While scathing about its regulatory hypocrisy, Gordon Sondland, who represented the US at the European Union from 2018-20, stressed the importance of working with the EU in the context of common threats when he spoke to OMFIF last month. He also called on President Joe Biden’s administration to institute a regular high-level dialogue aside from the G7 and G20-style formats, which he regards as essentially inconsequential. Sondland has also lobbied vociferously for the EU’s representative in the US to be accorded full diplomatic recognition and felt the UK should do the same. Sondland, a long-time Republican donor, ... (full story)