"Summit on Financial Markets and the World Economy” of the G20 - 15 November 2008, Washington.

With the summit on international financial markets regulation scheduled for Washington on 15 November, EU leaders met in Brussels on 7 November 2008 to develop ideas to bring to the summit.

• More information about the outcome of the informal meeting of the heads of state and government on 7 November 2008 can be found here.

• An overview on the expectations and positions linked to the "Summit on Financial Markets and the World Economy” is provided here.

• More coverage (in German) can be found here:
  • "EU will Finanzmarkt in 100 Tagen retten", Financial Times Deutschland, 7 November 2008
  • "Schwellenländer wollen größere Rolle bei G20-Gipfel", Euractiv, 10 November 2008
• Please find relevant information in German and English about the outcome of the summit on the following websites:
  • Die Abschlusserklärung des Gipfels finden Sie hier (englisch).
  • Einschätzungen der Bundesregierung
  • Stellungnahme des Präsidenten des Europäischen Parlaments, Hans-Gert Pöttering, vor dem Gipfel
  • BDI-Info-Service, Ausgabe 18/2008, Leitartikel: G20-Gipfel: Fahrplan für eine neue Weltfinanzordnung verabschiedet, 17. November 2008
  • "Wirtschaftsmächte vereinbaren Reformplan", FAZ Online, 16.November 2008
  • G-20 Summit Just a Down Payment, National Journal, by Bruce Stokes, 15. November 2008

As presidents of the EU/Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee, Erika Mann and Senador José Guadarrama Márquez wrote a letter to Nicolas Sarkozy, as President of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union and to the American President. The letter was drafted on the occasion of the VII.EU/Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee Meeting in Mexico on 29 October 2008.

This letter concerns the wish to include Mexico into the future international architecture of the G20 group.

Mexico already took part in the G8 summit in 2007 in Heiligendamm and is again invited to take part in the “Summit on Financial Markets and the World Economy” of the G20 on 15 November 2008 in Washington.

With this letter, Erika Mann and Senador José Guadarrama Márquez want to support the idea of a long-term involvement of Mexico into the G20 as an official state participant represented through the head of state. Mexico is in many ways a key country and a very reliable partner especially in international law environments (which was shown in the case of the Iraq war or the discussions about climate change).

Read the answer letter of M. Bernard Kouchner, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs here.

Erika Mann will be in Washington for the Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC) between 12-14 December 2008. She will also be part of the 65th EP/US Congress Interparliamentary Meeting (TLD) scheduled to take place from 6-8 December in Miami, Florida.