EU hopes for US’s return to multilateralism
The EU hopes the US will adopt a more multilateralist stance when president-elect Joe Biden takes power, the bloc's chief said yesterday, on the eve of a G20 summit. "The next (US) administration has already committed to increase multilateral cooperation. …I'm very hopeful now with the new president elect that this will change," European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said. Under Trump's presidency, the United States retreated from several multilateral accords and institutions, including the Paris climate agreement, the Iran nuclear deal, the World Health Organization, UNESCO, the UN Human Rights Council, a Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, funding of the UNRWA agency providing support for Palestinian refugees, and the Open Skies Treaty allowing countries to make surveillance flights over other nations' military installations. Saudi Arabia is hosting the G20 summit this weekend.
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