Can you list out some international political issues of contemporary relevance?
At the G-20 Pittsburgh summit, world leaders announce that the G-20 will assume greater leverage over the global economy, replacing the role of the G-8, in an effort to prevent another financial crisis like that in 2008. Ireland holds a second referendum on the EU’s Lisbon Treaty; 67% of votes are in favour. The Czech Republic becomes the final member-state of the European Union to sign the Treaty of Lisbon, thereby permitting that document’s initiation into European law.[ The Prime Minister of Belgium, Herman Van Rompuy, is designated the first permanent President of the European Council, a position he takes up on 1 December 2009. In the Philippines, at least 57 are killed in an election-related massacre in the province of Maguindanao. Dubai requests a debt deferment following its massive renovation and development projects, as well as the late 2000s economic crisis. The announcement causes global stock markets to drop. The Treaty of Lisbon comes into force. The UNFCCC’s United Nation
