July 8, 2009. From left: Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, U.S. President Barack Obama, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, German Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, currently holding the EU rotating presidency, and European Commission President José Manuel Barroso during a group photo of G8 heads of state and government.