The Guardian view on globalisation’s discontent: it’s not right for poor countries to fund the rich
Editorial: Wealthy nations exploit their position as the world’s bankers to siphon off hundreds of billions from the needy
October 2022
Spycops scandal
British police spy unlawfully operated in Germany, court finds
Undercover officer Mark Kennedy’s German deployment to infiltrate activist groups ‘objectively illegal’, says judge
June 2021
How the UK lost its leading role in the global fight against corruption
The UK last hosted the G7 in 2013 but progress on David Cameron’s grand plans has been woeful
July 2020
Economics viewpoint
Fifteen years after the G8 summit, it's the UK that's in dire need of aid
Larry Elliott
Like Brown in 2005, Sunak plans to help the vulnerable – but the similarities end there
February 2018
Police spies infiltrated G8 summit protesters in Scotland in 2005
Officers sent undercover to gather information about activists at Gleneagles
January 2018
The IMF has choked Tunisia. No wonder the people are protesting
Jihen Chandoul
Since the 2011 uprising, the IMF – backed by the G8 – has imposed economic reforms on Tunisia, at a cost to ordinary people, writes Tunisian economist Jihen Chandoul
November 2017
Paradise Papers
Tax haven lobby boasted of 'superb penetration' at top of UK government
Group worked frantically before 2013 G8 summit to thwart regulatory overhaul, and believed it had influenced David Cameron
March 2016
Hypocrisy over Cuba’s human rights record
Letters: Our supposedly democratic countries routinely kettle and arrest hundreds of peaceful protesters
October 2015
The debate
Should we still bother with street protests?
Ed Vulliamy and Anne McElvoy
Recent demonstrations against Air France executives and London’s Cereal Killer Café turned ugly, but past marches have achieved great things. Or have they?
July 2015
Financing for development
Make poverty history? A decade on from Gleneagles, it is a genuine possibility
Adrian Lovett
Heather Stewart's economics comment
Gleneagles’ promise to make poverty history has yet to be delivered
Heather Stewart
June 2015
Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
Cameron and Harman at PMQs - Politics live
Andrew Sparrow’s rolling coverage of all the day’s political developments as they happen, including David Cameron and Harriet Harman at PMQs and Cameron’s Commons statement on the G7 summit
April 2015
Cameron crackdown on tax havens 'purely political gesture', says Tory peer
David Maclean, Baron Blencathra, wrote to Cayman Islands in 2014 that transparency push was to head off G8 pressure and EU’s financial transaction tax
February 2015
Richard Branson leads call to free global economy from carbon emissions
Prominent business leaders claim setting a net-zero emissions target for 2050 would push companies into reducing their reliance on fossil fuels
November 2014
What's the point of the G20, anyway? – video
Find out why the G20 forum exists and what it's supposed to do with our animation
August 2014
Poverty matters blog
Tax dodging won’t be curbed until poorest countries have a fairer say
Anders Dahlbeck: The OECD is echoing campaigners’ concerns about whether developing countries will benefit from the G8’s tax crackdown
June 2014
Barack Obama: Russian conflict preventing economic growth - video
G7 presses Vladimir Putin to pursue peaceful end to Ukraine crisis
David Cameron to meet Vladimir Putin for Ukraine talks
Barack Obama to urge European leaders to keep up pressure on Russia
