this year<\/a> paid France \u20ac446 million as part of the 1973 treaty.<\/p>\n\u201cWe have established a pretty colossal security setup,\u201d he said in a phone interview. \u201cIt would be elegant for them [France] to contribute financially for the consequences of their decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n
Swiss authorities are determined to avoid a repeat of protests that ravaged Geneva around a G8 summit in 2003 (Russia was previously a participant along with France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Japan and the United States, but was kicked out in 2014 after it annexed Crimea).<\/p>\n
In addition to police, some 4,000 Swiss military personnel are being mobilized this week to oversee protests and staff border checkpoints, Paoliello said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not the fact that Geneva is being used as the main travel hub for the summit \u2014 we can handle that. It\u2019s everything else, namely the fact that we aren\u2019t seeing any interest in handling the considerable costs linked to the summit itself,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Swiss police clashed with some 600-700 protesters on Monday, leading the protest to be forbidden after three hours. All other public rallies have been forbidden during the G7 summit.<\/p>\n
Another bugbear: France has not seen fit to establish designated protest sites or \u201ccounter-summits,\u201d as is occasionally done around controversial leader gatherings such as the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cash-strapped France is refusing to contribute to the \u20ac21.7-\u20ac27.2 million cost of securing the border and policing the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[6589,43240,563,799,43241,968,18,10822,1001,43242,1344,5709,309,1219,4075,43243,136,6332,17,178,497,74,4133,4140,4275],"class_list":["post-84699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-airports","tag-borders","tag-canada","tag-climate-change","tag-communications","tag-department","tag-donald-trump","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-france","tag-g8","tag-germany","tag-inequality","tag-italy","tag-japan","tag-military","tag-policing","tag-russia","tag-security","tag-switzerland","tag-tax","tag-trade","tag-united-states","tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","tag-war","tag-war-in-ukraine"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116754957277252691","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}