Overview

• The two-day visit marks the first French presidential state visit to Monaco since François Mitterrand in 1984 and underscores France’s role in the principality’s security and administration.
• Macron and Prince Albert II opened the visit with a private audience at the Prince’s Palace followed by a state dinner hosted by the Grimaldi family.
• They toured a thalassotherapy plant generating marine-based thermal energy and the Oceanographic Museum to highlight Monaco’s longstanding commitment to marine conservation.
• On Sunday they will co-chair a blue finance forum designed to attract sustainable-ocean investors as a prelude to the UN’s third Ocean Conference in Nice.
• A strengthened customs cooperation agreement covering data sharing, cross-border road infractions and cash flow monitoring is scheduled to be formally signed during the visit.