“On Sunday evening, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney took to a comfy sofa to chew the fat over glasses of wine with European Group of Seven leaders at their hotel bar in Kananaskis, the Rocky Mountain resort hosting this year’s summit,” Bloomberg reports.
“The unplanned gathering started when UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer bumped into German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, with Carney, Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni and French President Emmanuel Macron joining. The topics were meaty — including a discussion of escalating tensions in the Middle East. But the atmosphere was relaxed, with one G-7 official describing it as a drink among friends. US President Donald Trump had yet to arrive.”
“For Carney, the summit was an exercise in trying to keep the annual gathering of the most powerful western leaders relevant. Ultimately, it exposed how fractured the forum has become — with Trump forging a lone path and leaving his counterparts from the other six nations to wonder what his next move will be.”
