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Europe’s Small Steps and Giant LeapsBRUSSELS – The world was expecting Eurobonds to come out of last week’s Franco-German summit; instead, the eurozone will get economic governance.
Following their recent summit, Yeltsin announced that Russia is considering institutional arrangements with the Western Alliance, thoughts long in Mr. Kohl's mind.
On Wednesday, 166 heads of state and government will gather in New York for a summit that we hope will take the reform process a major step forward.
This summit must reaffirm the Millennium Development Goals and recommit the world to achieving these targets by 2015.
This week’s summit will be the largest single gathering of world leaders in human history.
The region’s debt crisis is undermining cooperation within the larger 27-member European Union, resulting in the spectacular failure of the recent summit on the EU budget.
The Nice summit of a year ago was supposed to open the door to enlargement by reforming the EU's institutions.
The Revolt of the DebtorsBRUSSELS – Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou’s call to hold a referendum on the rescue package agreed at the eurozone summit in late October has profound implications for European governance, despite the fact that the referendum will not now go ahead.
So, only days after the eurozone’s heads of state and government congratulated themselves on their summit success, the concept of coordination was shown to be meaningless for the one country where coordination matters most.
And Kim already had a head start, after quietly lobbying member governments at the G7 summit in Japan this May and in personal visits to China and India in recent months.
But prior to the Strasbourg and Prague summits, transatlantic relations will be put to the test at the G-20 summit in London.
Of course, at the end of the London summit, the assembled leaders will agree on a joint statement, because nobody can afford failure.
But Merkel will do whatever she can to avoid committing herself prematurely, and the London summit is much too early.
Obama’s first foreign excursion after the election will be to Laos to attend the East Asian summit, a trip that is perceived as part of his administration’s “pivot” to Asia.
At the G20’s recent summit in Hangzhou, China – its tenth since the 2008 global financial crisis – member governments once again pledged to invest in infrastructure in advanced economies to boost growth, and in the developing world to fight poverty.
After its 2014 summit in Brisbane, Australia, the G20 launched a “Global Infrastructure Hub” to help accelerate project preparation.
At their summit in Reykjavik in October 1986, he and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev came tantalizingly close to eliminating all nuclear weapons.
And now, the EU is preparing for a summit in Sibiu, Romania, that same month, where these blueprints will be finalized.
The Bratislava Roadmap, the Leaders’ Agenda, and the upcoming Sibiu summit are all well and good – even necessary.
Indeed, the 2012 Summit of the Americas in Cartagena became an exercise in America-bashing, with countries threatening to boycott the 2015 summit if Cuba was not invited.
Fortunately, the US stepped up to the challenge, and, with Cuba at the table, the summit was held in Panama this month.
At this year’s G-8 summit, a breakthrough on supporting agriculture, investing in green technology, and strengthening health systems is possible.
Why Markets and Political Scientists Disagree on the G7WASHINGTON, DC – To say that this month’s summit of G7 leaders in Canada was an unusual one would be an understatement.
Participants at the G7 summit reportedly clashed over issues like climate change and the possibility of readmitting Russia.
The summit was followed by an escalation of the trade dispute between China and the US, compounding the uncertainty now jeopardizing a synchronized growth pickup that, owing to insufficient policy reforms, is already running out of steam in many countries other than the US.
The failed G7 summit dealt a very public blow to a once-powerful grouping that had already been challenged by global economic re-alignment, the emergence of the more representative G20, and new forms of regionalism.
Yet, when markets opened on Monday morning, they were utterly unaffected by the weekend’s developments; for them, the G7 summit had essentially been a non-event.
That is likely to be the right approach for the G7 summit, too – and not just because the body’s impact on global outcomes has diminished in recent years.
Given the large number of long-standing economic, financial, institutional, political, and social links among the G7’s members – all of which act as stabilizers – this month’s summit may well be followed by a more congenial and constructive one.
And China prevailed upon the Cambodian host of this year’s ASEAN summit to block a final communiqué that would have called for a code of conduct in the South China Sea – the first time in the ten-member association’s four-decade history that it failed to issue a communiqué.
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