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Big Four (European Union)
The Big Four in the European Union (EU big four), also known as G4, refers to France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom.〔(EU's Big Four speak as one ahead of G7 in Tokyo )〕〔(Europe's Big Four )〕〔(The Quint Acknowledging the Existence of a Big Four-US Directoire at the Heart of the European Union )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Leading indicators and tendency surveys )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=EU 'Big Four' in bailout row )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=RFI - European leaders meet in Paris )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A Parigi il Vertice G4 sulla crisi finanziaria - Apiceuropa )〕 These countries are considered major European powers and they are the EU countries individually represented as full members of the G7, the G8 and the G20. The term G4 was used for the first time when French president Nicolas Sarkozy called for a meeting in Paris〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=RFI - Rescue of German bank falls through, G4 summit closes )〕 with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Gordon Brown and Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel to consider the response to the financial crisis during the Great Recession. The OECD describes them as the "The Four Big European Countries".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=OECD Glossary of Statistical Terms - Composite leading indicator zones Definition )〕
The Big Four leaders attempt to lead both European domestic policy〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Francois Fillon Pictures - European G4 Leaders Meet For Financial Crisis Summit - Zimbio )〕 (as well as the G6 interior ministers) and European foreign policy (as well as the EU3 foreign ministers).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Obama, European chiefs discuss Syria )〕 The leaders of the four countries usually have a series of joint video conference calls with the US president (see NATO Quint), or with other leaders, on international issues. With Barack Obama they discussed for example the TTIP, the Syrian civil war and the use of chemical weapons during the conflict, the Crimean Crisis and international sanctions against Russia,〔() 〕 the post-civil war violence in Libya,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Renzi calls for ceasefire as Italians flee Libya )〕 the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Telefonata Renzi-Obama-Merkel-Cameron-Hollande su Gaza, Ucraina, Libia )〕 the 2014 American intervention in Iraq and the Ebola virus disease.〔http://m.independent.ie/world-news/ebola/british-pm-cameron-joins-ebola-talks-with-us-president-obama-30666248.html〕
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