July 8, 2009. From left, foreground: U.S. President Barack Obama, French President Nicolas Sarkozy; from left, middle: Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, German Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel; from left, background: 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.
