Working With the Biden Administration: Opportunities for the EU
With U.S. President Joe Biden in office, the EU and the United States must find ways to repair the relationship and seek common ground from which to address the global shifts and challenges of the coming decades.
The relief and enthusiasm at the change in U.S. administration has been palpable across Europe. The time has come for the United States and Europe to find ways not only to repair their relationship but also to seek common ground from which to address global shifts and challenges. Unprecedentedly, European Union (EU) member states have not squabbled to get Washington’s attention, nor have they waited for the new U.S. leadership to set the agenda to reinvigorate the transatlantic relationship. Rather, the Europeans have capitalized on the optimism of change to propose initiatives for collaboration and renew diplomatic efforts.1
The damage inflicted on relations between the United States and Europe and the brittle international context warrant an ambitious reform agenda to be shared by the two sides—and beyond. Even if EU leaders abandon the temptation of lazy transatlanticism and accept there is no return to the past, strategic clarity and a willingness to commit to a greater international role are still lacking.2
In light of the interests and goals of the new U.S. administration, this collection of essays takes a hard look at how Europe can design its foreign policy priorities and how the EU and the United States converge or diverge in addressing them. The series also offers short- and longer-term proposals for a more cooperative relationship. Rebuilding trust and working together can lay the foundations for hard conversations on issues where the EU and the United States will diverge. And even where they converge, the balance of responsibility for finding solutions will have to tilt toward Europe, which can no longer escape the need to provide stability to its neighborhood, beef up its security capacity, and shape its global policies.
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Πηγή: carnegieeurope.eu
