G 7 in Elmau
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The impotence of the powerful
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In the run-up to the summit, it was said that they would meet to “match the clocks”. It quickly becomes clear that Joe Biden would really like to set the time.
(Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP)
In an almost surreally beautiful landscape, the powerful meet to discuss the state of the world. Everything doesn’t look so good, war, hunger, pandemic. And yet, you have to set an example here for the one who isn’t there: Putin.
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Daniel Brössler, Matthias Köpf and Paul-Anton Krüger, Schloss Elmau
Him again. “What’s the shot?” Boris Johnson wants to know from the photographers. That is, with all due respect, a comparatively stupid question. Unless you wanted to take a group photo from the summit of Elmau, on which for heaven’s sake no mountain should be visible. Interestingly enough, the British Prime Minister nevertheless manages to initiate a lively discussion among the more or less powerful world powers about which is ahead and which is behind. In this case, of course, the front is the back, because the perspective is supposed to be the same as the iconic image from the 2015 G-7 summit.
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