Foreign Ministers of the G7 group meet in Paris from Monday (November 9, 2026) for two days of talks expected to see European powers press the United States to seek a fair settlement for Ukraine in the war against Russia and deter Washington from further military action against Iran .
And Washington is still not ruling out new attacks against Iran even after the defeat of President Donald Trump’s Republicans in the midterms . This G7 ministerial meeting, one of the final acts of the French G7 presidency that saw President Emmanuel Macron host Donald Trump for the leaders’ summit this summer in the lakeside resort of Evian, had long been scheduled to be held in the southern port city of Marseille. Jared Kushner, the U.S. “They want to make a deal very badly.
Russia’s war against Ukraine following the February 2022 full-scale invasion of its neighbour is grinding towards its fifth anniversary. Trump said of the Iranians on Friday (November 6, 2026). The sidelines of the meeting will also see the French Finance Ministry hosting on Monday (November 9, 2026) a donor conference to raise funds to repair the dome protecting the nuclear reactor that exploded in Ukraine’s Chernobyl in 1986 after it was damaged in a Russian strike last year. Around 500 million euros is required but only just over half has been raised so far with a target date of spring 2027 to muster the rest of the funds, the French finance ministry told AFP. Even though the meeting was moved to Paris, Marseille will still host the launch of a network of 14 global ports uniting to combat drug trafficking, which has become a major scourge in the southern city, Barrot said.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot told RTL radio that on this occasion “Europeans will be represented and France will be in Abu Dhabi to participate in these talks”. President’s envoy and son-in-law, said the United States was working on “a broader European security architecture that can help establish the conditions for lasting peace”, a concept met with scepticism in the past by Europe. “We’re dealing with them now,” Mr.
