G8 meeting do not waste

Group of Eight summit on the 8th the central city of L'Aquila, Italy, officially kicked off, the leaders will focus on financial and economic crisis, climate change, African development and food security and other global issues, the current financial crisis because of the global economy is still difficult to combat many, the efforts to address climate change has entered a new phase, so the summit has also been concerned about the outside world. The choice of summit venue outside the city of L'Aquila, a Financial Nike shoes Police Academy was held in April this year after the earthquake L'Aquila, here as a disaster command center. On the 3rd of this month, L'Aquila magnitude 4.1 occurred in the aftershock epicenter was near that of the police academy only 800 meters. However, Italy has repeatedly said that all meetings of the school facilities and school buildings have to undergo a rigorous inspection, to reach 5.5 earthquake.

In order to organize the summit, the Italian Government to abandon the island resorts have been built La Maddalena Convention Center and hotels, in L'Aquila more than 5000 million euros of investment, reconstruction of earthquake-damaged roads, the Financial Police Academy to the nike air rift school renovation for warm homes yellow soil, addition of a variety of conference facilities, the expansion near the helipad for the leaders split from the Roman use of the short.

Officers of a 5-storey building has been transformed into hotels, for world leaders to live during the meeting. Primitive conditions of the affected areas, the summit area of the suite also greatly reduced, and each only four rooms and two bathrooms, and a bodyguard for the leader to use. Number of delegations have been severely restricted in 25 others who can only live in Rome or the eastern coastal cities to spend a day driving back and forth more than two hours.



But Berlusconi still wants to close the very thoughtful, likes to play basketball for Obama prepared a goal for his pastime. Unfortunately, Obama seems to no lingering L'Aquila, he will leave the summit early to return to Rome, met the Pope and the Vatican.

In order to pacify the local population's complaints about the waste of the summit, Berlusconi said after the summit, all the leaders stayed out of the room will give homeless earthquake victims in use, the leaders of used goods, including Obama's beds will also be put up for sale, all funds raised for disaster relief.