BRUSSELS, Belgium - The Group of Eight major industrial nations announced Wednesday they will hold a global summit — perhaps as early as November in New York — to forge common action to prevent another economic meltdown.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy said all European Union nations backed radical restructuring of global institutions like the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. He called for a meeting "preferably in New York, where everything started" and said it should lead to "a new capitalism."
"I believe there is scope for agreement in the next few days that we will have an international meeting to take common action ... for very large and very radical changes," [UK; Gordon] Brown told reporters before meeting for talks on the financial crisis with other EU leaders, who on Wednesday endorsed a $2.3 trillion continentwide emergency bailout for the banking sector.
"This fundamental reform can't stop at Europe. The economy is global; no country can protect itself alone," he said. He demanded that new global rules cover all financial institutions — including hedge funds.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the G-8 — the United States, Japan, Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Canada and Russia — and emerging economies had to make decisions "so that something like this can never happen again."
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