10th G7 summit

The 10th G7 Summit was held in London, England, United Kingdom from 7 to 9 June 1984. The venue for the summit meetings was Lancaster House in London. The Group of Seven (G7) was an unofficial forum which brought together the heads of the richest industrialized countries: France, West Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada (since 1976), and the President of the European Commission (starting officially in 1981). The summits were not meant to be linked formally with wider international institutions; and in fact, a mild rebellion against the stiff formality of other international meetings was a part of the genesis of cooperation between France's president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and West Germany's chancellor Helmut Schmidt as they conceived the first Group of Six (G6) summit in 1975.

Leaders at the summit
The G7 is an unofficial annual forum for the leaders of Canada, the European Commission, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. The 10th G7 summit was the first summit for Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi. It was also the last summit for Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.

Participants
These summit participants are the current "core members" of the international forum:

Issues
The summit was intended as a venue for resolving differences among its members. As a practical matter, the summit was also conceived as an opportunity for its members to give each other mutual encouragement in the face of difficult economic decisions. Issues which were discussed at this summit included:
 * economic problems, prospects, and opportunities for countries and for the world
 * world recession
 * enduring growth and the creation of new jobs
 * growing strain of public expenditure
 * unemployment
 * political and economic challenges for developing countries
 * debt burdens of developing countries and role for the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
 * policies to reduce inflation and interest rates
 * control monetary growth and reduce budgetary deficits
 * business innovations
 * labour issues and opportunities
 * economic stability and management
 * development assistance and assistance through the international financial and development institutions to the developing countries
 * third world debt
 * trade liberalization
 * poverty and drought
 * oil and the Persian Gulf
 * the Eastern Bloc
 * job creation innovations in Italy
 * the environment
 * manned space stations