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Last Updated: Monday, April 6, 2009 8:23 AM

G20 Newslinks 5 April, 2009

UK Brown To Meet With BOE, FSA Chiefs On G20 Implementation
Wall Street Journal – USA
Thursday’s G20 summit threatened sanctions against financial centers that don’t comply with Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development rules on …
online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090405-702868.html

Berlusconi tempted to tell press to “go to hell”
Reuters – USA
Berlusconi’s lament came after he was ribbed in Italian newspapers for startling Queen Elizabeth by shouting out to the US president during the G20 summit …
www.reuters.com/article/mediaNews/idUSL523014420090405

UK’s Brown to call in banks on imposing G20 rules
Reuters – USA
At Thursday’s G20 summit of leading industrial and developing economies in London, world leaders clinched a $1.1 trillion deal to combat the worst economic …
www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSL519878720090405

G20 activists want public inquiry
BBC News – UK
Activists have called for a full public inquiry into the death of a man during the G20 protests. Ian Tomlinson was returning home from his work at a nearby …
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7984234.stm

The budget looms for Gordon Brown after his G20 jamboree
Telegraph.co.uk – United Kingdom
By Martin Vander Weyer Inside the Excel Centre, the G20 jamboree ended in acclamation for Gordon Brown, for a job better done than even the demoralised rump …
www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/5106322/The-budget-
looms-for-Gordon-Brown-after-his-G20-jamboree.html

UN’s Ban urges $300 billion in G20 aid for poor nations
Reuters – USA
LONDON (Reuters) – At least $300 billion of the $1.1 trillion stimulus package agreed by G20 leaders last week should be allocated toward helping developing …
www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE5340Q520090405

Your guide to the G20 blitz on tax havens
Times Online – UK
Hong Kong, China, Monaco, Singapore join The crackdown on tax evaders intensified last week with G20 leaders promising to stop the rich from salting away …
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/money/tax/article6035071.ece

Ethiopian PM says Africa’s voice heard at G20 summit
Xinhua – China
… Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said Saturday Africa’s voice was heard and success was achieved at the just-ended summit of the Group of 20 (G20). …
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-04/05/content_11131788.htm

The Online News Page “ G20: Where Is the Money, and Who Is the …
By Editor
G20: Where Is the Money, and Who Is the Moneylender. LONDON, Apr 3 (IPS)– It seemed like a lot of money at the time. The leaders of the group of eight richest countries, the G8, met in Gleneagles in Scotland and announced 50 billion …
www.rocketnews.com/2009/04/05/g20-where-
is-the-money-and-who-is-the-moneylender-2/

G20 pledge on SDRs unlikely to threaten dollar | Euro News 24
08:28 One of the more surprising elements in the package assembled by the G20 was the decision to create $250bn in special drawing rights, a form of basket “currency” used by the International Monetary Fund.On top of the pledge to …
www.euronews24.org/business/g20-pledge
-on-sdrs-unlikely-to-threaten-dollar/

Sky News: G20 gave Rudd’s proposals short shrift
‘Mr Rudd I would think would be personally very disappointed because few, if any, of the priorities that he took to the G20 summit in fact received support or any traction at all.’ Ms Bishop said the prime minister’s push for global …
www.skynews.com.au/business/article.aspx?id=319074

Sarkozy walkout threats at G-20, reports say – CNN.com
French President Nicolas Sarkozy wants a “real transformation” of international financial regulations out of this week’s G-20 summit in London, …
www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/03/31/g-20.sarkozy/index.html

Lithuanian in court over G20 violence – Yahoo! News UK
A 21-year-old man accused of trying to set fire to a bank during the G20 protests has appeared in court.
uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090403/tuk-lithuanian
-in-court-over-g20-violenc-dba1618.html

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