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00:15Good morning, it is Tuesday the 27th of January. I'm Maeve McMahan and this...
00:20This is Europe Today. Your daily dose of European news and analysis live...
00:25Here on Euronews. Coming up, some breaking news. A historic EU-India...
00:30...free trade deal has just been signed in New Delhi. After years of taking one step forward...
00:35...and two steps back, as the EU looks to counter tariff threats from the current US...
00:40...administration and manage an influx of cheap goods from China, European leaders and businesses...
00:45...business reps are marking the moment today at a landmark EU-India summit. Under the deal...
00:50...India is expected to ease market access for European products from cars to wine...
00:55...and in return, it will be easier for India to export textiles and pharmaceuticals.
01:00For more, we can cross now straight to New Delhi, where Euronews's EU editor Maria Tadeo is standing by...
01:05...by for us. Good morning, Maria. Great to have you with us. Just tell us, the deal is just being signed there in front of your eyes.
01:10Tell us more.
01:11Well, yes, absolutely. And this is a deal now announced by the European...
01:15...European Union and, of course, India, it's been described as the mother of all deals and may even...
01:20...in just a few moments, you'll see right behind me the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, but also...
01:25...and the Indian Prime Minister Modi and the head of the European Council will walk in and take questions.
01:30...from the press. Obviously, this wraps now a two-day summit in India.
01:35...two sides also suggest that this is now a new chapter for strategic relations when it comes to the...
01:40...two blocks and, of course, we have to look at the details of this trade deal, which will cut tariffs.
01:45...on more than 90% of European products. European sources also telling us in the...
01:50...one of two-day announcements that this will open up a market that, until now, has been very heavily...
01:55...expected by the Indians. Obviously, this could be good for European car makers, for chemicals...
02:00...for wines, spirits, olive oils, in some of these sectors, tariffs could go all the way down...
02:05...up to zero. And, of course, we've got to remember that this is a country that's not just one of the...
02:09...fast and growing markets.
02:10...in the world, but it's also a country of more than 1.4 billion people.
02:15I should also note, and this is very important just before we have to leave, that the timing is interesting because...
02:20...both India and the European Union, of course, have come under pressure from tariffs from President Trump...
02:24...this country operates.
02:25...under a 50% tariff regime. They both say they want to diversify and open up...
02:30...to new markets.
02:31Okay, Maria Tadeo, our EU news editor there, reporting from Delhi on that...
02:35...major announcement breaking today. Thank you so much for that. The final deal, of course, we'll have to get the green light.
02:40From the European Parliament, you can read more about Maria's reporting on Euronews.com.
02:44Good night.
02:45Back in Brussels, Mark Rutte, the NATO Secretary-General, was in the European Parliament yesterday.
02:50...with a very stark message for MEPs. Take a look.
02:54President Trump is doing...
02:55...a lot of good stuff, I believe. The 2% reached by all NATO countries...
03:00...now at the end of 2025 would never, ever, ever have happened without Trump.
03:05And do you really think that in The Hague we would have come to the 5% commitment without President Trump?
03:10No way. And if anyone thinks here, again, that the European Union or Europe as a whole can...
03:15...and defend itself without the US? Keep on dreaming.
03:18Keep on dreaming. That's the NATO chief there.
03:20...telling European nations that they would need to increase defence spending to 10%.
03:25If they, quote, really want to do it alone, he added, they would also need to build up their own nuclear...
03:30...capability, and that would cost billions of euros.
03:33Euronews' Stefan Krobey was following this...
03:35...speech for us and joins us now here in the studio. Good morning, Stefan.
03:38Good morning, Maeve.
03:39Tell us, what more did Mark...
03:40...we'd better have to say. And how is it received by MEPs?
03:43Well, first of all, these hearings at the...
03:45...the European Parliament tend to be very casual affairs, like the European version of a fire...
03:50...side chat, and people expected some muscular...
03:55...statement from Mark Rutte, but it wasn't the way they thought.
04:00He was quite fiery, as you've seen, saying that, you know, Europe cannot...
04:05...defend itself alone, without the Americans. And he praised Donald Trump.
04:09At one point he said...
04:10...that I say something that you don't like, I will defend Donald Trump.
04:13Saying that the increase of...
04:15...of defense spending is largely due to the US president. So, that left many...
04:20...of the members of Parliament with a little bit of frustration. That's not what they wanted to hear, really.
04:25Also important, what Mark Rutte didn't speak about, and that was the Greenland deal.
04:30It was very short on details. We still don't know, almost a week after that, was what's in...
04:35...this deal? Is this a deal at all? But sure, Mark Rutte then has not a mandate to New York...
04:40...on behalf of all the member states. And some people, a bit concerned about the fact that he's a little bit like...
04:45...teacher's pet here, to the US administration. Well, absolutely. And, you know...
04:50...some EU leaders, former and present, reacted to this and...
04:55...and Charles Michel, the former Belgian Prime Minister and EU Council President, said...
05:00...you're wrong, dear Mark Rutte. Europe will defend itself. And Donald Trump is not my daddy.
05:05...that's a potshot at Mark Rutte. Of course, Europe's future requires vision...
05:10...courage and leadership, not resignation, submission and fatalism. So, there you have it.
05:15Others follow the French Prime Minister, for example, saying the same.
05:20...thing, Europe can or should work to be able to defend itself.
05:25...in the future, and we have to put some distance between us and the Americans.
05:28Now, I believe...
05:30...that this is somewhat of an academic discussion here, because of things that have been going on...
05:35...in the United States itself. So, in December 2023, Joe Biden was the president...
05:40...and Congress passed, overwhelmingly, a bill that barred any president...
05:45...from unilaterally withdrawing from NATO. So, that would require...
05:50...approval from the Senate or an act of Congress. So, they were, if you remember...
05:55...and during Trump's first term, he already toyed with the idea of America leaving NATO.
06:00...and here you have a Congress bipartisan bill. By the way...
06:05...orchestrated by Mark Rubio, the Secretary of State today. So...
06:10...and...
06:10...it's...
06:11...Trump cannot just walk away like this.
06:13Okay. Stefan Kovey, thank you so much for all.
06:15...those details. We'd love to hear your view as well on that. Write to us here...
06:18...at Europe Today at your new...
06:20...in the United States.
06:21But now, moving on...
06:22...you might have noticed the French president has soared in...
06:25...popularity lately. Quite simply, for his fashionable shades in Davos.
06:29Manuel Macron.
06:30...is also using this moment in the limelight to push through a social media ban for my...
06:35...signers, that has also been approved by the French assembly. Jacob Yanis tells us more.
06:40France is officially at war with social media...
06:45...and the battle cries are echoing all over Europe. According to a...
06:50...French half watchdog. Half of teens spend between two to five hours a day...
06:55...on their smartphones. President Macron says our children's brains are...
07:00...not for sale and wants a social media ban for under-15s by...
07:05...september. But your reporter went for a dinner with some tech lobbyists...
07:09...and it's clear...
07:10...and it's clear now. This ban sounds like a nightmare. Let's investigate.
07:15...Supporters say it would protect kids from harmful contents. Over...
07:20...a half of European teens have seen online pornography. The average age...
07:25...of first exposure? Just eleven. And in the era of Elon Musk...
07:30...asks Grok AI, they don't even need to search for it. They can generate...
07:35...so let's cheer for the AI revolution. In Australia...
07:40...which was first to ban social media for teens, claims the ban helps kids...
07:45...like children actually need focus to study. Personally, a thing I'll...
07:50...aregibra is much easier when you are interrupted every twelve seconds.
07:55Finally, the ban would hurt profits of the big American and Chinese apps...
08:00...and my legal team advised me not to name them, so here instead is a video of a...
08:05...sad puppy. Just look at his sad eyes. Look...
08:10...if your child doesn't recognize your face anymore because it isn't vertical...
08:14...don't worry...
08:15...just send him a message with a funny cat video. With the social media...
08:20...barn, you can't. So case closed. And I just hope...
08:25...my new friends who work as lobbyists liked my explainer. My...
08:30...job is done here. Now let's go back to doomscrolling.
08:35Yeah, I could be honest there. But now...
08:40...coming up, we'll be joined by the Executive Vice President of the European Commission...
08:44...Henna Verkunen.
08:45...the Finnish politician and former MEP and Government Minister is currently in charge of...
08:50...tech sovereignty, security and democracy. Good morning, Commissioner.
08:53Good morning.
08:54Great to have you.
08:55...be with us.
08:56Yeah, thank you.
08:57Look, the big news of course breaking this morning is happening in New Delhi.
09:00Tell us more about how this EU trade deal with India will impact our viewers.
09:05Of course, it's a very important deal from the European Union perspective because together...
09:10...European Union and India, we are two biggest democracies in the world. And I think this is great.
09:15...news for everybody. So more business opportunities for our SMEs, for our industries also...
09:20...for our service providers and of course also for the Indians, especially...
09:25...when it comes to technologies. We are working also together with India. We have our technology...
09:30...partnership partnership also with India and especially when we are looking...
09:35...the talent part. We know that India is having very much ICT experts and talent.
09:40...so we are really lacking workforce in Europe. So this is now certainly a field where we are working...
09:45...together with India. Also to attract more talented ICT experts from India to work...
09:50...in Europe. OK, see if your work cut out for you there. And now just talk to us about the investigation...
09:55...that you have launched this week against Elon Musk's controversial AI chat box...
10:00...Roch. Tell us more about your findings here. We opened also formally investigation...
10:05...yesterday on this topic, especially now to investigate that how...
10:10...ICTX has been assessing and mitigating the risks. So it's an obligation under DSA.
10:15...that always service providers, they have to assess and mitigate the system...
10:20...and the risks that they are posing. And now we see that KROG is now included more and more to...
10:25...so really look at how the risks are taken care of there.
10:30...and also we saw also that there was certain illegal...
10:35...content that KROG was pushing. We know that now the feature has been changed.
10:40...but we are also now analysing about the other risks really related.
10:45...to KROG. And we saw that KROG AI generated about 3 million sexualised...
10:50...images in just two weeks. That's according to research.
10:53Can you keep up with this though?
10:55...and it came very late?
10:56We have very clear obligations for the...
11:00...online service providers that they have to all the time mitigate the risks what they oppose.
11:05...and especially now when more and more AI is also integrated to online services.
11:10...and more and more AI is also running the recommender system of the online services.
11:15So this is certain obligation now for the online platforms to really look that they...
11:20...are having practices in place and illegal content for example is not spread online.
11:25And has X responded? Because we all know how Elon Musk feels about the European Union.
11:29Yes.
11:30...because they have been in dialogue with the Commission services.
11:32We already sent it earlier for them...
11:35...request for information about this topic that how they have been assessing the risks.
11:39And also we may...
11:40...late before Christmas already the decisions that they have to now retain all the documents.
11:45...related to Croc and X.
11:46And now we opened also to formal proceedings.
11:50So they have been in dialogue with our services all these months.
11:53Okay. And how are you making sure that we can...
11:55...that we can get it right here in the EU.
11:57That we can make sure that we have smart regulation when it comes to AI.
12:00...but that we can also thrive.
12:01That is exactly what we are seeking.
12:05...in our regulation.
12:06That we want to have right balance.
12:07They are boosting innovations but at the same time...
12:10...it is also important to be aware of risks.
12:12And when it comes to new technologies also like to AI.
12:15So it's very important also that the developers...
12:17...that they are also taking care of their risk.
12:20...responsibility here.
12:21And we have already AI Act which is covering also...
12:25...the generative AI part and the 26 AI developers they were all...
12:30...signing code of practice together with us.
12:32So it means that they have to take care of the security.
12:35...safety of the systems and also they have to be transparent.
12:39They have to respect...
12:40...copyrights.
12:41So I see that we have good balance in the European Union when it comes to...
12:45...the UK dollar regulation.
12:46And how are you handling the pressure though coming from the US administration...
12:49...trying to back you?
12:50...in a corner trying to get you to kill the regulation.
12:52We know that these digital rules...
12:55...are very important for the Europeans because we want to make sure...
12:58...that our citizens can trust to technology.
13:00...we want to make sure that our digital environment...
13:04...it's fair...
13:05...transparent, democratic and safe.
13:08But you're seen as a rule maker.
13:10You were just in Davos last week, everyone looking at you as the regulator...
13:13...not the innovator.
13:14But there was good news...
13:15...on the 28th regime, right?
13:17To make it easier for startups here in the EU.
13:19In the same time when...
13:20...we have certain digital rules.
13:22We want to make Europe faster and easier.
13:25...for the businesses.
13:26And we are doing that.
13:27So we are simplifying the processes and rules.
13:30We are...
13:30...creating better single market.
13:32We are boosting the capital markets to have also access to...
13:35...finance for the startups.
13:36So we are working on that.
13:38And we see that Europe is having everything...
13:40...what is needed to be competitive.
13:41Okay.
13:42Heine Verkunen, Vice President of the European Commission.
13:44Thank you so much.
13:45...for coming in to us here at Europe Today and being our guest.
13:48And thank you so much for tuning in.
13:50This does bring this edition of Europe Today to an end.
13:53But tune in again tomorrow.
13:54We'll be...
13:55live from the European Space Conference.
13:57With an exclusive interview with the head of the European Space...
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