10th G7 summit

Leaders at the summit

The G7 is an unofficial annual forum for the leaders of Canada, the European Commission, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States.

The 10th G7 summit was the first summit for Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi. It was also the last summit for Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.

Participants

These summit participants are the current "core members" of the international forum:

The format order of this section mirrors the order of the Muskoka 2010 G8 official website -- see http://g8.gc.ca/about/member-states/

This format order is also congruent with "Summit Meetings of the Past" at website of Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs -- see http://www.mofa.go.jp/policy/economy/summit/2000/past_summit/table_e/index.html

• Canada
• France
• Germany
• Italy
• Japan
• United Kingdom
• USA

• European Union

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Issues

The summit was intended as a venue for resolving differences among its members. As a practical matter, the summit was also conceived as an opportunity for its members to give each other mutual encouragement in the face of difficult economic decisions. Issues which were discussed at this summit included:

• economic problems, prospects, and opportunities for countries and for the world
• world recession
• enduring growth and the creation of new jobs
• growing strain of public expenditure
• unemployment
• political and economic challenges for developing countries
• debt burdens of developing countries and role for the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• policies to reduce inflation and interest rates
• control monetary growth and reduce budgetary deficits
• business innovations
• labour issues and opportunities
• economic stability and management
• development assistance and assistance through the international financial and development institutions to the developing countries
• third world debt
• trade liberalization
• poverty and drought
• oil and the Persian Gulf
• the Eastern Bloc
• job creation innovations in Italy
• the environment
• crewed space stations

Gallery of participating leaders

Core G7 participants

File:Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau 1975 (UPI press photo) (cropped).jpg|Canada Canada Pierre Trudeau, Prime Minister File:President François Mitterrand in 1983.jpg|France France François Mitterrand, President File:Helmut Kohl (1996) cropped.jpg|Germany Germany Helmut Kohl, Chancellor File:Bettino Craxi Official Portrait.jpg|Italy Italy Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister File:Yasuhiro Nakasone 19821127.jpg|Japan Japan Yasuhiro Nakasone, Prime Minister File:Margaret Thatcher (1983).jpg|United Kingdom United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister (Host) File:Official Portrait of President Reagan 1981-cropped.jpg|United States United States Ronald Reagan, President File:Gaston Thorn (1984).jpg|European Union European Commission Gaston Thorn, President

Notes

References

• Bayne, Nicholas and Robert D. Putnam. (2000). Hanging in There: The G7 and G8 Summit in Maturity and Renewal. Aldershot, Hampshire, England: Ashgate Publishing. ; OCLC 43186692 (Archived 2009-04-29)
• Reinalda, Bob and Bertjan Verbeek. (1998). Autonomous Policy Making by International Organizations. London: Routledge. ; ;

References

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3. Reuters: [https://web.archive.org/web/20081023185037/http://uk.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUKB26280520080703?sp=true "Factbox: The Group of Eight: what is it?"], July 3, 2008.
4. Reinalda, Bob and Bertjan Verbeek. (1998). [https://books.google.com/books?id=Bt3AzOHtXwgC&dq=G7+summit&pg=PA205 ''Autonomous Policy Making by International Organizations,'' p. 205.]
5. Rieffel, Lex. [http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2009/0327_global_governance_rieffel.aspx "Regional Voices in Global Governance: Looking to 2010 (Part IV),"] {{webarchive. link. (2010-06-03 Brookings. March 27, 2009; [http://g8.gc.ca/about/member-states/ "core" members (Muskoka 2010 G-8, official site).] {{webarchive). link. (June 2, 2010)
6. MOFA: [http://www.mofa.go.jp/policy/economy/summit/2000/past_summit/table_e/index.html Summit (10)]; [[European Union]]: [http://www.deljpn.ec.europa.eu/union/showpage_en_union.external.g8.php "EU and the G8"] {{webarchive. link. (2007-02-26)