Biden in Europe – Return to Strasbourg – Transatlantic dialogue – POLITICO
Joe Biden’s trip to Europe, an interview with Germany’s transatlantic coordinator, the strange return of the European Parliament to Strasbourg and a Brussels hubbub in preparation on the French language appear in this episode.
As Biden makes his first presidential trip abroad for a series of summits – with the G7, NATO, the EU and Vladimir Putin – POLITICO’s Andrew Gray gets a glimpse of his colleagues Rym Momtaz, David M. Herszenhorn and Anna Isaac, who are all heading to Cornwall for the first of these powwows.
Peter Beyer, the German government’s transatlantic expert, speaks with POLITICO’s Matthew Karnitschnig about what has changed now that Donald Trump is no longer in the White House, the evolution of China’s Western approach and the impact of the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline on relations with Washington.
Meanwhile, a debate is intensifying in Brussels on Paris’s plans to use only French in the conduct of business during its next Presidency of the Council of the EU, from January 2022. Maïa de La Baume de POLITICO has the scoop on this, and on the strange return of the European Parliament to Strasbourg after more than a year of absence due to the pandemic.