On December 1, 2022, French President Emmanuel Macron and U.S. President Joe Biden stood together at President Macron’s official National Day ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, USA.
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Fresh off commemorations of the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings, French President Emmanuel Macron will host U.S. President Joe Biden on Saturday for a state visit that will include a grand military parade and talks on trade, Israel and Ukraine.
Despite the past, the two still maintain a warm relationship Tensions over submarine deal The Australian couple will join their wives for a welcome ceremony at the iconic Arc de Triomphe and a procession down the Champs Elysées, followed by meetings on policy issues and then a dinner.
Biden receives Macron state visit At the White House in 2022.
U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters earlier: “France is…one of our oldest and deepest allies. This will be an important moment to affirm that alliance and to look to the future and the mission that we must accomplish together.” .
Sullivan said the talks between the two men will cover Russia’s war with Ukraine, Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza, cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region, and a range of policy issues from climate change to artificial intelligence to supply chains.
White House spokesman John Kirby said the two countries would announce a maritime law enforcement cooperation plan and that the U.S. Coast Guard and the French navy would discuss increased cooperation.
Biden and Macron are also expected to discuss strengthening NATO, and both have pledged support for Ukraine but have yet to agree on plans to use frozen Russian assets to help Kyiv. U.S. Treasury officials said on Tuesday that the United States and its G7 partners progress is being made about this point.
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Biden met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Paris on Friday, Apologize for months-long delay US Congress approves latest aid package, Zelensky Address to the French National Assembly.
Biden spoke at the Normandy American Cemetery on Thursday on the anniversary of the Allied attack on Nazi German occupiers on a French beach during World War II. appeal to western powers Aligned with Ukraine.
Macron and Biden will also discuss the situation in the Middle East.
Biden has been a staunch supporter of Israel, which is pursuing Hamas after its attack on the country in October, but the deaths of tens of thousands of Palestinians have soured Biden’s left-leaning political base in Israel, where he Running against Republican Donald Trump hurt him.
Beyond Ukraine, transatlantic trade problems are likely to become increasingly serious.
US Inflation Reduction Act, Biden signed into law in August 2022, angering European officials; they viewed it as a protectionist move that would siphon investment from EU companies.
Macron said during a state visit to Washington in 2022 that the subsidy program could “split the West” and weaken Europe’s post-COVID-19 recovery at a time when Washington seeks allies to confront China and both sides confront Russia.
Since then, however, he and his European allies have won few concessions from Washington, and French officials said the purpose of their visit was still to try to “resynchronize” the U.S. and EU economic agendas.
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