G7 summit at Schloss Elmau 2015

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41st G7 summit
G7-2015-Elmau-Logo.svg
place GermanyGermany Elmau Castle in Krün , Germany
Beginning June 7, 2015
The End June 8, 2015
Participants of the G7 and representatives of the European Union
GermanyGermany Germany Angela Merkel
FranceFrance France François Hollande
ItalyItaly Italy Matteo Renzi
JapanJapan Japan Shinzo Abe
CanadaCanada Canada Stephen Harper
United StatesUnited States United States Barack Obama
United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom David Cameron
European UnionEuropean Union European Union Donald Tusk
Jean-Claude Juncker
G7 outreach meeting
EthiopiaEthiopia Ethiopia Hailemariam Desalegn
IraqIraq Iraq Haider al-Abadi
LiberiaLiberia Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
NigeriaNigeria Nigeria Muhammadu Buhari
SenegalSenegal Senegal Macky Sall
TunisiaTunisia Tunisia Beji Caid Essebsi
Organization for economic cooperation and developmentOECD OECD José Ángel Gurría
IMF IMF Christine Lagarde
World bank World bank Jim Yong Kim
WTO WTO Roberto Azevedo
International labor organizationInternational labor organization International labor organization Guy Ryder
United NationsU.N. U.N. Ban Ki-moon
African UnionAfrican Union African Union Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
2014 II 2016

The G7 summit at Schloss Elmau was a meeting of the Group of Seven in Krün ( Garmisch-Partenkirchen district ) in the Free State of Bavaria . The 41st G7 summit took place from June 7th to 8th, 2015 in Schloss Elmau , a five-star hotel above the village of Klais in the Wetterstein Mountains . Also the Kranzbach Castle was used before and during the summit of the German government. Since Germany took over the G7 presidency until the end of 2015 after the G7 summit in Brussels in 2014, the conference was chaired by German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The sixth summit in Germany after Bonn ( 1978 , 1985 ), Munich (1992) , Cologne (1999) and Heiligendamm (2007) had the motto “Think about tomorrow. Act together. "

Before and during the summit, there were massive security measures. The venue was geographically inaccessible. In addition, the preparations for the protests led to internal fragmentation among the summit opponents. The feared violent protests by critics of globalization did not materialize.

Among other things, the G7 countries agreed at the summit to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by 70% by 2050 and to fully decarbonise the global economy by 2100 .

Planned topics

  • Foreign, security and development policy
  • Post 2015 agenda
  • Marine environmental protection, marine governance and resource efficiency in the field of the environment
  • Antibiotic resistance , neglected and poverty-related health diseases
  • Standards in trade and supply chains
  • Empowering women in self-employment and vocational training
  • Energy security

A week before the meeting, Angela Merkel described the preparations for the UN climate conference in Paris at the end of the year and the question of what conclusions should be drawn from the 2014 Ebola epidemic as two of the most important topics at the summit. It also gave high priority to fighting hunger and absolute poverty .

Preparatory meeting

Meeting of finance ministers in Dresden

In order to draw up letters of intent and to leave as few questions as possible on the summit topics open, negotiators from the respective governments met beforehand :

date To meet Meeting place
April 14-15, 2015 Foreign ministers meeting Lübeck
May 11-12, 2015 Energy ministers meeting Hamburg
May 27-29, 2015 Finance ministers meeting Dresden

At the meeting of foreign ministers in Lübeck, declarations were adopted on the negotiations on the Iranian nuclear program , the threat to trade routes from piracy and the military intervention in Yemen in 2015 . The foreign ministers again condemned the annexation of Crimea by Russia . There were several counter-demonstrations. The costs for the police operation, which amounted to 4.7 million euros through 40,000 overtime, were met with different political assessments.

At their meeting, the energy ministers campaigned for “sustainable energy security”. This includes security against cyber attacks and support for Ukraine in view of Europe's dependence on natural gas supplies .

The meeting of finance ministers in the Dresden Residenzschloss and in the Taschenbergpalais took place with the participation of economists Kenneth S. Rogoff , Robert J. Shiller and Nouriel Roubini . The agenda foreseen to decide on better cooperation in countering the financing of terrorism . Terrorist assets are to be frozen more quickly, financial flows are to be monitored more seamlessly and new financing channels, for example of the Islamic State (antiques smuggling, use of virtual currencies), are to be discussed. As a result, it was emphasized that the aim was to achieve stable economic growth while at the same time reducing public debt and budget deficits. This is not a contradiction. The Greek sovereign debt crisis became an unofficial topic. Negotiations about further financial aid for the country are not before the breakthrough claimed by Greece. The IMF -Chefin Christine Lagarde had emphasized elsewhere, they close the exit of Greece from the euro area ( Grexit not) of more.

Results

Event location Schloss Elmau
The participants of the G7 and the representatives of the European Union at the group photo
Angela Merkel and Barack Obama in conversation (Photo: Pete Souza )

The result of the summit, which was seen as a priority, was of a climate-political nature: the G7 states' commitment to the two-degree target of global warming , which was decided against the resistance of Japan, and that of decarbonising the world economy by the end of the 21st century, i.e. the gradual and complete renunciation on fossil fuels such as coal, natural gas and oil. By 2050, global greenhouse gas emissions are to be reduced by 40 to 70% compared to 2010. The G7 countries want to finance these goals with their own contributions and a fund for developing countries of 100 million US dollars annually. Unexpected praise came from G7-critical organizations such as Oxfam and Greenpeace . During the summit conference, Greenpeace had projected the sentence: “G7: 100 percent renewable energies!” Onto the Zugspitze massif. Also Avaaz , the European Climate Foundation and the WWF expressed their consent. Criticism of the feasibility of these declarations of intent came from both the press and the German opposition. The climate researcher Mojib Latif said that there is a great gap between demands and reality. The German Renewable Energy Association declared that the agreements were going in the right direction, but had yet to prove themselves in reality. In addition, the goal of 40% to 70% fewer emissions by 2050 than in 2010 is a minimum requirement.

The G7 states once again condemned the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and emphasized that Russia had thus placed itself outside the community of values ​​of the G7 and that a re-entry into the forum, back to the G8, was currently not possible. They reserved the right to tighten sanctions against Russia if the situation in eastern Ukraine continued to escalate. In the event of de-escalation, however, they could also be relaxed. The G7 countries also signaled that there was now a consensus not to supply Ukraine with arms, a position the United States had not always shared.

In order to promote global economic growth by dismantling trade barriers, the delegates spoke out in favor of concluding the Doha Round and, without specifying a specific point in time, advocated further advancing and accelerating work on the TTIP and CETA free trade agreements . An economic partnership agreement is also to be concluded with Japan by the end of 2015.

The participants showed that they were “determined” to “reduce the number of Ebola sufferers to zero” and committed themselves to preventing epidemics. In order to implement this goal, at least 60 countries, including the West African states already affected, are to be supported in their health systems by 2020. Antibiotic resistance and preventable tropical diseases should receive increased attention. The participating states also indicated that they are “committed” to ridding 500 million of the currently two billion people affected by hunger and malnutrition by 2030.

The first topic at a G7 summit was marine protection . In particular, plastic waste in the oceans was "recognized" as a global challenge. The fight against littering the seas must be worked more effectively, the goal is to found a worldwide movement.

The representatives of the G7 states further affirmed that they will continue to take resolute action against the terrorist militia Islamic State (IS) in the future . It should be "defeated".

Infrastructure and costs

The towns around Schloss Elmau benefited from the summit insofar as several million euros were invested in construction projects. New roads were built, water pipes renewed, fiber optic cables laid and fire fighting equipment modernized. The small community of Krün alone invested around 10.5 million euros. The retail trade and the hotel and tourism industry in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, on the other hand, complained before the meeting about lost sales, which were attributed to the extensive security measures. The German federal government reckons with costs for the federal government that would be comparable with those of the G8 summit in Heiligendamm in 2007 , i.e. around 80 million euros. The Free State of Bavaria also provided around 130 million euros. In addition, the city of Munich approved one million euros for security measures in the state capital due to possible protests. According to internal data from the Interior Ministry, however, the costs amounted to around 200 million euros; Rolf von Hohenhau , President of the Association of Taxpayers in Bavaria , assumed total costs of 360 million euros.

Deputy government spokesman Georg fighters shared on demand under the government press conference on 8 January 2016, the total cost of the Federation that to 112,640,000 euro totaled. This sum consists of 62.98 million euros "expenses for the organizational and protocol preparation and implementation of the summit, for media support and for securing the state guests and their delegations" and 49.66 million euros "to support the Free State of Bavaria in the Performing its constitutional tasks in the field of hazard prevention, [...] through lump-sum compensation and waiving the reimbursement of operational costs from federal authorities and various material costs ”.

According to the report of the Federal Ministry of Finance to the Budget Committee of the Bundestag, the costs to be financed from public funds amounted to 116 million euros. The accommodation costs for the participants and their companions, as well as media support, amounted to 28.3 million euros. According to the report, which was still unpublished by the end of April 2016, Bavaria received 39.3 million euros from the federal government for additional security measures.

Security measures and protests

Safety measures

Security measures for the meeting of foreign ministers in Lübeck
Sealed manhole covers in Garmisch

After there had been serious riots eight years earlier at the G8 summit in Heiligendamm near Rostock, with many injuries and significant property damage, precautions were taken to prevent similar incidents. In order to guarantee the safety of the heads of government and the population and to be able to control the expected demonstrations, aspects of the usual summit policing were used: an 8 km long security zone was set up around the conference venue, which was difficult to reach for mass demonstrations due to its geographical location. Under the auspices of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, in consultation with the Bavarian Minister of the Interior Joachim Herrmann, temporary controls were introduced at the nearby border with Austria due to the summit, in application of the exception regulation of Art. 23 (today: Art. 25) of the Schengen Borders Code . This was also implemented on the border with the Czech Republic . Free prison cells in renovated buildings and detention containers for 200 prisoners were provided. Seventeen public prosecutors and 100 judges worked in shifts in a former US Army hotel to work through preventive detention and orders for pre- trial detention . More than 10,000 manhole covers were sealed by the police on the B2 federal road from Garmisch-Partenkirchen to Mittenwald. A protest camp by the summit opponents in Garmisch-Partenkirchen was initially banned, but was declared permissible again by the Munich Administrative Court. In advance, the Weilheim-Schongau district office instructed the mayors of the Elmau area to prevent farmers from renting their properties to protesters.

The security measures for both the Austrian and the German police were linked to those for the Bilderberg conference , which took place from June 10th at the Interalpen-Hotel Tyrol in Telfs , Austria, because of the spatial and temporal proximity . There were around 17,000 German police officers on duty, including units from the Support Command (USK), which were supported by a further 3,000 officers by the Federal Police and the Federal Criminal Police Office . On the Austrian side, the summit employed around 2,100 police officers, including the Cobra anti-terrorist unit . The Federal Ministry of Transport set the restricted flight areas “ED-R Schloss Elmau” and “ED-R Elmau overall” for June 7th and 8th, 2015 . Even before the beginning of the summit, the police issued a ban on entry even against journalists, which was heavily criticized by the German Union of Journalists .

The protests of the summit opponents were medically secured on their behalf by demo paramedics . They provided a paramedic service that worked closely with the Oberland control center .

Protests

Demonstration at the preparatory meeting in Lübeck
Summit of alternatives in Munich
Demonstration in Garmisch-Partenkirchen on June 7th

Opponents of the G7 meeting argued that the group of participants was too small and elitist, that the issues should be discussed in the UN and that the participants were not concerned with resolving conflicts, but with better exploiting resources and maximizing profits. In this respect, it is an "expensive PR event". More radical criticism was justified by anarchism and criticism of capitalism and called for the summit to be blocked and disrupted. In this respect, the different currents of the summit opponents were divided: large organizations such as Campact , Bund Naturschutz and the Bavarian Greens favored a demonstration in Munich , while the more radical Stop G-7 Alliance advocated actions on site, for example in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , that should disrupt the summit . Also Blockupy announced it would take part in the protests. After the violent protests against the opening of the new building for the European Central Bank, the police and the district administration department assumed a large number of militant demonstrators.

After smaller demonstrations on the occasion of the preparatory ministerial meeting, a one-day protest camp of autonomous groups began in Nuremberg on May 29th , which, like a demonstration in Munich, met with little participation. Blockages were prepared in advance, for example in Düsseldorf . A star march demonstration planned for June 7th, which was supposed to take place in the immediate vicinity of the summit, was largely banned by the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district office . The reason given was, among other things, that driveways and escape routes should be kept free. On June 5, the administrative court in Munich finally ruled that only 50 people were allowed to protest within "hearing and sight" of the G7 summit, a decision that was reversed by the Bavarian Administrative Court after the demonstrators deemed not to have been transported in police vehicles had declined reasonably.

On June 3rd and 4th a "summit of alternatives" took place in Munich. Among the speakers were Klaus Ernst , Christa Randzio-Plath , Conrad Schuhler , Hubert Weiger and Jean Ziegler . The subjects dealt with included the politics of the G7, global power relations, the return of wars, climate change , as well as flight and migration. It culminated in a large demonstration on June 4th. According to the police, over 34,000 people demonstrated under the motto Stop TTIP - Save the Climate - Fight Poverty against the G7 meeting and in particular against the planned Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement (TTIP). The globalization-critical organization Attac , the Bund Naturschutz in Bayern, Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen Bayern, Campact, Die Linke , Oxfam , the German World Hunger Aid and other parties and non-governmental organizations called for it . The organizers spoke of 40,000 people.

The protests in Garmisch-Partenkirchen began on June 5 with a demonstration at the local European Center for Security Studies , an establishment of the US and German Defense Ministries, in which around 400 people took part who symbolically burned a cardboard tank model. On the way to Garmisch, the economist and speaker at the planned demonstration, Jayati Ghosh , was stopped three times by police checks and thus delayed for four hours, as the alliance announced. On June 6, the opponents of the summit were able to mobilize 3,600 demonstrators there, according to the police, and 7,000 according to their own statements. There were isolated clashes with the police, who used batons and pepper spray , and accompanied the participants as hiking kettles . Journalists were also injured in some cases. The police arrested six people.

One day later, at the beginning of the summit, the police cleared several smaller blockades by activists who had set themselves on roads in the direction of Elmau and temporarily blocked a railway line.

The number of participants in the demonstrations on June 7th was given by the police as 650 and by the organizers as 700 to 1000 people. This was far below the expected level of 2,000 to 3,000 violent demonstrators. The feared riots did not materialize. The police counted 143 towed cars, 56 arrests and 85 reported crimes. 45 of the arrests alone were due to a group of animal rights activists blocking the access to the Munich slaughterhouse on June 3.

Reactions

Former Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt said that he did not consider the exclusion of Russia from the G8, which thus became the G7 , to be sensible. He was pessimistic about the possible outcome of the meeting and said in an interview that he hoped that the Ukraine conflict would not be “poured on fire”. Just like Schmidt, the former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder criticized the exclusion of Vladimir Putin . Russia has an alternative to Europe, which does not apply the other way around. Putin himself ruled out cooperation with the G7 after the summit; bilateral relations are possible, however.

Ex-Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg criticized that the summit only served to make declarations, not to make decisions, and therefore had no consequences. Upcoming elections in the participating states would block this.

Katrin Göring-Eckardt complained that the issue of the refugee problem was not on the agenda, as well as the way the Bavarian authorities dealt with the demonstrators. Members of the Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation Germany and the Federation of Nature Conservation in Bavaria also complained about the severe environmental damage caused by the summit being held in the region.

Regarding the massive police presence, Jean-Claude Juncker said ironically that he planned to attend the G7 meeting if the Bavarian police did not prevent him from reaching the hotel. With regard to the sudden onset of thunderstorms on June 6, Federal Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt said during Obama's reception in Krün, when the weather was fine: “You have to fix that first: yesterday the demonstrators were washed away and the weather today.” The parliamentary group leader of the Bavarian Greens , Ludwig Hartmann , described the large police presence as "security overkill". Five police officers on a demonstrator would be disproportionate and show the understanding of democracy of the CSU government. Joachim Käppner commented in the same vein in the Süddeutsche Zeitung with regard to the strict security precautions that the freedom to demonstrate is a fundamental right and not an imposition:

"In the past few days, the counter-movement has almost been portrayed as if it essentially consisted of the black bloc , it is at least under a kind of general state suspicion of wanting evil."

Theo Sommer commented on Zeit Online that the format of such summit meetings was no longer up to date. As his colleague Kurt Kister has already written, it is a superfluous and expensive ritual that mostly produced declarations of intent, but no binding resolutions. The summit had been depoliticized and instead turned to social problems. Important powers, for example from the Middle East , were left out. Like-minded people had mutually confirmed their opinions that it was more constructive to invite and integrate Vladimir Putin.

Claus Leggewie and Dirk Messner defended the summit meeting in time . Such meetings would take patience to gradually solve complex problems together with other alliances. Even if the group of 7 lacks democratic legitimation, they represent a counterweight of politics to the capitalist society and economy of the "mega-companies". In this respect, "some world government " is necessary. Gero von Randow praised a week later, also in the time of the "climate policy revolution", which was adopted at Schloss Elmau. Although a document does not yet change reality, a first important step towards the global energy transition has been taken. States like China could not be denied the use of nuclear energy, which is now obsolete in Germany, and Germany, as the host of the summit, would be a role model worldwide.

The border controls carried out during the summit resulted in 3,500 arrests, 5,000 searches and investigations in 237 cases of drug offenses and 10,555 violations of the Residence Act , regardless of the search for violent criminals entering the country . This led Joachim Herrmann and Armin Schuster to demand continuous, stricter controls. "Schengen" failed in this regard.

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