The presidents of the United States and France pledged today to “coordinate” their countries’ response to the “challenges posed by China”, notably on the issue of human rights.
France and the United States will also cooperate “with China on important global issues such as climate change“, states the joint statement issued during the French president’s official visit to Washington and relayed by the Athens News Agency.
Regarding Iran, Mr Joe Biden and Emmanuel Macron expressed their “respect” for the Iranians who are “demonstrating with vigor” in favor of “of their fundamental freedoms“, states the joint statement.
The two presidents salute “women and young people” protesting the encroachment on their rights and freedoms, “which Iran has signed and is violating”, according to the announcement. On green energy, the two presidents committed their countries to a “mutually beneficial” ecological transition.
The two presidents expressed their desire “to strengthen the cooperation between the United States and the European Union for clean energy and the climate”according to the joint statement.
Biden and Macron pledged to work to “modernize” their approaches to green energy investment after friction over US industrial policy.
“We agreed to discuss practical ways to synchronize our approaches to strengthening supply chain, manufacturing and innovation on both sides of the Atlantic,” Joe Biden said during a joint press conference.
“We decided together to synchronize our approaches and our agendas for investments in critical emerging industries such as semiconductors, hydrogen, batteries,” Emmanuel Macron explained. US President Joe Biden has pledged that job creation in the United States will not be “to the detriment of Europe”.
The obstruction of European business “was not the intention” behind the law to reduce the inflation of the United States, but rather an unintended consequence, said his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron during the joint press conference.
Europe must “to go faster and stronger” to have “the same ambition” in terms of industry as Washington, Macron said. “We want to succeed together, not against each other”the French president emphasized.
Source: News Beast
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