{"id":397215,"date":"2025-09-04T12:21:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T12:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/397215\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T12:21:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T12:21:20","slug":"u-s-house-speaker-mike-johnson-among-g7-ukraine-peers-meeting-in-ottawa-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/397215\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson among G7, Ukraine peers meeting in Ottawa &#8211; National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>U.S. House Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/?s=Mike+Johnson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mike Johnson<\/a> will be in the Ottawa region this week for a gathering of his peers from most G7 countries and <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/search\/Ukraine\/?type=news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Speaker of the House of Commons Francis Scarpaleggia will host his counterparts from Thursday to Saturday as part of Canada\u2019s G7 presidency.<\/p>\n<p>His office says the officials will gather to discuss the challenges facing legislators worldwide and the importance of parliamentary diplomacy.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting will involve working sessions on such themes as online disinformation, \u201cfostering respectful debate\u201d in a climate of political polarization, and violence against lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>Canada has chosen to invite the chair of Ukraine\u2019s parliament and major parliamentary officials from G7 countries, though Japan will not have its House Speaker Fukushiro Nukaga present.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese embassy in Ottawa wrote that Nukaga \u201chas obligations to attend Imperial Household events scheduled for the same period.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'With most of Canada\u2019s counter-tariffs gone, what\u2019s next for Carney in U.S. trade war?'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/250901-MACKENZIE.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2:43<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWith most of Canada\u2019s counter-tariffs gone, what\u2019s next for Carney in U.S. trade war?\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>In Canada, parliamentary Speakers preside over debate and play largely ceremonial roles in welcoming and greeting foreign dignitaries. In some other countries, Speakers have more power and can prioritize legislation and assign committee memberships.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<ul class=\"l-inlineStories__posts c-posts c-posts--inline \">\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11391308\/lisbon-funicular-rail-accident\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/funicular-lisbon.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tLisbon funicular accident kills at least 15, authorities say\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11390424\/temporary-foreign-worker-program-pierre-poilievre\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Poilievre-TFW.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tEnd Canada\u2019s temporary foreign worker program, Poilievre says\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This week\u2019s meeting comes as<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11336338\/ukraine-trump-putin-summit-alaska-stakes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s efforts to end Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine<\/a> have alarmed European leaders, who fear that Russian President Vladimir Putin will further challenge European security if he gains territory through any ceasefire agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow occupied and annexed Crimea in 2014 before launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not clear how many other G7 meetings Canada will host, though it\u2019s customary for the chairing country to hold ministerial meetings on themes like the environment or energy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11188172\/g7-finance-ministers-meeting-banff-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">G7 finance ministers met in Banff in May<\/a> and foreign ministers met in Charlevoix, Que., in March.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>A second G7 foreign ministers meeting is planned, with Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand\u2019s office saying she will host her counterparts \u2014 likely including U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio \u2014 \u201cin Ontario this autumn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anand\u2019s office said the themes and dates of other possible G7 ministerial meetings are in the works.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on World<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson will be in the Ottawa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[943,2000,299,18431,8186,7143,657,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-397215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-g7","12":"tag-mike-johnson","13":"tag-u-s-news","14":"tag-ukraine","15":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115146004460856537","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}