(Bloomberg) Group of Seven leaders warned of the risk to the global economy if Britain leaves the European Union in a referendum next month, bracketing a so-called Brexit with terrorism and the refugee crisis as a threat of “non-economic origin.”
“A U.K. exit from the EU would reverse the trend towards greater global trade and investment, and the jobs they create, and is a further serious risk to growth,” the leaders said in a communique released Friday at a summit in Ise-Shima, central Japan. “Escalated geopolitical conflicts, terrorism and refugee flows, are complicating factors in the global economic environment.”
