Jun
04
Merkel’s G-7 With Deadline Confluence on Greece to Russia
ByGermany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel. Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg
In June 2007, the last time Chancellor Angela Merkel hosted a Group of Eight summit, she was unaware that the world’s leaders stood on the edge of a global financial precipice.
Now down one member after Russia’s exclusion last year after it annexed Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula, Merkel’s G-7 faces a series of existential crises that are in large part hers to solve…