Waldo Mendiluza Biarritz, France, Aug 26 (Prensa Latina) Summit 45 of the G-7 concludes today in this spa town in the French Southwest with discussions about the environment and the challenges in the digital era, under tense scenario without a final declaration.

After three days of exchanges of criteria, and mostly disagreements, the forum that brings together leaders of Germany, Canada, the United States, France, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom closes its doors with a press conference, amid a huge police deployment and protests against the group.

The hosting president, Emmanuel Macron, initially expected a quieter summit, but events this summer surely made him change his mind, to the point of giving up the exercise of a final declaration, perhaps considering last year's experience in Canada, where US President Donald Trump decided not to sign it.

Trump is precisely the source of the biggest disagreements within the G-7, a mechanism the left-wing movement Insubordinate France defined as a 'rich club outside the villages (...) in a meeting to see how much more they can keep stealing from villages'.

In recent weeks and days, the head of the White House unleashed a trade war against China, which worries the other powers about the possibility of a global recession, and reiterated threats of raising tariffs on wine from France, leading that the European Union will guarantee Paris support in case this happens.

Washington maintained its aggressiveness towards Iran in the framework of the agreement on Tehran's nuclear program, a pact defended by Paris, London and Berlin, and conducted a missile test that threatens with the return of the arms race, something that Europe fears because it would be the main stage of tensions.

Nor in environmental matters did Trump give any sign of changing his position after deciding to abandon the agreement on facing climate change, while Macron placed ecology as one of the priority issues of the G-7 summit.

Looking ahead to this forum, the head of the White House gave his support to the return of Russia to the bloc, excluded in 2014 accused of annexing Crimea, but some of his allies consider it not convenient, 'because Moscow has not taken favorable steps towards that direction.'

As if that were not enough, Trump and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, outlined a 'fast' trade agreement, triggering the option of a hard Brexit and with it the danger of greater differences between London and Brussels.

The work sessions at Biarritz failed to change the landscape, and if there is no progress on key agenda items such as security, trade, climate change, Brexit, Iran and Russia, no one will believe, although they say it, this was a successful forum, with the surprise of the arrival yesterday of the Persian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, invited by France.

Undoubtedly, the presence of Zarif and his encounter with Macron and German and British representatives generates hopes of reducing tensions in the Persian Gulf, although in reality that would only happen if the United States agrees to negotiate, and Trump does not seem very interested.

Meanwhile, today the leaders address issues of climate, biodiversity and the oceans, the organizations promoting protests rejecting the G-7, foresee new actions to remind that its members are responsible for the evils of humanity, including wars, environmental deterioration and inequalities.