That MEPs have been less than impressed by the outcome of the G20 summit held in China at the start of September was made clear in a Parliament plenary session debate in Strasbourg on Tuesday 13 September (see EUROPE 11616).
Françoise Grossetête (EPP, France) led the charge: the G20 had delivered “a great deal in terms of statements of principle but failed to convince on what it had actually done”. She would have liked stronger statements on the refugee crisis, climate change and the...