Everyone still calls it the G20. But perhaps as a result of all the Spain blogging here 🙂 Spain is again invited to the G20 summit despite not being a formal member; in November in Washington it was apparently done as a wheeze involving the EU seat at the table, but this time the UK as G20 chair has simply invited Spain without going through any technicalities. It’s a sensible decision, but one which highlights the membership threshold problems that any such group faces.
A Fistful Of Euros
European Opinion
Won’t Spain hold the EU presidency from January?
After Sweden, which takes over from Czech Rep. in July, and if Lisbon is still not implemented.
G22 – the Netherlands will be there too (like it was in Washington, on the grounds that its financial sector is bigger than that of some of the G20 countries).