G-8 summit meetings] amid Canadian forests
[Tok] G-8 SummitDeliberations in the middle of Canadian forests
Once again they have withdrawn the Heads of State and Government of eight major industrialized nations (G8) meet in two days in the middle of Canadian forests.
The resort and conference facility Deerhurst Resort will provide the framework for discussions on economic and development assistance, drug cartels, and global climate.
By Georg Schwarte, NDR, ARD Berlin Studios, ZZT. Toronto
John Stall shaking the fence that runs around the entire city of Toronto. Three meters high. Six miles long. Something like the 53-year-old has never seen in his hometown. Toronto behind bars. G 8 and G 20 is much, he says scornfully. "Actually, no one believes is a good idea. People are afraid. These security yes show just how great are the fears."
[Caption: Chancellor Merkel on her arrival at the airport in Toronto]
[Photo caption: At the summit discussions will make it strongly, especially for a bank levy.]
The Chancellor gets away with only little once. The seven other heads of state and government today she sits outside by the lake in Huntsville. The view there as far as the agenda is long. The Middle East, Iran, the escalation in North Korea, Afghanistan.
Angela Merkel will fight for the bank levy
That alone is only the external block, even if Angela Merkel is currently even more banks and taxes in mind. The financial transaction tax, for instance. I thought about it enough yes, from today they will fight for "a clear answer as I would rather not answer, because we can then try on a European level, its own way to go."
[Caption: Protest ahead of G-8 Summit: Only Canadian maple leaf covered sit clad activists aid organization Oxfam in Huntsville in Toronto on a bench. ]
But clear answers are often just down together when the group of eight states handlebars. Example development. Canada, the host will have the theme today, at the note. That 50 billion dollars that were once promised five years ago by the G8 to this day, missing 20 billion, Jörn Kalinski is shameful of the aid organization Oxfam. Toronto, which for him is the height of the accountability of the rich. "At the summit, we expect that there is clarity and honesty," he says. The G8 must first admit that they have not made it and identify the reasons for it.
Germany has agreed in advance but that they wanted to give more. Aid agencies, however, are skeptical. Majid, a taxi driver in Toronto is all that care. He talks about G 8 and G 20 from tomorrow in his city. "All complaints, everything here is dead: No people, no business. This is not funny. All are acidic, not just me."
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also like the leaders of the G8 and see and hear little. At lunch outside in the fine hotel located in the Canadian wilderness, they talk about the economy, then on the fight against terrorism, and - at the request of Canada - on the fight against the drug cartels, the evening before it goes around the world climate. As for the climate talks, the G 8 and G 20, is the Chancellor in particular at the big controversy about bank and financial tax levy as usual realist. "I do not see that we all come to an opinion. I must say quite fair," she says. "But I believe that we, as Europeans, but there do it again very clearly that we are of the opinion that Germany is a very special way of the opinion that the financial market participants need to contribute to the costs of the crisis."
From Toronto to Seoul
Furthermore they want to argue, especially on Saturday and Sunday in the circle of the G-20 countries. Results? Doubtful. Germany has already called this summit so as a precaution as an intermediate. On the way to Seoul. Since culminated namely again. In November, the next G-20 meeting in South Korea.
The G20:The "Group of 20" 1999 has been launched to improve the cooperation in matters of international financial system. Its membership includes all members of the Group of Eight leading industrial nations (G8) to: USA, Japan, Germany, Britain, France, Italy, Russia and Canada. There are also major emerging economies of the G5, that is, China, India, Brazil, Mexico and South Africa, include Argentina, Australia, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Turkey and the European Union. The G20 represents two thirds of the world's population, nearly 90 percent of the world economy and about 80 percent of world trade. Finance ministers and central bankers of the G20 meet annually since 1999. The first G-20 Summit of Heads of State and Government was held, but only in November 2008 in Washington. 2009 has been determined that the G-20 G-8 to act as an authoritative decision-making body for global economic issues. The G-8 should in future concentrate on the foreign and security policy.
