(15 Jun 2021) U.S. President Joe Biden met with King Philippe of Belgium on Tuesday ahead of a meeting between the United States and European Union.
Biden is seeking to tamp down trade tensions with European allies as he spends one last day consulting with Western democracies ahead of his highly anticipated meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
After a pair of summits with Group of Seven world leaders in the U.K. and then NATO allies in Brussels, Biden is set to meet Tuesday with European Council President Charles Michel and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
Biden has sought to marshal widespread European support for his efforts to counter Russia prior to his Wednesday meeting in Geneva with Putin.
But the U.S.-EU relationship is not without its own tensions.
Biden will meet with the top EU officials as the continent’s leaders are becoming impatient that the American president has not yet addressed Donald Trump’s 2018 decision to impose import taxes on foreign steel and aluminum.
There’s also a longstanding dispute over how much of a government subsidy each side unfairly provides for its aircraft manufacturing giant - Boeing in the United States and Airbus in the EU.
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