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Group of Seven leaders are meeting in Canada, with issues such as the Israel-Iran conflict and U.S. tariffs high on the agenda, while nations hope to avoid clashes with Trump.
The annual meeting marks the 50th anniversary of the G7 summit for the leading industrialized nations of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
World leaders have gathered in England for the Group of Seven (G7) summit. The diplomatic events began Thursday with the first meeting between President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Boris ...
President Donald Trump signaled Monday that the ongoing conflict between Israel and Iran was intensifying rapidly, announcing he would return to Washington a day early from the Group of 7 summit in ...
The G7 summit was established in 1975 by France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States in order to find solutions to the economic crisis at the time.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi subsequently declined an invitation from Trump to visit Washington following the G7 summit in ...
The 2018 G7 summit in Quebec was thrown into disarray after Trump called Trudeau “dishonest” and “weak," while complaining that he had been blindsided by Trudeau’s criticism of Trump’s ...
Last year’s summit was canceled because of the pandemic, making this gathering the first in-person G7 leaders’ summit in almost two years. The last was in August 2019 in Biarritz, France ...
The G7 summit is not the only high-stakes diplomacy this month. Nato leaders will assemble in The Hague next week, where defence spending will be top of the agenda.
The G7 is primarily a venue for coordination, and the group has produced decisions of global consequence. Ahead of this year’s summit, for instance, G7 finance ministers agreed to back a global ...
Given Germany’s ambitions to use the G7 summit to discuss more equitable geopolitical relationships, analysts wonder whether it could leverage its presidency of the G7 this year to try to create ...