mint Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/G20/article6005810.eceLa crise indeed! Is there going to be real talking or just posturing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 He needs brownie points at home but is also attracted by anyhting which increases control in whatever domain; Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 "Rien ne serait pire qu'un G20 a minima. Je préfère le clash au consensus mou." (Nothing would be worse than a G20 with minimum agreement. I prefer a clash to a mild consensus.)"Leprésident [...] pense queles forces de la pesanteur sont plus fortes que celles du mouvement". (The president [...] believes that the forces of gravity are stronger than those of the movement.)Sarkozy veut des resultats à tout prixLe pari diplomatique de Nicolas Sarkozy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIG MAC Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 I think he has a point.Cloak and dagger self interest created the current situation. What lessons are learnt if Banks and countries are not to be held openly accountable?I don't think this is Napoleon syndrome so much as a President saying he doesn't want to roll up to a meaningless and powerless meeting when he has a Country to run.I might not share his political ideals but fair play to him for making a stand, I think the French like a bit of that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gastines Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 Big Mac, you have used the expresion which should be tatoo'd on every Labour M.P.'s forehead and a few Tories."Lessons will be learnt" How many times has that been wheeled out by the present bunch in the last ten years? The sad bit is that not one lesson has been learnt by any Government Department.Regards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 G20: France and Germany throw down the gauntletlink repaired Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krusty Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 link not working Clair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krusty Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 I am sure you lot will not be able to sleep unless you know what the G20 crowd are having to eat [Www]Jamie Oliver will serve up a dinner for the G20 leaders which honours the best of British food. The meal, prepared by young chefs from the his Fifteen restaurant, will begin with organic salmon from Shetland, served with samphire and sea kale, a selection of vegetables from Sussex, Surrey and Kent, and Irish soda bread.For the main course, the celebrity chef will offer slow-roasted shoulder of lamb from the Elwy Valley in north Wales, with Jersey Royal potatoes, wild mushrooms and mint sauce.Dessert will be the classic Bakewell tart and custard.The vegetarian option will include a goat's cheese starter and lovage and potato dumplings for the main course.Oliver said: "I'm very, very proud of my country and its food traditions and I know that the guests at Downing Street will be in for a real treat." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gluestick Posted April 2, 2009 Share Posted April 2, 2009 [quote]I am sure you lot will not be able to sleep unless you know what the G20 crowd are having to eat [/quote]Let us hope they eat the dual idiots Brown and Darling today, as the conference true kicks off, now the posturing and posing is over.Starting by explaining that the rest of Europe doesn't want to run itself into fiscal bankruptcy in order to cure a problem which was fundamentally created by the USA and UK.................................................. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugsy Posted April 2, 2009 Share Posted April 2, 2009 It looks like we will all be needing to thank Nick and Angie for bringing a touch of sanity to the G20.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gluestick Posted April 2, 2009 Share Posted April 2, 2009 [quote user="Bugbear"]It looks like we will all be needing to thank Nick and Angie for bringing a touch of sanity to the G20.[/quote]Sorry to have to ask; who the hell are Nick and Angie?[8-)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunday Driver Posted April 2, 2009 Share Posted April 2, 2009 There's a photograph of them together on Clair's earlier G20 link........[;-)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugsy Posted April 2, 2009 Share Posted April 2, 2009 ....[;-)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gluestick Posted April 2, 2009 Share Posted April 2, 2009 [quote user="Sunday Driver"]There's a photograph of them together on Clair's earlier G20 link........[;-)][/quote]Slow this Am SD: get it now........................................[blink] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted April 2, 2009 Share Posted April 2, 2009 A good summing up:G20: Deal? Or no deal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gluestick Posted April 2, 2009 Share Posted April 2, 2009 Who does one believe?http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/g20-summit/5082004/Britain-will-escape-with-with-shallower-recession-than-rivals-OECD-predicts.htmlhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2076432/Britain-faces-deepest-slump-since-1990s.htmlhttp://www.financemarkets.co.uk/2009/04/01/oecd-says-britain-in-worst-decline-since-1945/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chancer Posted April 2, 2009 Share Posted April 2, 2009 The tri-polar OECD of course! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krusty Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 The big guns of G20 fill the news , I wondered who else was in it , here is the listArgentina ,Australia ,Brazil ,Canada ,China ,France ,Germany ,India ,Indonesia ,Italy ,Japan ,Mexico ,Russia ,Saudi Arabia ,South Africa ,South Korea ,Turkey ,United Kingdom ,United States The 20th member is the European Union Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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