Europe
Biden’s Europe Visit Puts Pressure on Macron to Fix Scholz Ties
- The American president visited France for D-Day commemorations
- The transatlantic allies made little progress on EU priorities
Joe Biden and Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris, on Saturday.
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US President Joe Biden’s visit to France for the D-Day commemoration saw plenty of warm gestures but little movement on the policies that really matter for Emmanuel Macron and the rest of the European Union.
Biden refused to join a French initiative to deploy military trainers on the ground in Ukraine, skirted over their disagreements over the Israel-Hamas war and offered nothing but rhetoric on the trade disputes and subsidies that have soured economic relations between the transatlantic partners.