Macron sent message to Trump offering to host G7 meeting in Paris on January 22: entourage

Emmanuel Macron has sent a “private message” to Donald Trump offering to organise a G7 summit in Paris on Thursday (January 22, 2026) in which Russia could be invited on the sidelines, the French President’s entourage confirmed.

Mr. Trump posted this message on his Truth Social network in which Mr. Macron also proposes inviting Ukraine to the meeting as well as Denmark to discuss disagreements over Greenland.

The offer comes as Europe is weighing countermeasures after Mr. Trump threatened to impose tariffs on eight European countries in a bid to pressure the E.U. over Greenland.

“My friend, we are completely aligned on Syria. We can do great things in Iran. I don’t understand what you are doing in Greenland,” Mr. Macron said in his message.

“I can organise a G7 meeting in Paris on Thursday afternoon after Davos,” Mr. Macron wrote, referring to the gathering of global elites in Switzerland where the U.S. President is set to be in attendance.

“I can invite the Ukrainians, the Danes, the Syrians and the Russians on the sidelines” of the meeting, he added.

Mr. Trump’s relations with Mr. Macron hit a new low Monday when the U.S. President threatened 200% tariffs on French wine over France’s intention to decline an invitation to join his “Board of Peace”.

“Tariff threats to influence our foreign policy are unacceptable and ineffective,” a source close to Mr. Macron told AFP on Tuesday (January 20).