View from the summit: what did the G7 achieve?

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  The Economist.

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  Hello, and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.

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  I'm Rosie Bloor.

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  Today on the show, sex work in Japan and the surprising success of British magazine, Country Life.

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  First, books of Lake Geneva in a town famous for its bottled water.

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  The G7 political summit has been taking place in Evion.

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  Everything has been shut down to make space for this annual meeting

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  where leaders of some of the world's wealthiest democracies come together.

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  This year's tranquil setting, the sunlit gardens of the Hotel Royale,

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  is somewhat at odds with the rather more stormy global climate.

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  And it's a tough crowd.

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  Last year, when the meeting took place in Canada, Donald Trump left a day early.

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  President Trump is coming back tonight from the G7 summit in Canada,

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  citing the conflict in the Middle East as the reason.

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  This time, French President Emmanuel Macron is hosting.

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  The need for frank discussion and partnership has rarely seemed more pressing.

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  The question is whether the G7 is merely a talking shop or whether

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  getting leaders together could actually be precisely what everyone needed to do.

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  It's a G7 that's been very much dominated by crises, geopolitical crises, the war in the Middle East, Ukraine.

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  But it's also about Donald Trump.

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