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00:14Good morning, it is Thursday the 26th of February.
00:18I'm Maeve McMahan and this is Europe Today.
00:21Your daily dose of European news and analysis and euro news.
00:26Coming up, all eyes on Geneva,
00:28where critical nuclear talks between Iran and the US are set to resume.
00:33Tehran says an agreement is within reach,
00:36but only if Washington respects key preconditions.
00:39However, the US president's position remains unclear.
00:42Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to attack Iran if negotiations fail
00:46and Washington has overseen a significant military build-up in the Middle East
00:50in an effort to pressure Tehran into a nuclear deal
00:53amid rising domestic unrest in the Iranian capital.
00:56Let's start by taking a listen to President Donald Trump on his expectations for the talks.
01:02We are in negotiations with them.
01:04They want to make a deal, but we haven't heard those secret words.
01:07We will never have a nuclear weapon.
01:21And for more on the talks, let's cross over to Euronews Leon and bring in the head of Euronews Persia
01:27desk,
01:28that's Babak Kamiar, who's monitoring those meetings for us today.
01:31Good morning.
01:32Just tell us, what is at stake here?
01:34What should we expect?
01:36Good morning, Maeve.
01:38Two important things from Trump's address.
01:40The first thing is that diplomacy is the number one,
01:44and the second, Iran never will obtain the nuclear bomb.
01:48But the question is that the Iran missile program still is the most complex issue.
01:54As the Secretary Rubio mentioned, Iran refuses to talk about his capacity of the ballistic missiles.
02:04And even there are some evidences that Iran, the Republic of Islamic,
02:08has been trying over the past months to develop its capacity for the intercontinental ballistic missiles.
02:18And even although already they have the capacity to target some European countries, that's a big problem.
02:27And Babak, of course, what's making everyone nervous, the question, what happens if they do not reach a deal?
02:34Yeah, this is the very complex situation right now.
02:39And there are many, many evidences, such as the military deployment, that shows that any military confrontation is possible.
02:53And the question is, what objective Trump followed by this operation?
03:00Is this just a warning message?
03:02Is he trying to push the Iranian back to the negotiation tables?
03:08Is he trying to just targeting some leaders and eliminated some authorities?
03:16Or even he's thinking about the regime change in Iran?
03:21So it's, and the question, and the most important thing is that how Iran will retaliate and respond to any
03:29military,
03:30even the very limited operation.
03:34Iran very openly stated from the back channels and even very openly that it's trying to defend itself very harshly
03:47and to respond to target the military, U.S. military bases in the region,
03:56but also all the allies in the Persian Gulf, including the Arab countries.
04:02So it could be the conflict, go to the regional conflict.
04:06Okay, Babak, thank you so much for that live update this morning there from Euronews.
04:10Leon, we will, of course, keep a very close eye on those talks here at Euronews.
04:15But also in Geneva today, American negotiators Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff will also be sitting down with a Ukrainian
04:22delegation
04:22to continue the peace talks that were left in limbo recently.
04:25The talks come as the war enters its fifth year and appears to have no end in sight.
04:31For more on this, we're joined here in our studio by our very own Sasha Vakilina, our Ukraine correspondent.
04:36Good morning, Sasha.
04:37What should we watch out for today?
04:39We should watch out for the bilateral meeting between Ukrainian delegation and the U.S. delegation.
04:44Now, the Russians are not represented at the table in Geneva.
04:47And this is crucial, of course, when it comes to the expectations, right?
04:52Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy had a phone call yesterday.
04:56Reportedly, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that he would want to see an end to Russia's war against Ukraine within one year.
05:02To what Donald Trump reportedly said, that he would want to see it within one month, Maeve.
05:08Now, also during this conversation, the timeline was discussed.
05:12Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, we expect this meeting today in Geneva to create an opportunity to move talks to the leaders'
05:18level.
05:19President Trump supports this sequence of steps.
05:23Now, but Moscow does not seem to be supporting that.
05:25The Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said he still does not see a point of Vladimir Putin participating in any sort
05:32of a meeting with Zelenskyy.
05:34And right before this meeting in Geneva, hours before the negotiations,
05:38Russia attacked Ukraine with drones and ballistic missiles, pounding Kharkiv, Kyiv and Zaporizhia.
05:45And meanwhile, Sasha, yesterday we reported, of course, on that spot between Ukraine, Hungary and Slovakia on the Drozva pipeline.
05:52What is the latest on that?
05:53Hungarian leader announced the reinforced security protection around the critical energy infrastructure across Hungary.
06:03Hungary. Now, we heard that from Viktor Orban yesterday, when he also announced a drone ban in one of the
06:09regions bordering Ukraine, Maeve.
06:11Viktor Orban said, we will deploy soldiers and the necessary equipment to repel attacks to key energy facilities.
06:18Now, Hungary has not experienced those attacks.
06:21In fact, Hungary, unlike other Ukraine neighbor states, has not experienced drone incursions ever since the beginning of Russia's full
06:29-scale invasion of Ukraine.
06:30But this statement and these new measures are indeed coming amid this Drozva SPAT and amid the European Union asking
06:37Ukraine to accelerate their repairman work over the pipeline infrastructure,
06:42which was hit by Russian attack back in end of January.
06:46OK, Sasha, Vakilina, thank you so much for all those updates.
06:49And you can read more about the story and, of course, the outcome of those emergency talks in Brussels on
06:53gyrinews.com.
06:54But now, coming up, we'll be joined by Bernd Lange, a German politician and long-serving member of the European
07:01Parliament from the Social Democratic Party of Germany, the CDP.
07:05Bernd Lange is the chair of the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade.
07:09So, the man of the moment, if you like, here on Brussels with trade being one of the biggest subjects
07:13in town.
07:14So, good morning, Mr. Lange. Thank you so much for joining us here on Europe Today.
07:18So, look, what a week it's been for the EU-US trade deal. Has it been cursed since the start?
07:24Yeah, it's more or less the same. Each weekend we have to see new developments in the United States.
07:31So, contrary to our goal to reach stability and predictability with the deal of Scotland, totally the opposite.
07:39And we have to react more or less each weekend.
07:42So, wait and see every weekend. Tell me, look, the vote is on hold for now, the vote in the
07:48European Parliament on that EU-US trade deal.
07:50Under what conditions would you actually sign up for it?
07:53Yeah, for us, it's crystal clear that the US really is breaking the deal.
07:58They started some weeks after they lifted 400 products from 15 as agreed as a baseline tariff to 50 for
08:07steel and aluminium, so motorcycles, pumps, agriculture technique and so on.
08:14Then we had the Greenland issue and now we have the tariffs based on Article 122, which is a surcharge.
08:25So, we have the normal tariffs and 10% and perhaps 15% above.
08:30This means a lot of products are now tariffed more than 15%. So, another break of the deal.
08:38But meanwhile, Bernd Lange, the European Commission is putting pressure on you, on the Parliament, to go ahead and vote
08:44on this deal.
08:45Under what conditions would you bow to this pressure coming from the Commission?
08:48Nobody can make pressure or give pressure to me.
08:52I'm the European Parliament representative and the representative of the people.
08:55And if you're talking to the people on the street, it's totally clear that we should be clear to the
09:01United States.
09:01Now, we need a clarification from the United States.
09:04In written form, we stick to the Scotland deal.
09:07So, no additional tariffs, no additional products to steel and the 400 products have to be revised to 15%.
09:18This, we need.
09:19And what is best for European industry?
09:21They, of course, are crying out for some predictability.
09:24Yeah, that's indeed, as I mentioned.
09:26So, there were two reasons for the deal.
09:29One was predictability and the other, Trump mixed tariff policy with security policy.
09:34And therefore, we accepted the deal.
09:36The deal is totally unbalanced.
09:38It's in favour of the United States.
09:40But we said, better a deal than escalation and nothing.
09:44But the break is really on the side of the United States.
09:48And this has to be stopped.
09:50Otherwise, we have uncertainty.
09:52So, can you trust the Americans now as trading partners?
09:55That's a question.
09:57So, it's not a stable issue, of course.
10:00When I speak to Ambassador Gia, the USTR of the United States, of course, we have a good relation.
10:06We can talk.
10:07And I can trust him.
10:08But the situation and the decision-making in the United States is not based on a democratic process.
10:15At the end of the day, the president is deciding alone.
10:18And this is not a stable situation.
10:20And therefore, we are looking really to have fair partnership with a lot of reliable partners worldwide.
10:27So, not have an alternative, but a little bit more stability in the global trade order.
10:34But as you say, every weekend is very unpredictable.
10:36And just regarding the tariff threats from last weekend, how should the EU respond to this?
10:41Should we start using now really dramatic tools?
10:45Yeah, no, that's not the case.
10:47So, excuse me, we are waiting a little bit.
10:49I mentioned this to the Commission, but also to the US side.
10:53We need clarification that this is an exceptional situation.
10:56They will use the tariffs.
10:58They will bring back the so-called derivatives and give a guarantee for, let's say, the next three years that
11:04nothing will happen.
11:06And then, of course, we will move on.
11:08If in the next week nothing will happen, then we have to reflect countermeasures, counterterrorists, for example.
11:14And what about the EU Mercosur deal?
11:15You want to see it provisionally applied, but a lot of people would disagree with that.
11:20No, we have sent to court, the European Court of Justice, three questions, which are not dealing with the content
11:29of the more formal issue.
11:32And therefore, also some of the people voted in favor of this request to the court, say, of course, we
11:39can live with the provisional application.
11:42So I guess if there is a notification from the Mercosur countries that I expect coming before the summer break,
11:48we should go ahead with the provisional application.
11:51And I guess this will be supported by the parliament as well.
11:55Okay.
11:55And just one question on Friedrich Merz's visit to China.
11:59What are your takeaways from that?
12:01Yes, it's a little tricky.
12:03On the one side, we have to be clear.
12:05The unfair trading practices have to be mentioned.
12:08And we have also our defensive instruments.
12:10But on the other side, China's a big country.
12:13We have also some common interest in climate protection and cooperation.
12:17So I guess we have to find the balance between the two sides of the coin.
12:22And so far, I guess the Chancellor did quite well.
12:25Okay.
12:25Bert Lange, thank you so much for coming in to us this morning here on Europe Today.
12:29And as you heard, of course, Friedrich Merz is indeed in China and has said that the trade imbalance between
12:34his country, Germany, and China is, quote, not healthy.
12:37Friedrich Merz said he wanted to find ways to reduce this trade deficit, which has quadrupled in the last five
12:43years.
12:43He also said that Beijing has to use its influence with Moscow to help end the war in Ukraine.
12:48For more, we can cross straight over now to Berlin and bring in our correspondent, Diana Chesnick.
12:53Good morning, Diana.
12:54Just tell us more about the trip.
12:56Big focus, of course, on the economy.
13:00Indeed, China is the biggest trading partner for Germany.
13:04And just to give you one fact, I recently talked to a China expert who advised Merz just last week
13:09how to behave in China.
13:11And indeed, Merz came to China with a big business delegation.
13:15So it's all about economy.
13:17And one has to say that the German-Chinese relationship has not been without its frictions.
13:22Just last year, Germany suffered a 90 billion trading deficit with China.
13:27And just to tell you what this means, for Germany, this means 10,000 manufacturing job loss each month.
13:35So this is huge.
13:36And Merz was telling during his trip that Germany will react and do something about it.
13:41But at the same time, Merz brought a major deal with aircraft from Airbus.
13:49China is going to buy 120 engines, a huge success.
13:54But, of course, even though economy is very important, Merz also will be talking and has been talking about geopolitical
14:02issues, especially about Russia.
14:05Let's have a listen.
14:08China's voice is heard around the world.
14:10Its decisions carry weight.
14:12But this also brings with it a responsibility.
14:15I, therefore, asked my interlocutors today to use their influence to end Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine,
14:22an issue on which Beijing can exert influence.
14:26We know that signals from Beijing are taken very seriously in Moscow.
14:30That goes for words as well as deeds.
14:36Friedrich Merz there.
14:37So, Diana, of course, serious geopolitical motives, as you say, for this trip as well.
14:44Indeed, Germany does not do any training with Russia due to the war in Ukraine.
14:49But Germany is also trapped between the U.S. and its unpredictable President Donald Trump and his constant threat because
14:57of the tariffs.
14:58And, on the other hand, a very strong rival, very strong economical rival, China,
15:03who, with his cheap goods, is threatening the German economy and the German businesses.
15:09But, of course, Germany wants to become independent from the U.S. and it needs China.
15:15But, also, China needs Germany and the European markets because it relies heavily on its exports.
15:21So, both countries have their cards at hand and can negotiate on the economical issues.
15:30Indeed, not an easy time for the German economy.
15:33We're keeping, of course, a very close eye on it.
15:34Diana Resnick, thank you so much for that live update from Berlin.
15:38But now, moving on, we need to talk about Iceland.
15:42The Nordic island, known for its dramatic landscape, is planning to hold a referendum on opening a session talk to
15:49join the European Union.
15:51It could happen in the next few months.
15:53Prime Minister Kristún Fróstad-Dóttir made this very announcement in Warsaw.
15:57And our reporter, Jakub Janus, has been taking a look.
16:02Iceland was supposed to vote on joining the EU in 2027.
16:06But now, that vote might happen this August.
16:10But why the rush?
16:11Two words.
16:13Donald Trump.
16:14U.S. tariffs are biting.
16:16And the U.S. president is threatening to annex nearby Greenland.
16:20Perhaps it didn't help that his ambassador nominee just joke about making Iceland America's 52nd state.
16:28And with such friends around, suddenly Brussels' bureaucracy looks incredibly appealing.
16:34Let's investigate together.
16:37Iceland actually applied to join the EU in late 2000s after its banking system collapsed.
16:43But as the economy recovered, Reykjavik froze negotiations in 2013 and completely withdrew its bid two years later.
16:52The biggest stumbling block today are fishing rights.
16:55Iceland's economy relies on its waters.
16:58And handing over control is a tough sell.
17:01Or at least it was before Brexit.
17:03But for Brussels, Iceland brings massive wealth.
17:07Its GDP per capita is roughly double the EU's average.
17:11But we have to remember their size.
17:13Iceland's population is less than one thousandth of the entire bloc.
17:18Plus, they are already deeply integrated.
17:21And Iceland is a founding NATO member and sits inside the European Economic Area,
17:27adopting EU laws without getting a vote.
17:29But hey, let's look also at the big Arctic picture.
17:34Because Norway uses the same model, Oslo is also in European Economic Area and outside the EU.
17:41And pools show a slim majority still opposes full membership.
17:46And then there is Greenland, which left the EU predecessor in 1985 over fishing quarters.
17:52Today, it remains outside the bloc as an autonomous territory of Denmark.
17:57And Donald Trump repeatedly called the EU bad for trade.
18:01But for Iceland right now, it seems becoming the 52nd US state sounds a whole lot worse.
18:07So as they say in Reykjavik, Skål.
18:14Jakob Yannis reporting for us there.
18:16And for more, we're joined here on set by our very own Sasha Vakilina.
18:20So really, this idea of EU enlargement, Sasha, really making a comeback, if you like.
18:24Absolutely.
18:24And I think it's fair to say that this is the new momentum that we have been observing
18:28since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and since Ukraine applied
18:31and then was granted the candidate status in June 2022.
18:34But it is a tricky one, because on one hand, the EU is trying to give it more momentum
18:39and to encourage those countries who do want to join the European Union.
18:42But the process is still very slow.
18:44And even for some of them, like Ukraine, we heard from the president of the European Commission
18:48in Kiev just two days ago that you cannot fast track something this important.
18:53And Ukraine's aspiration to join by 2027 seem to be just aspirations at this stage.
18:59Indeed, Sasha Vakilina, thank you so much for that update.
19:02And for more on that topic of enlargement and whether or not Ukraine should be fast-tracked
19:07into the European Union, you can take a look at our brand new episode of The Ring on Euronews.
19:12But that does bring this edition of Europe Today to an end.
19:15Thank you so much for tuning in, as always.
19:18We love having your company.
19:19Take care and see you very soon here on Euronews.
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