OTTAWA (Alliance News) - Under the motto "Think ahead, act together", the 41st edition of the summit of the "Group of Seven Nations" (G7) will take place in German luxury hotel Schloss Elmau, in Bavaria, from June 7 to 8.The main topics on the agenda are the global economy, trade, foreign affairs, security and health and development issues. Leaders will also discuss the upcoming UN negotiations to develop a new international climate change agreement and the UN's post-2015 sustainable development Read more [...]

Washington: Close allies US President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will confer ahead of a G7 summit and meet local residents on a stroll through a small Bavarian town. Officials said Thursday that the pair want to renew their own close cooperation before a great power meeting Sunday and Monday in Germany. The summit will be dominated by the crises in Ukraine, Syria and Iraq. "Obviously the president has traveled to Germany in the past and has developed with Chancellor Merkel Read more [...]

BMW sets string of quarterly earnings records
06.05.2015

German carmaker BMW has said it has got off to a good start this year. Presenting first-quarter figures for 2015, the company logged record earnings and unit sales, keeping it on top of the world’s premium car market.

COURTESY: RT's RUPTLY video agency, NO RE-UPLOAD, NO REUSE - FOR LICENSING, PLEASE, CONTACT http://ruptly.tv Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Munich on Thursday to present their demands to the leaders of the G7 who are due to meet this weekend in the Bavarian town of Elmau. According to protest organizers, the total number of people in attendance stood at over 35,000. Protesters carried posters and banners decrying environmental Read more [...]

G7 protests gain momentum

A number of protests are planned in Germany ahead of the G7 summit in southern Bavaria starting on Sunday. Thursday’s protest in Munich drew almost 35,000 people, more than even the organizers expected. Police praised the protesters’ peaceful behavior, and left their water cannon unused. But they did open a hydrant to provide water to people suffering under the heat.

More than 30,000 people demonstrated today against a G7 summit starting at the weekend in the southern German state of Bavaria, police said. The peaceful march took place in the state capital Munich, around 100 kilometres (60 miles) north of the Alpine venue where Chancellor Angela Merkel is to welcome leaders from the club of rich nations from Sunday. Authorities estimated the turnout by mid-afternoon at about 34,000. Environmentalists, opposition parties and anti-globalisation Read more [...]

Thousands of people have taken to the streets in the southern German city of Munich to protest against the upcoming summit of the Group of Seven (G7) major industrialized countries.Police said about 23,000 people took part in Thursday’s protest in the Bavarian capital, which was organized by environmentalists and globalization opponents.Some demonstrators marched behind a banner, reading, “stop the TTIP (the Read more [...]

On a sunny afternoon in central Berlin this week, two women chatting animatedly pushed their prams along the pavement, completely oblivious of the bright orange sticker, somewhat lopsidedly stuck on a grimy lamppost: It's rallying cry to "storm the G7-Summit" ("G7-Gipfel stürmen!") and join the anti-globalization protest camp went unheeded, at least by these two, cheerful Berliners. Others though, will make their way to the Alpine resort of Garmisch-Partenkirchen which is set to host this year's Read more [...]

The leaders of the world's seven most industrialized countries - Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States - will bring staff of hundreds to the Bavarian town of Elmau, but they will be vastly outnumbered by the thousands of protesters who have taken to the streets ahead of and during the two-day G7 summit, which begins Sunday. The main demonstration ahead of the summit took place Thursday in Munich, the Bavarian capital, some 100 kilometers (60 miles) outside of the Read more [...]

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