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In Europe, policymakers have failed to counter an expanding sovereign-debt crisis in the eurozone’s periphery, despite many summits and programs, multiple expensive bailouts, and the imposition of painful economic sacrifices on societies.
Securing Europe’s economic future in this context will require, first and foremost, a renewed commitment to regional integration efforts – completing the banking union, advancing fiscal union, and moving forward on political union – that have been crowded out by a never-ending series of meetings and summits on Greece.
This grouping, called the “Periphery Six” or P-6, could develop a political strategy to push the eurozone toward growth, voting as a bloc on relevant issues at European summits and within the eurozone.
Policy discussions at many high-level summits sought to strengthen other features of industrial policy, including public financing of airports, highways, ports, electricity grids, telecommunications, and other infrastructure, improvements in institutional effectiveness, an emphasis on education and skills, and a clearer legal framework.
Whatever may be driving Putin’s behavior, this month’s two summits will affect relations between the two countries considerably, given the global security issues to be discussed by the G-8 and the need to arrange for Russia’s participation in NATO’s anti-missile shield.
In view of the seriousness of the questions under consideration at the two summits, Putin’s presence would have been helpful.
Summits are a circus with many rings and acronyms.
Moreover, multilateral cooperation for global recovery has been disappointing since 2009 – the year of the G-20’s London and Pittsburgh summits, including the Global Jobs Pact, on which there has been little meaningful progress since.
International summits are too often conducted in a way that is remote and alienating for people outside the conference hall.
Global challenges grow, while the agendas of international summits contract, reinforcing the myth that they are mere talking shops.
Iraq has attempted to forge a political role for itself within the Arab world by participating in Arab summits, but when its turn came to play host, the summit was postponed for a year, owing partly to the Arab spring, but also to some Gulf countries’ refusal to participate in a meeting held in Baghdad.
Trumpism and the Philosophy of World OrderHAMDEN, CONNECTICUT – In the wake of the NATO and Helsinki summits, many liberals have been tempted to condemn US President Donald Trump’s behavior in personal terms.
Now, Putin and Abe will have more room to negotiate the contested islands’ status, and to develop a future framework for economic cooperation, which will likely include regular bilateral summits.
After two summits in March, however, European officials claim to have produced an enhanced, bug-free version.
And later this year, the World Health Assembly, the G-7 and G-20 summits, and the UN General Assembly will all address the topic.
German and European policymakers must make clear what Europe has to offer Asia, and can do so at this month’s EU/ASEAN and EU/China summits.
After all, it has been China’s young guns who consistently raise the issue of local corruption at Party summits.
This initiative, and the three G-20 summits that have followed, mark a promising start.
If not that, she may have been spurred to action after having spent many hours in the company of US President Donald Trump during the recent NATO and G7 summits.
Indeed, African summits, which in the past saw democrats and dictators from different language, religious and cultural environments sharing the same table, usually produced little serious development policies because they indulged in pie-in-the-sky rhetoric.
True, representatives from the AU and the New Partnership for Africa’s Development do attend G20 summits.
Almost inevitably, at international summits from Kyoto to Copenhagen, governments failed to take any meaningful action on global warming.
All this may lead some to wonder why time-consuming international negotiations and UN climate summits are needed at all.
As long as successive EU summits persist in this mistake, the crisis will fester and spread, eventually threatening the stability of the eurozone’s entire financial system.
Unlike European Union summits, which take place almost monthly, NATO’s are infrequent.
From Pivot to Stumble in AsiaDENVER – US President Donald Trump blew off two multilateral summits in Asia this month.
At three back-to-back global summits – the conference in Addis Ababa, September's meeting at the United Nations to adopt Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris in December – 193 governments will attempt to ensure that global growth and poverty reduction continue within a safe natural environment.
The mere fact that he finally agreed to hold summits with South Korea and the US stems from his confidence in his country’s nuclear deterrent, however limited it may be.
Fortunately, this logic has been widely accepted, as demonstrated by the decision that the European Council’s next president, despite being from a country (Poland) that is not yet in the eurozone, will nonetheless preside over eurozone summits.
The annual summits need to be made more substantial, and their focus shifted from transatlantic, bilateral issues to aligning EU and US global policies and actions.
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