From London’s regenerated Docklands to the Emerald Coast. G20 leaders can start packing their tuxedos and snorkels for their next and rather more glamorous summit when they will be hosted on a cruise liner and possibly entertained at the private villa of Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s billionaire prime minister.
The logistics are a nightmare – “like holding a mini-Olympics” as one senior official described the three-day summit in July, involving at least 30,000 people on and around the islet of Maddalena, just off northern Sardinia.
