President Emmanuel Macron of France, second from left; Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany, center; and Prime Minister Mario Draghi of Italy, right, in Kyiv on June 16.Credit…Viacheslav Ratynskyi/Reuters
Before Russia invaded Ukraine, this year’s Group of 7 summit was supposed to provide an opportunity to change gears from typical geopolitics and finance, and focus on the future. The top themes were meant to be climate, public health amid the coronavirus pandemic and equity around the globe.
Instead, most analysts expect that the conference will be “Ukraine, Ukraine and then some more Ukraine,” as Sudha David-Wilp of the German Marshall Fund, a public policy think tank, put it.
The war has also changed the major topics that observers hope to see addressed. Here are some of the top questions from foreign policy experts in Germany and elsewhere.
Can Western leaders hold out against Russia for the long haul?
Although European and…
