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00:00www.europe.de
00:30Trump has pulled back from threats to launch devastating strikes on Iran.
00:35A two-week truce has been agreed on the condition that the Strait of Hormuz remains open,
00:40but Israel says the agreement does not extend to Lebanon.
00:44This comes as NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte heads to Washington today for talks with President Trump.
00:49The US leader is angered by allies for not backing his stance on Iran,
00:54putting strain on the 77-year-old transatlantic alliance.
00:58We'll look at whether NATO without the US is even possible.
01:01And just days ahead of key parliamentary elections in Hungary,
01:05the US Vice President has criticised the EU over alleged foreign interference.
01:10Speaking alongside Viktor Orban on the campaign trail,
01:13J.D. Vance accused EU officials of trying to undermine Hungary's economy
01:18while praising Viktor Orban for standing up to what he called Western values.
01:22We'll get up to speed with our Hungarian correspondent.
01:25But first, world leaders are reacting cautiously to a ceasefire announcement between the US and Iran
01:31that both sides seem to be hailing as a victory.
01:34To hear more about what exactly is in the plan,
01:36I'm joined here on set by Euronews' US politics expert, that is Stefan Kobe.
01:40Good morning, Stefan.
01:41Good morning, Maeve.
01:42So a truce for now, but it seems very fragile.
01:45Yes, indeed, Maeve.
01:47I mean, first of all, this is not the end of the war.
01:49It's a ceasefire.
01:50And in our news vocabulary, that's probably the best word we could use today.
01:55Now, is it fragile?
01:57Yes, because we have seen earlier this morning already attacks in Israel and the region.
02:02And are there questions still lingering?
02:04Absolutely.
02:05The question, number one, when does it start?
02:08Neither side, neither Trump nor the Iranians would say when it starts.
02:11And then the precondition that Trump had said would be absolutely necessary,
02:16the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, that is also a little murky.
02:19Iran said it will reopen the street, but under the condition that it will maintain the control
02:26of the management of the strait.
02:29So a lot to unpack here.
02:31And the Farsi and the American version, the English-speaking version, are not entirely clear.
02:37They're not entirely saying the same thing.
02:40But, of course, it gives us, the world, the people in the region, a glimmer of hope.
02:45And all this comes after an amazing rollercoaster 48 hours or more, if we include the Easter weekend,
02:53when Trump made apocalyptic threats against Iran, trying to force the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.
03:00And just hours before the deadline, he said in a tweet on his social media post,
03:06A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.
03:11I don't want that to happen, but it probably will.
03:14Now, Maeve, we've never heard such language by an American president, at least in public.
03:20And this was very disturbing and very troubling, even for military experts that I spoke to yesterday.
03:26Now, then, 90 minutes before the deadline, Trump made this announcement of the ceasefire,
03:35mentioning the 10-point plan of Iran.
03:37And he said this,
03:39This will be a double-sided ceasefire.
03:41The reason for doing so is that we have already met and exceeded all military objectives
03:46and are very far along with a definitive agreement concerning long-term peace with Iran and peace in the Middle
03:53East.
03:54Interesting, Maeve, in a subsequent post, Trump spoke of a lot of positive action that he's seeing ahead for the
04:02Middle East,
04:03said that big money will be made, Iran can start the reconstruction process,
04:08and it could be a golden age for the entire Middle East,
04:13if, of course, things go according to plan.
04:16Of course, Stefan, because this is just an announcement for now.
04:19A deal still needs to be struck, so all eyes as well, on this Friday in Islamabad,
04:23whether peace talks take place.
04:24Thank you so much for that update, because, of course, Iran, for their part,
04:28has said talks will be taking place this Friday in Islamabad,
04:31but the White House is yet to confirm their attendance for those talks.
04:34For more, we can cross now over to your news, Leon,
04:37and bring in our Omid Lahabi from our Farsi news desk.
04:41Good morning, Omid.
04:42Thank you so much for joining us.
04:43Look, we're hearing Iranian state media here portraying this deal as a big victory against the U.S. and Israel.
04:49Tell us more.
04:52As Anon said, two weeks' ceasefire agreement has been reached between Iran and the United States.
04:59Iran's National Security Council has stated that negotiations to resolve all disputes
05:05will begin this Friday in Islamabad based on a 10-point plan.
05:12Iran's proposal includes guaranteeing safe shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
05:18In exchange, they are demanding war repression and the lifting of sanctions.
05:25Based on current reports, shipping through the Strait will continue during these weeks,
05:32but Abbas Haragchi, Iranian foreign minister, said passage would be allowed under Iranian military management.
05:42In addition, passing ships must pay a shipping fee to Iran and Oman as coastal states.
05:51This is being framed as a standard procedure for pilotage costs,
05:56which is already recognized under international maritime law.
06:01Another critical point is that Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif mentioned the ceasefire includes Hezbollah.
06:09However, Israel has stated that while it will stop attacks on Iran,
06:15it will continue its operation against Hezbollah.
06:21So, of course, this is a significant step,
06:25but the situation remains fragile.
06:28We'll have to wait and see if this 14-day window leads to a real peace still or just more
06:35tension.
06:36Indeed, that's it.
06:37In a nutshell, Omid Lahabi, thank you so much for bringing us all those details there from Euronews in Lyon.
06:42Well, despite the temporary ceasefire being announced,
06:45Saudi Arabia has already said it has intercepted five missiles.
06:48Also, Qatar, Bahrain and the UAE are still on high alert.
06:52For the view from the region, we can cross now straight over to Dubai
06:55and bring in your news correspondent, Jane Witherspoon.
06:58Good morning, Jane.
06:59Any reactions so far to this temporary truce?
07:05Good morning.
07:06Well, there is a real sense of optimism and positivity this morning
07:10after what was a pretty stressful and tense day and night
07:15leading up to the announcement of that temporary ceasefire.
07:19As you mentioned there, though, as well, of course, overnight,
07:22not long after that agreement was decided upon,
07:25we did have warnings of imminent attacks,
07:28renewed attacks across the region here in the UAE,
07:32Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
07:36I mean, our last warning alert went off at around 3.30 a.m. this morning.
07:42As you can imagine, the question on everybody's lips
07:45is what happens after that two-week period?
07:48We've got people questioning,
07:50does the Strait of Olmurras become a dump and pump scheme
07:54in terms of it's open for two weeks to let the ships pass?
07:57Then what happens?
07:59Do the blockades return as well as the tension
08:01and the high stress that we are seeing?
08:03So, of course, a lot of questions, but all in all,
08:07there is a sense of hope that this is the beginning,
08:10the start, a resolution for peace across the region.
08:14OK, a sense of cautious optimism there.
08:16Jane Witherspoon, thank you so much for that update there from Dubai.
08:20Now, moving on.
08:21All eyes are on the White House today
08:23when the NATO Secretary-General, Mark Gurdjieff,
08:25calls by to see Donald Trump.
08:27President Trump has called NATO partners cowards
08:30for limiting U.S. forces' access to bases on their territories
08:33and for not leading efforts to open the crucial Strait of Hormuz.
08:37With so much tension in the air,
08:38some have been even contemplating
08:40whether a NATO without the U.S. is even possible.
08:42Our Jakob Janus takes a look.
08:46Donald Trump is not always praising other people,
08:48but this one is an exception.
08:50Secretary-General is great.
08:52And Mark Ruta, he's a great person, but he's got...
08:57And, you know, it all began with,
08:59if you want to know the truth, Greenland.
09:00We want Greenland.
09:02They don't want to give it to us.
09:03And I said, bye-bye.
09:05And as NATO boss Mark Ruta is visiting Trump today,
09:09your reporters started to wonder,
09:11could U.S. President say one day bye-bye to NATO?
09:14Let's look at what we have actually in the basket.
09:19Under the NATO treaty, the exit process seems simple.
09:23A country submits a formal notice,
09:25and one year later, they are out.
09:27But under U.S. domestic law,
09:29it is a completely different story.
09:31In 2023, legislation was passed
09:34to block any president from quitting all by themselves.
09:37And to legally withdraw,
09:39Trump would need a two-third supermajority in the Senate
09:42or a specific Act of Congress.
09:44And although no one has ever fully left the alliance,
09:47Paris came close.
09:49In 1960s, President Charles de Gaulle
09:51pulled France out of NATO's military command.
09:54U.S. troops were ordered to leave French soil,
09:57and the alliance had to pack up its headquarters
09:59and move from Paris to Brussels.
10:01And it took more than four decades
10:04for France to rejoin the military command in 2009.
10:07However, even if Trump cannot easily withdraw,
10:11experts warn he could still follow a similar path
10:14and hollow out U.S. participation.
10:16And he could severely slash funding,
10:19withdraw key personnel,
10:20or simply refuse to honor the mutual defense pledge.
10:24And if Washington stays in the alliance in name only,
10:27calling it...
10:28This is NATO.
10:29And I've always said NATO's a paper tiger.
10:32And I've always said we help NATO,
10:35but they'll never help us.
10:36One could say NATO is already weakened from within,
10:39having lost the one thing that matters the most,
10:42its credibility.
10:48And that was Jakob Janis there reporting for us.
10:51Now, moving on, the U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance
10:54continues his visit to Hungary today,
10:56where he's throwing his support
10:57behind Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban,
11:00just five days ahead of crucial parliamentary elections.
11:03For more, I'm joined here on set
11:05by our Hungarian correspondent, Chandr Zeros.
11:07Good morning.
11:08Tell us about this visit,
11:10and will it have any impact
11:11on the outcome of the elections?
11:12Good morning, Maeve.
11:14Indeed, yesterday morning,
11:16J.D. Vance landed in Budapest,
11:18and we know for a while that
11:19Donald Trump, the U.S. President,
11:21loves Viktor Orban.
11:23He loves his illiberal politics,
11:25and Orban was the only EU leader
11:27who openly supported Trump's re-election bid.
11:31But Trump doesn't really like to travel that much,
11:34so he sent J.D. Vance there,
11:36and J.D. Vance was perfect for this job
11:38because he also loves Trump,
11:40he also loves Orban,
11:42but he is very hostile towards the European Union.
11:47So he endorsed Orban,
11:49he pushed for his re-election bid,
11:51but he also sent a very, very strong and brutal message
11:55to the European Union and to Brussels,
11:58so let's listen to that.
12:00I did want to send a signal to everybody,
12:03particularly the bureaucrats in Brussels
12:04who have done everything that they can
12:06to hold down the people of Hungary
12:08because they don't like the leader
12:10who has actually stood up for the people of Hungary.
12:12And I think it's important to say that.
12:14The bureaucrats in Brussels
12:16have tried to destroy the economy of Hungary.
12:19They have tried to make Hungary less energy independent.
12:24They have tried to drive up costs for Hungarian consumers,
12:27and they've done it all because they hate this guy.
12:30J.D. Vance there.
12:31And Sander,
12:32how have the bureaucrats in Brussels
12:33been reacting to this statement?
12:35I know there's deep concern in this town
12:37and among EU capitals
12:38about Hungarians' ties to Russia
12:40ahead of these elections.
12:41Well, indeed,
12:42while J.D. Vance was landing in Hungary,
12:45Bloomberg released an explosive story.
12:48Yesterday it was about a phone conversation
12:50between Prime Minister Orbán
12:53and Russian President Vladimir Putin
12:55last October,
12:56in which Prime Minister Orbán
12:59actually offered his help to Russia.
13:01He said,
13:02I'm at your disposal for any matter
13:04where I can help.
13:05Orbán also compared their relationship
13:08to a relationship of a mouse and a tiger,
13:12which is very disturbing in a way.
13:15And this comes after various reports
13:17of how Hungarian Foreign Minister
13:19Peter Sziartó
13:20has a deep and friendly relationship
13:23with his Russian counterpart,
13:26Sergei Lavrov.
13:27Now, Prime Minister Orbán
13:29was grilled on the X social media
13:31by Donald Tusk,
13:33who is the Prime Minister of Poland.
13:35And Orbán replied in a tweet
13:37in which he confirmed a phone call
13:40and he said that
13:41it's true I spoke with President Putin
13:44about ending the war
13:45and organizing a US-Russia peace summit
13:48in Budapest.
13:49What have you done for peace?
13:52Overall, I'm personally pretty sure
13:54that behind these leaks
13:56and behind these tapped phone calls,
13:58there are some Western governments
14:00and Western secret services
14:02who are actually fed up
14:04with the pro-Russian policy
14:06of Viktor Orbán.
14:08I'm also personally very much convinced
14:10that, you know,
14:11more leaks will come
14:13in the coming days.
14:14And this is really bad news
14:17for Orbán
14:17because this is a campaign issue
14:19in Hungary
14:20and the opposition
14:22is attacking Orbán very hard.
14:24They are saying that
14:25Orbán is betraying
14:26Hungarian interest
14:27and he's betraying
14:28European interest as well.
14:30Okay, Sander Ziris
14:32and more, of course,
14:33to read on yournews.com.
14:34Thank you so much
14:34for that update.
14:36And now for the view
14:37from the European Parliament
14:38on all these various issues.
14:39Coming up,
14:40we'll be joined by Marc Buttenga,
14:42a Belgian politician
14:43and member
14:44of the European Parliament
14:45for the left group.
14:46He's known for his work
14:47on energy policy,
14:49social justice
14:50and international affairs.
14:52He's also been
14:52a very vocal critic
14:53of EU economic
14:55and foreign policy positions.
14:57Good morning, Marc Buttenga.
14:58Good morning.
14:59Great to have you with us.
14:59Thanks for joining us.
15:00First, what is the view
15:01from the Parliament
15:02on this temporary truce
15:03between the Americans,
15:04the Israelis and the Iranians?
15:06Well, from the Parliament,
15:07I'm not sure.
15:07I mean, we haven't had
15:08a session right now.
15:09What I think, first of all,
15:10is that we should celebrate this.
15:11I mean, this means
15:12there's no more,
15:13for the moment at least,
15:14if it holds,
15:14innocent Iranians
15:15are going to be bombed.
15:16No more schools,
15:18no more factories,
15:19no more hospitals
15:20because this is
15:20what's been going on.
15:21And I think the position
15:22of the EU on this
15:23has been horrible.
15:24I mean, we've had speeches
15:25by Ursula von der Leyen,
15:27by Kaya Callas.
15:29basically ignoring
15:30the fact that
15:31the United States
15:31and Israel
15:32illegally attacked Iran.
15:33So this was amazing.
15:35Like, they've been speaking
15:36about Iran attacking
15:37its neighbours
15:37rather than Iran
15:38being a victim.
15:39So we've mixed this up.
15:40So if this ceasefire holds,
15:42and I really hope so,
15:43it'll be very, very positive
15:44for, of course,
15:46in the first place,
15:46Iranians.
15:47But there is a caveat.
15:48The Israelis have said
15:48that they welcome
15:49the ceasefire,
15:50but it does not include Lebanon.
15:52That's concerning.
15:52Well, it is very concerning.
15:53I mean, we've seen
15:55that Israel has not respected,
15:56I mean, like the United States
15:57really in this war,
15:58any rules on international law,
16:00on human rights.
16:01And they are now trying
16:02to occupy a big part of Lebanon.
16:04You know, up to one-fifth
16:05of Lebanon,
16:06they've been ethnically cleansing
16:07the south of Lebanon.
16:08So that's extremely concerning.
16:10And once again,
16:11let me bring this back
16:11to the European Union.
16:12Why are we silent?
16:14Why are our top officials
16:17not condemning this?
16:18Why are we not taking sanctions?
16:19Well, Antonio Costa,
16:19the council president,
16:20has been quite vocal.
16:21He's had calls
16:22with the president of Iran.
16:23He's called the situation
16:24unacceptable.
16:25He's told Donald Trump
16:25not to move in.
16:26But of course,
16:27we've seen Ursula von der Leyen
16:28very quiet.
16:29Well, yeah, but I mean,
16:30even Antonio Costa,
16:31when you see basically
16:32their statements,
16:33all of them,
16:33and there's been,
16:34I mean, they've got the same
16:36basically notes, I'm guessing.
16:38When Antonio Costa,
16:39the council president,
16:40calls the Iranian president,
16:41he basically blames Iran
16:43for the war.
16:44Well, you know,
16:45it's very clear
16:45when Russia attacks Ukraine,
16:47the aggressor is Russia.
16:48When the United States
16:49and Israel attack Iran,
16:51the aggressors
16:51are the United States
16:52and Israel.
16:53And, you know,
16:53top officials,
16:54Costa, von der Leyen,
16:55Kalas,
16:56have not been able
16:56to say this
16:57and to follow up
16:58because obviously
16:59once you have this,
17:00you need to follow up
17:00with actions.
17:01So what should they be saying
17:02and doing right now?
17:03Well, first of all,
17:04they should have
17:05condemned the war.
17:06They should have condemned
17:07the war crimes.
17:08You know, imagine that
17:08you've got 160 people
17:11killed in a strike
17:12on a school in Iran
17:14and the European Union
17:15is not able to condemn this.
17:17Imagine that.
17:18They should have condemned
17:19the genocidal rhetoric
17:21of President Trump
17:21last night
17:22as saying,
17:23I'm going to blow up a country.
17:24I'm going to end the civilization.
17:25Of course, you should react.
17:26And they should have favored diplomacy
17:28because what have we seen?
17:29We've seen that China
17:30and Pakistan
17:31have basically taken diplomacy
17:33in their hands,
17:34have said,
17:34we're going to, you know,
17:35bring about this ceasefire
17:36by putting Iran
17:37and the United States
17:38around the table.
17:39So this is incredible.
17:40The European Union
17:41has done nothing,
17:42no diplomatic efforts whatsoever
17:43for a crisis
17:44that not only
17:45is violating human rights,
17:47is violating international law,
17:48but it was also violating
17:49our interests.
17:50You know,
17:51people see the gas prices
17:52going up
17:52and they see that
17:53their European leaders
17:54are basically, you know,
17:55on a Easter holiday.
17:56Well, Kayakalas,
17:57I understand,
17:57is in Saudi Arabia today,
17:58but just the Hungarian elections
18:00are coming up this weekend.
18:02How do you feel
18:02about J.D. Vance's trip
18:03this week to Budapest
18:05and also blaming
18:06Brussels bureaucrats?
18:07Well, it's not a surprise.
18:08You know,
18:09it's in the National Security Strategy
18:10of the United States
18:11that was published
18:12a few months ago
18:13where they openly say
18:14we're going to intervene
18:15in Europe
18:16supporting so-called
18:17patriotic forces.
18:18So influencing,
18:19basically,
18:20the elections inside,
18:21you know,
18:21it's direct interference.
18:23Something the United States
18:24have been doing
18:24in many countries,
18:25you know,
18:25they've been doing this
18:26in Africa and Latin America
18:27and they're now doing it
18:28openly as well in Europe.
18:29So I'm not surprised.
18:30I'm, of course,
18:31very concerned.
18:32I'm also very concerned
18:32that when we speak about,
18:33also in the Parliament,
18:34but also with the Commission,
18:36about foreign interference
18:37is often about Russia.
18:38It's often about other countries,
18:39but it's very rarely
18:40about the United States.
18:41Well, this interference
18:42is now open,
18:43it's brazen,
18:43it's, you know,
18:44unapologetic.
18:45So I think we need
18:46to take this seriously
18:47and we need to be saying,
18:48guys,
18:48these United States,
18:49they are not an ally.
18:51Okay.
18:51Mark Bottenga,
18:52MEP there from the left.
18:53Thank you so much
18:54for joining us here this morning
18:55on Europe Today.
18:56And thank you so much
18:57for tuning in
18:57and for watching as always.
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