Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's billionaire prime minister, playing host this week to leaders of the world's other seven most powerful industrial nations in the unlikeliest of all venues, a central Italian mountain town that was all but wiped out by an earthquake last April, and which continues to shudder with aftershocks.
He has also invited along to his mega-meeting the leaders of another two dozen countries including the economic giants of the future and a handful of much poorer African nations.
The party is called G8.
And it is already turning into something of a logistical nightmare. The VIP guests are being ferried by helicopter to and from the party venue - a rather unattractive but reputedly seismically safe police barracks, just outside L'Aquila, dressed up for the occasion.
A military exclusion zone has been set up around the barracks with roadblocks to ward off any potential party poopers in the shape of anti-global demonstrators.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
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