G7 Leaders to Meet June 15-17 in Evian-les-Bains

Leaders from France, Britain, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States, along with the European Union, will gather June 15-17 at the Evian Resort hotel on the shore of Lake Geneva for the annual Group of Seven summit. France is hosting the meeting in Evian-les-Bains.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s birthday plans. Trump left the 2025 summit early. Wars in the Middle East and Ukraine are set to dominate discussions. U.S. and Iran remains under strain, and Trump wants Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

U.S. blockade on its ports, the release of frozen assets, and that Israel cease its attack on Hezbollah in Lebanon. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was also invited.

U.S. engagement. France invited Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Egypt to join parts of the meeting.

All four countries have been directly affected by the Middle East conflict. French officials dropped plans for a sweeping final communique. Instead, the group will issue narrower joint statements on critical minerals, migration and drug trafficking.

Josh Lipsky, chair of international economics at the Atlantic Council, said Macron shaped the agenda to appeal to Trump’s priorities. “Macron has gone out of his way to have an agenda that is designed to appeal to the sort of things President Trump wants,” Lipsky said.

Paris has used its presidency to highlight global macroeconomic imbalances before Washington assumes the G20 chair this year and the G7 chair next year.

France frames the issue as shared responsibility, with China overproducing, the United States overconsuming and Europe underinvesting. Brazil, India, Kenya and South Korea were invited to join those talks. Asuka Tatebayashi, senior analyst at Mizuho Bank in Tokyo, said Japan and its major companies have built stockpiles of critical minerals for more than a decade.