Schlagwort: G7 Presidency

Photo: Schloss Elmau, the G7 Summit 2022 will take place here

The German G7 Presidency: Dare to make progress on health, sustainability, and trade

By Allgemein, Future of Globalisation, , ,

The G7 presidency is an important opportunity for the new German government to globally advance its policy goals on a broad range of issues. It is also the first international litmus test for the new coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), Alliance 90/The Greens, and the Free Democratic Party (FDP). There is no shortage…

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The G7 Cornwall Summit – Glass half empty or half full?

By Allgemein, Future of Globalisation, , ,

Image: Coast of Cornwall

This year’s G7 summit concluded on 13 June with the release of a 25-page leaders’ communique containing 70 paragraphs.  And yet the summit has been criticised by global health and climate campaigners (including Gordon Brown, the UK’s former Prime Minister) for failing to rise to the unprecedented challenges the world now faces.  How fair is this criticism, and is there anything the UK summit hosts might have done differently to avoid it?

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