A well-organised counter-summit

On the other side of the barbed wire the climate will be hot, but on this side it will be icy-cold," writes Berlin correspondent Edit Inotai on Germany's preparations for next week's G8 Summit. "Merkel and her team are trying to keep expectations as low as possible, although she knows that a hollow statement would only tarnish her prestige in both domestic and foreign politics... An unsuccessful G8 Summit would suit the anti-globalisation camp just fine. It would prove that the leading politicians of the world's most powerful nations have neither the right to negotiate the world's problems nor the ability to make sound proposals - in contrast to the 'dissidents'; environmentalists, alternative movements, NGOs, trade unions and religious groups who are astonishingly well-organised in their preparations for the counter-summit."

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