It played a significant role in mobilisations against summits, beginning in Genoa 2001 and beyond.
The French president has been through one of the most painful European summits of his career.
Scheduled EU summits with Canada and India were called off because the Italian premier was indisposed.
There is always a war of words in the lead up to these "make-or-break" summits.
Instead, heads of government will regroup for further summits each spring to check on progress.
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He sidestepped questions about what would happen if he returned from future summits with thin pickings.
In the lions' den of European summits, he is the one without the teeth.
There are reports that he might want a job for himself as president of future euro-area summits.
There would be ever more summits of the euro members: during the crisis, he wants them monthly.
Summits and foreign ministers' meetings have their own permanent presidents, as do meetings of euro-zone finance ministers.
Three Peaks Challenge Limited said it offered advice on how walkers tackle the summits safely and responsibly.
The international community pledged to tackle these challenges at the Summits of Rio (1992) and Johannesburg (2002).
In other words, Korea's fate has been shaped mostly on far away battlefields, not in local summits.
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Trekking in Bolivia can be a high, dry, isolated experience, with eight summits clocking in at 6, 000m above sea level.
Now each presidency works towards a climax of decisions at summits normally held in June and December.
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But now all the summits are held in Brussels and we are trapped in an airless basement.
For all the celebrations this week, expect a lot more discord than accord in future Europe-America summits.
Indeed, an elaborate network of officials, known as sherpas, has been in place almost since these summits began.
We've worked together on economic matters at our G20 summits in London and Pittsburgh, as well as L'Aquila.
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The aim of the newly-created secretariat is to control the implementation of agreement and maintain momentum between summits.
And, unlike many of them, he appears positively to relish the marathon bargaining sessions that characterise Union summits.
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, underscored the importance of summits he held with Reagan on nuclear arms issues.
ASEM, which organises two-yearly summits of Asians and Europeans (the next is due in London in the spring).
These days, in short, summits are like a mad hospital ward, filled with the broken-limbed, straitjacketed and terminally ill.
The goals for the local summits will be the same as the convening in Washington with robust agency participation.
And for a statesman attending all-night summits it might be a huge advantage.
White House officials are now offering a theory of summits that was heard occasionally during the cold war era.
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