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00:15Good morning. It's Thursday, the 29th of January.
00:20You're watching Europe Today, your morning fix of European news and analysis.
00:25Live on Euronews.
00:27I'm Maret Gouin, stepping in today for Maeve.
00:30Coming up on today's show, the EU's 27 foreign ministers...
00:36...are in town, with Iran high on the agenda.
00:39After thousands...
00:40...were killed in the regime's recent crackdown on protesters, EU ministers...
00:45...are expected to approve fresh sanctions.
00:47Iran is also on high alert this morning for a possible EU...
00:50...the US attack as Trump ramps up pressure on the regime to strike a deal on...
00:55...and its nuclear programme.
00:57Standing by for us at the European Council down the road...
01:00...here in Brussels, where ministers are arriving right now...
01:03...is our EU correspondent, Shauna.
01:05Good morning. Thanks so much for joining us.
01:08Tell us first, what can we expect today?
01:10...in terms of new sanctions on Iran.
01:15Well, as you know, Maret, as you mentioned there, Iran very much back-centre stage.
01:18We saw that post yesterday from the US president...
01:20...Donald Trump saying there's a massive armada on its way to Iran.
01:24He's demanded they...
01:25...cut a deal on their nuclear programme.
01:27He's reminding them of last summer and his strikes against the Rays...
01:30...under the code name Operation Midnight Hammer.
01:33Meanwhile, here in Brussels, EU Foreign Affairs...
01:35...minister behind me, they're going into that meeting...
01:37...they'll announce sanctions on 21 Iranian...
01:40...individuals responsible for the violent repression of Iranian protesters.
01:43That's members of the...
01:45...by Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
01:47Euronews has the details on these sanctions.
01:48They include people like the chief...
01:50...of police.
01:51There's also going to be sanctions on 21...
01:53...20 companies responsible for Iran.
01:55...new programme in relation to drones and supporting Russia.
01:58And there will be a...
02:00...insignation of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard...
02:02...as a terrorist organisation.
02:04This was announced...
02:05...or decided just late last night...
02:07...after France, which was holding out, decided they would support this.
02:10So we heard from Kaya Callas, the EU's foreign policy chief...
02:13...agreeing and saying that this would happen.
02:15...to today.
02:16Mered?
02:17And, Shauna, also the question of how Europe can prepare...
02:19...to the...
02:20...to defend itself in an increasingly dangerous world...
02:22...could also come up in these talks.
02:25...is that now...
02:26....norcant that Trump will be centuries as 20...
02:28...but I can say is thatnd the Russian是我....
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04:13Not because of the myth, but by constantly flying back and forth to the White House.
04:18He is a top collector of miles and more points.
04:22Finally.
04:23Meet the good cop, complimenting Trump's bad cop.
04:27The man who won.
04:28Translate Europe's frugal fall, refusing to spend a single extra euro.
04:33It's now pressing Europe to spend 5% of its GDP on security.
04:38And then there is the daddy issue.
04:41He once joked that Trump is the...
04:43The daddy of geopolitics.
04:44Well, judging by the leaked text where Ruther prays...
04:48It seems Mark is trying very hard to be his favorite child.
04:53But Mark, being Trump's favorite is a hard job.
04:57And I am sure...
04:58Our friend Elon can tell you something about it.
05:03Jakob Janus there.
05:07Jakob Janus there.
05:08Coming up, we'll now be joined by Luxembourg's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister...
05:13Xavier Betel.
05:14He led the country for a decade up until 2000...
05:1823, and he's, of course, a very familiar face here in Brussels and will be represented...
05:23...presenting Luxembourg at the Foreign Affairs Council later today.
05:27Minister, thanks a lot.
05:28Thank you so much for calling by.
05:28It's great to have you here with us in the studio.
05:30Thank you for the invitation.
05:31So, I know you have a packed agenda.
05:33Today, let's start maybe with Iran because we are expecting some tougher...
05:38...decisions by the EU today to clamp down and put pressure on the Iranian regime.
05:43When you go in a meeting, you hope, but you wait till the end to be happy.
05:48So, I hope that we will be able today to agree because we need unanimity.
05:53To put, for example, the Guardian of the Revolutions on a terrorist list.
05:58We need unanimity to take sanctions, we need unanimity to take a list of persons...
06:03...of entities, but it seems we had two or three days ago still some...
06:08...countries hesitating, that we moved forward the last 48...
06:13...hours and that we will be able to have a strong signal for the Iranian population.
06:17And this...
06:18This is the right signal according to you, despite what it could mean for the diplomatic channels.
06:23Do you think this is the right move?
06:25The fact is, we don't have that many moves.
06:27So...
06:28We...
06:29We don't...
06:30We are not working like the USA are working...
06:33...to send an armada and to have the armada waiting to bomb.
06:37And what do you make of this?
06:38What do you make of this?
06:38What are those threats that we've heard from Trump yesterday?
06:40I...
06:41Everything is possible.
06:42The fact is...
06:43I learnt one...
06:43One thing, you know, I was Prime Minister when the...
06:44...for the fourth...
06:45...first years of President Trump and now he's a...
06:48...and the president.
06:49Everything is possible.
06:50He's also trying to get a bigger role in the future.
06:53Of Gaza.
06:54I know that will also be under discussion.
06:55What do you make of his Board of Peace?
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07:55If it brings positive aspects on the ground in Palestine, I will help.
08:00But we need Palestinians around the table.
08:03But the fact is that Trump is...
08:05He wants to have results, quick results.
08:09For him, the UN...
08:10It's too complicated.
08:11But, you know, I'm coming from a small country.
08:13If international law...
08:15International regulations are non-respected anymore in the future.
08:18And it's the power of the strongest and the biggest.
08:21This is not good for me.
08:22And also for a lot of other countries, it's not good.
08:25He has been challenging the very...
08:27rules on which the international order is now based.
08:30But with Ukraine...
08:31He has managed to get Russians and Ukrainians around the table.
08:36Does he deserve credit for that?
08:38And shouldn't Europeans be doing more to get directly...
08:41I just want to remind that he was the first one to take President Putin out of...
08:46the isolation, bringing him to Alaska, where everybody was saying we need to show...
08:51that we don't want to work with him.
08:52So who was the first one?
08:53We need a talk.
08:55Someone able to talk.
08:56But the fact is, I just want to remind that he said, I think it was 24, 48 hours when he...
09:01was coming in office, that he would find a solution.
09:04And a solution cannot be humiliation.
09:06But you do think it's time for direct talks with President Putin should...
09:11Europe be sending an envoy to these talks?
09:14If we don't have talks, we want to find solutions.
09:16You know, I had talks with President Putin and President Zelensky three years ago...
09:21and I was still the Prime Minister.
09:22And every week, and we had good talks.
09:24But I have to admit that I had some...
09:26questions from other European countries who didn't want me to have these talks.
09:29They told me, Luxembourg, is Luxembourg to be able to...
09:31that's a big arrow, because this is...
09:34it's the question of human relations, not the question of the...
09:36size of the country who makes a difference.
09:39And on the other hand, Butcher happened.
09:40And after Butcher, I was not...
09:41able to have these talks anymore with President Putin.
09:44But we need to talk with them if we want a solution.
09:46If we can't talk to them, we won't find a solution.
09:49And if I was too small to do it...
09:51if then the President Macron or someone else is able to represent Europe
09:55because they don't want to talk to...
09:56to Kayakalas, but I think without talks, we won't find a solution.
10:01So, Macron, anyone else you think in the continent who could represent...
10:05you seem to know...
10:06Putin, you've met him in Moscow.
10:08Would you be willing to take on this role?
10:11You know...
10:11I don't have the ego to say that I'm the right person to do it.
10:14But if people are convinced that I could be helpful...
10:16I will do it in any position.
10:18I don't need to be on the front of the scene.
10:20I can do it also...
10:21on the back, you know, when I had talks with President Putin
10:24and President Zelensky, I didn't...
10:26speak that much about it.
10:28But then when there was a press statement from...
10:31from the Kremlin, it was difficult to deny anything.
10:34So, but if I can be useful...
10:36I love to be useful, but I don't have the ego to say that I'm needed.
10:40Meanwhile, of course, the...
10:41Ukraine war is raging on and Europe is really having to think about its future.
10:46The transit...
10:46Atlantic relationship in tatters after the recent threat over Greenland and so on.
10:50How do you see the future...
10:51And what do you make of Mark Rutte's comments earlier this week
10:54that Europe can keep on dreaming if you think it's...
10:56and go alone?
10:57If it's now, it's like now.
10:59For me, in fact, Europe has...
11:01In fact, I see that we have rules with...
11:06and everything is in honeymoon.
11:08Who represents Europe?
11:10I see Kayakalas was, for example...
11:11not in Washington when there was discussions with the president.
11:13It's her job.
11:15So, I think it would be important to...
11:16see how he could have also legitimacy
11:18that for the next European elections
11:20or the president of the commission...
11:21or the president of the council
11:23should be someone who's got the legitimacy also from the electors.
11:26that would be in elections
11:27and they could be directly elected.
11:30So, to be the one who can...
11:31try to form the next commission
11:34and then they still need a majority in parliament.
11:36But...
11:36so that we have a president of Europe
11:38who is really the strong person.
11:40We are absent.
11:41You know that...
11:41there are discussions in some countries about Ukraine.
11:44Europe is not there.
11:45We're going to have to leave it there, Minister.
11:46Thank you so much.
11:46We hope to get you back in the studio very soon.
11:50Thank you.
11:50Now, moving on.
11:51Public...
11:51Backlash
11:52is growing in Italy
11:54over the US's decision
11:55to send...
11:56offices from its ICE immigration agency
11:59to the Winter Olympics next week.
12:01ICE agents were involved in a fatal shooting
12:04in Minneapolis over the weekend.
12:06For more, we can cross over
12:07to our correspondent,
12:09Giorgia Orlandi,
12:10standing by for us in Rome.
12:11Giorgia, good morning.
12:13Give us a sense of what the reaction
12:14has been to all of this in Italy.
12:16Good morning.
12:20Well, it all started last...
12:21Tuesday when members of Italy's main opposition party
12:24in Lombardy's regional...
12:26council held a formal protest
12:28against the decision
12:29to deploy ICE agents at the...
12:31Milan-Curtina Winter Olympic Games.
12:33They were holding posters,
12:35reading ICE...
12:36out, ICE.
12:36No, thank you.
12:37That pretty much aligns
12:38with what Milan's mayor,
12:40Bepesala,
12:40had to say about that.
12:41He said that those agents
12:42are not welcome in Milan.
12:43We know that AVS,
12:45another party...
12:46launched a petition
12:47which has already gathered
12:48around 50,000 signatures,
12:50criticism...
12:51has also come from
12:52Italy's main ruling coalition
12:55and we know that...
12:56those ICE agents
12:57have been deployed
12:58at major sports events
12:59in the past,
13:00not just in the US...
13:01but abroad as well.
13:02The US Department of Homeland Security
13:04said that those agents
13:05would not...
13:06not be taking part
13:08in immigration enforcement operations
13:10in foreign countries.
13:11despite all these assurances,
13:13though,
13:13the protest has not died down.
13:16two ICEAD protests
13:18have already been organized
13:19in the next few days
13:20by...
13:21left organizations
13:22and trade unions.
13:23The main argument
13:24behind the protest,
13:25though,
13:26is that...
13:26Georgia Maloney
13:27is perceived
13:27as too accommodating
13:29towards President Trump
13:30and the United...
13:31States is what
13:32center-left parties say
13:34and she has...
13:36shifted her tone
13:37recently trying to...
13:39well,
13:39when she described
13:40those...
13:41Trump threats
13:42over Greenland
13:43as a mistake,
13:44but clearly
13:45when it comes
13:45to high-profile...
13:46events such as the Olympic Games
13:48with Italy being
13:49under so much scrutiny...
13:51and international exposure
13:53while the issue
13:53is turning
13:54into a major reputation...
13:56problem for Maloney
13:57and her government
13:58if the protests continue.
13:59OK.
14:00Georgia...
14:01Thank you so much.
14:02And that brings
14:03this edition of Europe Today
14:05to an end.
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