G7: Emmanuel Macron announces that the next summit will take place in 2026 in Evian

French President Emmanuel Macron announced this Tuesday, June 17, from Canada that the next summit bringing together G7 leaders will take place in Evian, in Haute-Savoie.

France will take over the presidency of this club of major industrialized democracies next January, following Canada. The last time France hosted this meeting was in 2019, in Biarritz (southwest) on the Basque coast. Previously, it was held in Rambouillet (1975), Versailles (1982), at the Arche de la Défense near Paris (1989), Lyon (1996), and already in Evian in 2003 and Deauville in 2011.

Emmanuel Macron promised to work to "maintain the unity" of the G7 and "consolidate" it in 2026, by involving "trusted partners who will allow us to carry even more weight."

"This is what I will try to do, in keeping with the spirit of Biarritz," he said at the G7 summit in Kananaskis, Canada.

The G7 leaders displayed rare unity at the Biarritz summit following the election of Donald Trump, who appeared conciliatory on all disputes, from trade to Iran.

Emmanuel Macron had managed to bring the then Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, to the summit, even though Iran was already at the center of international attention due to its nuclear program and expansionist ambitions.

In the aftermath, Donald Trump raised the possibility of a meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, a prospect that ultimately never materialized despite the French president's efforts a few weeks later at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.