What fashionable Mediterranean resort hosted the G20 international economics conference at the height of the Greek Euro membership crisis?
G20 and its summits have been a focus for major protests by left-wing groups and anarchists. The heads of the G20 nations met semi-annually at G20 summits between 2009 and 2010. Since the November 2011 Cannes summit, all G20 summits have been held annually. The G20 is the latest in a series of post–World War 2 initiatives aimed at international coordination of economic policy, which include institutions such as the "Bretton Woods twins", the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and what is now the World Trade Organization. The G20 was foreshadowed at the Cologne Summit of the G7 in
Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly The Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (EMPA), established in Naples on 3 December 2003 by decision of the Ministerial Conference of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, was the most recent institution of the Barcelona Process. The EMPA opened its proceedings in Vouliagmeni (Athens) on 22 and 23 March 2004. Its first Bureau comprises the Presidents of the Egyptian People's Assembly, the European Parliament (EP), the Tunisian Chamber of Deputies and the Greek Parliament. The EMPA was absorbed by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean (PAM). The EMPA is the Barcelona Process's parliamentary institution and plays a consultative role. The EMPA consists