Key facts
- French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney met in Saint Pierre and Miquelon.
- The leaders pledged closer ties to address geopolitical tensions, climate change, and threats to sovereignty.
- Macron and Carney agreed to collaborate on space launch systems and ground reception facilities.
- Donald Trump previously shared a social media post depicting Saint Pierre and Miquelon as part of the US.
French President Emmanuel Macron visited Saint Pierre and Miquelon, a French archipelago off Canada's Atlantic coast, to meet with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. The visit, the first by a French president to the territory since 2014 and the first by a Canadian prime minister, occurred amid increasing geopolitical tensions and a trade dispute with the US. Macron and Carney pledged to strengthen bilateral ties to address global challenges including climate change and threats to sovereignty. The leaders agreed to collaborate on developing space launch systems and ground reception facilities, and to deepen cooperation in sectors such as energy and climate. The meeting followed a social media post by Donald Trump that included Saint Pierre and Miquelon within a map of the United States, a move Macron dismissed as based on "strange ideas."