A picture taken on August 22, 2019 shows a G7 badge of the CRS (Republican Security Companies) in Biarritz, southwestern France, where G7 delegations will be hosted, ahead of the 45th Group of Seven (G7) nations annual summit which will take place from August 24 to 26 in the French seaside resort. - A raft of unprecedented measures are set to transform the glamorous French resort of Biarritz into a security fortress as it gears up to host G7 leaders this weekend. Activists have announced a "counter-summit" of thousands of people to lambast the policies of world powers, and the French authorities want at all costs to avoid the event being marred by clashes with police. (Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP)