Georges Pompidou (1969-1974) was the first French president to open the Fort de Brégançon to the media, artists, and designers and introduce them into the presidential intimacy. His successor, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (1974-1981), organized the first national television interview there. In 1995, the site served as the setting for François Mitterrand's (1981-1995) last press conference, a few months before his death. The Fort de Brégançon also hosted several professional meetings, notably with the strikers of the SNCF at the beginning of 1987, Condoleezza Rice during the management of the Russo-Georgian conflict in August 2008, Theresa May on Brexit in August 2018, or even Vladimir Poutine in the preamble of the Biarritz G7 in August 2019.