Donald Trump may have left the scene (settling accounts in the Republican Party in silence, for lack of tweets), his shadow has not finished hovering over the presidency of Joe Biden.
By reaching out to America's allies, the new president poses a dilemma for Europeans: whether to grab it and start over as before, or take precautions in the event of a Trump (him or another) returning. whose transatlantic relationship would find it difficult to recover?
Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron, who debated this existential choice on Friday during a Franco-German Defense Council, must go a long way towards each other before answering this question with the same voice.
Because Biden's tempting offer hides a challenge for Europe.
During his first foreign policy speech on Thursday evening, the Democrat promised
"the return of America"
not as a planetary leader, but at the head of an
"alliance of democracies"
asked to regain
"muscle" in the
face to the battering
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