An empty G20 communique

Writer Chris Giles in the Financial Times explains the five tests of 'relevance and importance' for Ministerial Communiqués. On his reckoning (I agree) the G20 Finance Ministers failed all of them.

"[T]he final statement crafted by the ministers was an attempt to suggest a comprehensive action plan was working. It lacked credibility and that will not help. Worse, the lack of substance threatens to undermine the very ambitions the G20 genuinely shares" Extract from FT.com

Posted on 03/16 at 08:24 PM.


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