Live blog of the G-7 summit:G 7 promise 600 billion for worldwide infrastructure
The heads of state and government of the G7 gathered on Sunday evening at the wooden bench where an iconic picture of Angela Merkel Barack Obama was taken in 2015.
(Photo: REUTERS)
- The G-7 summit began this Sunday at Schloss Elmau, where heads of state and government from Germany, the USA, Canada, Japan, Great Britain, Italy and France and the EU leaders will meet.
- On the first day of the summit, participants pledged to mobilize $600 billion for global infrastructure.
- Earlier, Biden announced an import ban on Russian gold, with which the G7 is intended to further isolate Russia.
- The G-20 meeting in the fall is “too important” to let the Russian President “destroy” it, says EU Commission President von der Leyen.
By SZ authors, Munich, Elmau, Garmisch-Partenkirchen
From June 26th to 28th, the G-7 summit 2022 will take place at Schloss Elmau in Bavaria. All developments on this in the live blog:
With material from the news agencies dpa, Reuters, epd, KNA and Bloomberg
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