This is on point. I'm Magna Chakrabardi. When Americans cast their ballots on

November 6th in the US presidential election, their votes will not just

influence the lives of all of their fellow Americans. The next president of the United States will also have a global impact.

That's because the outcome of the 2024 U.S. presidential election will have repercussions on what happens in the war in Ukraine,

in the Middle East, in Gaza, and Lebanon.

It will impact international trade and tariffs.

It will shape border policy and immigration policy.

It will even have an impact on global democracy.

So this hour we will be looking at three regions of the world Europe Latin America and Africa to

hear about why how you vote matters to the rest of the world and we will start in Europe. Michael Barinowski is the managing director of the

East program of the German Marshall Fund and our nonpartisan transatlantic

think tank and he joins us from Warsaw, Poland.

Michael, welcome to Onpoint.

It's great to be with you.

So just about every US presidential election

is of keen interest to the world, but how consequential would you say this 2024 election

is for Europeans?

You're right that every US election is important but this feels like it's perhaps the most important

US election for Europe for transatlantic relations in perhaps as long as a generation and it has to do both with the stark

contrast between the two candidates but perhaps even more importantly, the election comes in a very tumultuous time in our history,

both in Europe with the Russian war in Ukraine, but also with the Russian war in Ukraine but also with the broader instability in the Middle East.

So right on the borders of Europe we have two ongoing wars and US is a key ally of Europe and a key player

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