Following our posts about the anger felt by civil society groups about their forced separation from the media at this year’s G8/G20 Summit, GCAP released a press release on the issue. Kumi Naidoo, co-chair of the GCAP, called the situation “media apartheid”. Further quoted in the press release, Naidoo added that ““This is especially egregious [...]
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At the conclusion of the G20 Summit in Toronto, British Prime Minister David Cameron addressed the media and took 4 questions. Out of the four, two were related to…you guessed it..England’s World Cup loss to Germany earlier that afternoon. As you will see in the video below (which captures the response to the first), Prime [...]
Italy has been awarded a score of +1 for its efforts to promote its world economy priorities at both the G8 and G20 summits. Although none of its objectives were discussed at the G8 Muskoka Summit itself, in light of its statement quoted above it is clear that Italy always intended to focus its efforts [...]
European Council President Herman Van Rompuy and European Commission President José Manuel Barroso released a statement today following the conclusion of G20 talks. The Presidents felt that the Summit had reflected widespread convergence around the EU’s economic and trade agendas. They reported support for the EU’s nationally differentiated approach to fiscal consolidation and relayed the [...]
The recently leaked draft communiqué from the G20 leaders’ meeting demonstrates a near-complete congruence with the European Union’s world economy priorities at the G8 and G20 Summits. They have managed to achieve firm support from the G20 regarding fiscal consolidation initiatives. In fact, the G20 has encouraged fiscally troubled countries “to accelerate the pace of [...]
The EU has received a score of 0.75 for the achievement of its regional security objectives at the G8 2010 Summit. The consensus of the G8 leaders on the necessity of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference, as well as renewed support for disarmament initiatives via a New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty between the US [...]
With the goal of attending as many events over the course of the G8/G20 Summits, the Civil Society Team of the G8 Research Group attended the peaceful portion of the protest on Saturday, June 26, 2010. We arrived at Queen’s Park around 12:40pm, and were greeted by the watchful eye of police in the subway [...]
France has been assigned a score of 0.75 in its world economy objective. The G8 leaders joined the G20 in Toronto to discuss issues pertaining to international finance. Block 3 and Annex 2 of the Leaders’ Statement see the G20 agree on financial sector reform, including regulatory and supervisory measures for the banking system. The [...]
The G8 made no specific commitments on the world economy and the international finance system. The G8 leaders discussed economic issues, including the European debt crisis and financial system reforms in their first working session at the Muskoka G8 Summit.
President Medvedev emphasized the need to find collective ways of helping affected countries lower their budget [...]
Despite the importance of balancing immediate assistance and longer-term access, the G8 did not commit to a Food Aid Convention for the 21st century. At the 2010 Development Minister’s Meeting in Halifax, the G8 Development Ministers “agree[d] to do further work” in the establishment of “a Food Aid Convention (FAC) for the 21st century that [...]
