After a tiresome four years of petty spats over trade and defense spending, transatlantic relations seem off to a reset with Joe Biden in the White House—but what exactly can Europeans expect from an administration that Daniel Fried calls the “most pro-European since George H. W. Bush’s" in the late 80s? Ambassador Fried is a longtime career diplomat who most recently coordinated sanctions policy across the US government, and previously focused on European affairs as Assistant Secretary of State and US Ambassador in Warsaw. Hear us discuss with him the thorny concept of “strategic autonomy” and how together, the EU and the US can overcome our differences to focus on the worldful of mounting challenges we both face.

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