In an ultra-protected thermal town of Evian, leaders from France, the United States, Germany, Canada, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom will address various topics over three days, such as global economic imbalances and digital regulation.

As Macron explained, the objective is to tell China to “be fairer with aid to companies and reactivate its internal market.” To the United States, that “tariffs were a bad idea” and that “they must be eliminated progressively,” and to the Europeans, that we must “move faster in investment and simplification.”

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On the other hand, France has invited several “global tech leaders”, including the American Sam Altman, director of OpenAI, to a lunch on Wednesday to promote its regulatory initiatives and the ban on social networks for minors under 15 or 16 years of age.

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has also invited his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, as well as the leaders of South Korea, India and Kenya to some sessions to prevent this forum of industrialized powers from being perceived as antagonistic to emerging countries.

The summit will be the first transatlantic reunion since the United States and Israel launched a war against Iran. Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar will join the talks on Tuesday.

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The European G7 countries also hope that the American president, absorbed in negotiations with Tehran, will let them take the reins over Ukraine. “We must rebuild convergence in the G7” on support for kyiv, Macron said.

The organization of the meeting, on the shores of Lake Geneva, has done everything possible to please Trump, who in 2018 withdrew his support for the G7 final communiqué and who, last year, prematurely left the summit in Canada while criticizing Macron.