Europe hopes for reset, end to 'damage control' under Biden

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said the recent years were an exercise in “damage control” on international diplomacy and issues such as climate change. BERLIN: German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Tuesday he hopes a reset of US-European relations under the Biden administration can end years in which Europe was mainly concerned with “damage control.”

Biden has made clear that he wants to “repair” the trans-Atlantic relationship, “and that is urgently necessary,” Maas said at a panel event in Berlin. “The result, because the West wasn't working together any more, was that in many issues a vacuum arose that was used by China or Russia,” Maas said. But he cautioned that the Europeans “will have to get out of our seats” to grasp new opportunities, and offer to do more themselves in their immediate neighborhood as part of what he has termed a “new deal” with the US.Germany holds the EU's rotating presidency until the end of December, when it will hand over to Portugal.

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