Sophie Pedder

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The Intelligence from The Economist · View from the summit: what did the G7 achieve? · 17 Jun 2026 podcast

And that did happen.

The Europeans f support Ukraine financially almost entirely at the moment, but they do still require American support, things like intelligence.

So they want to keep America engaged, and they've been very concerned that the whole war with Iran has just distracted American attention completely from Ukraine.

So better to have them engaged.

age, the Europeans need them, but also a sense that they don't want the Americans to grab hold of this issue again and go above their heads.

So it's been a delicate balancing act on that front.

A little bit, yes.

In fact, the French have invited a number of other countries to attend, uh the leaders of Kenya, Brazil, South Korea, and India.

Modi has been there as well.

I think that one of the points has been to talk about, you know, global south.

Obviously, Ebola has come up.

There's been some talk about drug trafficking, there's been talk about the fight against cancer, a number of other issues.

And in fact, today there's an interesting discussion because there's

tech lunch with a couple of the big tech leaders.

So Sam Altman is there, Dario Amade is there as well.

So we've got a sense that the whole issue with anthropic and what to do about regulating tech, I think that is going to be a really interesting discussion today.

Whether it gets anywhere is another question.

Well, I think you know he's arranged a very nice location.

When Trump arrived, he got out of his car and he said, Everything is very nice and that sort of comment you want when you're hosting a summit.

Trump has been on site, he is going to be treated to a garlet dinner at the Palace of Versailles.

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