Let's take a look at the grandiose plans of the French President to make us all poorer

You all probably missed this as there was no news on it from the BBC and all the other media outlets, but on 22–23 June last week, President Macron hosted one of his “international summits” in Paris. This one was about imposing major international taxes on rich countries such as the United Kingdom, to support Net Zero projects and to give hundreds of billions to poorer countries for a variety of other reasons.

Unfortunately for him — but perhaps more fortunately for the British public — hardly any major countries attended. The vast majority of the leaders who did attend represent some of the poorest countries in the world.

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Unfortunately for him — but perhaps more fortunately for the British public — hardly any major countries attended. The vast majority of the leaders who did attend represent some of the poorest countries in the world.

President Macron said:

“We will take a major step, as we will start by establishing a new consensus. The fight against poverty, the decarbonization of our economy in order to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, and the protection of biodiversity, are closely intertwined. We therefore need to agree together on the best means to address these challenges in the poor and emerging countries of the developing world, when it comes to the amount of investment, to comprehensive reform of infrastructure like the World Bank, the IMF, and public and private funds, and how to set a new process in motion.”

President Macron must have been devastated by the turn-out

Out of major Western countries only two attended — Germany was represented by Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Switzerland sent its President. As for the EU27, Slovakia was the only other EU country apart from Germany to attend. Here is the full list, in alphabetical order.

However, the usual motley crew of handout crews were there in numbers

List of attendees, Summit on a New Global Financing Pact, 22–23 June 2023, Paris

Host: President Emmanuel Macron of France

• Mia MOTTLEY, Prime Minister of Barbados
• Patrice TALON, President of the Republic of Benin
• Luis Inacio LULA DA SILVA, President of the Federative Republic of Brazil
• Gervais NDIRAKOBUCA, Prime Minister of the Republic of Burundi
• Paul BIYA, President of the Republic of Cameroon
• Faustin Archange TOUADERA, President of the Central African Republic
• Mahamat Idriss DÉBY ITNO, President of the Republic of Chad
• LI Qiang, Prime Minister of the People’s Republic of China
• Gustavo Petro URREGO, President of the Republic of Colombia
• Denis SASSOU N’GUESSO, President of the Republic of the Congo
• Jean-Michel Sama LUKONDE KYENGE, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Patrick ACHI, Prime Minister of the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire
• Miguel DÍAZ-CANEL BERMUDEZ, President of the Republic of Cuba
• Abdel Fattah AL SISSI, President of the Arab Republic of Egypt
• Abiy AHMED, Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic of Ethiopia
• Ali BONGO ONDIMBA, President of the Gabonese Republic
• Olaf SCHOLZ, Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
• Nana AKUFO-ADDO, President of the Republic of Ghana
• Umaro Sissoco EMBALO, President of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau
• Ariel HENRY, Prime Minister of the Republic of Haiti
• William RUTO, President of the Republic of Kenya
• Andry RAJOELINA, President of the Republic of Madagascar
• Mohamed Ould AL GHAZOUANI, President of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania
• Adriano MALEIANE, Prime Minister of the Republic of Mozambique
• Mohamed BAZOUM, President of the Republic of Niger
• Bola Ahmed TINUBU, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
• Muhammad Shehbaz SHARIF, Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
• Édouard NGIRENTE, Prime Minister of the Republic of Rwanda
• Ralph GONSALVES, Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• Mohammed ben Salman ben Abdulaziz AL SAOUD, Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
• Macky SALL, President of the Republic of Senegal
• Ľudovít ÓDOR, Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic
• Cyril RAMAPHOSA, President of the Republic of South Africa
• Ranil WICKREMESINGHE, President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
• Alain BERSET, President of the Swiss Confederation
• Faure GNASSINGBE, President of the Republic of Togo
• Kaïs SAÏED, President of the Republic of Tunisia
• Azali ASSOUMANI, President of the Union of the Comoros
• Hakainde HICHILEMA, President of the Republic of Zambia

The G20 this was not. Apart from France, there were only 39 countries attending, out of a possible 193 countries currently listed by the United Nations. The French made up the numbers by inviting 120 NGOs. The United Kingdom did not attend, and neither did the United States nor the vast majority of the world’s developed countries, including 24 of the 27 EU member countries.

So what did they decide at this Summit?

Nothing. There were no decisions or resolutions or a joint statement, merely discussions, round tables, and side events.

Why was the world’s largest polluter there?

Apart from Germany, there was one other country whose economy is large enough to be invited into the G7, and that was China.

Why was China there? they are the world's worst polluters

I will give you some idea of what they have that's polluting the planet

China has 946 coal-fired power stations

To put that into perspective Germany in Europe has 96

[Source: The World Resources Institute, Sept 2021. Note that the data comes from June last year so the number of Chinese coal-power plants will now be much higher as they are building new ones at pace.]

In case readers wonder about its attendance — given that China is the world’s largest polluter — I would point out that for years China has been buying influence in Africa. I feel the presence of so many of the poor countries where it has been investing heavily might explain why they were there.

If Monsieur Macron felt humiliated by the shunning of his vanity event by the world’s major leaders, he put a brave face on it, declaring the Summit a great success.

As for the leaders of all the poorer countries who attended, they came as supplicants with their hands outstretched. They left empty-handed.

One caveat: Readers should be aware of the extent of the globalist agenda. Not only are they in favour of open borders, but they also seem intent on spending trillions of dollars of taxpayers’ money in poorer countries in order to make us all into one big happy global family. Here are just some of the organisations that attended

I suggest that the upcoming summits of the G7, G20, IMF, WEF, etc should be watched closely. These are where the decisions will be made — and we might not like them one little bit.

[ Sources: Summit on a New Global Financing Pact | Elysée Palace | French Foreign Office | The World Resources Institute, Sept 2021