World news about “G8” published by euronews.
Effigies of G8 leaders can-can in Paris protest – nocomment Sarkozy and G8 leaders walkabout in Deauville during the G8 summit. While in Paris, effigies of G8 leaders throw up their legs in protest in an Oxfam can-can… 27/05/2011
G8 announce aid package for Egypt and TunisiaThe last day of the G8 summit saw confirmation that Egypt and Tunisia will receive aid worth more than 28 billion euros. French President Nicolas Sarkozy… 28/05/2011
Arab Spring dominates summitThe G8 summit in Deauville ended with the forming of partnerships with new democracies emerging from the Middle East and north Africa. French President… 27/05/2011
The G8: Does size matter?The G8 is an exclusive club, formed in 1975, with six members at first, then seven and now including Russia. But does it still have a purpose? Apart from… 27/05/2011
G8 throws its weight behind ‘Arab spring’The G8’s final day of talks involved meeting several African leaders, and included a promise of financing for Tunisia and Egypt, the leaders of the so-called… 27/05/2011
Sarkozy condemns Syrian leadersFrench President Nicolas Sarkozy has attacked Syrian leaders’ treatment of their own people on the second day of the G8 summit in Deauville. His comments… 27/05/2011
G8 ‘Deauville Partnership’ for Arab Spring nationsWorld leaders at the G8 summit in France are to promise up to 14 billion euros to support new Middle East and North African democracies that have gone through… 27/05/2011
Money and measures dominate G8 talksFinancial help for Arab countries who move towards democracy was a main talking point at the G8 summit in Deauville. Top of the aid list are Egypt and… 27/05/2011
French police make G8 a protest-free zoneDeauville itself was a fortress keeping any anti G8 protesters out, so they found other places to stage their demonstrations, like the nearby channel ports of… 26/05/2011
G8: Europe promises to help fledgling Arab nationsBrussels has promised more to help fledgling democracies in the Arab world, but insisted strings would be attached. In particular, aid will be dependent on… 26/05/2011
G8 opens in Deauville focussed on debtThe Group of Eight summit has opened in Deauville, France, with a backdrop of continuing financial crisis in indebted nations, and in the euro zone in… 26/05/2011
Anti G8 protest in FranceSeveral thousand demonstrators have staged a protest against the G8 summit of leading industrial nations that starts in France on Thursday. They marched… 21/05/2011
Sarkozy urges financial reform to avoid unrestFrench President Nicolas Sarkozy has urged the world’s top economies to agree new rules to curb market volatility or risk unrest instead. Spelling out… 24/01/2011
Sarkozy pushes for better-run global economyPresident Nicolas Sarkozy has called on the world’s richest nations to manage the global economy better. The comments came as the French leader spelled out… 24/01/2011
G8 leaders pledge billions for food securityClimate may have dominated proceedings at the G8 summit in Italy but leaders have also pledged to boost agricultural investment in the world’s poorest… 10/07/2009
G8 in ‘shock’ L’Aquila meetingThe world’s eight richest nations meet in Italy this week, at an earthquake-hit venue whose experience could be seen as a metaphor for the financial shocks… 05/07/2009
ETA suspects among “most active” – Spanish gov’tThree suspected members of the Basque separatist group ETA detained on Saturday are likely to have been in one of the terrorist organisation’s most active… 05/07/2009
Clashes at demonstration over US base in ItalyThere have been ugly scenes in Italy as demonstrators denouncing the planned expansion of a US military base clashed with riot police. Violence erupted as… 05/07/2009
Anti US base protest turns violentThere have been violent clashes between riot police and demonstrators protesting against the planned extension of a US military base in Italy. The latest… 04/07/2009
L’Aquila prepares for G8 summitTremors continue to trouble the Italian town of L’Aquila, the venue for next week’s G8 summit. It was a strong earthquake in April that brought L’Aquila to… 03/07/2009
Border bother for visitors to ItalyTough luck for tourists as Italy tightens its borders. For the next two weeks, Italy is suspending the Schengen Agreement, which abolished border controls… 28/06/2009
G8 talks end full of good intentions for AfghanistanA three-day G8 meeting in Trieste, Italy has drawn to a close with the focus on beating the Taliban insurgency along the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan… 27/06/2009
G8 calls on Iran to protect protestorsForeign ministers at a G8 summit have called on Iran for an immediate end to the post-election violence there that has claimed around 20 lives. Their… 26/06/2009
G8 seeks common response over IranTheir meeting was scheduled to focus on stabilising Afghanistan. But the crisis in Iran is now set to dominate a gathering of G8 foreign ministers in the… 26/06/2009
Protest outside Italian G8 meetingOutside the venue hundreds of people staged a protest against the G8. The demonstrators are said to have been largely made up of anti-capitalist and… 13/06/2009
G8 meeting offers cautious reassuranceThere have been words of reassurance but also caution from the world’s richest nations. Group of Eight finance ministers meeting in Italy say there are… 13/06/2009
G8 finance ministers look beyond the crisisThe world’s richest countries are seeing a glimmer of light at the end of the financial crisis, and have begun considering what to do once economies start… 13/06/2009
When to stop spending – the question for the G8Finance ministers from the world’s top eight industrialised powers meeting today in the Italian city of Lecce are expected to focus on working together to… 13/06/2009
G8 ministers talk exit strategiesFinance ministers from the G8 leading industrialised countries gathered in Italy are focusing on how to coordinate policy to get their economies back to… 12/06/2009
G8 seeks legal framework to tackle Somali piracyG8 ministers have agreed to strengthen criminal justice systems in poor regions affected by piracy. The lack of legal frameworks for the trial of pirate… 31/05/2009
Calls for leading nations to act against food crisisFarm ministers from the world’s leading industrialised and developing nations will today set out plans for overcoming the global food crisis. Calls to… 20/04/2009
