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00:00Wszystkie prawa zastrzeżone.
00:30And government have received an important letter from Brussels.
00:33Ahead of this Thursday's leaders' retreat, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has penned a lengthy note calling on EU capitals to help create a stronger single market, cut red tape and be ready almost for a multi-speed Europe.
00:49No business as usual, she says, for the sake of European competitiveness.
00:53For more, we can cross straight over to Strasbourg, where our EU news editor Maria Tadeo is standing by for us.
00:59Good morning, Maria. So it's a big week here to save the European economy, but can they get it done?
01:04Look, Maeve, yes, and we are in Strasbourg because, of course, a plenary session is expected to take place today and tomorrow.
01:13But the focus very much is on Thursday when that informal retreat with European leaders Mario Draghi, Enrico Letta, and, of course, the Commission and the Council represented, will take place.
01:24Is it a week to save the European economy?
01:27That's how this retreat is built.
01:29But, of course, that's a very difficult job at hand.
01:32Yesterday, that letter from the head of the European Commission talked about improving the single market.
01:38Cease in the moment.
01:39This is a geopolitical context that is difficult for Europe.
01:43Of course, there's also been the tariffs from the United States and this growing trade surplus with China from the rest of the world or to the rest of the world.
01:51So it really is, according to the head of the Commission, time for Europeans to step it up.
01:56One of the most interesting parts, which hopefully we can put up on the screen is that letter, is the head of the Commission now says the goal is to do everything at 27, to get agreements and consensus.
02:07But if that is not possible, it should not prevent a lack of ambition.
02:11And, therefore, European countries should turn to other instruments like enhanced cooperation, smaller coalitions to get it done.
02:18And, obviously, that is an allusion to a two-speed Europe.
02:22The countries that want to integrate further should be able to do so in smaller groups.
02:27That, obviously, is a reference to the pragmatic federalism that Maria Draghi stated last week going into the summit.
02:33There is a lot at stake, but, obviously, we also know that this is a union at 27, and this is going to be politically a very difficult debate.
02:41Indeed, Maria.
02:42And, I mean, there's still big political divisions ahead of this summit.
02:45And why would this time be different?
02:47This idea, as you know, and you said yourself, of a federal Europe has been toxic for many decades.
02:54Well, for many decades, too.
02:56And we see there's very different visions around the table.
02:59The Italian Prime Minister, George Amanani, and the German Chancellor, they stress the focus should be on cutting red tape and making business easier in Europe and helping the industry of what they call is a less ideological approach to the economy.
03:13But if you look at the French President Emmanuel Macron, who today has put out a major interview across the European press, he says this is really now the time for Europe to take a step ahead and to also develop a joint borrowing capacity to be able to deal with the challenges of a new era, obviously alluding to euro bonds and joint debt.
03:33This is obviously a very difficult subject.
03:35It is something, however, that the Europeans want to kick off and kickstart the sequence.
03:40And let's not forget also when the head of the European Council, Antonio Costa, spoke exclusively to Euronews two weeks ago.
03:46He said he does expect clear political guidance on this topic by the end of the summit on Thursday.
03:52Now, to debrief all of this, because, of course, the focus is on the economy but also on security, we are joined by Rina Teres.
03:58He is an MEP from the European People's Party, but also a very long history and personal history in the army in Estonia.
04:07Sir, first of all, I want to ask you, going into the summit on Thursday, there's a lot of ideas floated, joint debt, less bureaucracy, a stronger single market, all of this in the name of defense and security.
04:19Do you have any hopes that we get to a real breakthrough?
04:21Well, I still have hope in Europe, and I hope that European leaders understand that we are at the current moment in the situation where only Europe can deal with the European security, and the rest is assured by the others.
04:37And when you hear things like Eurobonds, joint debt, we all go into the market as Europeans, and we tap markets for more debt to be able to pay for defense, is that something that you go, yeah, ultimately there's no other option?
04:48No, I'm not very, very fond of loans, and I should admit that countries should find their own resources to increase their defense bandages and not do it together.
04:59I want to talk about the trip that you took to the United States, but before that, when you think of the idea of a pragmatic federal Europe, do you like that?
05:06Is Europe a federation? Should it be a federation?
05:08Well, I don't think we need to discuss it today, because we see that there is a new chance that the Lisbon Treaty will be changed.
05:15So we need to concentrate on things which we can change and which we can do, and that is one thing we need to invest more in defense, separately every country, but together also.
05:25And you were in the United States on a diplomatic mission on a trip. I believe you also attended an event which President Trump also was in attendance. Did they call you weak, decaying, your face in civilizational erasure? Did they say that to your face, or is there a lot of theater built in the language?
05:43There was a lot of theater, and the whole event was pretty crazy. But the message there was very clear. Everything they say, they mean it. And they mean that they say that they are dealing with their own hemisphere, and what is happening in Europe should be dealt by European countries.
06:00countries, the message is Europe is the second richest economy of the world, which means Europe can do if they want, and I agree with them. I mean, Europe can do more.
06:10But help me understand, when you say that they mean what they say, and they say what they mean, what does that actually mean? Is it Europe now takes care of its security? Ukraine, it's a business for Europe to deal with. You have to find a peace deal. What's actually at stake?
06:24Well, what they say is that the U.S. has paid too long, and too much. 75% of the NATO funding has been paid by the United States. They think it's unfair. They want to see deeds, not words. And what they say, yes, the summit said that the NATO countries are ready to spend 3.5% on defense and 5% all together with the resilience funds.
06:50But they don't see real actions. They see, they always mentioned Spain, etc., who are not really paying their part. And they say European countries need to pay.
07:01It was, of course, very easy to be an Estonian there, because Estonian government has allocated 5.4% on GDP, on defense. So everywhere where I went, they said, we are with you, we are with you, we are with the Baltic countries.
07:14But we want to see that other big European countries start to pay also their part.
07:19You know, to be clear, to some extent, the Spanish, what they say is that 5% NATO was totally random, only created to appease Trump, and that really NATO has always been measured in capabilities.
07:30Obviously, that is the counter-argument. But I want to ask you about Greenland. Did that come up in any conversation? Is it bluff, ultimately? Has that question been sealed?
07:39Well, I guess that question has been sealed. They understand that the effort to take over Greenland was not a sane one.
07:50People in the Congress said that this is not going to happen. But they understand also that Greenland is not defended enough, that we have to invest, as a NATO, more to the Greenland's defense.
08:00What about when it comes to Russia? Obviously, the criticism has been that the deal that was initially placed on the table was pro-Russia, and it was not a good deal for Ukraine.
08:10What did you get out of those conversations? What's the state of mind, the zeitgeist, when it comes to a potential peace deal?
08:15Well, the President Trump and all his administration thinks that this war is something which happened because Obama and Biden allowed it to happen. So it's their war.
08:26So not Putin.
08:27They want to have peace, but they don't feel that it has something to do with them. It's, of course, Putin, but they say that that is the presidents of the U.S. who allowed that to happen.
08:40I'm not sure whether that is the case. Rather not. But still, they think that to end up, end the peace, end the war in Ukraine is something Europe has to deal with.
08:52Very briefly, do you trust them? You had meetings with them. Did you come out of it thinking, OK, we can work with them?
08:57They're not very polite, but we can work with them.
08:59I trust that NATO still exists and that there's still all discussions with the congressmen and senators assured me that they are still part of NATO, but they want us to do more.
09:10Well, thank you so much. Of course, that has been now the fundamental question for a few weeks, months now, since President Trump returned to the White House.
09:18What is the value of Article 5 if the U.S. is not committed to NATO?
09:23Of course, Maeve, that is it for us on day one here at the European Parliament, but more to come from today and tomorrow.
09:29Indeed. Maria Taddeo, Euronews' EU editor, thank you so much for that update.
09:33Live from Strasbourg and, of course, to your guest, Riho Terrace, the Estonian MEP.
09:37Now, ahead of Thursday's summit, some EU leaders appear to be engaging in a bit of political speed dating, going so far as to organise their own pre-summit meeting to coordinate positions with like-minded partners.
09:50Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz is set to huddle with Italy's Prime Minister, George Maloney, and also Belgium's Part De Weaver.
09:56For more on what this all means for the EU, we can head now straight to Berlin and bring in our correspondent, Laura Fleischmann.
10:03Good morning, Laura. So Merz and Maloney are now being called a power couple. How come?
10:11Well, yeah, they are truly the new European power couple.
10:14It is because they are they have a great relationship on a personal level, but also regarding politics.
10:20As of lately, they do agree on numerous topics, which does come as a surprise because Merz's party, the CDU, which is the conservative party here in Germany, was at first not quite fond of George Maloney.
10:32But as of lately, they do agree on migration, they agree on Ukraine, and they also agree on the economy of Europe.
10:38When Merz visited Maloney in Rome end of January, they wrote on a position paper together where they truly laid the groundwork for the meeting taking place on Thursday.
10:48They want to strengthen the EU single market.
10:50They want to reduce barriers still intact regarding the trade of goods and services.
10:54And they also want to reduce the bureaucracy of Europe.
10:57And as I said, it does lay the groundwork for the summit, for the meeting, and they want to convince the other European leaders of their own plan for Europe.
11:05So let's give it a listen what Merz said himself when he was in Rome end of January.
11:09The conditions for very close and even more collaborative partnership between Germany and Italy are in place.
11:19We want to make 2026 a year of opportunities and a year of decisions.
11:25The prerequisites for this are there.
11:28There is a very high degree of agreement in Germany and in Italy regarding the assessment of the challenges we face together in our countries,
11:36in our democracies, and also in the European Union.
11:43Friedrich Merz there.
11:44And Laura, is the relationship between Merz and Maloney the end of the Franco-German-EU engine as we know it?
11:52Well, not of course.
11:53The relationship between Macron and Merz is still ongoing, but it does seem to have cooled off quite a bit.
11:59This could be due to the lack of support for Macron in his own government and the French government,
12:04but also due to tension regarding the Mercosur trade deal, which Merz was a huge supporter of.
12:10He was one of its biggest advocates.
12:12But Macron tried to block it from the European Parliament.
12:15And this furthermore shows how different their approach is regarding Europe's economy,
12:20regarding the future of Europe.
12:21And this could really have pushed Merz into Maloney's arms and made him look for alliances elsewhere.
12:27Okay, Laura Fleischmann there. Thank you so much for that live update from just outside the snowy German Chancelry.
12:34Well, one area where Merz and Maloney do align is on ending the war in Ukraine.
12:38And just last week, we saw two days of talks wrapping up in Abu Dhabi,
12:42but no new date is set for new negotiations.
12:45But the plan is to meet very soon in Miami.
12:48Meanwhile, President Zelenskyy has said the US has set June as a deadline to end these talks.
12:53For more, we can bring in now Sasha Vakilina, our Ukraine correspondent, who's here with us on set.
12:59Good morning, Sasha.
13:00Just tell us how likely is this June deadline?
13:03Well, this is not the first deadline that we're hearing regarding when it could be possible
13:08to put an end to Russia's war against Ukraine.
13:11Is it likely? Is it possible?
13:13Yes, it is.
13:13Is it more likely than the previous ones?
13:16Now, this is where it gets tricky because the negotiations are, of course, ongoing.
13:19And just these days, we've heard a very sharp turn in the Kremlin's position.
13:26Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, he accused the United States of refusing to implement their own promise, that he said.
13:35In Anchorage, we accepted the proposal of the US.
13:37They made an offer.
13:38We agreed and the problem should have been resolved.
13:41It seems they proposed it and we were ready.
13:43And now they are not.
13:45Now, what Sergei Lavrov is doing here is he's saying that actually the whole idea and what he calls a promise
13:50to push Ukraine into ceding territories and to push key forces to surrender is coming not from Russia,
13:58but he is pointing the finger as if this is the US promise made.
14:03And this kind of criticism and this kind of sharp words from the Kremlin regarding the US administration
14:09is not something we've heard before regarding these negotiations and the diplomatic process.
14:15And what about President Zelenskyy?
14:16He was speaking last night in Kyiv.
14:18President Zelenskyy made sure to state his position to say that the US administration is good and reliable partner for Ukraine.
14:26And he said that Ukraine and the rest of Ukraine's partners, that includes the US, that includes, of course,
14:32the European Union, are on the same page when it comes to how to put an end to Russia's war against Ukraine.
14:38Let's take a listen.
14:39The main thing is that our partners are on the same page as we are in Ukraine.
14:46Peace is needed.
14:47And reliable security guarantees are the only real basis for peace
14:51and for ensuring that the Russians do not break the agreement with one strike or the other
14:56or with one hybrid operation or another.
14:58The documents on guarantees are ready.
15:01There is no alternative to security.
15:03No alternative to peace.
15:04The date is not yet set, as you said, for the next round of the negotiations.
15:14We also don't know regarding the format.
15:15Will it be the bilateral format, Russia-Ukraine or trilateral with the United States as it happened in Abu Dhabi?
15:23But at the same time, there might be some sort of the negotiations taking place in the coming days
15:29during the Munich Security Conference, because this is when we can expect some sort of a high-level meeting.
15:35Now, US Secretary of State Mark Rubio is expected to be on the ground in Munich.
15:40With a large Ukrainian delegation there, we can expect at least some meeting on the sidelines,
15:45as it happened at the World Economic Forum in Davos, when Zelensky met Trump,
15:49also at the sidelines of the Davos week made.
15:52And this is when we can hear a little more.
15:55Interestingly, it will be the fact that it's not going to be Witkow there in this case.
15:59It's going to be Mark Rubio.
16:01So we might hear some new progress and some new statements coming from the US administration
16:07regarding the next steps in this diplomatic process.
16:11And we know there's a big European delegation as well going to the Munich Security Conference.
16:14And Ursula von der Leyen, the Commission President, has also confirmed her attendance.
16:17Sascha, thank you so much for that update, as always.
16:20But now, moving on.
16:21If you haven't heard of Bad Bunny before this week, now I'm sure you have.
16:26His 14-minute highly political intervention at the Super Bowl this week
16:29has turned millions of heads here in Europe.
16:32Our Jakob Janis takes a look.
16:36God bless America.
16:37Whether it is Chile, Argentina, Uruguay.
16:42Bad Bunny listed over 20 American nations during the Super Bowl halftime show.
16:47And this statement was not just a shout-out.
16:50It was intentional and carried a message.
16:53Your reporter was asked to explain his phenomena.
16:56And even if I don't usually listen to reggaeton slash latin slash trap slash everything,
17:02I have to tell you, it is big.
17:05So why everyone in Europe is talking about Bad Bunny?
17:10Short answer.
17:11Because he made history.
17:14He became the first artist ever to perform the Super Bowl show,
17:18which is the most watched event on US television, entirely in Espanol.
17:23And on doing so, Bad Bunny, the world's most played artist on Spotify last year,
17:29flipped the script.
17:30And millions watched his performance.
17:32But not everyone was dancing.
17:35Donald Trump hated it, calling it absolutely terrible.
17:39And complaining that nobody understands a word this guy is saying.
17:43And that's exactly the point Bad Bunny was making.
17:46He isn't just a singer.
17:48He is a cultural earthquake, challenging what it sounds like to be American.
17:53And as you might have guessed, it's not just about music.
17:58It's about identity.
18:00Before I say thanks to God, I'm going to say eyes out.
18:11We're not savage.
18:13We're not animals.
18:14We're not aliens.
18:16We are humans.
18:17And we are Americans.
18:18While Trump's bass sees the Spanish language as a frets,
18:22Bad Bunny puts it center stage.
18:25And this year, he's bringing his tour to Europe.
18:28And what if you are not into reggaeton?
18:30You can always go back to your millennial green day,
18:33who also opened the show.
18:36And Trump hates them too,
18:38which seems to be a solid recommendation these days.
18:40Jakob Janis there on the Puerto Rican star rapper Bad Bunny.
18:49If you were one of the millions who tuned into that spectacle,
18:52do let us know what you thought of it.
18:53You can write to us here at Europe Today at yournews.com.
18:58And as always, for more news and analysis and context
19:01on anything going on here in Brussels or beyond,
19:03check out yournews.com or download our app.
19:06We'll also be back live in Strasbourg tomorrow morning
19:08with our Euronews EU editor, Maria Tadeo.
19:11But that does indeed bring this edition,
19:13this Tuesday's edition of Europe Today to an end.
19:15Thank you so much, as always, for your company.
19:18Take care and stay with us right here on Euronews.
19:38And we'll see you next time.
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