In Moscow, Tehran and Beijing they are looking on with glee untroubled by this latest gathering. Unless the allies can prove them wrong. Don't hold your breath.
As G7 leaders meet in the idyllic Italian city of Bari the view is stunning. The Adriatic backdrop calm and serene. Don't be fooled. The outlook for the Western alliance is anything but. The allies meet battered and weakened by storms back home and a sense of impending doom hangs over them. It says it all that the least dysfunctional of the G7 member states right now is Italy, a country more usually prone to political instability.
This year's G7 venue, the walled city of Bari, has lessons for its guests from a long history of conflict, fought over by Byzantines, Saracens, Normans and Angevins. The leaders convene with their enemies at the gate. Populist forces threaten to topple the citadels of liberal democracy across Europe. Russia is on the march in Ukraine, the conflict galvanising an alliance of autocracies to the East. As host, Ms Meloni will try to orchestrate a united response.
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