WHAT DO WE DO WITH EUROPE?

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Raimund Löw in conversation with John Kornblum and Eva Nowotny

WHAT DO WE DO WITH EUROPE?

In his first major foreign policy speech at the Munich Security Conference in February 2021, President Biden hinted that too much harmony with Europe would not serve the US well. Biden seemed to be speaking directly to Merkel and Macron, issuing a challenge to Europe: „Stop the fantasies about American "strategic sovereignty", strengthen increasingly dysfunctional diplomacy, and help shore up the West under American leadership. My government will do its part, but you must do yours.“
In the past few days, during his first trip to Europe as US President, which took him to the UK for the G7 summit, to Brussels for the NATO summit and talks with EU representatives, and to Geneva for a meeting with Russian President Putin, Biden's ideas and expectations have become clearer.
How will transatlantic relations develop in the coming years?
What specific expectations do Biden and his administration have of Europe and how is Europe dealing with them?

Raimund Löw spoke about this with the American foreign policy expert John Kornblum at the beginning of Biden's trip to Europe and with our Transatlantica curator Eva Nowotny at the end.

John Christian Kornblum is a retired American diplomat and former German head of the American investment bank Lazard.
Eva Nowotny, Member of the Board of the Bruno Kreisky Forum, retired diplomat, Chairwoman of the University Council of the University of Vienna
Raimund Löw, historian and journalist, director of „Falter Radio“ and former ORF correspondent