"
If I want to talk to Europe, who should I call?"
To this sarcastic question attributed to Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State to Richard Nixon, London has always prided itself on being the answer.
In the name of a direct line to the White House, of which the Reagan-Thatcher, Clinton-Blair and, more recently, Trump-Johnson tandems have put to good use.
When his victory at the polls was confirmed, Joe Biden therefore, in the name of this custom, telephoned the British Prime Minister;
but he hastened to call in the wake of Micheal Martin, the head of the Irish government.
“The President-elect makes no secret of his emotional and ancestral ties to Ireland. It's very positive for us ”,
confides to
Figaro
Simon Coveney, Irish Minister of Foreign Affairs, passing through Paris.
And Dublin does not hide its joy at seeing an "
Irishman
" take up residence in the White House at a crucial moment.
As the UK prepares to finish leaving the EU, Biden has made no secret no
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