Archive by Author

EU – Global Health & Development: 0.75

Posted 26 June 2010 | By | Categories: Country Analysis, European Union | Comments Off

The EU is being awarded 0.75 for achievement of its goals relating to global health and development at this year’s G8 Summit. The G8 leaders’ Muskoka Declaration released on June 26 pledged renewed support of the Millennium Development Goals first adopted at the 2005 Gleneagles Summit, and scheduled for completion by 2015. Conceding that progress [...]

European Council/Commission Presidents’ Press Conference Report

Posted 25 June 2010 | By | Categories: European Union, Press conference report | Comments Off

At a press conference held today by European Commission President José Manuel Barroso and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, the EU leaders reaffirmed their objectives and prospectuses for the current G8/G20 Summit meetings, as well as their ambitions for sustaining these goals over what President Van Rompuy deemed the “middle term.” Both Van Rompuy [...]

European Union’s Summit Prospects

Posted 24 June 2010 | By | Categories: Country Analysis, European Union | Comments Off

The EU’s priorities for the 2010 G8 Summit will be world economy; regional security; climate change and global health. Despite an initial reluctance to stimulus expansion, the EU will now seek to deal with prevention and monitoring of member states’ debt and competitive iniquities. The EU will also turn its focus to regional security issues, [...]