G20 Summit in Toronto 2010

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Logo of the summit

The G20 summit in Toronto 2010 was the fourth meeting of the group of the twenty most important industrialized and emerging countries on the topics of financial markets and the global economy . The focus of the summit was on the evaluation of previous objectives and the development of an international, balanced, sustainable and growth-oriented economic policy. The meeting took place June 26-27, 2010 at the Metro Toronto Convention Center in Toronto, Canada . The G8 summit in Huntsville 2010 , which was originally supposed to include the G20 meeting, began a day earlier . Due to a lack of capacity in the small town of Huntsville , the G20 meeting was moved to Toronto. The meeting was chaired by South Korea , where the second G20 summit took place in Seoul in mid-November 2010 .

Preparations

safety

Since April 2010, security preparations by the Ontario Federal Police have been ongoing with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Toronto Police and the Peel Regional Community . In addition to increased personnel, the CN Tower and the underground city PATH, for example, were closed to the public for the duration of the two summits.

Backdrop

An artificial lake was created for reporting on the G20 summit. There was also substantial investment in the small town of Huntsville. The opposition questioned the usefulness of these facilities.

Protests

During the summit there were demonstrations, on the fringes of which riots were committed. The police cracked down on the demonstrators and arrested 1,105 people, most of whom had nothing to do with the riots. It was the largest mass arrest in Canadian history.

In August 2011, a Toronto judge ruled that the aggression during the Saturday June 26, 2010 demonstration around Queen St. and Spadina Ave. emanated exclusively from the police (“The only organized or collective physical aggression at that location that evening was perpetrated by police each time they advanced on demonstrators…”).

Results

The participating members could not agree on a uniform position on a bank levy and a financial transaction tax . While the United States under the leadership of Barack Obama and Germany under Angela Merkel and France support these measures internationally, Canada, Brazil and Australia, among others, blocked these demands.

Participating States

G20 members

Host nations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Official homepage of the G20 meeting in Toronto (as of June 9, 2010) ( Memento from June 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ CTV Toronto: Amid G20 security concerns, CN Tower to be shut
  3. ↑ http://www.tagesschau.de:80/ausland/kanada128.html ( Memento from June 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/2010-2011/youshouldhavestayedathome/
  5. ^ Jill Mahoney: G20-related mass arrests unique in Canadian history , The Globe and Mail. June 29, 2010. Retrieved July 21, 2010. 
  6. ↑ cf. Aggression during G20 rally 'perpetrated by police,' judge rules, thestar.com, 11 August 2011
  7. ↑ Spiegel: G 20 agree on debt reduction

Web links

Commons : G20 Toronto Summit 2010  - Collection of images, videos and audio files