New videoconference.
Identical subject.
The Twenty-Seven met virtually Thursday, the resumption of the pandemic forcing Charles Michel, the President of the European Council, to cancel the physical meeting initially scheduled in Brussels.
On the afternoon program: European coordination in the face of Covid-19.
And, in the evening, an exchange on Turkey, an update on the situation with Russia and, above all, a first contact with the President of the United States, Joe Biden.
"It is not possible to go too far by videoconference on foreign policy subjects, because we know that we are being listened to,"
slips a diplomat.
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