By: TODAY (Singapore) Published January 21, 2012 GENEVA – Economic growth, jobs and protectionism are the top three worries at the start of 2012, according to a “Call to Action” published on Friday by 11 leaders of international organisations in a bid to kick-start debate at next week’s forum in Davos. The signatories, including the [...]
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The Chicago NATO and G8 meetings will take place back-to-back in McCormick Place between May 19 and 21, 2012, according to NATO, the U.S. State Department, and the city of Chicago. In Brussels on Friday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and NATO Secretary General Anders Rasmussen spoke enthusiastically about the decision to hold [...]
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On November 3, 2011, the G20 Research Group’s official scorecard for the Cannes Summit was published by The Economist online. The scorecard rates the degree to which member countries have complied with G20 commitments since last year’s summit in Seoul.
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Today at 2:45pm (CET) in the International Press Centre at the G20 in Cannes, France, the European Union conducted a wide-ranging press conference. Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council, and Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, stressed that preservation of the Euro was “more necessary than ever.” The EU went on [...]
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On Wednesday November 2nd at 7:30pm (CET), representatives of the B20 Business Summit officially released the final report and held a gala dinner featuring South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak and International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde. The gala celebrated the G20′s acknowledgement of the importance of businesses and corporations in achieving global economic and [...]
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