Joe Biden and Emmanuel Macron shared on Thursday, December 1 a gala dinner at the White House. Despite outward appearances, tensions remain between France and the United States, especially in economic terms. “The United States does not apologize, and I will not apologize for my decisions” warned the American president right from the start.
Emmanuel Macron, who came to ask for some concessions in the face of US protectionism, spoke frankly: “I believe that discussion, we made it. Now we have our work. We cannot ask the United States of America to pass a law to solve Europe’s problems. So we, as Europeans, we have to go faster and stronger.“
“The goal wasn’t to bend the Americans,” the French president’s entourage now insists. But he promises the same on these economic topics “a before and after” Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Washington. The meetings between Americans and Europeans in the coming months will have to prove it.
