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Summit at Schloss Elmau is imminent: seven things you need to know about the G7

2022-06-16T06:51:35.165Z


Summit at Schloss Elmau is imminent: seven things you need to know about the G7 Created: 06/16/2022, 08:42 By: Katarina Amtmann The G7 summit at Schloss Elmau is imminent. But what does G7 stand for, where did the meetings come from and who are Olaf Scholz's guests? Garmisch-Partenkirchen - The G7 summit in Elmau is imminent. From June 26th to 28th, the heads of state and government will meet


Summit at Schloss Elmau is imminent: seven things you need to know about the G7

Created: 06/16/2022, 08:42

By: Katarina Amtmann

The G7 summit at Schloss Elmau is imminent.

But what does G7 stand for, where did the meetings come from and who are Olaf Scholz's guests?

Garmisch-Partenkirchen - The G7 summit in Elmau is imminent.

From June 26th to 28th, the heads of state and government will meet at Schloss Elmau.

But what does G7 actually stand for?

And what are the politicians doing exactly?

G7 summit 2022 in Elmau - The origin

The global economic crisis of 1975 gave Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing the idea of ​​a summit of the largest industrial nations to seek solutions.

At the first meeting at Rambouillet Castle near Paris, the heads of state and government from France, Germany, the USA, Great Britain, Japan and Italy came together.

A year later, Canada completed the G7 for the next almost 30 years.

Russia received full membership in 2002, but the G8 only existed until 2013. Because of the Russian annexation of Crimea, the summit in Sochi, Russia, on the Black Sea burst in 2014.

Since then, the group has been called the G7 again.

All G7 information at a glance.

G7 summit: self-image - seven democracies with common values

The G7 initially included the seven largest industrial nations in the world.

Today that is no longer the case: Italy and Canada have been ousted from the top 7 by China and India.

However, economic power is no longer considered the most important link between the member states.

The shared values ​​of the seven democracies are gaining importance in the face of growing competition from autocracies such as China and Russia.

G7 Summit 2022 in Elmau - Olaf Scholz's guests

For this reason, Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz also invited the democracies of India, South Africa, Senegal, Indonesia and Argentina to the Schloss summit this year.

A number of democratic states also took part as guests at the last summit in Great Britain.

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In the course of the G7 summit in Elmau, entry has been monitored since Tuesday

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For the federal police, it is the largest operation in years.

At its peak, around 7,000 officers are deployed.

G7 summit 2022 in Elmau - These are the topics of the heads of state and government

Initially, the summits were mainly about the economy.

That is why the meetings were also called world economic summits.

Today it's about all kinds of global issues, this time primarily about the Ukraine war and its consequences.

Climate protection, originally envisaged as a top issue, will fall back to second place on the agenda.

How it works: The annual summits of heads of state and government are prepared by meetings of their negotiators and ministers.

At the end of the day, there are no binding resolutions.

In a final document, however, common positions and goals are laid down against which the heads of state and government must be measured.

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Presidency at the G7 Summit

The seven member states take turns holding the presidency.

This year it's Germany's turn, next year it's Japan's.

The summit is scheduled to take place in Hiroshima, the city on which the US carried out the first nuclear attack in 1945 during World War II.

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The opponents of the G7 summit in Elmau are now officially allowed to pitch their tents near the venue.

The community gave the OK.

Source: merkur

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