It is a little sensation for Upper Bavaria: the G7 summit in Elmau is coming back to life.
In June, the world's most important heads of state will meet again in the palace - accompanied by a huge police presence, counter-demonstrations and thousands of journalists.
Elmau / Munich - "Greetings God", shouted the US President across the Bavarian marketplace, almost flawlessly and definitely warmly.
Then he sat down on a beer bench and had a non-alcoholic wheat beer brought to him, a pretzel and two white sausages.
People sitting next to him explained this to him with the lengthways and cross cuts.
It was a crazy moment in 2015, the US President on the village square of Krün (Garmisch-Partenkirchen district *).
G7 summit 2022: heads of state come back to Upper Bavaria
And it will repeat itself. According to information from our newspaper, another G7 summit is planned in Upper Bavaria for the end of June 2022. According to the schedule, Germany is the organizer, weeks of explorations by the federal government showed: Let's go back to Elmau. One can speculate about the reasons: the fantastic summer pictures from the mountains, the topography, which made it easy to shield the area from threats, to secure the conference venue (there were even snipers on the church tower of Krün), and the Bavarian police, all of them Had counter-demonstrators under control without any problems.
The castle also offers enough space to accommodate the US heads of state from Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Japan and Canada.
The hotels in the area should then be booked by the accompanying delegations and the huge security apparatus in June - a sixth in the lottery for the tourism industry plagued by Corona *.
Söder: "Bavaria always gives the G7 a warm welcome."
So far, the new Elmau edition is still confidential, not even in Bavaria's top political level know about it. The state government does not officially confirm the choice of location - but Bavaria is ready. "If the federal government should choose Schloss Elmau again, we would be very happy," said Prime Minister Markus Söder * (CSU) of our newspaper. “Bavaria always gives the G7 a warm welcome. We like to be a safe and cosmopolitan host. "
The mood on site is not quite as euphoric.
The summit mayor of Krün, Thomas Schwarzenberger (CSU), says: "If the summit actually came, two hearts would beat in my chest."
But he also sees all the work for the region.
District Administrator Anton Speer (FW) sees it similarly and speaks of a "huge challenge".
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