Soon, images will be circling around the globe of the G7 summit at the Elmau Palace Hotel in the Bavarian Alps - images portraying the rustic, folklore side of Germany's southern state. Everything will be on show, except for one thing: There will be no rifle salutes.A girl in a dirndl dress, a lad in knee-length lederhosen, and both holding a bouquet of flowers in the state of Bavaria's colours of white and blue: This is how the seven most powerful Western leaders will be greeted when they
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