Skip next section What you need to knowWhat you need to know The leaders of Canada, the US, France, Italy, Japan, Germany and Britain, along with the EU, and several non-G7 states that have been invited by Canadian PM Mark Carney, will attend the meeting beginning Sunday Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is among those invited, setting the stage for an expected renewed encounter between him and his US counterpart Donald Trump French President Emmanuel Macron is to visit the autonomous Danish territory of Greenland on Sunday ahead of the meeting to display European support for the island, which Trump says he wants for the US Here is a roundup of news on the G7 meeting and connected events on Sunday, June 15, 2025:
Skip next section G7 summit: Leaders from Ukraine, India, Mexico, Australia also set to attend meetingJune 15, 2025
G7 summit: Leaders from Ukraine, India, Mexico, Australia also set to attend meetingLeaders from Ukraine, Mexico, India, Australia, South Africa, South Korea and Brazil are also likely to want to hold bilateral meetings with Trump to put across their interests on the sidelines of the G7 summit.
Of particular interest is the likely meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Trump, with their last prolonged one-to-one encounter at the end of February turning into a notorious televised dressing-down of the Ukrainian leader by Trump and his deputy, JD Vance.
Canada, for its part, has long been one of Ukraine’s most vocal supporters, while the US has become ever more ambivalent in its attitude to Russia’s invasion of its neighbor.
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Skip next section G7 leaders meeting in first such gathering since Trump returned to the White HouseJune 15, 2025
G7 leaders meeting in first such gathering since Trump returned to the White HouseEx-German Chancellor Angela Merkel leaning confrontationally on a table in front of a seated Donald Trump, with other leaders looking on, in this memorable photo from the 2018 summitImage: Jesco Denzel/Bundesregierung/dpa/picture allianceThe leaders of the Group of Seven economies are coming together for their annual gathering, which is the first of its kind since US President Donald Trump returned to the White House.
For this G7 meeting, diplomats say Canada has dispensed with the idea of issuing a comprehensive joint final communique, and will instead release chair summaries.
“This will be a successful meeting if Donald Trump doesn’t have an eruption that disrupts the entire gathering. Anything above and beyond that is gravy,” said University of Ottawa international affairs professor Roland Paris, who was foreign policy adviser to Trudeau.
The last time Canada was host, during Trump’s first term in 2018, the US leader left the summit, held in Quebec, before slamming then Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as “very dishonest and weak.”
He also instructed the US delegation to go back on its approval of the final communique.
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Skip next section France’s Macron to visit Greenland in signal of European unityJune 15, 2025
France’s Macron to visit Greenland in signal of European unityFrench President Emmanuel Macron will pay a visit to the autonomous Danish territory of Greenland on Sunday.
The island, the world’s largest, has been the focus of much attention in recent months after US President Donald Trump made several remarks indicating his interest of incorporating it into US territory, citing reasons of national security. Both Greenland and Denmark have categorically rejected Trump’s approaches.
Macron’s visit, which comes just hours ahead of his participation in the G7 summit, is being seen as a show of European support for the territory, whose some 60,000 citizens are Danish nationals and thus also citizens of the EU.
The French president will visit Greenland alongside Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, with the leaders planning to discuss the security situation in the North Atlantic and the Arctic with Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen.
Macron’s office said talks, which are planned aboard a Danish frigate, will also touch on economic development, climate change and renewable energy.
He is expected to visit a glacier threatened by global warming and a hydroelectric power plant.
Greenland’s ice sheet is currently melting at a rapid rate as the Earth warms, contributing greatly to the rise of sea levels across the world.
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Skip next section Canada’s list of priorities for the G7 summit meetingJune 15, 2025
Canada’s list of priorities for the G7 summit meetingThe office of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney last Saturday released a list of topics to head the agenda at the meeting.
According to the statement, discussions will center on three main thematic areas: reinforcing peace and security in the face of foreign threats, transnational crime and increased wildfire risk; energy security and digital technology; and promoting private investment to improve infrastructure and activate economies.
Other topics are to include examining possibilities for peace in Ukraine and other conflicts and the search for non-EU partners to bolster security and prosperity.
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Skip next section Welcome to our coverageJune 15, 2025
Welcome to our coverageThe Group of Seven (G7), founded 50 years ago this year, is one of the most important forums for exchange between the leaders of some of the world’s major economies.
This year, it will be held in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada, from June 15 to 17, with Canada this year’s holder of the group’s rotating presidency.
DW’s coverage will bring you reports and analysis of the topics under discussion and news on the top-level meetings occurring on the sidelines of the summit.
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