my guest today is spain's foreign minister arancha gonzalez.kind of power and influence can the eu wheeled on the world stage when it is grappling with a covid recession, exit and deep internal division? —— exit. —— brexit. arancha gonzalez, in madrid, welcome to hardtalk. it's great to be with you. i think we have to be with you. i think we have to start with events in the united states, key european leaders like angela merkel have made little effort to disguise their relief thatjoe biden is now president elect. in the united states. do you share that feeling yourself? well, you see, spaniards and europeans don't get to choose the american president, it is the american president, it is the americans who choose their president and they have spoken and they have a president elect in the person ofjoe biden and now the europeans and the spaniards at my government will work with the president—elect and the team of people he will select to advance our interests, which are many. and they are deep—rooted. but especially one of them, which is finding a