"America is back, the transatlantic alliance is back".

On February 19, during his first major foreign policy speech, the American president signaled, in a very clear way, his desire to restore transatlantic relations and to turn the page on Donald Trump's isolationist policy.

Four months later, it is this message that Joe Biden intends to embody during his first international release, in Europe. An eight-day trip to “mobilize democracies around the world”, during summits with partners from the G7, Europe and NATO, also marked by a first meeting with the President, Russian Vladimir Poutine.

The journey of the US president and his wife Jill begins Wednesday in the United Kingdom, where the G7 meeting will open on Friday. Joe Biden is scheduled to visit US Air Force personnel at Mildenhall in south-eastern England, the only such US base in Europe. The opportunity to recall the “special relationship” that has united London to Washington for decades, before a first meeting, Thursday, with the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, during which should be discussed after Brexit and the tensions between the Kingdom United and the EU on Northern Ireland.

The Covid-19 pandemic will be on the menu at the G7 summit, which begins on Friday in Cornwall, in the south-west of England. Accused of going it alone on the issue of vaccines, Joe Biden wishes to correct the situation by reaffirming the involvement of the United States in the Covax program, set up to ensure equitable distribution of vaccines, especially to low-income countries. The fight against global warming and the revival of economies following the pandemic will also be discussed, while Joe Biden wishes to launch a massive investment project in infrastructure, to “surpass” China. Finally, on Sunday, before flying to Brussels, the Biden will meet Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle.

The following two days will be devoted to meetings with NATO partners and European leaders. The security of the bloc will be on the program, in a context of uncertainty about the future of the Alliance, which Donald Trump considered too expensive and had threatened to leave. Several bilateral talks are planned, including a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron, as well as a private meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The tension between Turkey and the United States has escalated since the arrival at the White House of Joe Biden, who called President Erdogan an autocrat, criticized his policies towards the Kurds and acknowledged , in April, the Armenian genocide.

Joe Biden's first international trip will be marked by another delicate meeting, and not the least: that with Russian President Vladimir Poutin, Wednesday in Geneva. While his predecessor refrained from any criticism of Russia, sometimes going so far as to question the announcements of his own administration, Joe Biden, for his part, quickly imposed a series of sanctions against Moscow, especially for cyberattacks and espionage, going so far as to qualify the country as the main threat to "the liberal international order".

Several subjects should be discussed during this interview, including the fate of the Russian opponent Alexeï Navalny, imprisoned in Russia, Moscow's support for the Belarusian regime or even the question of nuclear weapons control.

The White House has already announced that no significant progress was expected from this meeting, which will close the first diplomatic marathon of the American president, before his return to Washington.

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