Presidents Joe Biden and Emmanuel Macron are celebrating the long-standing U.S.-French relationship, but these are friends with differences.
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden welcome French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron during a State Arrival Ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022. Spectrum News Staff and Associated PressPUBLISHED 9:18 AM EST Dec. 01, 2022 The French leader is using his visit to Washington to sharply criticize aspects of his ally's signature climate law as a bad deal for Europe.
Seated beside Macron, Biden hailed France's support since the Revolutionary War until today, calling it a "real inflection point" of change around the world."We want to fix the direct and indirect consequences of the war on our economies and our people. But at the same time, we want to prepare for future generations," he said, also mentioning the private dinner he and first lady Brigitte Macron had with the Bidens Wednesday night.
“President Macron, you’ve heard me speak before about the inflection point we stand at in history and how the choices we make today and in the years ahead will determine the course of our world for decades to come,” Biden said. “And the United States could not ask for a better partner in this work than France. For centuries, we've come together, charted a course toward a world of greater freedom, greater opportunity, greater dignity and greater peace.
"The choices that have been made ... are choices that will fragment the West," Macron said. He said the legislation "creates such differences between the United States of America and Europe that all those who work in many companies , they will just think, 'We don't make investments any more on the other side of the Atlantic.'"
As for the Inflation Reduction Act, the European Union has expressed concern that tax credits, including those aimed at encouraging Americans to buy electric vehicles, would discriminate against European producers and break World Trade Organization rules.
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