Spain wants to join the G20

The daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung comments on the efforts of Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero to get a last-minute invitation to the meeting of the G20 group. The G8 and the chief newly industrialised countries will meet in the United States in November to discuss a new order for the financial market. "There should really be no doubt that after thirty years of democracy and an astonishing flourishing of its economy Spain should no longer be sitting at the children's table when the international community discusses strategies for the future. Through skillful national government and generous European funding Spain has prospered to become a model economy and, in terms of GDP, number 5 in the EU and number 8 in the world. Yet it still has to wait outside the door when the G8 meets. ... In his second term in office Zapatero has developed foreign policy ambitions. But so far Madrid's knock has produced only a faint echo."

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