It's shaping up to be a huge and important event and the need to organise for it is forcing the various parts of German left to work out their relationship to each other. It's a very important process which has the potential to show some paths beyond summitism. We in Britain should take notice of it and start a similar process here. There's a 4 page newspaper about this downlaoadable from this page:
 http://www.g8-2007.de/zeitung.php