Sophie Pedder
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The Intelligence from The Economist · View from the summit: what did the G7 achieve? · 17 Jun 2026
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Well, nervous on the French side obviously because of what the stakes are.
It's been intense and I think that what the summit organizers have felt is that you know keeping Trump involved in discussions, engaging him with Zelensky has been absolutely essential.
One can feel that sort of tension of trying to make sure that at the time they are demanding enough with Trump but the keep him on board with a sort of sense of engaging him.
Well, the official topic for the summit was global economic imbalances, a lot of concern about the surge of Chinese exports, how to sustain growth in that kind of a global environment.
But what's really dominated, inevitably, have been the geopolitical questions, Ukraine and the Iran America war and what is happening in the Strait of Hormuz.
I think that the communique that was issued
Very late last night was more encouraging than people had expected.
There was a sense that Donald Trump has supported the idea of keeping up aid to Ukraine, even agreed in this communique to strengthen sanctions on Russia.
Now that's quite a strong statement to sign up to for the Americans at this point.
That's all been prompted, obviously, by the fall in oil prices, but it is something that legit.
G7 leaders are pretty pleased to have got from Donald Trump.
But communiques are worth what they are.
And, you know, the leaders will leave the summit later on today, I think, waiting to see if any of this is followed up with real sort of concrete decisions.
Well he's obviously very upbeat about it.
We still don't know what's in this memorandum of understanding.
It will be signed, he said, on Friday in Geneva.
It is something that he says is going to be strong, that Iran won't have nuclear capabilities.
And that the next phase of negotiations with Iran will be easier, but there is no knowledge of the detail of that deal at all.
He said at one point that he would read it out, but um that remains to be seen.
He said that the Strait of Omuz is already open.
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