economy, and threatening a third round of trade sanctions, economic and financial if Russia does not lower the tension, something begins to happen very slowly, although there remains a risk of destabilization in eastern Ukraine.

” You can not exclude a worsening of the situation, so that the EU and the G -7 will have to consider further action if this happens,” say European officials said. Return times of deterrence: the Allies another word that rejuvenates the challenge Putin near the borders of the EU- tuning seek the souls of Russia with the threat of sanctions, yet Russia is aware that despite efforts to Europe will not be easy to reduce its dependence on energy from the Caucasus.

During dinner on Wednesday and throughout the meeting Thursday in Brussels not only speak Russian and Ukrainian. Syria, Afghanistan, Mali, Central African Republic and North Korea are also on the agenda of the G -7. Trade agreements between the EU and the U.S. (quite stranded), recovery of the global economy, development assistance, combating climate change and cooperation in tax evasion will also be on the negotiating table. Although in the end, in short, the outcome of the summit will depend on Ukraine and Russia: Obama will use the visit to Europe, the second in a short time, after a few years focusing on their relationships in the Pacific to harangue European leaders facing not crack the common front against Russia. West rallies to make clear the exclusion of Putin. But Putin is all sauces: in the three bilateral with Merkel, Cameron and Hollande, and with the recent offer to Ukraine a week to pay the bills for gas.

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