Hello everyonewe are on Friday May 29, 2026. Welcome to the Essential of The Tribune. In the headlines, the G7 Digital Ministers meet in Paris today to discuss AI and the protection of minors. On the business side, TotalEnergies brings together its shareholders for its general meeting this afternoon. Moreover, the United States and Iran made “lots of progress” towards an agreement to end the war.
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📠AI, cybersecurity, minors: the G7 Digital Ministers in Paris
AI security, protection of minors: G7 digital ministers meet Friday in Paris in the hope ofarrive at common positions on the major issues of the sector, even if the discussions promise to be fierce on the environmental impact of these technologies.
After months of negotiations, the start of the ministerial meeting will be given early in the morning at the Ministry of the Economy. The meeting, preparatory to the summit of heads of state of the seven main advanced economies, in Évian from June 15 to 17, will give rise to a press conference at the end of the day.
Discussions on the environment at the digital G7 will result in “ by intention, more than by firm and definitive commitments Â,” declared French Minister Anne Le Hénanff before the start of the meeting.
📠France: rise in inflation in May and GDP revised downwards, according to INSEE
The French gross domestic product (GDP) fell 0.1% in the first quarterindicated Friday in its detailed results INSEE, which had initially announced zero growth from January to March. Both domestic demand and foreign trade contributed negatively to growth in the first quarter in France. Only stock variations attenuated the decline, according to calculations by the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies.
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On the inflation side, consumer prices in France have increased by 2.4% year-on-year in May, after an increase of 2.2% in April, in the wake of the sharp acceleration in energy prices, INSEE indicated in a provisional estimate. Energy prices rose 16.8% in May over one year, after 14.3% in April, driven this month by a surge in gas prices.
Moreover, household consumption expenditure fell in April, both over one month (-0.5%) and over a year (-0.4%), weighed down by the drop in spending on fuel, but also on heating due to high temperatures, INSEE announced on Friday.
To find out more: INSEE revises its downward estimate of French growth: -0.1% in the first quarter
📠SNCF: commercial operation of the future TGV M delayed again
SNCF Voyageurs announced on Friday a new delay in commercial operation of the future TGV M, expected until now on July 1st and which will ultimately only take place « the return of early September ».
The railway company indicates in its press release that it has obtained marketing authorization from the European Railway Agency (ERA) for this new TGV built by Alstom, the entry into commercial service of which has already been delayed by more than two years.
📠The United States and Iran have made “a lot of progress” toward an agreement, according to Vance
The United States and Iran made “lots of progress” towards an agreement but Donald Trump is not yet ready to approve itdeclared American Vice President JD Vance on Thursday.
“We are currently negotiating some wording. “We’ve made a lot of progress,” JD Vance told reporters. “We’re hopeful that we’ll continue to make progress and that the president will be able to approve the deal, but of course that’s still to be determined.”.
In this context, the oil market shared this optimism, however observing a note of caution: the barrel of Brent lost 0.97% to 92.80 dollars around 6:15 a.m., while the West Texas Intermediate cédait 1,41 % à 87,65 dollars.
📠TotalEnergies brings together its shareholders at a time of controversy over its “super-profits”
L’assemblée générale of TotalEnergies opens Friday in a climate of distrustbetween criticism of environmental associations and controversy over its profits, to which the CEO responds by defending its profits which do not fall “not from heaven” and its very popular pump discounts.
For the third consecutive year, the French group is holding its shareholders’ high mass in its tower in the La Défense business district, which is easier to secure, and not in a place in the capital where clashes between law enforcement and environmental activists may have occurred in the past.
A habit from now on, the general meeting will welcome the shareholders at 2:00 p.m. with a luxury of precautions: no mobile phones, numerous security guards and anti-metal gate at the entrance, police force around.
(Monitoring carried out with AFP and Reuters)
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