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A G7 meeting in the Netherlands in 2014, to discuss the Russian invasion of Crimea. Seven years later, Russia is still in Crimea, and only Merkel remains of those leaders (Photo: Wikimedia)

Time to dump the G7 - it's a relic of the past

Dormant during the Covid-19 lockdown, the Group of Seven (G7) is determined to get back in the driver's seat of global governance.

G7 foreign and development ministers are meeting in-person in post-lockdown London on Monday (3 May) - their first face-to-face encounter in two years.

A mid-June G7 summit is also on the cards, with US president Joe Biden set to travel to Cornwall, and then to Brussels, to finally shake hands with America's best friends.

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Shada Islam is an EUobserver columnist, and independent EU analyst and commentator who runs her own strategy and advisory company New Horizons Project. She also teaches Europe-Asia relations as visiting professor at the College of Europe.

A G7 meeting in the Netherlands in 2014, to discuss the Russian invasion of Crimea. Seven years later, Russia is still in Crimea, and only Merkel remains of those leaders (Photo: Wikimedia)

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Shada Islam is an EUobserver columnist, and independent EU analyst and commentator who runs her own strategy and advisory company New Horizons Project. She also teaches Europe-Asia relations as visiting professor at the College of Europe.

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