ROME — Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Friday called on Europe to appoint a special envoy to talk to Russia, as efforts continue to end the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine. Meloni said that she agreed with French President Emmanuel Macron, who last month called for new dialogue with the Kremlin. Russian President Vladimir Putin “expressed readiness to engage in dialogue” with Macron, Moscow said in response. “I believe the time has come for Europe to also speak with Russia,” Meloni told a press conference in Rome on Friday. “If Europe speaks to only one of the two sides on the field, I fear that the contribution it can make will be limited.” Meloni warned that Europe needs a coordinated approach or “risks doing Putin a favor.” Since the beginning of negotiations over a potential ceasefire in Ukraine, “many voices have been speaking out, and that’s why I’ve always been in favor of appointing a European special envoy on the Ukrainian issue,” Meloni said. Peace talks aimed at ending the all-out conflict, which Russia launched in February 2022, have accelerated with U.S. President Donald Trump back in the White House, but Moscow has not indicated that it is willing to make concessions. The U.S. in November proposed that Russia be readmitted to the Group of Seven leading nations. But Meloni said it was “absolutely premature” to talk about welcoming Russia back to the G7 fold. Meloni also emphasized that Italy would not join France and the U.K. in sending troops to Ukraine to guarantee a potential peace deal, because it was “not necessary” if Ukraine signed a collective defense agreement with Western allies modeled on NATO’s Article 5 collective-defense provision. She suggested that a small contingent of foreign troops would not be a serious deterrent against a much larger Russian force. Reacting to Trump’s recent aggressive rhetoric toward Greenland, Meloni said that she “would not approve” of a U.S. military takeover of the vast Arctic island. “I don’t believe that the USA will carry out military action on Greenland, which I would not approve of and would not do anyone any good,” she told reporters. Meloni said she believed the Trump administration was using “very assertive methods” to draw attention to the strategic importance of Greenland for U.S. interests and security. “It’s an area where many foreign actors are carrying out activity and I think that the message of the USA is that they will not accept excessive interference by foreign actors,” she said.   Meloni also countered Trump’s remarks Thursday that he does not need international law, stressing that “international law must be defended.” But she added that it was normal to disagree with allies, “as national interests are not perfectly aligned.” “When I don’t agree with Trump, I say so — I say it to him.”

Donald Trump’s drive to secure peace in Ukraine must not let Vladimir Putin off the hook for war crimes committed by Russian forces, a top EU official has warned, effectively setting a new red line for a deal.  In an interview with POLITICO, Michael McGrath, the European commissioner for justice and democracy, said negotiators must ensure the push for a ceasefire does not result in Russia escaping prosecution.  His comments reflect concerns widely held in European capitals that the original American blueprint for a deal included the promise of a “full amnesty for actions committed during the war,” alongside plans to reintegrate Russia into the world economy. The Trump team’s push to rehabilitate the Kremlin chief comes despite international condemnation of Russia for alleged crimes including the abduction of 20,000 Ukrainian children and attacks targeting civilians in Bucha, Mariupol and elsewhere.  “I don’t think history will judge kindly any effort to wipe the slate clean for Russian crimes in Ukraine,” McGrath said. “They must be held accountable for those crimes and that will be the approach of the European Union in all of these discussions. “Were we to do so, to allow for impunity for those crimes, we would be sowing the seeds of the next round of aggression and the next invasion,” he added. “And I believe that that would be a historic mistake of huge proportions.” Protesters in London, June 2025. There has been international condemnation of Russia for alleged crimes including the abduction of 20,000 Ukrainian children and attacks targeting civilians. | Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Ukrainian authorities say they have opened investigations into more than 178,000 alleged Russian crimes since the start of the war. Last month, a United Nations commission found Russian authorities had committed crimes against humanity in targeting Ukrainian residents through drone attacks, and the war crimes of forcible transfer and deportation of civilians.  “We cannot give up on the rights of the victims of Russian aggression and Russian crimes,” McGrath said. “Millions of lives have been taken or destroyed, and people forcibly removed, and we have ample evidence.”  The EU and others have worked to set up a new special tribunal for the crime of aggression with the aim of bringing Russian leaders to justice for the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which began in February 2022. In March 2023, judges at the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Putin, naming him “allegedly responsible for the war crime of unlawful deportation of population [children]” from Ukraine. But Trump and his team have so far shown little interest in prosecuting Putin. In fact, the U.S. president has consistently described his Russian counterpart in positive terms, often talking about how he is able to have a “good conversation” with Putin. Trump has expressed the hope of building new economic and energy partnerships with Russia, and the pair have even discussed organizing ice hockey matches in Russia and the U.S. once the war is over.   The draft 28-point peace plan that Trump’s team circulated last week continues in a similar vein.  It states that “Russia will be reintegrated into the global economy” and invited to rejoin the G8 after being expelled in 2014 following Moscow’s annexation of Crimea. “The United States will enter into a long-term economic cooperation agreement for mutual development in the areas of energy, natural resources, infrastructure, artificial intelligence, data centers, rare earth metal extraction projects in the Arctic, and other mutually beneficial corporate opportunities,” the document said. The U.S. peace plan proposes to lift sanctions against Russia in stages, though European leaders have pushed back to emphasize that the removal of EU sanctions will be for them to decide. Not everyone in Europe wants to maintain the squeeze on Moscow, however. Hungary has repeatedly stalled new sanctions, especially on oil and gas, for which it relies on Russia. Senior politicians in Germany, too, have floated the idea of lifting sanctions on the Nord Stream gas pipeline from Russia. 

KANANASKIS, Alberta — The 2025 G7 summit ended without a unified statement on Ukraine and without the U.S. president in the room. The failure to issue a joint declaration in support of Kyiv came despite the fact that just a few days before the confab in the Canadian Rockies, the delegations prepping for the summit were still hopeful of finding wording that was palatable to all G7 leaders, including Donald Trump, three diplomats told POLITICO. But with time running out, it became clear to those doing the prep work that Trump would not agree to strong language against Russia, one Canadian official said. The solution: don’t force a joint statement and instead let the host, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, issue one of his own. That declaration — a “chair’s summary” — noted that “G7 Leaders expressed support for President Trump’s efforts to achieve a just and lasting peace in Ukraine. They recognized that Ukraine has committed to an unconditional ceasefire, and they agreed that Russia must do the same. G7 Leaders are resolute in exploring all options to maximize pressure on Russia, including financial sanctions.” At a press conference after the summit, Carney was asked whether the U.S. was the reason there was no official joint declaration on Ukraine. “There was no problem at all,” Carney insisted. He claimed that all G7 leaders had agreed on wording on the war in Ukraine at a working dinner Monday night — before “certain tragic events” in the Middle East meant “it was more important, if you like, for us to have a G7 declaration on the situation in Iran.” “The language that’s in my declaration” was agreed “directly with President Trump,” meaning there was “consensus around that language,” Carney stated. Reading from a copy of his chair’s summary, he said: “‘Leaders expressed support for his’ — so this is a G7 declaration. We all agree with that.” Behind that bluster, though, was the harsh reality that the other leaders did not manage to convince Trump to agree on new joint measures against Russia. “Given the U.S.’s unique position as a country in the midst of direct work to broker peace, it was clear that it would not have been feasible to find detailed language that all G7 partners could agree to in that context,” said a Canadian official, who requested anonymity to speak freely. “As such, no draft for a G7 joint statement on this was shared with the group of leaders or their negotiating framework.” That leaves the remaining G6 to go it alone. The U.K. and EU will move ahead with their campaign to lower the maximum price Russia can sell oil for, though it’s unclear how that would work without the full G7 buy-in. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer acknowledged this was easier said than done, noting: “Obviously, we’re still looking at how we’re going to make that work. But I strongly believe that we have to put those sanctions in place.” It became clear to those doing the prep work that Donald Trump would not agree to strong language against Russia, one Canadian official said. | Ludovic Marin/EPA-EFE And Carney on Tuesday announced billions in Canadian aid and loans for Ukraine, as well as major new sanctions on Russian products, ships, people and entities — “one of Canada’s most important” packages since the 2022 full-scale invasion, his government claimed. KID-GLOVES APPROACH While Trump was still in Kananaskis — before he skipped town a day early, ostensibly to deal with the crisis in the Middle East — his fellow G7 leaders were deferential, showering him with compliments and kitschy momentos of their friendship. European Council President António Costa, who hails from Portugal, brought Trump a football jersey signed by Portuguese megastar Cristiano Ronaldo. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer didn’t pipe up when Trump mistakenly announced he’d finally closed a deal “with the European Union,” when he meant to say the U.K. When the papers of said deal dropped tragicomically to the ground after Trump opened a folder to show them off, Starmer immediately scooped them up, later joking that because of strict rules on who can get close to the president, “it would not have been good for anybody else to have stepped forward.” Carney, for his part, didn’t immediately contradict Trump when he claimed Russia was thrown out of the G8 because of the other leaders’ personal enmity and that the move offended its President Vladimir Putin. But with Trump safely back home, Carney was braver at his closing press conference. “It was personally offensive, to put it mildly, to the citizens of Ukraine and the inhabitants of Crimea when Russia invaded in 2014, which was the cause of their ejection from the G8,” Carney said, when asked about Trump’s G8 comments. HOPE ISN’T LOST Sure, Trump’s G7 counterparts spent the majority of the summit walking on eggshells — “that’s realpolitik,” a German official said with a shrug, noting that Washington’s economic, military and nuclear might left them with little alternative. “But honestly, I haven’t seen the world ending here, as some reports suggested.” “Everyone has their own, careful way of navigating” relations with Trump, a Japanese official noted — a strategy that allows the G7 to “live to fight another day.” The American president may have ditched his allies as they sat down to meet with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kananaskis, but diplomats and members of other delegations insisted that while Trump may have a different approach to pressuring Moscow, this wasn’t necessarily a sign of disunity. The U.S. is moving ahead with the idea of imposing punishing, 500 percent tariffs on Russian fossil-fuel buyers (though it’s worth noting this move is mostly designed to hit Beijing, rather than Moscow). The EU, meanwhile, is putting forward new laws to end its own dependency on Russian fuels, with an 18th package of sanctions expected to be agreed by EU leaders next week. That’s got Paris and Berlin seeing the glass as half full. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz told reporters that “the summit was more successful” than he’d expected it would be. On social media, Merz said he was “cautiously optimistic” that Washington would ultimately adopt stronger sanctions against Russia,” echoing an earlier statement by French President Emmanuel Macron. Stefan Boscia contributed reporting.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney on Monday announced an ambitious defense spending target that would end Canada’s status as a NATO laggard and mollify frustrated Americans. Carney committed to meeting the alliance’s current spending target of 2 percent in 2025, half a decade ahead of Ottawa’s previous commitment. Carney’s announcement comes less than a week before he hosts President Donald Trump at the G7 summit in Alberta. The accelerated spending also follows amplified calls from the U.S. president and his Canadian ambassador, Pete Hoekstra, for Ottawa to honor its unfulfilled 11-year-old commitment to the target. Carney framed the new spending as a necessary response to a more dangerous world that has left Canada more vulnerable to threats in the Arctic — and less protected by Americans. “A new imperialism threatens. Middle powers must compete for interests and attention, knowing that if they’re not at the table, they’re on the menu,” Carney said, repeating a go-to line from keynote speeches before he formally entered politics. “Our fundamental goal in all of this is to protect Canadians, not to satisfy NATO accountants,” he added. “But now the United States is beginning to monetize its hegemony, charging for access to its markets and reducing its relative contribution to our collective security.” Canada faces spending decisions in the coming weeks and months. Carney’s government isn’t planning to unveil a budget until the fall, which has sparked widespread criticism from opposition parties. But his finance minister, François-Philippe Champagne, has told POLITICO that Ottawa must take into account whether NATO leaders adopt a plan to raise the spending benchmark to 5 percent at a June 24 summit in The Hague. Champagne said in a recent interview that with the NATO summit coming in June, and “with the trade dispute we have with the United States, things could shift. Obviously, we have a big exercise around government efficiency.” NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte last week outlined a proposal that would see members spend 3.5 percent on core defense spending and a 1.5 percent component on defense tied to “security-related investment, including in infrastructure and resilience.” Carney said Canada was already well positioned to make a contribution to that second component, as part of his government’s plan to build up Canada’s defense industrial base and make it less reliant on the U.S. “With the fall of the Berlin Wall, the United States became the global hegemon, its gravitational pull on Canada, always strong, became virtually irresistible, and made the U.S. our closest ally and dominant trading partner,” Carney said. Carney reiterated Canada’s intent to join the ReArm Europe initiative, which Defense Minister David McGuinty recently confirmed to CANSEC, Canada’s largest military trade show. “Canada is confident that our economic strategy and our many strategic resources, from critical minerals to cyber, will make major contributions to NATO security,” Carney said. “We will ensure that Canadian workers and businesses benefit from the huge increase in defense procurement that will be required using Canadian steel, Canadian aluminum, Canadian critical minerals, Canadian cyber,” said Carney. Carney’s announcement amounts to a sea change in Canadian defense and foreign policy. Former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau once once privately advised NATO officials that Canada would never meet the 2 percent target, according to documents leaked from the Pentagon two years ago. Some Canadians have been calling for increased spending more quickly, but until Monday, those calls were mostly ignored by political leaders from both the federal Liberal and Conservative parties. Those calls have come for decades. Less than one month after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S., Canada’s then Foreign Minister John Manley said it was incumbent on the country to spend more on its national security. Canada, he said, “can’t just sit at the G8 table and then, when the bill comes, go to the washroom.”

Donald Trump says Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a “dictator” even though he won a fair election in 2019. But the United States president doesn’t say the same about Vladimir Putin, even though his main opponent died in jail a few weeks before Putin won a rigged election last year.  In the past few weeks, Trump and his team have also undermined NATO, backed far-right politicians in Europe and vowed to hit the European Union with a trade war for its “very unfair” treatment of the U.S. No wonder a growing number of European officials and diplomats think the American president is really on Russia’s side.  But Trump’s world moves fast, and it’s hard to remember everything. So here’s a recap of 29 times Trump has sided with Putin in his first month back in power.  1. Picking up the phone: Almost three years after Russia’s unprovoked, full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Trump decided it was time to re-establish direct contact between the president of the United States and Putin, a leader facing U.S. and EU sanctions, as well as an International Criminal Court arrest warrant for crimes against humanity and genocide. So he picked up the phone on Feb. 12 for a 90-minute chat.  2. Praising Putin like he deserves total respect: “I want to thank President Putin for his time and effort with respect to this call,” Trump said afterward. “We both reflected on the Great History of our Nations, and the fact that we fought so successfully together in World War II,” he said. “We agreed to work together, very closely, including visiting each other’s Nations.” 3. Saying he’d “love” to see Russia back in the G7 (which would make it the G8, but who’s counting): “I’d love to have them back. I think it was a mistake to throw them out,” he told reporters in the Oval Office the day after the Putin call. He said the same in his first term. But that was before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.  4. Letting Putin keep loads of Ukrainian territory: Trump’s Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth rejected Ukraine’s goal of reclaiming all the land Russia has taken since 2014 as “unrealistic.” That whipped the rug out from underneath Ukraine in any future negotiation. Hegseth also gave Putin exactly what he wanted by saying Kyiv wouldn’t be joining NATO either.   5. … then warning Russia has loads of Ukrainian territory: Trump himself then noted that Russia now holds “the cards” in peace talks “because they’ve taken a lot of territory.”   6. Conceding to Putin’s wish for no NATO mission in Ukraine: More from Hegseth, who said any troops from NATO countries who serve in Ukraine won’t be covered by the alliance’s “Article 5,” which states that an attack on one member is an attack on all.  7. Ruling out sending U.S. troops to Ukraine: Another Putin-pleaser from Hegseth.   8. Telling Europe, which has relied on American protection since 1945, to take care of itself: Russia worries about American troops fighting a war to stop them from reclaiming their old empire. War with the Europeans? Not so much.  9. Holding unconditional talks with Russia in Saudi Arabia: Trump gave Putin generous concessions on NATO and Ukrainian territory to Russia before the talks even started. He could have demanded a Russian ceasefire as a precondition to the first talks between the two sides’ top diplomats. He didn’t. In fact, there were apparently no preconditions at all.  Trump has been trying to blame Zelenskyy for starting the war. | Samuel Corum/AFP via Getty Images 10. Maybe there was one … Zelenskyy’s team wasn’t allowed in the room. Kyiv and its allies say there must be no talks “about Ukraine without Ukraine.” Whatever.  11. Refusing to let Europe in either: Brussels keeps complaining Europe is being cut out of the peace process. America doesn’t care, and Putin is fine with that.  12. Saying Zelenskyy “started” the war: Well, he didn’t. Russia started the war, but has been trying to blame Zelenskyy for it ever since. Now it has the White House claiming the same.  13. Saying Zelenskyy is incompetent: Everyone’s entitled to a view. It just happens that this one serves Russia’s purpose of undermining Zelenskyy’s legitimacy at home.  14. … While not really criticizing Putin much at all.  15. Saying Putin can be trusted and wants peace: Don’t worry, Putin is solid on Ukraine, Trump told the BBC. Maybe he forgot all the times Russia said it wasn’t going to invade.  16. Calling for elections in Ukraine: Russia likes elections in nearby countries because it can meddle with the process, and has been hoping to get the chance to install a new government in Kyiv since before the start of the war. Trump says Zelenskyy should call a vote ASAP. The problem is, there’s a war on, you know? 17. Defunding election monitors and cyber agencies: Only people who are sticklers for free and fair democracy like having elections monitored for interference, with pesky officials poking around on polling day. Putin doesn’t need them anyway.  18. Calling Zelenskyy a “dictator” (and not in a good way).   19. Looking ahead to future U.S.-Russia “investment” deals: That was the readout from those talks in Riyadh. A top Russian official told POLITICO there was particular interest in joint Arctic energy projects. 20. Ditching democracy NGOs: The Kremlin has long complained that U.S.-funded NGOs are intelligence fronts that stir up “color revolutions” in former Soviet republics, including the 2014 Maidan uprising in Ukraine. Trump’s team has now cut all funding to pro-democracy programs as part of its efforts to dismantle USAID.  Trump’s best billionaire buddy Elon Musk has openly endorsed the far-right Alternative for Germany. | Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images 21. Cracking down on wokery: To be fair, this is what Trump really wants too, and it’s probably just a coincidence that Putin seems to share a similar outlook on issues like transgender rights.  22. Slamming Europe for its failures on migration: Trump has said Europe needs to get its act together to stop out-of-control migration. His Vice President JD Vance launched an all-out assault on the continent over just about everything else in his first outing at the Munich Security Conference last weekend. It’s likely to have been music to Putin’s ears. 23. Vance backing Călin Georgescu’s victory in Romania: That’s right, the U.S. VP sided with the candidate who won the first round of Romania’s presidential election last year following a suspected Russian hybrid attack and a highly dubious social media influence operation. The Romanian Constitutional Court was so concerned it annulled the election.  24. Attacking Germany for its firewall against the far right: Vance didn’t mince words. “If you’re running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you,” he said.  25. Backing the AfD in Germany’s election: Trump’s best billionaire buddy Elon Musk openly endorsed the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party and its candidate Alice Weidel to be chancellor in Sunday’s election. The AfD is set for its best ever result, according to polls. Many AfD supporters are sympathetic to Moscow. Intelligence services have warned of a Russian campaign to disrupt the vote.  26. Musk backing Reform UK in Britain: Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has a history of making favorable comments about Putin (something his centrist opponents have used to attack him).  27. Objecting to the phrase “Russian aggression” in a draft G7 statement on Ukraine.  28. Winning the presidential election: Ok, so this one was really in Trump’s interests first. But the Kremlin is certainly pleased that Trump beat Harris to the White House.  29. Winning forever: Trump has hinted he wouldn’t mind so much if his country’s constitution were tweaked to let him stay on for a third term in office. Putin already did that in Russia.  Marion Solletty and Jamie Dettmer contributed reporting.

Russia should rejoin the Group of 7, an economic and political forum of advanced democracies that it was suspended from following its 2014 invasion of Ukraine, President Donald Trump said Thursday. “I’d love to have them back. I think it was a mistake to throw them out,” he told reporters in the Oval Office. “It’s not a question of liking Russia or not liking Russia. … They should be sitting at the table. I think Putin would love to be back,” Trump added. The G7 consists of the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom, with the European Union participating as a nonenumerated member, meaning the bloc does not hold the rotating presidency. Russia used to be a member of the intergovernmental forum, formerly known as the G8, until its membership was suspended in 2014 after it invaded Ukraine and annexed Crimea. Moscow officially left the group in 2018 and has repeatedly said it does not want to rejoin. Trump said it is “very possible” the full-scale war in Ukraine would never have started if Russia had not been excluded from the G7. He added that he had argued about the matter with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other leaders. Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe “agreed with me 100 percent,” Trump said. “I think it would have been very helpful and it still would be helpful to have Russia be a part of that mix,” he said. “If they were, I don’t think you would have had the problem that you have right now.” Trump’s remarks came hot on the heels of his phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday in which the two leaders discussed negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine. The Republican president added after the call that he and Putin would “probably” meet in Saudi Arabia in the “not too distant future.”

The world stands at a critical juncture in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. With life expectancy rising globally and more people living longer, the number of individuals affected by dementia is expected to increase in the coming years – and by 2050 will affect as many as 139 million adults globally.[i]This looming crisis demands immediate, coordinated action from governments, healthcare systems and society at large. The 2023 G7 Nagasaki health ministers’ meeting reaffirmed the G7’s promise to promote research and development to improve health outcomes through the prevention, risk reduction, early detection, diagnosis and treatment of dementia including potential disease-modifying therapies.[ii] As the G7 health ministers convened in Italy, passing the torch to Canada for 2025, we call for renewed efforts to prioritize Alzheimer’s disease, the leading cause of dementia, as a public health priority. Despite this commitment, health systems across the world remain woefully unprepared to embrace new innovations in diagnosis and treatment, risking that European patients may be left behind the rest of the world in access to new tools and discouraging research that could lead to medical innovation where therapeutic options today are scarce.  The urgency for ensuring access to treatments and diagnosis Alzheimer’s disease is a devastating and fatal condition that robs individuals of their memories, independence and, ultimately, their futures. [iii] It is estimated that Alzheimer’s disease specifically impacts 416 million people worldwide, or more than one in five people aged 50 and above.[iv] In Europe alone, 7 million people are currently living with the disease, a number that could double by 2030.³ The wider impacts on health systems and economies are also profound – an estimated $2.8 trillion per year, a sum which is predicted to rise to $4.7 trillion by 2030.[v] > Alzheimer’s disease is a devastating and fatal condition that robs individuals > of their memories, independence and, ultimately, their futures. For far too long, a lack of new breakthroughs and a string of clinical trial failures has created helplessness and apathy to the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, leading to many – including healthcare professionals – thinking it is part of aging and there is nothing we can do. Still today, most cases of Alzheimer’s disease are misdiagnosed, diagnosed too late for treatment to be considered or never diagnosed at all.[iv] With newly investigated treatments that target the underlying pathology of the disease, we are potentially altering and slowing the course of disease progression and delaying the need for care services. Furthermore, advanced testing methods, such as blood-based biomarker tests, are potential game-changers in rapid and accurate diagnosis. > With newly investigated treatments that target the underlying pathology of the > disease, we are potentially altering and slowing the course of disease > progression A decade of remarkable progress The 2013 G8 Dementia Summit in London challenged the Alzheimer’s disease research community to develop a disease-modifying therapy by 2025.[vi] Today, there is not just one, but multiple therapies in the field that have been demonstrated to deliver meaningful benefits. We know that the hallmarks of the disease can appear two decades before symptoms manifest.[vii] We now possess the tools to respond to Alzheimer’s disease informed by patients’ genetic profiles. But only if the disease is detected early enough. Just as detecting cancer cells early and personalized medicine is a winning strategy, we are entering a new stage for Alzheimer’s disease response and management. > We now possess the tools to respond to Alzheimer’s disease informed by > patients’ genetic profiles. But only if the disease is detected early enough People around the world want and deserve access[viii] to diagnosis and treatment options available now, and we must ensure European patients are not left behind. Committing to a future where memories endure We have a historic opportunity to elevate the G7 target for a new era in the fight against dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, drawing on the latest scientific understanding, advanced detection and treatment tools for a potentially far stronger response. Lilly has driven scientific progress for over 35 years, and we have no plans to slow our efforts now. We envision a future where timely detection, accurate diagnosis, appropriate treatment and prevention become reality. We are committed to collaborating with healthcare ecosystems to build the infrastructure needed to scale and adopt scientific advances. Together, we can change the discourse around Alzheimer’s disease and usher in a new era – one of support, understanding and hope.   -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [i] Alzheimer’s Disease International. Dementia Statistics. Available at: https://www.alzint.org/about/dementia-facts-figures/dementia-statistics/ [ii] G7 Nagasaki Health Ministers’ Communiqué https://www.mhlw.go.jp/content/10500000/001096403.pdf [iii] EBC and EFPIA. (2023). RETHINKING Alzheimer’s disease: Detection and diagnosis. Available at: https://www.braincouncil.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/RETHINK-AlzheimerDisease-Report_DEF3_HD_rvb_03042023.pdf [iv] Alzheimer’s Association (2022) Global estimates on the number of persons across the Alzheimer’s disease continuum. Available at: https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/alz.12694 [v] Nandi A, Counts N, Chen S, et al. Global and regional projections of the economic burden of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias from 2019 to 2050: A value of statistical life approach. EClinicalMedicine. 2022;51:101580. Published 2022 Jul 22. doi:10.1016/j.eclinm.2022.101580. [vi] GOV.UK. (n.d.). G8 dementia summit communique. [online] Available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/g8-dementia-summit-agreements/g8-dementia-summit-communique. [vii] Aisen PS, Cummings J, Clifford RJ, On the path to 2025: understanding the Alzheimer’s disease continuum. Alzs Res Therapy. 2017 9: 60. [viii] World Alzheimer Report 2024 | Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) (alzint.org)