Posted on 03/29/2009 3:40:22 AM PDT by tobyhill
In an embarrassing disclosure, a draft of the final communiqué to be signed off by world leaders at the end of the one-day gathering on Thursday appeared in the German magazine Der Spiegel.
There were suspicions that the leak was a deliberate act of sabotage by sources within the German government, where Chancellor Angela Merkel is adopting a more cautious approach to fiscal moves to boost the national economy than Mr Brown, who will chair the summit.
A Downing Street spokesman said the leak was an "old document with out of date figures" and that the £1.4 trillion was an estimate by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) of stimulus measures already introduced by G20 countries. No new money was included, the spokesman added.
The comments, though, only served to increase speculation that Mr Brown was being forced to scale down ambitious plans because of international opposition, led by Germany and France.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
hehe... Busted.
Ha! Gotta keep your eye on Angie...she learned some sly moves over in the DDR.
What is the DDR?
“Cold War” German Democratic Republic
Deutsche Demokratische Republik...aka East Germany. Angie is an Ossie (East German).
or more specifically... Deutsche Demokratische Republik
*an “old document with out of date figures” and that the £1.4 trillion was an estimate *
Actually only £1.398 trillion.
So any bets on whether Brown makes any cracks about the Bumdestag incident as payback?
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This summit's gonna be a hoot...
ML/NJ
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