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00:14Buongiorno, è Wednesday 25th Marche.
00:18I'm Maeve Magmahin e you're watching Europe Today.
00:20Your daily dose of European news and analysis live here on Euronews.
00:25Coming up, Iran has fired a new wave of missiles towards Israel, and Israel has been responding
00:31in a sharp escalation of the Middle East conflict.
00:35This comes just hours after President Donald Trump said U.S.-Iran talks were on the table.
00:40He sent a 15-point plan.
00:42With Lebanon descending further into chaos, we'll be speaking to the U.N. High Commissioner
00:46for Refugees.
00:47And the Commission has called on Budapest to clarify reports suggesting Foreign Minister
00:51Peter Certo was in close contact with his Russian counterpart before and after EU summit meetings.
00:57But first, Denmark, the EU member state known for Lego, Higge, and its opt-out from the Euro,
01:04held snap elections just yesterday.
01:06Incumbent centre-left Prime Minister Meta Friedrichsen is set to hold on to the reins.
01:11But her Social Democratic Party had a bruising night and failed to secure a majority.
01:17Meta Friedrichsen called the vote earlier than expected due to her surge in popularity over
01:22her handling of the U.S. President's threat to annex Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory.
01:28But Denmark now faces weeks of coalition talks on elections that, as I said, saw voters called
01:33earlier to the polls.
01:34For the latest, we can bring in Benny Engelbrecht, Danish politician and a member of the Prime Minister's
01:39Social Democratic Party.
01:41Good morning, Benny.
01:42Thank you so much for joining us.
01:43Let's just first together take a look at the actual results of that election.
01:49We saw the Socialists coming out with 21.9%, the Green left with 11.6% and the Liberals
01:56at 10.1%.
01:57So we see the Socialists there.
01:58You're holding on to power just a bit, but this was not the outcome that you wanted.
02:03No, definitely not.
02:05Everyone, of course, would like to see a better result than we got.
02:09On the other hand, the three parties in the broad-based coalition, a government that has
02:14been ruling for the past three and a half years, well, all suffered.
02:19So I think this is a general concept that you see all across, especially in Europe at these
02:25times, that the parties that take responsibility in government also lose a bit of a vote on voting
02:36on voting.
02:37And, well, in Denmark, we have almost a Netherlands type of parliament now with 12 parties and
02:46only the Social Democratic Party as a broad-based party with more than 20%.
02:52So it will be really difficult for...
02:56And I can see that written all over your face this morning.
02:59Do you expect now months of tough talks?
03:01When could a coalition be formed?
03:04Well, the broad-based coalition that has ruled up until now took six weeks to set a place.
03:10That was a record-setting negotiation for the past government.
03:16And I expect that we'll see probably something similar to that, probably not before or after
03:22Easter.
03:23We'll see actual talks.
03:26So it's a bit difficult and setting the task that there's a war in the Middle East and
03:33Donald Trump still wants a Greenland.
03:35It will, well, of course, there will, we will need to sort this out quite soon.
03:41But voters, of course, had bread and butter issues on their minds, not really Greenland.
03:45Did you underestimate that?
03:47No, I think the domestic discussions are, has been, of course, the majority of the discussions,
03:57but it has been more to do with clean water, for example.
04:02OK.
04:02Benny and Mabret, thank you so much for joining us here this morning, live on Europe Today,
04:07here on Euronews.
04:08We'll keep a very close eye on the next couple of weeks there.
04:10But moving on from one crucial election to another, Hungarians will be heading to the
04:15polls on the 12th of April.
04:18But ahead of the key votes, a major scandal has hit the Hungarian government regarding
04:22alleged leaks of private information to Russia.
04:25Jakub Janis takes a look.
04:28A political bomb exploded in Brussels.
04:31The reports regarding the Hungarian foreign minister allegedly disclosing to his Russian
04:39counterpart, the closed-door ministerial-level discussion in the council are greatly concerning.
04:45And we expect the Hungarian government to provide the clarifications.
04:49So what's going on here?
04:52A Washington Post investigation claims Hungarian foreign minister Peter Siarto spent years stepping
04:58out of confidential EU meetings to directly phone Russian officials.
05:03And one security official stated that Moscow has basically been behind the table.
05:09of every EU meeting for years.
05:11The European Commission wants answers, but others are not so shocked.
05:16Polish prime minister Donald Tusk admitted long-standing suspicions, revealing he strictly
05:22limits what he says out loud during these talks.
05:25And Budapest is not hiding their connections.
05:28Siarto has visited Moscow 16 times since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
05:34Meanwhile, Hungary is actively blocking a 90-billion EU loan for Kyiv.
05:40In an unexpected burst of honesty, Siarto admitted calling Russian officials before and after key
05:46EU meetings.
05:47He claims he also speaks to American, Turkish and Israeli officials, arguing this is just diplomacy.
05:54However, this is the same minister who was awarded Russia's order of friendship a year before Russia's full-scale
06:02invasion of Ukraine.
06:03And the Americans, Turks and Israelis have not handed him any similar medal.
06:09Perhaps the only thing left to add here is a quote from a movie, Naked Gun.
06:18It's quite funny, but it's just a pity all of that is about the future of European security, especially
06:25since over 70% of Europeans are now highly worried about nearby conflicts, according to the latest
06:32Eurobarometer survey.
06:34So who's laughing now?
06:40And for more on this story, we're joined here on set by Euro News' EU editor, Maria Tadeo.
06:45Good morning, Maria.
06:45So just fill us in.
06:46What is the latest now?
06:47Well, look, Maeve, this is a scandal that continues.
06:50And of course, at the core of it is allegations, very serious allegations that Hungary shared
06:55private EU information with Russia.
06:59But we need to get the timeline right because, of course, over the weekend, this all started
07:03with a newspaper report, The Washington Post, which cited a European security source that
07:08suggested that the Hungarian foreign minister in particular would share information almost
07:13in real time with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov.
07:16This report also said that in some situations, he even spoke to him during breaks of meetings.
07:22So as I say, the allegations are extremely serious.
07:25Now, initially, the Hungarian foreign minister, Searto, said that this was all fake.
07:30He said it is fake news and that this was not true.
07:32Then, of course, on the Monday, a transcript of a call allegedly between the Hungarian foreign
07:38minister and the Russian foreign minister began to do the rounds.
07:41And then Searto changed the tune to say, well, this is normal because we speak to many countries
07:49and that is a part of diplomacy.
07:51Yesterday in comments to Euro News, which I want to read out to you and hopefully we can
07:56put up on the board.
07:57The Hungarian foreign ministry said that they talked to Russia, the Americans, the Turks,
08:02Serbia, and therefore it is completely normal that we consult with these countries if necessary
08:07before and after the meetings.
08:08So now he is talking about before and after EU meetings, about the consequences of those
08:13decisions.
08:13So you see how the timeline has now changed from its total fake news to this is part of
08:19normal diplomacy.
08:20Having said that, we should note that Russia is not just any country for the EU.
08:25Russia is heavily sanctioned by the EU because of the invasion of Ukraine.
08:29Increasingly, a number of EU countries consider it a hostile country to the EU, certainly a security
08:35risk for the European Union.
08:36And none of the countries represented across the board in EU meetings have given their consent
08:42so that private information, which is supposed to be confidential under the principle of sincere
08:47cooperation, be shared with Russia.
08:50So this is far from normal.
08:51If anything, the position of the Hungarians is a total anomaly.
08:55And that's why we've seen Prime Minister Donald Tusk of Poland.
08:57He's furious, right?
08:58Well, the Polish are really pushing into this line.
09:01Yesterday, the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, the behavior of the Hungarian foreign minister
09:06is, quote, a disgrace.
09:08He also repeated a line that he said over the weekend.
09:11He is the first and at this point, only EU leader to have commented on this.
09:15But he did say over the weekend that for many years he suspected this.
09:18And therefore, that's why Poland is very cautious about the information it shares
09:22and also introduced a new element that goes beyond the EU to now focus on NATO,
09:27saying that there were concerns going all the way back to 2019 that Hungary is also providing
09:32information related to NATO.
09:41As early as 2019, as I recall correctly, Lithuania requested that the Hungarian delegation
09:49should be excluded from meetings at NATO.
09:51They informed that they suspect the Hungarian delegation to pass highly confidential information
09:57to Moscow.
10:01So that is, of course, the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who said, again, the behavior
10:07from Hungary is, quote, a disgrace.
10:09NATO matters because here you're talking about core security capabilities, incredibly sensitive.
10:13I should also note just very briefly, the Polish government is also using this to tackle
10:19the Polish president, Nawrowski, who went to Hungary this week to celebrate the Polish-Hungarian
10:25friendship.
10:26What the Polish government says, of course, is that this shows poor judgment on behalf of
10:30the Polish president, who yesterday is getting a lot of heat on this, repeated that nothing
10:34has changed.
10:35The position of Poland remains that Vladimir Putin is, quote, a war criminal.
10:40And meanwhile, what can Brussels do?
10:41What can the Commission do?
10:42Well, that's a very good question.
10:44It's a question that I put to sources yesterday.
10:46Some of them told me, look, this is a scandal.
10:48It's outrageous.
10:49It's unacceptable.
10:50But also said, color me shocked, color me surprised.
10:54There's been concerns for years now that when you talk to the Hungarians, you're not just
10:58talking to the Hungarian authorities.
10:59A diplomat told me, this is why we've switched to the way that we work.
11:03Increasingly, there's a coalition of the winnings.
11:05So countries that get together that do not include Hungary to talk about security.
11:10There's also now a question about, should the format of meetings be changed?
11:15Sometimes phones do get taken in.
11:16There is restrictive format, but this is not always applied into every meeting.
11:20And we've seen that the head of the European Diplomacy, Kayakalas, is now demanding an answer
11:25from the Hungarians saying, did you share or not information, whether it was before or after.
11:31The point we need to stress is that none of the EU 26 countries around the table consented
11:36to this information being shared with Russia in any way, shape or form.
11:40And this is certainly going to now prompt a conversation around how do you deal with
11:44a country like Hungary?
11:45And is there a different way in which sensitive information should be shared across the EU
11:50institutions?
11:51As I said, it doesn't come as a surprise, but it now highlights what many member states
11:55have now said has become a core problem, which is the use and the sharing of confidential
12:00information related to EU fundamental matters like foreign policy and security.
12:05Okay, Marisa, thank you so much for that very comprehensive update.
12:08We'll keep an eye on yournews.com for your reporting.
12:10But now moving on, the war in Iran is still escalating despite claims from President Trump
12:16that peace talks were imminent.
12:18On the one hand, the Pentagon has ordered about 2,000 soldiers to be deployed to the Middle
12:22East.
12:23But on the other hand, the US has sent Iran a 15 point plan to end the war in the
12:27region.
12:27Meanwhile, Pakistan has offered to host talks between the US, Israel and Iran to try to
12:33end the war.
12:34For more, we can cross now to Dubai, where our regional correspondent Jane Witherspoon is
12:38standing by for us this morning.
12:40Jane, any hope of diplomacy here?
12:42We heard Iran says the US only wants to talk on its terms.
12:47Well, yes, President Trump has said that those talks are happening, that the US are talking
12:52to the right people.
12:54He's also alluded very cryptically to a very big present in the way of oil and gas being
13:02gifted from Tehran.
13:03Now, as you mentioned, several media agencies are reporting on that 15 point plan that has
13:08apparently been given to Iran from the US via Pakistan.
13:12However, Iranian officials are still denying that these talks are even taking place.
13:18Now, in Doha yesterday, there was a Ministry of Foreign Affairs briefing where the authorities
13:23said they will not be mediating these talks as they're too busy protecting and defending
13:28their country.
13:30They did say, however, Iran has been here for millennia.
13:33Countries need to live and work together.
13:35And it's now really up to Iran to reinforce that trust across the region.
13:41And meanwhile, Jade, what is the general mood there?
13:44Is still daily life very much disrupted?
13:47Well, yes, I must say that the attacks are still continuing, however, they have dropped
13:53a little bit.
13:54It feels a little bit calmer.
13:55However, overnight, we are having the military jets patrolling through the night.
13:59It feels like every five minutes.
14:01Now, across the wider region, of course, Lebanon is...
14:11Okay, apologies to our viewers there for that technical difficulty.
14:15But as you heard there, Jane Witherspoon reporting for us there from Dubai, alluding to the atrocities
14:20in Lebanon.
14:21Well, on that point of Lebanon, coming up, we'll be joined by Barham Saleh, the UN High Commissioner
14:26for Refugees, a refugee himself who fled as a young Kurd from repression in Iraq.
14:33He spent years and years in exile, but then one day actually became the president of Iraq
14:38back in 2018, a position he held until 2022.
14:43Welcome, sir.
14:43Pleasure to have you here with us.
14:45Thank you for having me.
14:46So just describe the situation on the ground in Lebanon.
14:50It's a very dire situation.
14:52More than a million people have already been displaced, and it's in very, very harsh conditions.
14:58Our teams are working to deliver assistance, and in that regard, I have to say, EU has been
15:03generous to providing two jets of supplies, also the government of Italy, as well as Irish
15:10aid, but we need more.
15:12Indeed, the European Union has been sending millions in aid, but whereas the European Union
15:16has no say here in how this war will play out, how bad will the situation get in Lebanon, in
15:21your view?
15:21I hope this thing will be put behind us before long, because we need peace.
15:27This conflict has gone on already for far too long.
15:30It's highly destabilising.
15:31It is escalating.
15:33And I have to say, also, human lives are at stake.
15:37The impact on civilians across the region is phenomenal, is profound.
15:42We already, as I said, about a million people have been internally displaced.
15:46In Lebanon, nearly 600,000 to a million households in Iran have been displaced.
15:53Of course, there has been significant population movements in the Gulf, not to mention Iraq that
16:00has been subject to terrible attacks, including yesterday in the Kurdistan region.
16:05And the civilians across the region, in Israel, in Lebanon, in the Gulf, in Iran, are being
16:12affected in a profound way.
16:14And in that context also, this conflict is spilling beyond the region, immediate region.
16:19We are seeing a lot of Afghan refugees in Iran and in Pakistan are being forced to go back
16:25under adverse conditions to Afghanistan.
16:28All of this combined is really presenting us with a terrible humanitarian challenge.
16:34Pakistan have offered to mediate here.
16:36Any hope in those?
16:37Let's hope that this will lead to some useful, tangible peace arrangement.
16:43This region needs peace.
16:44This conflict cannot go on like this, destabilising and impacting human lives across the region.
16:52And I hope that we need a durable and just peace that will not put us in a place where
16:57six months from now, over a year from now, we will have another recurrence of this type
17:01of things.
17:02This region cannot afford these cycles of violence.
17:04And you described so many people on the move in the region.
17:07Should Europe prepare for potential waves coming here?
17:09At the moment, most of the displacement is within the countries.
17:12Our teams at UNSCR are already monitoring the situation very closely.
17:17There is no significant movements across the borders.
17:20Beyond that, what I spoke about in Afghanistan, that people from Iran, Afghani refugees in Iran and
17:25Pakistan to a degree, are being sent back or encouraged to go back or push back.
17:30But across the borders, we do not see that.
17:34We are also seeing, in order to put things in proper context, a large number, nearly 130,000
17:41Syrian refugees who were resident in Lebanon have gone back into Syria.
17:45I would not call that voluntary returns per se.
17:48They are returning under adverse conditions.
17:51But in order to put the picture complete, our teams are looking at that situation.
17:55And I hope the world as a whole, we will be paying enough attention to bring this situation
18:00under control, to leave to a peace that will be lasting and basically rooted in the protection
18:07of interests of the peoples of the region, respectful of the dignity and the rights of
18:11the peoples across that region.
18:13This region has seen too many wars and too many cycles of conflict.
18:17So what would your message then be to President Trump, who doesn't really seem to have a plan
18:20here?
18:20Well, the message is peace.
18:23The message is de-escalation and dialogue.
18:25We have to be emphatic about this.
18:28And what about his Board of Peace?
18:29The Board of Peace has already been very active in Gaza.
18:33And thank God the active conflict in Gaza has been brought to an end at least for a while.
18:40And let's hope that it will deliver something tangible for the people of Gaza and the region
18:43as a whole.
18:44Okay, Barham Salih, thank you so much, UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
18:48Thank you so much for coming in to us here on Euronews.
18:51And thank you so much for watching.
18:53That brings this edition of Europe Today to an end.
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