notable unity on both Iran and Ukraine<\/a>, two issues where Trump and his counterparts have been sharply divided.<\/p>\nFrance\u2019s Emmanuel Macron, Italy\u2019s Giorgia Meloni, Germany’s Friedrich Merz and the UK\u2019s Keir Starmer all had criticized Trump\u2019s decision to launch the Iran war without consulting allies. But in a joint statement on the final day of the summit, the leaders welcomed the tentative deal. They even noted \u201cthe strong leadership of President Trump\u201d made it happen.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Europeans managed to get Trump to join G7 leaders in offering \u201cunwavering support for Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Trump has long claimed Ukraine has \u201cno cards\u201d in its war with Russia, and needs to make concessions to Moscow to bring about an endgame.<\/p>\n
But the U.S. president joined his fellow leaders to call on countries \u201cto increase the delivery of air defense capacities, additional systems and interceptors, and long-range capabilities\u201d to Ukraine and commend Kyiv \u201cfor its resilience and progress on the battlefield in recent months.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mixed messages on China<\/p>\n
G7 leaders discussed how China is flooding export markets with subsidized products and destroying jobs in their countries.<\/p>\n
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Macron said Beijing is a key source of global economic imbalances, citing what he described as China\u2019s industrial overcapacity, excessive subsidies and weak domestic consumption.<\/p>\n
After the summit, leaders issued a statement saying they were united. \u201cWe seek to deter and stand ready to take actions, where necessary in a coordinated manner, against economic coercion,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n
But Trump undercut that message when he spent a portion of his closing remarks thanking China and Russia \u2014 often allies with Iran \u2014 for staying \u201cneutral\u201d in the conflict.<\/p>\n
Trump said Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin \u201ccould have made it much more difficult for us\u201d if they got involved. He specifically thanked Xi for not giving or selling weapons to Iran. \u201cI just want to thank them,\u201d Trump said, \u201cbecause they made it a lot better.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Talk isn’t cheap<\/p>\n
The \u201clet\u2019s chat\u201d informality that\u2019s been a feature of these gatherings since the first one in 1975 proved its worth \u2014 notwithstanding the carbon costs of flying in the leaders and their entourages, the security to protect them, the protests they attract and the inconvenience for local people.<\/p>\n
By spending nearly three full days with Trump, U.S. allies had ample opportunity to make themselves heard. And the value of that was possibly most evident in their talks on Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n
European leaders who now are the chief suppliers of military and financial aid to Ukraine felt they\u2019d made headway in demonstrating to Trump that Ukraine does hold some cards and that Russia isn\u2019t assured of victory — contrary to what Trump had heatedly told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy last year. Macron invited Zelenskyy to participate in the summit.<\/p>\n
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Macron gets Trump to stay for the whole summit<\/p>\n
Seems all it took was an invitation to dine at the opulent Palace of Versailles, southwest of Paris, after the summit.<\/p>\n
After all, Trump said it himself: He\u2019s a fan of beautiful things and his only plan was to fly back to Washington after the conference anyway.<\/p>\n
He left last year\u2019s G7 summit in Canada before it was over, but Macron wanted to keep Trump from doing the same thing to him. Their relationship has weathered several ups and downs.<\/p>\n
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Macron described the dinner as a \u201cconvivial\u201d occasion meant to celebrate friendship between France and the United States.<\/p>\n
French officials noted that Versailles is where King Louis XVI pledged military support to Benjamin Franklin and the American revolutionaries in 1778.<\/p>\n
Macron hosted King Charles III and Queen Camilla there in 2023 for the palace\u2019s 400th anniversary, including dinner in the Hall of Mirrors, one of the features of the palace\u2019s 2,300 rooms.<\/p>\n
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Superville reported from Geneva. Associated Press writer Collin Binkley in Washington contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. President Donald Trumptalkas to the media after disembarking Air Force One at Paris Orly Airport, Wednesday, June…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[125],"tags":[59513,12,242,233,59512,273,34,168,264,2691,572,573,569,3010,2603,328,325,8970],"class_list":["post-118312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-emmanuel-macron","tag-benjamin-franklin","tag-donald-trump","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-friedrich-merz","tag-g7-summit-trump-macron-takeaways-versailles","tag-giorgia-meloni","tag-iran","tag-jd-vance","tag-keir-starmer","tag-king-charles-iii","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100373-mc-complete-state-national","tag-product-30598-ap-national-news-report-a-wire","tag-product-46986-ap-online-top-stories","tag-queen-camilla","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","tag-xi-jinping"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116767610913939926","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}