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Greece is the Word. But can the G20 Hummus Another Tune?

Nov 3rd, 2011 4:20 PM UTC
By Adrian Lovett

This post originally appeared on the Huffington Post

As somebody once said about these big summits: if you’re not at the table, you’re probably on the menu. And Greece has been breakfast, lunch and dinner here at the G20 so far. Its bones have been well and truly picked over. There can hardly be a morsel left to digest. President Sarkozy had aimed to put global development at the heart of the G20 agenda but Greece has been the only topic of conversation in Cannes. I’ve never seen a global summit so blown off course as this one.

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