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Policy documents concerning the G8-Summit in Germany

• Testing the Credibility of the Powerful: Concrete Action for Environment and Development
  Policy Paper of International Non-Governmental Organisations for the G8-Summit in Heiligendamm, 6th – 8th June 2007
  
  
• Glaubwürdigkeit von NGO's auf dem Prüfstand.
  A Reply of the Federal Coordinationtion Internationalism (BUKO)(only in German)

Pressreports on the G8-Summit 2007

• Geldof and Bono take G8 campaign to Germany
  Link to the FT.com, by Hugh Williamson in Berlin, Published: December 27 2006
  
  
• “Africa is not so far away – We need a political dialogue eye-to-eye about the big opportunities ahead.”
  The President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Mr. Horst Koehler published a lengthy article in the German newspaper Tagesspiegel on December 2. This is a swift translation by Katy Cronin, DATA
  
  
• Towards Heiligendamm: The German G-8 Agenda
  Responsible, reliable, sustainable?
  Link to World Economy & Development

Other reports on G8-Summit 2007 topics

• New impetus for climate policy!
  Making the most of Germany's dual presidency.
  German Advisory Council on Clobal Change
  
  
• From poverty of ambition to ambition on poverty -
  What the G8 Finance Ministers must do in Essen to support Africa’s development
  ActionAid Report on the G7 Financeminister meeting on Feb 9th 2007 in Essen
  
  
• Prospects for Africa – Europe’s Policies
  Development Policy Manifesto for the German EU Presidency 2007 (PDF)
  The EU Presidency Project of VENRO
  
  
• Informationen rund um den G8-Gipfel 2007 und das Thema Landwirtschaft
  Link zum Thema des Barnimer Aktionsbündnis gegen Gentechnik
  
  
• BUKO-Pharma-Kampagne zu Arnzeimitteln und Eigentumsrechten
  04.11.06 (externer Link der BUKO-Pharmakampagne, PDF Dokument)
  
  
• Wie die Spinne im Netz - Zur Geschichte, Struktur, Funktion und Wirkung der G8
  Peter Wahl (Attac), 19.10.06
  
  
• Aufgetaucht - Infos aus der Stiftung Nord-Süd-Brücken
  19.10.06
  
  
• Wie man sein Geld nicht los wird und dabei Pleite geht
  Philipp Temme (Blue21), 19.10.06 (externer Link von Blue21)
  
  
• G8 und Soziale Frage
  Werner Rätz (Attac), 19.10.06
  
  
• Gesundheit und Globalisierung
  Werner Rätz (Attac), 19.10.06
  
  
• Auf dem Weg zum G8-Gipfel in Heiligendamm – Was bewegt sich in Deutschland?
  Mona Bricke (Forum Umwelt und Entwicklung), 07.09.06

Statements on "VIOLENCE":
• Activists Look For Way Forward After Genoa Violence
  Published on Friday, August 10, 2001 by Agence France Presse
  
  
• Die Globalisierungskritiker: Anatomie einer heterogenen Bewegung
  Kapitel 6 "Die Gewaltfrage" - Seiten 54-60, PDF-Dokument
  Simon Raiser, Björn Warkalla (Hrsg.)
  
  
• Text aus den Debattenseiten zur Gewaltdiskussion bei attac.
  Werner Rätz, Mitglied des Koordinierungskreises von Attac, August 2001
  
  The myth of civil society
• The left' has become amorphous and ineffectual.
  Into this vacuum 'civil society' has poured, with all the tumultuous incoherence it implies.
  Guardian Unlimited, 16 November 2006, Jeremy Seabrook

International NGO-Conference - Civil G8 Russia

Final conference of the russian civil society on the G8-Presidency 2006
Moscow, December 1-3, 2006

• Civil G8-2006 activities overall evaluation and its influence
  Victoria Panova - G8 Reaearch Group, Univerity of Toronto. Moscow Dec 2nd 06
  
  
• "Handing over the agenda" - An analysis of the conference
  Regine Günther - Coordinator of the management team in the German NGO Forum on Environment & Development (in German)