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03:32and ill-designed economic policies in the EU could lead to the bloc's civilizational decline.
03:38Puzder stated the document seeks to restore Europe's, quote,
03:41greatness and should not be understood as an attack.
03:44And the various comments we've heard across the last couple of days on the national security strategy.
03:49Is this a campaign, do you think, Ambassador, to dismantle the European Union?
03:52Well, you know, it's interesting, the coverage of the national security strategy,
03:58when I read it, I thought, my, this thing's going to be terrible.
04:00I went and read it, and it's really not that bad.
04:03The section on Europe is titled, A Proposal for European Greatness.
04:07It's not called, We Don't Like Europe, We Want Europe to Go Away.
04:10And if you read down a little bit, it says that Europe is, I think I'm going to get the quote right,
04:17Europe is strategically and culturally vital to the United States.
04:23You read a little further, it says our transatlantic trade relationship,
04:26which is the largest trade relationship in the world,
04:30is a pillar of the global economy and of American prosperity.
04:35So I don't, there, I don't, I did not read it at all as an attempt to dissolve the European Union.
04:40But does it suggest going back to nation states?
04:43A diplomat who spoke to Euronews said the document has little to do with national security,
04:48as it barely mentioned Russia, and instead has a lot to do with political interference.
04:54Several European leaders pushed back, arguing that democracy does not need external saving,
04:59and domestic matters are for the EU to handle alone.
05:05The daughter of Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado accepted the Nobel Peace Prize
05:13on her mother's behalf on Wednesday, after officials said Machado would not attend the ceremony.
05:19Machado has been in hiding and has not been seen in public since January,
05:24when she was briefly detained after joining supporters in a protest in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas.
05:29She wants to live in a free Venezuela, and she will never give up on that purpose.
05:37That is why we all know, and I know, that she will be back in Venezuela.
05:44The Nobel Institute awarded Machado the prize for her struggle to achieve a democratic transition in Venezuela.
05:49She won an opposition primary election and intended to challenge President Nicolás Maduro
05:55in last year's presidential election, but the government barred her from running for office.
06:00The lead-up to the election saw widespread repression, including disqualifications, arrests, and human rights violations.
06:07UN human rights officials and many independent rights groups have expressed concerns about the situation in Venezuela,
06:13and called for Maduro to be held accountable for the crackdown on dissent.
06:22This is the view of an expert in the fight against drugs.
06:25At the end of the month, Alexei Hosdale will step down as head of the European Union drugs agency.
06:31For 10 years, he has observed and coordinated European efforts to combat trafficking and support public health initiatives.
06:38Over the past decade, Alexei Hosdale has seen the market transform.
06:43Today, drugs are everywhere.
06:45Everything can be used or be the object of addictive behavior.
06:51And as a consequence, everybody can face personally or indirectly someone who has a problem of acute or chronic addiction.
07:01Then the second point is the violence.
07:04And here we see that over the last six, seven years, we have a huge increase of the drug market-related violence.
07:13In most of the EU member states.
07:16And that's a major difference because 10 years ago, when we talked about drug-related violence, we were talking about Central America.
07:25Now it's a bit everywhere in the European Union.
07:27While Hosdale believes that the EU has successfully responded to the challenge posed by heroin, he feels that the 27 member states are lagging behind in tackling the rise in cocaine use.
07:39Where we are not ready at all for the moment is, as we see in the last seven, eight years, a huge increase in the availability of cocaine and the indirect indications that there is a huge increase in cocaine use.
07:54We know that it takes more or less than 10 to 12 years between the moment a person starts consuming cocaine and the moment they will need to ask for help for the first time, which is usually not successful the first time.
08:08And here we don't have yet treatment, standard treatment protocols, with the same level of efficacy that we have for existing substitution treatments.
08:19Alexei Hosdale is referring to a proliferation of substances over the last 10 years, which requires a more complex public response.
08:27He calls on governments not only to fight traffickers, but also to find ways to protect citizens.
08:38Iceland is the latest country to announce it will not be taking part in the Eurovision Song Contest next year, after the organizer EBU said Israel could participate.
08:50Iceland's public broadcasters said the decision to allow Israel to join caused disunity.
08:55Local media said a crowd had gathered outside the broadcaster's headquarters to show their support.
09:02The announcement comes a week after four other countries announced they were pulling out of the contest for the same reason.
09:09Spain, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Ireland all said they wouldn't participate, citing Israel's offensive in Gaza as a reason for the boycott.
09:17Well, we would like to see other countries and other broadcasters, such as the BBC, follow the lead of RTE, follow the lead of the Spanish broadcaster,
09:27because we cannot understand how European broadcasters would continue to support the state of Israel being in the Eurovision,
09:37given that Israel targets and kills broadcasters, journalists and camera crews and continues to refuse to allow EBU members to send their own staff in.
09:49The EBU has previously said it strives to remain politically neutral.
09:54However, in 2022, it banned Russia from competing following its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
10:00The EBU has been released.
10:30The EBU has been released.
11:00What kind of money?
11:02I'm going to buy freedom before I wind up.
11:08Does he need to feel afraid of mile apart from there on?
11:11When he's lost, I'm more afraid of it.
11:20You don't have a fear of the police?
11:22Nobody will do anything with me.
11:25Neither will get whoever!
11:30You say that he has a love power, you'll see what you've never seen.
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