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Harper pushes Canada-EU trade pact at opening day of G7 leaders’ summit
Jun07

Harper pushes Canada-EU trade pact at opening day of G7 leaders’ summit

SCHLOSS ELMAU, Germany – Prime Minister Stephen Harper used Sunday’s opening of the G7 summit to push European leaders to ratify the comprehensive Canada-EU free trade agreement.Harper’s office said he talked up the trade pact at the G7’s first working session of the day on the fragile global economy.”Prime Minister...

G7 protesters fail to breach security perimeter at summit in Germany
Jun07

G7 protesters fail to breach security perimeter at summit in Germany

With aching muscles, 400 protesters are making their way back down the mountain after failing to breach the security perimeter around the German alpine hotel where G7 leaders are holding their annual meeting. …read more Source:...

G7 protesters fail to breach security permiter at summit in Germany
Jun07

G7 protesters fail to breach security permiter at summit in Germany

With aching muscles, 400 protesters are making their way back down the mountain after failing to breach the security perimeter around the German alpine hotel where G7 leaders are holding their annual meeting. …read more Source:...

G7 leaders urge tough line on Russia at start of summit
Jun07

G7 leaders urge tough line on Russia at start of summit

Leaders from the Group of Seven (G7) industrial nations backed a tough line toward Moscow at the start of a summit in the Bavarian Alps, with U.S. President Barack Obama urging the gathering to stand up to Russian aggression in Ukraine. …read more Source: The Globe and...

Canada should help Ukraine by encouraging constitutional reform: Russian ambassador
Jun07

Canada should help Ukraine by encouraging constitutional reform: Russian ambassador

While Ukrainians were asking Prime Minister Stephen Harper for help with visas and weapons this weekend, Russia’s ambassador to Canada offered starkly different advice for the role Canada should play in the European conflict. …read more Source: Global...

Canada should help Ukraine by encouraging constitutional reform: Russian ambassador
Jun07

Canada should help Ukraine by encouraging constitutional reform: Russian ambassador

While Ukrainians were asking Prime Minister Stephen Harper for help with visas and weapons this weekend, Russia’s ambassador to Canada offered starkly different advice for the role Canada should play in the European conflict. “I think what the West could do, and Canada could do in particular, is to urge President [Petro] Poroshenko to enter...

G7 leaders urge tough line on Russia
Jun07

G7 leaders urge tough line on Russia

Leaders from the Group of Seven (G7) industrial nations backed a tough line towards Moscow at the start of a summit in the Bavarian Alps, with U.S. President Barack Obama urging the gathering to stand up to Russian aggression in Ukraine. …read more Source: The Toronto...

Obama At G-7: West Must Stand Up To ‘Russian Aggression’
Jun07

Obama At G-7: West Must Stand Up To ‘Russian Aggression’

The president arrived in Bavaria for the summit, where Western leaders are due to discuss the situation in Ukraine and how to prevent Greece from defaulting on its sovereign debt.» E-Mail This …read more Source:...

G7 summit gets underway in Germany
Jun07

G7 summit gets underway in Germany

U.S. President Barack Obama said Group of Seven (G7) leaders meeting in the Bavarian Alps on Sunday would discuss standing up to Russian aggression in Ukraine amid an upsurge in violence there that monitors have blamed on Moscow-backed separatists. …read more Source:...

EU president urges G7 leaders to keep up sanctions against Russia for Ukraine
Jun07

EU president urges G7 leaders to keep up sanctions against Russia for Ukraine

European Union President Donald Tusk is urging leaders at the Group of Seven summit to present a united front on maintaining sanctions against Russia for its actions in Ukraine. …read more Source: Global...