Madam Secretary

Hillary makes a French connection

Hillary Clinton in Stasbourg, France, April 3, 2009 Secretary Clinton has moved from Britain to the European mainland for the 60th-anniversary NATO summit. Above, she strides to her car after attending a U.S.-French meeting earlier today at the Palais Rohan in Strasbourg, in eastern France. The summit takes place today and Saturday in Strasbourg and ...

By , copy chief at Foreign Policy from 2009-2016 and was an assistant editor from 2007-2009.
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Hillary Clinton in Stasbourg, France, April 3, 2009

Hillary Clinton in Stasbourg, France, April 3, 2009

Secretary Clinton has moved from Britain to the European mainland for the 60th-anniversary NATO summit. Above, she strides to her car after attending a U.S.-French meeting earlier today at the Palais Rohan in Strasbourg, in eastern France. The summit takes place today and Saturday in Strasbourg and the neighboring German cities of Baden-Baden and Kehl.

Meanwhile, husband Bill has been on his own European visit. Yesterday, he was in Brussels, speaking at the opening of the Global Progressive Forum. The conference aims to “gather worldwide key international players to elaborate progressive ways of tackling the negative outcomes of globalization while engaging in a new vision of a globalised world from which we can all benefit.”

Bill Clinton, April 2, 2009

Bill Clinton, April 2, 2009

Photos, top to bottom: MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images, JOHN THYS/AFP/Getty Images

Preeti Aroon was copy chief at Foreign Policy from 2009-2016 and was an assistant editor from 2007-2009. Twitter: @pjaroonFP

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