Joe Biden is making Europe the first foreign destination of his presidency, attending a series of summits with the G7, European Union and Nato, to try to reassure European partners of his support, before meeting in Geneva with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“This trip is about realising America’s renewed commitment to our allies and partners, and demonstrating the capacity of democracies to both meet the challenges and deter the threats of this new age,” Biden wrote in The Washington Post ahead of his trip.
Biden is casting his first trip to Europe as president as a return to badly-needed US leadership, reassuring Europeans that the US can be counted on as a partner to face Russian aggression on its physical borders and online.
The eight-day trip will start Wednesday in the UK, where Biden will visit American troops stationed there and then meet Prime Minister Boris Johnson, ahead of a G7 summit in Carbis Bay, a seaside resort, on Friday and Saturday.
Then Biden will go to Brussels to attend a summit of the Nato military alliance, and a meeting with the heads of the members of the European Union.
The meetings are a build-up to his face-to-face meeting with Putin in Geneva on Wednesday.
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