Biden thought Emmanuel Macron had been 'informed' in 'clumsy' submarine flap

President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron smiled for the press before their meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Italy, a photo opportunity intended to put more than a month of diplomatic tensions behind them.

The leaders’ conversation at the French Embassy to the Holy See in Rome was their first in-person discussion since Macron recalled his country’s top envoy to the United States for the first time in more than a century. That decision came in response to Biden’s announcement of a new national security alliance with the United Kingdom and Australia.