G8 Research Group

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 [...]

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, [...]