G20 summit to start next week: Hamburg as the meeting place for an interconnected world
Cosmopolitan, international, modern and interconnected, steeped in tradition, and experienced: Germany’s Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel and Hamburg’s First Mayor Olaf Scholz believe that the north German port city of Hamburg is predestined to serve as the host and meeting place for next week’s G20 summit. Thus, the heads of state and government of the world’s 20 major industrialised and emerging economies and their delegations will be gathering in Hamburg on 7 and 8 July for the G20 summit.