The centrist and pro-EU Mr Macron was humiliated by the Eurosceptic National Rally, led by Marine Le Pen in Sunday’s European Parliament elections.

He then called the snap parliamentary election in France in a bid to stop the French flirting with the hard-Right but risks losing control of the National Assembly and becoming a lame-duck president.

Ms Meloni’s Brothers of Italy, which has its roots in a neo-fascist group, scored an overwhelming triumph in the European elections in Italy, vowing to end Brussels overreach.

The Eurosceptic Right-winger’s international stock has never been higher after that victory, which has been crowned by her hosting of the G7 summit.

After the 2023 G7 communique was released circa last year’s leaders’ summit in Hiroshima, Japan, French and Canadian diplomats proposed similar or tougher language for this year’s joint statement.

“All the other countries backed them, but it was a red line for Meloni, so it is absent from the final text,” one diplomat said.

A senior Italian diplomat said that the word “abortion” would not appear in the final communique, but it made clear the G7 still supported the aims of the declaration made in Hiroshima.

“This story has been whipped up and has no substance to it,” said the diplomat.