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| | G8 |
 | | The Group of Eight (G8) is the coalition of eight of the world's leading industrialized nations: the United Kingdom, France, Germany (West Germany to 1991), Italy, Japan, and the United States, (the G6, 1975), Canada (the G7, 1976), and Russia (first known as the G7+1, 1998), as well as the European Union. |
 | | The hallmark of the G8 is an annual economic and political summit of the heads of state with international officials, though there are numerous subsidiary meetings and policy research. |
 | | The annual summits are often the focus of anti-globalization movement protests. |
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