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00:15Good morning. It is Tuesday, the 27th of January. I'm Maeve McMahan.
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
00:30free trade deal has just been signed in New Delhi after years of taking one step forward.
00:35As the EU looks to counter tariff threats from the current U.S.
00:40administration and manage an influx of cheap goods from China, European leaders and business
00:45reps are marking the moment today at a landmark EU-India summit under the deal.
00:50India is expected to ease market access for European products from cars to wine.
00:55And in return, it will be easier for India to explore textiles and pharmaceuticals.
01:00For more, we can cross now straight to New Delhi, where Euronews's EU editor, Maria Tadeo, is standing by.
01:05Bye for us. Good morning, Maria. Great to have you with us.
01:07Just tell us the deal is just being signed there in front of your eyes.
01:10Please tell us more.
01:12Well, yes, absolutely. And this is a deal now announced by the European...
01:15The European Union and, of course, India, it's being described as the mother of all deals and may even...
01:20In just a few moments, you'll see right behind me the head of the European Commissioners of Underlying, but also...
01:25The Indian Prime Minister Modi and the head of the European Council will walk in and take questions.
01:30From the press. Obviously, this wraps now a two-day summit in India.
01:35Two sides also suggest that this is now a new chapter for strategic relations when it comes to the...
01:40two blocks. And, of course, we have to look at the details of this trade deal, which will cut tariffs.
01:45On more than 90% of European products, European sources also telling us in the...
01:50two-day announcement that this will open up a market that, until now, has been very heavily protected.
01:55By the Indians, obviously, this could be good for European car makers, for chemicals...
02:00For wine, spirits, olive oils, in some of these sectors, tariffs could go all the way down...
02:05to zero. And, of course, we've got to remember that this is a country that's not just one of the fast-growing markets.
02:10in 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 both...
02:20India and the European Union, of course, have come under pressure from tariffs from President Trump.
02:24This country operates...
02:25India and the European Union are sitting under a 50% tariff regime.
02:27They both say they want to diversify and open up...
02:30to new markets.
02:31Okay, Maria Tadeo, our EU news editor, they're reporting from Delhi on that...
02:35Pager announcement breaking today. Thank you so much for that.
02:38The 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.
02:50with a very stark message for MEPs. Take a look.
02:54President Trump is doing...
02:55a lot of good stuff, I believe.
02:56The 2% reached by all NATO countries...
03:00now 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.
03:11And if anyone thinks here, again, that the European Union or Europe as a whole can...
03:15defend itself without the US? Keep on dreaming.
03:18Keep on dreaming. That's the NATO chief there.
03:20telling 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...
03:30capability and that would cost billions of euros.
03:32Euronews' Stefan Krobey was following the speech...
03:35for us and joins us now here in the studio. Good morning, Stefan.
03:38Good morning, Maeve.
03:39Tell us what more did Mark...
03:40Peter have to say and how is it received by MEPs?
03:43Well, first of all, these hearings at the...
03:45European Parliament tend to be very casual affairs, like the European version of a fire...
03:50a fire site chat and people expected some muscular...
03:55a 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...
04:05defend itself alone, without the Americans. And he praised Donald Trump.
04:09And one way he said...
04:10I say something that you don't like, I will defend Donald Trump.
04:13Saying that the increase of...
04:15defence spending is largely due to the US president.
04:18So, that left many...
04:20of the members of Parliament with a little bit of frustration.
04:23That'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's very short on details. We still don't know, almost a week after Davos, what's in...
04:35this deal? Is this a deal at all? But sure, Mark Rutte then has not a mandate to New York...
04:40appreciate on behalf of all the member states.
04:42And some people a bit concerned about the fact that he's a little bit like...
04:45teacher's pet here to the US administration.
04:47Well, absolutely. And, you know...
04:50some EU leaders, former and present, reacted to this and...
04:55Charles Michel, the former Belgian Prime Minister and EU Council President, said...
05:00You're wrong, dear Mark Rutte. Europe will defend itself.
05:03And Donald Trump is not my daddy.
05:05That's a potshot at Mark Rutte, of course.
05:08Europe's future requires vision...
05:10courage and leadership, not resignation, submission and fatalism.
05:14So, there you have it.
05:15Others follow the French Prime Minister, for example, saying the same.
05:20thing. Europe can or should work to be able to defend itself.
05:25in the future, and we have to put some distance between us and the Americans.
05:28Now, I believe...
05:30that this is...
05:31somewhat of an academic discussion here, because of things that have been going on...
05:35in the United States itself.
05:36So, in December 2023, Joe Biden was the president...
05:40Congress passed, overwhelmingly, a bill that barred any president...
05:45from unilaterally withdrawing from NATO.
05:48So, that would require...
05:50approval from the Senate or an act of Congress.
05:53So, they were, if you remember...
05:55during Trump's first term, he already toyed with the idea of America leaving NATO...
06:00and here you have a Congress bipartisan bill...
06:04by the way...
06:05orchestrated by Mark Rubio, the Secretary of State today.
06:09So...
06:10...
06:10It is...
06:11Trump cannot just walk away like this.
06:12Okay.
06:13Stefan Korbe, thank you so much for all...
06:15those details. We'd love to hear your view as well on that. Write to us here at Europe Today at your news.
06:20But now, moving on. You might have noticed the French president has soared in...
06:25...in popularity lately, quite simply, for his fashionable shades in Davos, Manuel Macron.
06:30It's also using this moment in the limelight to push through a social media ban for mine.
06:35That has also been approved by the French Assembly. Jacob Janis tells us more.
06:40France is officially at war with social media...
06:45...and the battle cries are echoing all over Europe.
06:50French 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...
07:00...are not for sale and wants a social media ban for under-fifteens by...
07:05...in September. But your reporter went for a dinner with some tech lobbyists...
07:09...and it's clear...
07:10...and now this ban sounds like a nightmare. Let's investigate.
07:15...Supporters say it would protect kids from harmful contents...
07:19...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...
07:31...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...
07:43...claims the ban helps kids...
07:45...like children actually need focus to study. Personally, I think I'll...
07:50...the algebra 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...
08:02...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 cats 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...
08:29...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...
08:49...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...the 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.
09:51Okay. So you have your work cut out for EU 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...brock, 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...ICT 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 systematic...
10:20...the risks that they are posing. And now we see that crock is now included more and more to...
10:25...the services shows to really look that how the risks are taken care of there.
10:30...and also we saw also that there was certain illegal...
10:35...or content that crock was pushing. We know that now the future has been changed.
10:40...but we are also now analysing about the other risks really related.
10:45...and we saw that crock 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?
10:55It 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 that they oppose.
11:05...especially now when more and more AI is also integrated into online services.
11:10More 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.
11:30They have been in dialogue with the Commission services. We already sent it earlier for them...
11:35...just for information about this topic, that how they have been assessing the risks and 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. And 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...get it right here in the EU, that we can make sure that we have smart regulation when it comes to AI?
12:00Right. But that we can also thrive.
12:01That is exactly what we are seeking.
12:05In our regulation that we want to have right balance. They are boosting innovations, but at the same time...
12:10...it's also important to be aware of risks. And when it comes to new technologies also like to AI...
12:15...so it's very important also that the developers, that they are also taking care of their...
12:20...responsibility here. And we have already AI Act, which is covering also...
12:25...the generative AI part. And there are 26 AI developers, they were all...
12:30...signing code of practice together with us. So it means that they have to take care of the security.
12:35...safety of the systems. And also they have to be transparent. They have to respect...
12:40...copyrights. So I see that we have a good balance in the European Union when it comes to...
12:45...the digital regulation.
12:46And how are you handling the pressure though, coming from the US administration, trying to back you?
12:50...in a corner, trying to get you to kill the regulation?
12:52We know that these digital rules are...
12:55...very important for the Europeans because we want to make sure that our citizens can trust to technology.
13:00We want to make sure that our digital environment is fair.
13:05...transparent, democratic and safe.
13:08But you're seen as a rule maker.
13:10We were just in Davos last week, everyone looking at you as the regulator, not the innovator.
13:14But there was good news.
13:15And that continues on the 28th regime, right? To 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.
13:42Henna 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...
13:55...live from the European Space Conference.
13:57With an exclusive interview with the head of the European Space Agency.
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14:10Bye!
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