2010 G-20 Toronto summit

The G20 summit in Toronto in 2010 was the fourth meeting of the Group of Twenty major industrialized and emerging countries on the topics of financial markets and the world economy. The evaluation of previous objectives and the formulation of international, balanced, sustainable and growth-oriented economic policies made ​​it the focus of the summit. The meeting took place until 27 June 2010 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in Toronto, Canada on 26. A day earlier began the G8 Summit in Huntsville in 2010, which was originally intended to include the G20 meeting. Due to lack of capacity in the small town of Huntsville the G20 meeting was moved to Toronto. The chair of the meeting had held South Korea, where in mid-November 2010, the second G20 2010 summit held in Seoul.

Preparations

Security

Since April 2010, security preparations were the Federal Police of Ontario together with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Toronto Police Department and the regional municipality of Peel. In addition to an increased human contingent, for example, the CN Tower and the PATH underground city were closed for the duration of the two peaks to the public.

Backdrop

For the coverage of the G20 summit, an artificial lake was created. It has also been investing heavily in the small town of Huntsville. The opposition presented the usefulness of this equipment in question.

Protests

During the summit, there were demonstrations, at the edge even riots were committed. The police went hard against the demonstrators and arrested 1105 people who had mostly nothing to do with the riots. It was thus the largest mass arrest in Canadian history.

In August 2011, a judge in Toronto ruled that the aggression during the demonstration on Saturday 26th June 2010 at the environment of Queen St. and Spadina Ave. emanated solely from the police ( "The only organized or collective physical aggression at did what location did evening perpetrated by police each time they will advanced on demonstrators ...").

Results

The participating members could not agree on a common position on a bank levy and a financial transaction tax is. While the United States, these measures favor internationally under the leadership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel of Germany and France, among others blocked Canada, Brazil and Australia these claims.

Participating States

  • Argentina
  • Australia
  • Brazil
  • People's Republic of China
  • Germany
  • European Union
  • France
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Canada
  • Mexico
  • Russia
  • Saudi Arabia
  • South Africa
  • South Korea
  • Turkey
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • Ethiopia
  • Malawi
  • Netherlands
  • Spain
  • Vietnam
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