G7 summit in St Ives 2021

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47th G7 summit
47th G7 2021 waves logo.svg
place United KingdomUnited Kingdom St Ives , UK
Beginning June 11, 2021
end June 13, 2021
website www.g7uk.org
Participants of the G7 and representatives of the European Union
United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom Boris Johnson
GermanyGermany Germany Angela Merkel
ItalyItaly Italy Mario Draghi
FranceFrance France Emmanuel Macron
JapanJapan Japan Yoshihide Suga
CanadaCanada Canada Justin Trudeau
United StatesUnited States United States Joe Biden
European UnionEuropean Union European Union Ursula von der Leyen
Charles Michel
Host countries of the G7 summit in 2021
AustraliaAustralia Australia Scott Morrison
IndiaIndia India Narendra Modi
Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea Moon Jae-in
South AfricaSouth Africa South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa
2020 (canceled)

The G7 summit in St Ives is the 46th summit of the leaders of the Group of Seven .

It is the first G7 meeting since 2019 . The planned 46th G7 meeting in 2020 was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and controversies surrounding the group of participants.

Organizer and place of the meeting

View of St Ives

The meeting will be chaired by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson from June 11-13, 2021.

The venue is the Carbis Bay Hotel , with many participants staying at the Tregenna Castle Resort in St Ives . The British justified the choice of the conference location, among other things, with the fact that Cornwall was a “center for green innovation” and that this was a good start to the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference 2021 in Glasgow in November 2021.

Attendees

Tregenna Castle on the heights of St Ives

The participants will include the heads of state and government of the G7 member states as well as representatives of the European Union .

The host Prime Minister of the United Kingdom , Boris Johnson , has also the Government of India , South Korea , South Africa and Australia invited.

The 47th G7 meeting is the first summit for Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga , US President Joe Biden and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi . It will be the last meeting for Chancellor Angela Merkel , as she will not run for re-election in the federal elections in September 2021.

Content

G7 finance ministers meeting

A week before the G7 summit, the finance ministers of the G7 countries met in London to adopt an agreement on the future taxation of multinational companies such as Amazon , Google , Microsoft and Apple . The agreement was preceded by many years of negotiations. In the agreement, the participating states committed themselves to enforcing a minimum corporate tax of 15%. At upcoming summits (including the G20 summit in Rome in 2021 ) other states should also be encouraged to join the agreement. Tax havens should be dried up and multinational companies should in future no longer pay their taxes where they have their physical and legal seat, but where they make most of their sales. In a comment, German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz called the project a “tax revolution” and US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen spoke of an “unprecedented, resounding commitment”.

Web links

Commons : G7 St Ives Summit 2021  - Images, Videos and Audio Files Collection

Individual evidence

  1. Georg Zsalai: How Johnson wants to show the world what Great Britain stands for In: kurier.at, June 10, 2021, accessed on June 11, 2021
  2. Olivier Vergnault: Inside the hotel where world leaders will stay during the G7 Summit. In: cornwalllive.com. January 22, 2021, accessed May 28, 2021 .
  3. UK to host G7 Summit in Cornwall. UK Government website, January 23, 2021, accessed June 5, 2021 .
  4. Great Britain invites South Korea, Australia and India to the G7 summit in 2021. In: world.kbs.co.kr. December 16, 2020, accessed May 28, 2021 .
  5. South Africa should now also take part in the G7 summit in June. In: finanznachrichten.de. March 22, 2021, accessed May 28, 2021 .
  6. Bernd Riegert: G7: Collect more taxes from corporations. Deutsche Welle, June 5, 2021, accessed June 5, 2021 .
  7. ^ G7: Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals. BBC News, June 5, 2021, accessed June 5, 2021 .