Press Conference on the Priorities of the G7 2026 Finance and Digital Tracks

G7 Finance Ministers Meetings | Road to the 2026 Evian Summit

Press release, Posted on February 5, 2026

Following the first meeting of the G7 Finance Ministers held on January 27, 2026, Roland Lescure, Minister for the Economy, Finance, Industrial, Energy and Digital Sovereignty, Anne Le Hénanff, Minister Delegate for Digital Intelligence, and François Villeroy de Galhau, Governor of the Banque de France, presented the main priorities for the Finance and Digital tracks. These priorities will guide the work of the G7 throughout 2026.

The Finance track is structured around three key priorities:

Reducing macroeconomic imbalances and strengthening economic security: developing a shared diagnosis, coordinating public policy commitments, securing supply chains—particularly for critical minerals—and combating unfair trade practices.
Rebuilding partnerships with developing countries: shifting from a logic of assistance to mutually beneficial partnerships, jointly mobilizing public and private financing, and streamlining the international development finance architecture.
Sustainable growth and financial stability: reforming international taxation, ensuring a level playing field, combating financial crime, integrating climate-related risks, and anticipating the risks linked to new technologies and non-bank financial intermediaries.

The Digital track is organized around four strategic pillars:

Safe AI for the common good, built on security, international cooperation, and trust.
Adopting AI to foster growth, through open-source innovation and support for SMEs.
Aligning the digital and environmental transitions, with a focus on the energy, material, and environmental challenges of the digital sector.
Protecting minors online, based on shared principles and concrete mechanisms for cooperation among G7 countries.

A series of events will mark the work of these two tracks, leading up to the G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors’ meetings on May 18–19, 2026, and the G7 Digital Ministers’ meeting on May 29, 2026, in Paris.

For more information: Ministry of the Economy

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Note: The Ministry of the Economy published a "dossier de presse" in French on February 3, 2026: PDF

Source: Official website of France's 2026 G7 presidency

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