G7 summit: World leaders gather for family photo in Biarritz, France (25th August 2019)

World leaders and special invited guests posed for a 'family photo' along the picturesque Biarritz seaside on Sunday, set against a backdrop of worries over a global economic downturn and disunity on a range of matters.

The summit is being hosted on Biarritz’s Atlantic seafront, which has been entirely sealed off for the event. Encouraged by warm breezes and mostly sunny skies, several of the leaders chose to walk from their grand hotel to the venue for the talks along the deserted and heavily guarded beach in front of the city’s casino.
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In breaks in the negotiations, they have been treated to the best of the Basque region’s cuisine, prepared by top local chefs and kitchen staff from the Élysée Palace.

Below the pleasantly gilded surface, however, there has been an undercurrent of bitterness and anxiety at the summit. Boxed in by multiple global crises, the group of major industrialised democracies is arguably at its most divided since its founding in 1977.

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