On the meadows around Biarritz are usually cows, this year, police added. The ratio of animal to be custodians of law and order is almost a one-to-two. 13’000 use of powers to ensure that the Meetings of the state is not disturbed, the heads of the G-7 . In a radius of 30 kilometers and you can hardly find a roundabout, where no checks are carried out. For the residents it’s a nuisance. However, for the visiting politicians from the glass dome effect is even worse: they meet in a certain sense, anti-septic world.
pole would be mixed to say, the Powerful self liked the best. In France the terrorist threat is a real one. One of the successes of those who sow fear and hatred, is that they bring leading politicians, and, walling. The price of these walls is high. He is, also those excluded, their ideas and visions for the Agenda of the summit supported again and again.
French President Emmanuel Macron has declared the fight against inequalities at the core theme of this G-7 summit. A Central paper deals with the equality of the sexes. The heads of state benefit from the fact that experts and stakeholders have done a lot of thinking about what strategies the emancipation forward.
Is the G-7 still justified?
However, the images that arise in the case of a G-7 Meeting, not to show how entangled are the realities. There is not here the world of the idealists in the protest camps and the world of politicians without morals. Those who are called in official German actors of civil society, shape the way we live together as well as those we choose to represent us politically. Politicians are dependent on the experience of non-governmental organizations.
Macron knows this and therefore has made an effort to open up the summit a bit. But instead of a gate not much more than a small peep-hole is created. The number of participating politicians-is much too low. There is no security problem, to increase you decided. At the same time, the protests against the G-7 also became a mixture of Folklore and escalation, because they are not only treated like a Nuisance. Not like a legitimate criticism.
It cannot be a matter of the G-7 to destroy, but to expand. Especially at the level of the type of actors.
it is Regularly discussed whether it would be more sensible, the G-7 and G-20 summit to be abolished. One of the Central arguments to justify the immense effort that lies in the fact that only arise as a result of encounters of face-to-face trust can, that is what it takes for a multilateral policy is mandatory.
Just this year, in which the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson and the American President Donald Trump, two politicians that stand for isolation instead of cooperation, the Argument in a special way. It cannot be a matter of the G-7 to destroy, but to expand. Especially at the level of the type of actors.
Created: 25.08.2019, 22:05 Uhr
