Moving beyond the traditional model
China and Germany have developed a remarkable bilateral relationship over many years. Although China still needs support from Germany in many areas, it is now time for China and Germany to build a new partnership via development cooperation modalities to contribute to global sustainable development.
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Preserve cohesion of the G20
At first glance, the communiqué of the G20’s Hamburg Summit is an ordinary piece of international diplomacy. However, as is often the case, context is key to assess its real importance. Two context factors defined this year’s negotiations of G20 leaders in the exhibition halls in the city center of Hamburg. Within the negotiation room, an unruly US president questioned a number of common positions that had already been adopted by the G20 in previous years.
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I have been writing about the G20 for seven years. The G20 has evolved substantially over that time, with an ever-broadening agenda that now covers issues far beyond those envisioned in the first G20 summits in Washington and London over 2008 and 2009, when the G20 was at its peak as a globally influential governance body. As a result, and in order to stay on top of the expanded agenda, the trend has been towards greater reliance by G20 Ministers and Leaders upon lower-level officials and bureaucrats to both prepare and even draft the main G20 outcome documents – particularly the final communique.
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Keiner Illusion aufliegen
Das Jahr 2015 war ein zukunftsweisendes: in Paris wurde ein Weltklimavertrag. In New York wurden nachhaltige Entwicklungsziele für alle Länder dieser Erde beschlossen. Der Wille, eine Welt zu schaffen, in der Hunger und Armut abgebaut werden sowie innerhalb der Grenzen unseres Planeten gewirtschaftet und Wohlstand gerechter verteilt wird, war als Gipfelergebnis mehrheitsfähig. Doch wo stehen wir heute? Der neue US-Präsident scheint an internationalen Vereinbarungen kein Interesse zu haben, brüskiert die G7-Staaten und hat den Ausstieg aus dem Klimavertrag verkündet.
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Hamburg could mark a departure
Much of the criticism levelled at the Group of 20 (G20), the club of the world’s most economically powerful industrialised and emerging economies, is justified. The Hamburg summit will play host to high-level autocrats and, in many ways, its agenda is far removed from the needs and standards of a just, inclusive and sustainable global economy. Policy advisors still hoping for the gathering to deliver in some way are banking on an initiative supported by the EU countries and their civil societies in cooperation with several partners from the global South, an initiative designed to promote sustainability solidarity and participation.
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