Biden Heading to Europe for NATO, EU Meetings on Security

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Vice President Joe Biden will travel to Brussels and Madrid early next month for high-level talks on counterterrorism cooperation and trans-Atlantic security, the White House announced Friday.

Biden is to be in Belgium on May 5 to deliver what the Obama administration calls a "major address" to the European Parliament, the European Union's legislative body. While in Brussels, he will also meet with EU and NATO officials.

The vice president's four-day swing is scheduled to wind up in Madrid, where he will meet King Juan Carlos and Spanish government officials.

Few details were released about the vice president's trip, but he is already a well-traveled envoy. At the White House, Biden has emerged as one of the president's most trusted foreign policy advisers.

Filed Under: Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Terror, Foreign Policy, Obama Administration, National Security, International, European Union

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