UK urges G7 to focus on rebuilding world economy hit by pandemic

UK urges G7 to focus on rebuilding world economy hit by pandemic

an hour ago European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Charles Michel take part in the Online G7 Summit in Brussels, Belgium, on Friday . Reuters British Prime Minister Boris Johnson opened the Group of Seven virtual leaders meeting on Friday by calling for a plan to rebuild the global economy after the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic. On a video call with fellow leaders, Johnson said it was great to have new faces such as US President Joe Biden and Italy's new prime minister, Mario Draghi. During the introductions he had to ask German Chancellor Angela Merkel to mute while he was speaking."We also want to work together on building back better from the pandemic “” a slogan that I think Joe has used several times. I think he may have nicked it from us, but I certainly nicked it from somewhere else," Johnson said."The G7 is the great gathering of like-minded liberal free-trading democracies, it's a very very important forum, we stand together on many issues around the world, whether its our views on the coup in Myanmar... or on the detention of Alexei Navalny in Moscow."Britain's economy has stabilised after a new COVID-19