Too long and often banal. Everything as we expected. The G8 Summit approved its long, oh so long declaration on, energy security but did not settle any of the issues that were outstanding before the meeting and still remain unresolved. Jealous perhaps of the European Council, the length of whose conclusions is sometimes inversely proportional to their real importance, the Saint Petersburg summit wanted to show that it too could fill pages and pages of banalities through which one has to look...