{"id":401070,"date":"2026-01-10T19:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T19:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/401070\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T19:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T19:23:07","slug":"france-delays-g7-summit-to-avoid-scheduling-conflict-with-ufc-white-house-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/401070\/","title":{"rendered":"France delays G7 Summit to avoid scheduling conflict with UFC White House event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">France has decided to delay this year\u2019s Group of 7 Summit in order to avoid a scheduling conflict with UFC\u2019s upcoming White House event on June 14, which will also be President Donald Trump\u2019s 80th birthday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The event is expected to garner such attention and attract dignitaries from around the world that France isn\u2019t willing to go head-to-head with UFC on Trump\u2019s birthday. Can you blame them?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">According to a recent report by news outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/france-delay-g7-white-house-donald-trump-birthday\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Politico<\/a>, France will move its annual G7 Summit \u2014 which seven major industrial countries discuss key global policy issues \u2014 from June 14-16 to June 15-17. This clears the way for UFC\u2019s White House card and Trump\u2019s birthday bash on June 14. French President Emmanuel Macron\u2019s office declined to confirm that the rescheduling is directly related to the UFC event and said the change of date is \u201cthe result of our consultations with G7 partners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">When asked about the G7 Summit delay a White House official told Politico: \u201cAs the leader of the free world, our partners believed that President Trump\u2019s attendance at the G7 Summit was essential. They kindly shifted dates to accommodate the U.S. president\u2019s schedule.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For more UFC White House 2026 news and coverage click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-white-house-2026-fight-card-start-time-full-results-dana-white-conor-mcgregor-cbs-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France has decided to delay this year\u2019s Group of 7 Summit in order to avoid a scheduling conflict&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,139736,139445,98879,702],"class_list":["post-401070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-on-cbs","tag-ufc-on-paramount","tag-ufc-white-house-2026","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}