The 8th G7 Summit was held in Versailles, France from 4 to 6 June 1982. The venue for the summit meetings was at the Palace of Versailles.
The Palace of Versailles, the venue of the 8th G7 summit
Summit leaders at the Palace of Versailles (left to right): Gaston Thorn, Zenko Suzuki, Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, François Mitterrand, Helmut Schmidt, Pierre Trudeau, Giovanni Spadolini, and Wilfried Martens
Image: Pierre Trudeau (1975)
Image: President François Mitterrand in 1983
The Group of Seven (G7) is an intergovernmental political and economic forum consisting of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States; additionally, the European Union (EU) is a "non-enumerated member". It is organized around shared values of pluralism, liberal democracy, and representative government. G7 members are the major IMF advanced economies.
G7 leaders during the emergency meeting about the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea in The Hague
First G6 summit at the Château de Rambouillet in November 1975
Flags of G7 members as seen on University Avenue, Toronto (September 2016)
Image: Prime Minister Trudeau's message on Christmas 2023 (0m 29s) (cropped)
