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Lucinda Creighton: Joe Biden has embraced the worst of Trump’s economic policies

The US president has been around long enough to know that shutting off America from the rest of the world will not save American jobs, so why is he doing it?

Joe Biden: the EU has been decrying his Inflation Reduction Act, with its unfortunate ‘IRA’ acronym, for months now. Picture: Shutterstock

Despite the obvious political, policy and geostrategic synergies between the United States and Europe, the two sides sometimes appear incapable of moving beyond platitudes when it comes to concretely working together for the benefit of their people.

Despite the new dawn in transatlantic relations heralded by the election of Joe Biden as president in 2019, both sides appear to pursue more and more isolationist economic strategies. It is illogical.

The EU has been decrying Biden’s ...