News Digest Item
30 Jun 2017

“G20: bad options”

Süddeutsche Zeitung

German Chancellor Angela Merkel tries to be factual and content-focussed in her clear criticism of US President Donald Trump’s policies but she is unlikely to be successful in light of the “cacophony of interests” at the G20 summit, writes Stefan Kornelius in an opinion piece in Süddeutsche Zeitung. “Germany’s predicament as hosting country: Either everyone will go home silently grumbling and without results. Or there is going to be a loud bang,” writes Kornelius.

Read the opinion piece in German here.

For background, read the CLEW article EU leaders pledge to work for joint solution on climate at G20 and the CLEW dossier G20 2017 - Climate and energy at the Hamburg summit.

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