VAUX-DE-CERNAY, France ¨C Foreign ministers from the world¡¯s leading Western democracies meet in France this week against the backdrop of wars in Iran and Ukraine, economic uncertainty, and mounting unease over an increasingly unpredictable U.S. foreign policy.
The two-day gathering at the restored 12th-century Abbaye des Vaux-de-Cernay, about 40 kilometers southwest of Paris, brings together ministers from the G7 ¡ª the U.K., Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the U.S. ¡ª alongside the European Union.
The grouping, which first met as ?six in ?nearby Rambouillet 50 years ago, traditionally approached its core economic and geopolitical challenges with a broad consensus.
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