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Ignazio Cassis and Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot after their meeting in Geneva on Friday night. <\/p>\n
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A bilateral Franco-Swiss working meeting was held in Geneva on Friday evening. Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis met his French counterpart Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot. Discussions included the organisation of the G7 summit in Evian next June.\n<\/p>\n
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May 9, 2026 – 10:51\n<\/p>\n
+Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThe G7 in Evian, which will take place in a few weeks\u2019 time, is a very important moment for the whole of Europe and the whole world,\u201d Cassis told news agency Keystone-ATS after meeting with his French counterpart.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are proud that International Geneva can help to organise this kind of event perfectly and to ensure security. We are also proud to help our French neighbours with this event, which has a great deal of significance in a world that has been turned upside down, as we can see today,\u201d the foreign minister added.<\/p>\n More <\/p>\n How can governments balance safety and the right to protest at the G7? <\/p>\n The G7 summit to be held next June in France is causing security headaches for neighbouring Switzerland. Should authorities ban protests in Geneva and close the border with France?\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n View the discussion Cassis acknowledged the fears that this event is generating in Switzerland, particularly in Geneva, as well as among the population. \u201cThere are expectations, on the part of the government too. That\u2019s what we\u2019ve been talking about this evening,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Avoiding excesses<\/p>\n Unlike what happened 23 years ago at the G8 summit in Evian, the aim is to organise an event without any excesses. \u201cThe wound of 2003 is still in our hearts. We will do three times as much as we did last time to prevent this from happening again,\u201d said the minister, referring to anti-summit protests that caused significant damage in Geneva.<\/p>\n
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