The leaders of the Group of Eight leading industrial nations will meet in the earthquake-hit Italian town of L'Aquila from Wednesday to discuss the global financial crisis and climate change. The summit is aimed at aiding the reconstruction of the town and the world financial system -- but the prospect of progress on either is slim. The backdrop is replete with symbolism. Many houses in the central Italian town of L'Aquila, hit by a devastating earthquake in April, are little more than rubble. Tens of thousands of people in the region live in tent cities in conditions made even more miserable by the heat. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi during a speech in the village of Onna near L'Aquila in April after the central Italian region was devastated by an earthquake. Like L'Aquila, the world economy and global financial system are in ruins. And like in L'Aquila, the reconstruction efforts in the financial markets lag far behind the ceremonial declarations. This shattered town is hosting the G-8 summit of the world's leading economies beginning on Wednesday, and its inhabitants have little hope that the meeting will bring any fundamental improvement to their lives. Expectations that the summit itself will yield much progress are similarly muted.
The leaders of the Group of Eight leading industrial nations will meet in the earthquake-hit Italian town of L'Aquila from Wednesday to discuss the global financial crisis and climate change. The summit is aimed at aiding the reconstruction of the town and the world financial system -- but the prospect of progress on either is slim.
The backdrop is replete with symbolism. Many houses in the central Italian town of L'Aquila, hit by a devastating earthquake in April, are little more than rubble. Tens of thousands of people in the region live in tent cities in conditions made even more miserable by the heat.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi during a speech in the village of Onna near L'Aquila in April after the central Italian region was devastated by an earthquake. Like L'Aquila, the world economy and global financial system are in ruins. And like in L'Aquila, the reconstruction efforts in the financial markets lag far behind the ceremonial declarations.
This shattered town is hosting the G-8 summit of the world's leading economies beginning on Wednesday, and its inhabitants have little hope that the meeting will bring any fundamental improvement to their lives. Expectations that the summit itself will yield much progress are similarly muted.
all together now:
'couldn't happen to a nicer guy!'
when he went to viareggio last week to grab photo-ops near where the propane carriage of a train exploded, killing and wounding many people, (because of a rusty axle, some say), he was booed heartily by the people, quite astounding to behold.
then someone told me that part of tuscany is very leftish politically.
his wings are melting, sky sat just passed mediaset in adrev.
say bye bye blackbird
maybe getting kicked out, or seriously slapped down on the world stage at the G8, surrounded by betrayed homeless citizens to contrast with his dickiness, well, we can dream.
there's only one way down for creeps that unholy, and that's hard...
CHTANG
couldn't... when famiglia christiana can't be seen as supportive, it's all over but the cryin... ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
