Eve of the summit of the Winds in Rome. In the night Joe Biden landed in Fiumicino, thus starting the official visit that will see him participate in the G20 summit tomorrow and Sunday and in the morning he arrived at the Vatican for a meeting with Pope Francis
G20, here’s what the big names are doing in Rome today and the protests in the square
Biden arrived at the Vatican for the meeting with the Pope
The second Catholic president in US history to go to the Vatican, Biden has arrived and meets Pope Francis with his wife Jill. There are over fifty cars that accompanied the president’s entrance. He was traveling in one of the two identical presidential cars at the head of the procession and, passing through Via della Conciliazione, he showed up behind the window to greet journalists and pilgrims.
Prodi: “G20 unlucky. The lack of Xi and Putin weighs heavily”
“The G20 is a magnificent event but it falls at an unfortunate moment. There is no direct participation of Vladimir Putin e Xi Jinping because Covid is fragmenting the rules of the world but it is still a good thing that could have been done after two years. Of course, if the G20 had had the physical presence of Putin and Xi it could have made some leaps forward: in international meetings, physical presence is vital, 2/3 of things take place in the corridor, politics is made up of things like this, of look into each other’s eyes. “He said it Romano Prodi at the Eurasian Economic Forum in Verona.
Von der Leyen a Roma
“In Rome for the G20 summit. My message to the leaders: to get out of Covid-19, we need to increase vaccination globally and improve preparedness for the pandemic; second, we need climate commitments and concrete plans from the G20 to pave the way for the success of Cop26 “. The president of the EU commission writes in a tweet Ursula von der Leyen.
Students marching towards Circus Maximus
Flags of the Roman student collectives hoisted in the march from various schools in the capital towards the Circus Maximus, where this morning the students gathered to “conquer the present”. “We are the future without a future”, read the banners of the march that will end in a procession at the Ministry of Education where the demonstrators will claim their right to youth participation to the great G20: “School, space, sociality. We take everything back” .
Rome, students marching from the Circus Maximus to the Miur: “We’ll take everything back”. The first protest during the G20 starts
by Luca Monaco
Biden’s day
The US president will see Pope Francis in the morning at the Vatican and then go to the Quirinale where he will be received by the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, and at Palazzo Chigi for a bilateral meeting with the Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, expected around 15.20.
The first Biden-Macron face to face after the Aukus crisis
Bilateral Biden-Macron in the early afternoon, the first since the crisis triggered by the Aukus Pact. The French president, confirms the Elysée, will meet the American president today at Villa Bonaparte, the seat of the French embassy to the Holy See. After the announcement of the Aukus Pact, in the midst of the submarine crisis, Biden and Macron had had a telephone conversation on October 22 and, the Elysée had announced, they had agreed to start a “process of in-depth consultations” to establish “the conditions that guarantee trust” and “propose concrete measures to achieve common objectives” as well as having agreed for a meeting at the end of October.
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by our correspondent Anais Ginori
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