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Joe Biden is due to attend EU video summits on Thursday

2021-03-23T18:25:37.891Z


Joe Biden wants to spontaneously take part in a summit of the EU Council on Thursday. The visit could be uncomfortable for Germany - it should also be about future dealings with Russia.


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US President Joe Biden

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US President Joe Biden is due to attend the video summit of EU leaders on Thursday.

This was announced by EU Council President Charles Michel on Twitter on Tuesday.

"I have invited the President of the United States to attend our meeting and share with us his view of future cooperation." It was "time to rebuild the transatlantic alliance," continued Michel.

Michel's spokesman added that Biden would tune in on Thursday evening at 8.45 p.m. Brussels time.

Among other things, a fundamental foreign policy debate on relations with Russia and Turkey is planned for the summit.

It could be uncomfortable for Germany, especially with a view to the future course towards Russia.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken had criticized the German-Russian gas pipeline project Nord Stream 2, among other things, in the course of talks with the NATO defense ministers in Brussels.

This is "in contradiction to the US's own security goals," said Blinken, who was supposed to meet with Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas that evening.

In the relationship between the US and the EU, Biden's participation in the summit marks a turnaround.

Relations had cooled significantly under Biden's predecessor Donald Trump - trade relations between the two sides had also deteriorated massively.

Trump accused the EU of unfair competition and imposed punitive tariffs.

Biden, on the other hand, is again clearly focusing on international cooperation and has returned to the Paris Climate Agreement, among other things.

fek / dpa / Reuters

Source: spiegel

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