By Heike Hänsel, Member of Parliament The G8 summit in Heiligendamm, the most expensive will be. The federal government expects taxpayers € 120 million. 16 000 police officers from all over Germany, 1,100 soldiers, combat divers of the Navy, Coast Guard boats, Phantom fighter aircraft and a 3.5 km long steel net off the coast to the safety the leaders make. But the fence was built around Heiligendamm about costs, about € 12 million. The G8 summit is not only costly - it is accompanied by increasing repression. Union leaders want to send out the GSG 9 counter-demonstrators, SPD leaders demand the use of rubber bullets. In the context of the summit, new security standards are established, such as the hidden-line searches of hard drives. "Globalization with a human face" promises Chancellor Merkel - raids, scent samples, online searches tell a different story.
spite of all words over the so-called "Partnership with Africa: the G8, the problems of the South not resolve - their meeting is an expression of the unjust and destructive world order, which produces these problems. Poverty and lack of food in Africa, the balance of decades of neo-liberal economic and trade policy, for which the G8 countries is responsible to its dominant influence on World Bank, IMF and OECD, and which continues in the political agenda of the German G8 Presidency , which has declared the world free trade, investment protection, and global access to energy sources to the central goals.
The Left continues its hopes, therefore, on other players: We, African civil society support in its call for solidarity Trade relations between EU and Africa. The negotiations on Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) that the federal government is pushing for a EU president currently must be exposed and reoriented: non-market access and investment protection for EU companies, but the development needs of ACP societies must be the focus. In Latin America by way of alternative economic integration already tested in concrete terms: Under the agreement, ALBA (Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas), the trade is complementary and designed with the needs of the participating companies. Here are points of reference for a future more just world economic order. Such can not be enforced, but only against the G8.
Heike Hänsel is a member of the German Bundestag and the Group of the Left in the Committee for Economic Cooperation and Development (EEZ).
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