Concept in Definition ABC

It is common practice for nations in a region or a continent join forces with the intention of joining forces and thus ensuring their interests and also promoting common policies, the European Union, Mercosur, are examples of this situation. Meanwhile, there are also more informal unions and relationships between the countries of the world, but in the practice are certainly forceful, and an example of these is that of the G8 or Group of Eight, as is also call.

Made up of Germany, Canada, the United States, Japan, Italy, France, the United Kingdom, and Russia, the latter has recently been excluded as As a result of the recent territorial conflicts in Crimea, the G8 represents the bloc of countries with the highest index from industrialization of planet earth, being also referents and very powerful in the economic, military and political fields. And it is precisely in this last context, the political, the authority in this matter, the one that marks the membership or not of this group.

We must emphasize that the European Union has a representation within the G8, for which the ideas of this bloc are also considered.

Origin as a group of six... They add more wills

The history of this group dates back to the 1970s when the then US Secretary of the Treasury proposed the meeting of the six economic powers of those years, Germany, France, Italy, the United Kingdom, the United States and Japan, to discuss policies joint They started out as six and eventually joined Canada and Russia, which is temporarily suspended today.

Annual meeting to discuss policies and analyze problems

The G8 meets annually in a country to hold its summits in which they discuss various current policies and issues. The leaders of each nation member are those who participate in that meeting while they are the ministers of foreign affairs, Commerce, economy Y environment, among others, those who have the responsibility to prepare the agenda before the meeting arrives.

As a result of the recurring criticisms that some sectors give them for their marked liberalism and for not proclaiming itself against the wars and military incursions faced by the United States, the G8 is usually the object of escraches during the meetings it holds.

The agenda until 2020

The place where this meeting will take place until 2020 is already scheduled. In 2015 it is scheduled in Germany, while later it is held in Japan, Italy and later in 2017 in Canada, France and then in the United States.

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