At the recent G7 summit in Italy, world leaders saw eye-to-eye on counter-terrorism efforts but clashed on trade and the issue of the environment. There was unanimous condemnation of Pyongyang and criticism for Moscow. But Washington split with its major allies in the powerful Group of Seven nations on climate change. 

Also on the agenda at the two-day summit was the European Union's migrant crisis. G7 summit host Italy, on the frontline of Europe’s migration crisis, has been keen for the world's wealthiest nations to help Africa develop its economy in an effort to persuade young Africans to stay home and not risk it all to come to Europe. 

Oxfam Senior Humanitarian Policy Adviser, Edmund Cairns said, "On the doorstep of the Mediterranean sea where 1,400 have drowned just this year trying to move from Libya to Sicily, and the scandal is that the G7 leaders come and fly home tonight without having done anything credible about that, without having come up with any credible plan to end this vast human tragedy, that's the real scandal of this summit." 

French President Emmanuel Macron said, “It's not that we disagreed on migration but it's an issue that won't be solved through a G7 communiqué. It will be solved by a real policy of security: we need stability of the states, this is the first way to fight the migration crisis. Then secondly come the fights for the climate and the development."