G7 summit a chance to rally together against a common enemy

Even as we minimize the risk of another catastrophe, we have an obligation to ensure that something good might come from today’s ordeal. We must build back better with a global economic recovery based on greener and fairer foundations.

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who is welcoming world leaders to Cornwall this weekend for the G7 Leaders’ Summit, writes that the group has a compelling agenda for global recovery that is ambitious yet achievable, provided they summon the will and the ingenuity. No. 10 Downing Street photograph by Andrew Parsons

Opinion

BY BORIS JOHNSON

June 11, 2021

Nothing could provide more compelling or tragic proof of the necessity of global co-operation than the pandemic, which has swept the world and claimed more than 3.7 million lives. For the first time since the onset of this catastrophe, leaders of the G7 will meet in person on June 11 for a summit t...

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