On Friday, November 4th at 11:00am (CET), the G20 Research Group held its “Assessing the Cannes Summit Accomplishments” press briefing in the International Press Centre in Cannes, France. The briefing was well-attended by more than 40 media personnel. The G20RG’s expert panel included: Andrew Cooper, Centre for International Governance Innovation, Canada Victoria Panova, Moscow State [...]
Representatives from the G20 Research Group were in attendance today as Julia Gillard, Prime Minister of Australia, briefed the media contingent assembled at the International Press Centre in Cannes, France. Speaking to the Eurozone crisis that has garnered much coverage during the summit, Gillard remarked that non-European G20 countries such as Australia have their own [...]
Representatives from the G20 Research Group were in attendance today as our colleagues at the Digital 20 Project conducted a well-attended, open-ended press briefing at the International Media Centre in Cannes, France. The D20 panel included Alan S. Alexandroff, director of the D20; Donald Brean, expert in finance and economics; Hugo Dobson, expert in Japanese [...]
The G20 Research Group held a press conference at the Cannes International Press Center at 12 PM (CET) on Tuesday, November 2nd. Co-chair Ava Dayna-Sefa and compliance directors Krystel Montpetit and Hermonie Xie presented the G20RG’s latest findings to members of the international media. Numerous news outlets were in attendance and were actively engaged in [...]
Postscript: Score [0.5] G8 leaders affirmed that development is a common challenge and that aid effectiveness is a shared responsibility. While they acknowledged that all commitments have not been achieved in full – there is a gap of USD 1.27 billion in current dollars relative to OECD estimates for 2010 – they maintained that ODA is [...]
