Important subtext to this year’s G7-it’s Angela Merkel’s last. Here is her first in 2006. Leaders include Blair, Prodi, Chirac, Koizumi, Bush, all passed into history. She’s outlasted them all and indeed, in most cases their successors’ successors. 
She has not outlasted Putin who was also in attendance, indeed the host in 2005- it was the G8 at that time. But then he doesn’t really have the petty encumbrance of democracy to worry about.
Important subtext flowing from this subtext, with Merkel gone and save for Baerbock emerging as Chancellor after the German elections seems likely that when the G7 next meets it’ll be an all boys club again in terms of elected leaders. Hasn’t been all men since 2005.
That is unless Marine Le Pen is elected President in France.
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