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[Feature report] France’s G7 presidency: urgent collective action on global crises
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Amid multiple, interrelated crises, development has returned to the center of the international agenda. Meeting in Paris as part of France’s G7 presidency, public decision-makers and financing actors identified a shared priority: strengthening cooperation, rethinking partnerships, and better coordinating resources to address increasingly urgent and complex needs.
Compounding crises: can development investment help rebalance the world?
As global imbalances intensify, France’s G7 presidency (PFG7) places international cooperation at the heart of the response. Energy and agriculture are key priorities.
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Financing better, together: at the Finance in Common Summit, coordination becomes the key driver of development
Held in Paris on 29 April 2026 as part of France’s G7 presidency, the Finance in Common Summit (FiCS) brought together the leading actors in development finance. Multilateral banks, national public development banks, and financial institutions shared the view that, in the face of growing needs, the challenge is no longer just to mobilize funding, but to better coordinate actors in order to scale up.
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The opinion of G7 countries on international partnerships
This unprecedented survey conducted by IFOP, with 70,000 respondents, reveals less a rejection of international cooperation than an urgent need for explanation, clarity, and evidence. While a large share of public opinion significantly overestimates its weight in the national budget, a majority supports maintaining it and sees it as a worthwhile long-term investment.
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