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Europe Should Embrace Biden’s Democracy Agenda
Bruised by its interactions with the previous U.S. administration, the EU is leery of fully hitching its wagon to Biden’s geopolitical agenda.
But Europe should focus on the bigger picture.
- Erik Brattberg
- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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