For perhaps Berlusconi has been a success (the media), but for Africa, our planet and people flesh and blood who suffer the burden of the crisis, the G8 Aquila has been a resounding failure.
appropriations for Africa (up from 25 to 15 to settle back down to 20 billion dollars) are nothing that recycled goods (and a bit 'out of order) of the promises made at G8 Glenagles and, before that, the Millennium Assembly United Nations in 2000 (and other international events). We do not know who this money and how we collect and where they will be, or how - if found - will be spent. The climate agreement is below the expectations of the United Nations and its Secretary-General if they complained publicly. Set at between 41 years (in 2050) the objective of reducing greenhouse gases is the most convenient way to buy time, only to revise downwards the targets now set, as they will prove unworkable. The full-blown fight against tax havens and unusual profits of the oil is a pure statement of principle. And "people first" (first person) is just an empty slogan to hide the lack of real measures to tackle the global financial and economic crisis. For new trade rules can be found at the summit in Doha in 2010. And the emphasis is that the markets continue to remain "open" (never, protectionism!), Not that hard and strict rules are established to avoid the financial casino that has dominated in recent years undisturbed. "Rights" of the market it comes far and wide in the G8 statement, the rights of labor there is no trace.
The G8 continues to be a useless club (the world) and indeed often harmful. Ineffective in regulating the global political and environmental development and equally ineffective in a common front to meet a financial and economic crisis without precedent in the Second World War. With an operation of political and media make-up the G8 widens - as the days - G14 to G20 and then, but in essence nothing changes. Developing countries remain at the window, but most are kept out of port 180 and passes the other countries on whose head falls some decisions taken by the G8. The UN is isolated and marginalized, out of the game, and yet are the only ones entitled to take part.
The call - in the final declaration - to follow the example of the Non-Proliferation Treaty and a commitment to create conditions for a world without nuclear weapons "sounds a bit 'strange to the ears of those who aspire to peace. Surely right. But while working to create "conditions" in a world without nuclear weapons, the G8 forget to tell us that every year we spend over 1.2 trillion dollars on weapons (80% from the G8 countries) and sufficient reduce military spending by 4% worldwide to have twice the money earmarked for Africa. For Africa
of money have been allocated in recent years. In words. In fact, the Millennium Development Goals - for lack of resources - have since failed and Berlusconi's promise came in promising to reduce by 56% funding for development cooperation in the last financial, bringing to 0.11% the percentage of GDP allocated to poor countries. To claim the "success" of the G8 is absolute hypocrisy in the face of so many thousands of people dying of hunger and disease in Africa - and the millions of workers who lose their jobs - which are made continuous promises are not kept . The G8 has become an old tool of the years of neoliberalism. It 's time to change course, to return to the United Nations and to the idea of \u200b\u200ba different world based on peace, democracy, economy of Justice. Obviously this was not discussed at the G8.
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