July 02, 2021
President Biden’s Trip to Europe, with Jeremy Shapiro and Amy Mackinnon
What concrete outcomes were achieved during President Joe Biden’s recent trip to Europe? Jeremy Shapiro and Amy Mackinnon join Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Jim Townsend to discuss the future of the transatlantic alliance in the wake of a series of summits between Biden and America’s European allies as well as Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Jeremy Shapiro is the research director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, as well as a nonresident fellow at the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution. Prior to Brookings, he was a member of the U.S. State Department’s policy planning staff, and previously served as senior advisor to Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Philip Gordon.
Amy Mackinnon is a national security and intelligence reporter at Foreign Policy. She has reported from across Eastern Europe and was previously based in Moscow and in Tbilisi, Georgia, as senior editor for the crisis reporting site Coda Story.
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