G7 summit: there's a big agenda, but the group's world-beating influence is much diminished
- Written by Steve Schifferes, Honorary Research Fellow, City Political Economy Research Centre, City, University of London
The G7 meeting of world leaders hosted by the UK in Cornwall will have a very different feel than recent summits. The 2020 summit was cancelled because of COVID, but Donald Trump’s “America first” agenda caused much acrimony at previous outings. At Biarritz, France in 2019 and La Malbaie, Canada in 2018, there were high-profile...