This Monday, June 15, the meeting of the members of the G7 (Germany, United Kingdom, Canada, United States, France, Italy and Japan) opened in Évian (Haute-Savoie). The opportunity for Emmanuel Macron to salute, in his own way, the culture of his allied countries.
A hit by Céline Dion, music from GTA 6 or James Bond… On social networks, President Emmanuel Macron made a point of highlighting the arrival in Évian of the G7 leaders with a song from their country.
The Group of Seven (Germany, United Kingdom, Canada, United States, France, Italy and Japan) met this Monday, June 15, at the Évian summit (Haute-Savoie). Tradition obliges: each leader went up the aisle to greet Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron before taking a photo.
If the opening ceremony displayed a rather solemn tone, the videos published in the evening by the Élysée were a little “pimped out”.
De GTA Ã James Bond
Cliché or nod to culture? Each leader was entitled to his own song. It was a pumped-up Donald Trump, after an agreement with Tehran and a birthday party celebrated with a grand spectacle, who advanced in front of Emmanuel Macron. The president American, fond of demonstrations of force, was treated to music taken from the game GTA, Love Is a Long Road, by Tom Petty.
A reference which seems to remind us that the White House has more than once hijacked the famous video game GTA to communicate around the military operations of the United States in Iran.
The German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, was welcomed on Favorite personby the German-Moroccan artist Namika, when the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, came forward on the famous hit of the 80s, Congratulateby Al Bano and Romina Power. Unsurprisingly, it’s the famous song I will go where you go by Céline Dion who was chosen for the arrival of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
To illustrate the big embrace between the British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, and Emmanuel Macron, the Élysée chose The World Is Not Enough, the official song of the 19th James Bond film, released in 1999.
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the President of the European Council, Antonio Costa, were not left out. They were treated to the European anthem, generally used during official ceremonies: the Ode to Joy, taken from Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, but remixed in a metal way.
Until Wednesday, the leaders of the G7 meet around the Evian table, for a summit chaired by Emmanuel Macron in a changing context punctuated by the war in the Middle East, that in Ukraine and the surprise declarations of Donald Trump.
On the agenda: the very recent ceasefire agreement between the United States and Iran, but above all the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. The French president reaffirmed that France and the United Kingdom are ready to lead a security mission to help reopen it. Emmanuel Macron also hopes to get from Donald Trump a posture more attentive to kyiv and less towards Vladimir Poutineto end the war in Ukraine, without forgetting global economic issues.
