Economic Security and Supply-Chain Resilience: Building the 2026 G7 Agenda

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Resident Fellow and Project Manager - Energy and Climate Studies

Joseph Dellatte joined Institut Montaigne in 2022. He currently serves as Head of Energy and Climate Studies and Resident Fellow within the Institute’s Asia Program, where he leads the team dedicated to energy and climate issues.

Mathieu Duchâtel

Resident Senior Fellow and Director of International Studies

Dr. Mathieu Duchâtel is a Resident Senior Fellow for Asia at Institut Montaigne, and Director of International Studies.

Economic security is at the heart of the French G7 presidency’s agenda, in continuity with the G7 summits of the 2020s, which have progressively turned this issue into a central pillar of international coordination. This evolution reflects the need for a common response to vulnerabilities in strategic supply chains, which are essential to the functioning of advanced economies, at a time when Chinese industrial policies are reinforcing Beijing’s dominance across many critical sectors.

The challenge for the Évian summit will be to transform a still fragmented landscape of national initiatives into coordinated action on a larger scale. All G7 members are now seeking to reduce their exposure to supply chain disruption risks. Initiatives are multiplying: critical minerals extraction projects in Canada, the launch by the United States of the Pax Silica framework to structure the entire artificial intelligence industrial stack, and the development in France of the Caremag project in Lacq and the Solvay site in La Rochelle for rare earths. Some of these initiatives rely on bilateral cooperation, particularly with Japan, which has been especially active diplomatically. Yet these efforts remain dispersed, limited in scope, and insufficiently scaled up.

This paper identifies three avenues for strengthening G7 coordination on strategic supply chains: developing pilot projects in economic intelligence, introducing non-tariff criteria in critical goods markets, and improving coordination of diversification strategies for critical materials supplies.

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May 2025

Lessons from the TTC for Europe's Foreign Economic Policy,
With and Without the U.S.

Faced with techno-nationalism and Sino-American rivalry, Europe must strengthen its economic autonomy. The Trade and Technology Council's achievements and limitations highlight the urgent need for a more coherent, autonomous and diversified European economic foreign policy.

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<p><strong>Lessons from the TTC for Europe's Foreign Economic Policy,</strong><br />
With and Without the U.S.</p>

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Economic Security and Supply-Chain Resilience:
Building the 2026 G7 Agenda