BRUSSELS (Thomson Financial) - European Commission President Jose Manuel
Barroso has put climate change, rising food and energy prices and the world
economy at the top of the upcoming G8 summit's agenda.
The president will call for "meaningful and ambitious" long-term goals and
mid-term targets to combat climate change, engaging emerging economies and
developing countries in these goals.
On rising food and energy prices, the president will push for responses to
remedy the situation in the short, medium and long-term, while stressing the
crucial importance of finding structural solutions to problems like the high
global dependency on fossil fuels.
On the world economy, Barroso will call on the G8 to send a strong signal
that protectionist pressures in trade and investment relations must be resisted
and that the Doha trade round must be completed in a comprehensive, ambitious
and balanced way.
The G8 summit will take place in Toyako, in Hokkaido, Japan from July 7 to
9.
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