Conrad Black: The G7 Summit in Canada Will Be an Unusually Interesting One

Conrad Black: The G7 Summit in Canada Will Be an Unusually Interesting One

Commentary The G7 meeting next week in Kananaskis, Alberta, could be an unusually interesting discussion by the standards of that group. The first modern leaders’ summit was the Congress of Vienna in 1814–1815 (Metternich, Talleyrand, Castlereagh/Wellington, Nesselrode, etc.), which was reasonably successful. Berlin 63 years later (Bismarck, Disraeli, Andrassy, etc.) was a qualified success. Forty years later in 1919 came Paris and Versailles (C…

The G7 Summit in Canada Will Be an Unusually Interesting One

By Conrad Black The G7 meeting next week in Kananaskis, Alberta, could be an unusually interesting discussion by the standards of that group. The first modern leaders’ summit was the Congress of Vienna in 1814–1815 (Metternich, Talleyrand, Castlereagh/Wellington, Nesselrode, etc.), which was reasonably successful. Berlin 63 years later (Bismarck, Disraeli, Andrassy, etc.) was a qualified success. Forty years later in 1919 came Paris and Versaill…