From G8 to G9: Brazil and India in - and Russia out
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Who should be at the top table? Size matters but so does freedom
Timothy Garton Ash
Thursday July 7, 2005
The Guardian
Who should sit at the top table of world politics? The question is
posed at Gleneagles today, and the answers get ever more complicated.
G7? G8? G8+5? G22?
Once upon a time, back in the oil crisis of the early 1970s, the US
created an informal financial summit called the Library Group. It
gathered senior financial officials from the US, Britain, France,
Germany and Japan. In 1975 the French raised it to heads of government
and insisted Italy be in there too. The next year the Americans
countered by promoting their transatlantic Italy: Canada. So then there
were seven bears at the table. All of them were leading industrial
democracies and political powers of "the west" in its cold war form,
with far eastern Japan as an honorary member of the west.
G7
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