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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10911

31 August 2013
ECONOMY - FINANCE / (ae) g20
Syria gate-crashes summit

Brussels, 30/08/2013 (Agence Europe) - The ratcheting up of diplomatic tension in response to the Syrian crisis is overshadowing the economic woes of the world's 20 leading economies ahead of the G20 Summit in St Petersburg, Russia, on Thursday 5 and Friday 6 September.

At a press briefing organised in Brussels by the European Commission on Friday 30 August, no questions about Syria were taken on the grounds that that foreign policy issues were never discussed at the G20, but it was not...