much it meant to the president. and, of course, it would mean a lot to the president. this is a pope that counseled the president after the death of his son beau in 2015. they kept in touch can sort of, they met between now and then. and the president actually presented the pope with a coin that bore the insignia of the delaware national guard, the military pact that he was in. and it touched on other issues but really more symbolic than any one issue. seemingly agree on the rap p rapport between the two. just to come at it from. two different angles, whatever comes of the g20 on the conference, the elephant in the room is whether the u.s. commitments, whether they might be in the end, are worth anything, the sort of back and forth, hyperpolarized nature of
industrially, economically, - financially and also militarily, we must build a stronger europe. you know that is what i deeply believe in, a europe which takes its share for itself and which can choose its partners and work closely with historical allies. i am with the president of france. the biggest of those historical allies is the us. but things have been frosty since it signed a military pact which meant australia backed out of the lucrative submarine deal with france. on tuesday, the us secretary of state anthony blinken was in paris. he is the first american official to meet the french president since the row and he spoke to french tv. he speaks french. translation: we could have, we should have done better. in terms of communication. this is what president biden and president macron said when they spoke two weeks ago. but, above all, we sometimes tend to take for granted such an important relationship, a relationship as deep as the one between france and at the us. president ma
afghanistan was also on the agenda. 0ur still smarting from a secret submarine deal between the us, australia and the uk, emmanuel macron told reporters europe needs to consider its independence. technologically, economically. independence. technologically, economically, industrially, - economically, industrially, financially and militarily we must build a stronger europe. you know that is what i deeply believe in, europe which takes its share for itself which can choose its partners and work closely with historical allies. the biggest of those historical allies is the us, but in sabine frosty since it signed a military pact which meant australia backed out of a lucrative submarine deal with france. 0n lucrative submarine deal with france. on tuesday, the us secretary of state, anthony blank, was in paris, the first american official to meet the french resident since the row and he spoke to french tv.