But the main theme of this years meeting is the fight against inequality in all its forms theres war. In developed nations the gap between the rich and the poor has reached its highest level in the past 50 years the average income of the richest 10 percent of the population is now about 9 times that of the poorest 10 percent. And. The anger of those that feel left behind was most popular in france this years g 700. That was it triggered the yellow vest protests that raged for 5 months and false president maicon to announce a host of measures to redress economic inequality. That anger has also sparked a trend towards anti establishment an anti elite movements Donald Trumps provocative rhetoric chimes with that mood. As
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about but then you choose inequality and below this headline many of the old issues they ve been negotiating for a long time so on the inequality they talk about gender inequality konami inequality climate inequality so they basically continue the agenda with a slightly different focus ok but following this agenda is going to be complicated this year isn t it by the by the time presidency u.s. president donald trump as head of time he s going to hold bilateral talks what as you mentioned is a very informal group of everyone sitting around the table how is that going to affect this summit well the thing is you need content since it is 7 is an informal group as i said no rules or regulations how to deal with how to find a compromise so what you need is you talk you know each other you you sort of find a compromise and if one country or the u.s. president on trump is not willing to negotiate with the of those the whole summit will be will reach no confusion which is the problem for this k
work now with claudia smoko she s the head of the globalization and world economy program of the german council on foreign relations thanks very much for coming in this morning let s start out with the amazon the host of the summit the g. 7 summit wants to bring it to the top of the agenda manual mccraw is that going to happen the g 7 is a very informal format which means you don t have a strict agenda what you need to talk about which means once of you to meet they would talk about everything that s pressing and urgent and says that s something you want to talk about so they were definitely have that discussion on the amazon forest ok no you ve been following cloudy the g. 7 for many years now fighting economic inequality is the main theme at this summit but that s something we ve seen before definitely the president see it s a very informal format as i said before and the president chooses the focus off the t 7 just to give a tomato to it to make it easier for the people to understan
but the main theme of this year s meeting is the fight against inequality in all its forms there s war. in developed nations the gap between the rich and the poor has reached its highest level in the past 50 years the average income of the richest 10 percent of the population is now about 9 times that of the poorest 10 percent. and. the anger of those that feel left behind was most popular in france this year s g 700. that was it triggered the yellow vest protests that raged for 5 months and false president maicon to announce a host of measures to redress economic inequality. that anger has also sparked a trend towards anti establishment an anti elite movements donald trump s provocative rhetoric chimes with that mood. as