G7 leaders are meeting in Bavaria to discuss important issues including Russia's war on Ukraine and the food crisis. The event is known for producing memorable pictures. Here's a look at the best images and tweets so far.
US President Donald Trump partly
"destroyed" Washington's trusting relationship with Europe by pulling out of a joint communique after the G7 summit, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas tweeted on Sunday.
The G7 summit ended in farce and a
renewed threat of global trade war on Saturday as US President Donald Trump
abruptly rejected the text of a consensus statement and bitterly insulted the Canadian host.
The European members of the G7 are
agreed that Russia cannot be readmitted into the club until there is an improvement in the crisis in Ukraine, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday she expected "contentious discussions" at a G7 summit this week, given
differences with US President Donald Trump on trade, climate and security.
Europe "must take its fate into its own hands" faced with a western alliance divided by Brexit and Donald Trump's presidency, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday.
The Local Germany editor Tom Barfield argues that Volkswagen's irresponsible dodging of emissions limits endangers Germany's economic well-being and its most important diplomatic objectives.
The G7 summit saw Bavaria put out a huge police operation to protect world leaders. But it resulted in a rather unusual operation afterwards - tracking down a police officer in the name of love.
It was a summit which seemed to please the left and the right while leaving the liberal centre ground somewhat underwhelmed. The German media reacts to the G7 summit in Elmau.
Leaders of the G7 group of nations agreed on Monday to aim for a maximum two degrees of global warming, hoping to present a united front at December's Paris climate summit.
World leaders at a G7 summit in Germany were on Monday set to present a united front against global security threats ranging from jihadist insurgencies to what US President Barack Obama condemned as "Russian aggression in Ukraine".
The leaders of Germany and the United States hammered home a tough line on Russia on Sunday at the start of a G7 summit dominated by crises in Ukraine and Greece.
Group of Seven leaders will gather from Sunday in a quintessentially German venue handpicked by Chancellor Angela Merkel, a luxury hotel with a fairytale setting and a tumultuous past.
More than 30,000 people on Thursday kicked off protests against a G7 summit starting at the weekend in the southern German state of Bavaria, police said.
Writing in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) on Wednesday, Chancellor Angela Merkel defended the role of the G7 group of developed nations, saying it must be ‘the engine of a world worth living in.’
American soldiers in Germany have been forbidden from travelling to Munich and Garmisch-Patenkirchen over fears that they might be attacked by anti-G7 protestors.
Ex-Chancellor Helmut Schmidt has criticized the western powers for not inviting Vladimir Putin to the G7 summit taking place in Elmau, Bavaria later this week.
Debt-wracked Greece's battle to hammer out a deal with its creditors dominated a meeting of finance ministers from the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations in Dresden on Thursday, with officials insisting much work still lay ahead.
Finance ministers and central bank governors of the Group of Seven wealthiest nations gathered in Dresden Thursday to discuss the global economy and tax evasion, but the Greek crisis was also high on everyone's minds.
A man from northern Bavaria hired to work on preparations for next month's G7 meeting of world leaders sent a posthumous letter threatening a poison attack on their hotel.
Germany wants to promote structural economic, financial market and tax reform when it takes over the presidency of the G7 club of rich nations next week, German media reported on Sunday.
