(VOVworld) – Monetary issues, free trade, protectionism, and climate change topped the agenda of the meeting of finance ministers and central bankers from top economies in Baden-Baden, Germany, on Friday and Saturday.

Participants in the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting in Baden-Baden, southern Germany, on March 17, 2017. (Photo: AFP/Thomas Kienzle)

Participants failed to find a common ground on world trade at the end of the first day of sitting.

There remain big differences on free trade and climate change due to controversial opinions between the US and other countries.