Gordon Brown often looks happier playing chancellor to the world rather than prime minister of the UK. Yesterday's G20 summit showed why that can sometimes be a good thing. There was Mr Brown hosting world leaders, addressing the international press corps on the global economy and unveiling a complex package of aid - and he was entirely in his element. Even the venue, an east London conferenc...

Asked about the summit that Lord Mandelson was hosting, the Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) said that the purpose of the summit was to focus on how the Government could work with the business community to provide prompt payments, particularly to smaller businesses. After the summit the department would issue a press notice and announce how many, and which businesses, had signed up to a code of pr...

The Eurozone met and little was apparently accomplished! A casual market watcher on Friday (i.e. stock markets) in the U.S. and around the world, would have, in the absence of any below-the-surface analysis, have most likely said that based on the performance of the equity markets the EU summit had been an unqualified success. They may have believed that the financial crisis in the Eurozone had be...

A mass demonstration ahead of the London G20 summit is set to attract a huge mix of different interest groups as a new post-credit crisis coalition emerges. Ed Vulliamy and Richard Rogers report The G20 summit of industrialised nations in London next month will be marked by one of the biggest demonstrations since a million people marched against war in Iraq in 2003. On that Saturday, the issue was...

London Rising Tide and the Greenwash Guerillas cordially invite you to a morning of greenwash detecting at the Guardian Climate Summit, sponsored by E-On, Monday 15th June 2009. Following on from the success of last years detecting, a team of Greenwash Guerillas are said to be meeting at 8am at the Hotel Russell, 1-8 Russell Square, Bloomsbury, London, WC1B 5BE Protective attire can be easily obta...

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is hosting EU leaders today (1 June) for a summit aimed at putting aside past differences and focusing on reviving trade and boosting troubled economies.

Philip Stephens, writing in the Financial Times, shares the commonly held view that the London Summit went further than most people expected, but not far enough. Viewed from a year ago, what is in the London communique is astounding - not in terms of the specific measures proposed (although they...

Business and union leaders are considering the government's proposals to tackle unemployment at a summit in London today.

The leaders of the 20 richest countries in the world are congregating in the Excel Centre in east London today for the most important summit in a generation.

The leaders of the 20 richest countries in the world are congregating in the Excel Centre in east London today for the most important summit in a generation.