Template talk:G8 nations

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[edit] This looks so cool!

Congrats to the creators. Matt Yeager ♫ (Talk?) 06:27, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] EU isn't part of G8

Please discuss here before readding. EU isn't in anyway part of the Group of Eight. Representative of the European Commission is invited since 70s but EC is not EU itself. Please link here some source saying that EU is in G8 and have it there otherwise please don't add it back. Thank you.--Pethr 02:57, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Quite right, otherwise it would be the 'G9'. The Commission has non-voting representation, but neither it nor the Union have membership. Countersubject 14:17, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

There is currently a discussion going on at The G8 articles talk page regarding the inclusion of the EU s flag as being involved. The outcome of the discussion there will apply to this as well. -- Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 21:38, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Discussion concluded and the current general consensus is no include in the templates, just in the main bulk of the text.--84.67.181.45 13:33, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] International Organisations

In my opinion international organisations should not be included in this templates as they are not permanent members of the G8. some of these organisations also cannot become members as they do not have a legal personality. The inclusion of some of the organisations especially the EU is a conflict of interest as Britain France Italy and Germany are members of both the EU and the G8, I say that no international organisations should be included on the template just the 8 permanent members.--Lucy-marie 15:13, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

I disagree. The EU is not an international organisation, but a supranational union, and the EC *does* have a legal personality -- which it will transfer to the EU with the Reform Treaty. —Nightstallion 22:58, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Still it is not a permanent member and does not have 'sovereignty' as such to become a permanent member so unless things like the AU are also included because that is virtually the same as the EU was about 45 years ago. I say no inclusion on this template of anything but the 8 permanent sovereign states which form the G8.Lucy-marie 23:51, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Do not inculde any International organisation.--86.145.251.168 13:28, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

7 days notice is formally given before the closure of the discussion--Lucy-marie 00:20, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

7 days have now past concluding the discussion. removal of all international organisations and possibly a creation of their own separate template.--Lucy-marie 00:13, 21 September 2007 (UTC)