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Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall. People of the world look at Berlin, where a wall came down, a continent came together, and history proved that there is no challenge to greater.

When U.S. presidents come to Europe, they have a habit of making headlines, sometimes before they've even been elected.

Will it be the same on Joe Biden's first visit to the old continent since he was elected president?

Welcome to EU Confidential. I'm Andrew Gray, Politico's EU editor in Brussels.

We'll get into Biden's visit in just a moment with our podcast panel and with Peter Beyer,

the German government's transatlantic coordinator.

He talks about what we can expect from Biden's visit on everything from China to trade

to Nord Stream 2.

He also gives us a sense of how relations have changed since Donald Trump

left the White House earlier this year. But fear not if you think we're getting to America

focused, to Anglo-Saxon. We'll pay homage to France by hearing about the European Parliament's

strange return to Strasbourg after more than a year away due to the coronavirus,

and we'll hear about the French government's controversial plans to make La Lange de Molière and Macron central to its presidency of the Council of the EU.

But first, let's bring in that podcast panel to set up the big event of coming days, Joe Biden's visit to Europe.

So we're about to plunge into a big sequence of summit involving US President Joe Biden as he makes his first visit to Europe, his first foreign trip of any sort since he became president, in fact,

although of course we know he's a veteran traveler, a veteran foreign policy hand in various

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