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00:00Sous-titrage Société Radio-Canada
00:31Sous-titrage Société Radio-Canada
01:00An EU delegation is expected in Budapest later today for talks with the incoming Peter Maggia-led government.
01:07They're expected to discuss the release of EU funds for Hungary that were frozen under Orbán.
01:12We'll bring you the details.
01:14And the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez hosts left-wing global leaders in Barcelona today for Summit of World Progressives.
01:21We have an exclusive interview with the European Commission Vice President Teresa Rivera.
01:27But first, our top story this morning.
01:30A French and British-led coalition of around 40 mainly NATO countries is meeting today
01:37and is expected to announce a solution aimed at securing the Strait of Hormuz.
01:41Military planners have been working on the plans for weeks.
01:44To explain more, our NATO correspondent, Shauna Murray, joins me here in the studio.
01:49Good to have you back, Shauna.
01:50Tell us first, these talks happening today in Paris and online, what can we expect?
01:55Well, the expectation is that this coalition will deliver a broad shape of an outline to reopen the Strait of
02:00Hormuz when the conflict ends.
02:03Now, they're saying that this is very much going to be a defensive operation.
02:06They will not be party to the conflict.
02:08But the idea is that they will send vessels, frigates, demining operations, personnel, radars, intelligence to the region
02:15to be ready to then kickstart the reopening of the Strait when the hostilities come to a cease.
02:21Now, there's obviously huge risks in that because we don't know when this war is going to end.
02:25But the reason why this plan needs to happen today, or at least the outline needs to be in place,
02:31is because Donald Trump has been putting huge pressure on NATO allies, saying that they never came to his aid.
02:36And he's obviously threatened the alliance.
02:38And even this week, he went on US TV saying the Strait of Hormuz is already open.
02:42Ships are coming back and forth.
02:44We're doing it, which is not really the case.
02:46But anyway, he says our country should not be paying trillions of dollars to NATO once again,
02:51threatening the future of the alliance.
02:52So this is a very important day.
02:54And Shana, we also saw reports overnight that the US has told its European allies
02:59to expect delays in the delivery of weapons, weapons that were previously approved by the US.
03:05Tell us more.
03:06This is something that allies have feared since the very beginning of this war
03:09and the fact that this war is now dragging out.
03:11But NATO allies have purchased equipment, such as interceptors and so on,
03:17from the United States to be used in Ukraine through the prioritised Ukraine requirements list at NATO.
03:22Now they're hearing that that equipment won't get to Ukraine.
03:26So that's hugely problematic for Europe's defence, for the NATO defence, and of course for the Ukrainians.
03:31And it was something that actually has been expected.
03:34But we know that Ursula von der Leyen had a meeting with Mark Ruchte, the Secretary-General of NATO, this
03:38week,
03:39as well as NATO's Supreme Allied Commander for Europe, Alexis Grinkovic.
03:42And they relayed this to her and said that Europe needs to once again step up its defence industrial base
03:48even more than before.
03:49And I spoke to a NATO source last night who said to me,
03:52look, there's only so much equipment to go around.
03:54That's why the defence industrial base is so important.
03:56So this is a very tricky situation now for Europe,
03:59not just from an economic perspective, but now for the defence of the continent.
04:03Indeed, Shauna, thank you so much for that very comprehensive update.
04:07We'll keep an eye on your reporting, of course, throughout the day.
04:09Now, the UN Development Programme says ongoing military escalation in the Middle East
04:14could push 30 million people into poverty worldwide.
04:18Our reporter, Lauren Walker, spoke to the agency's administrator, Alexander de Croix,
04:24who, of course, was formerly the Prime Minister of Belgium.
04:26She started by asking him about the global spillover effects of the conflict.
04:32The impact goes way beyond the region.
04:35For example, Sub-Saharan Africa is severely impacted by what is going on in the region.
04:43Small island states, for example, in the Pacific,
04:46you start to have a few islands that just don't have enough fuel anymore.
04:50So the impact of the war and the blockade that is linked to it has a deep impact.
04:58And it shows that war is development in reverse.
05:02It takes decades to lift people out of poverty.
05:06It takes six weeks of war to push them back into poverty.
05:09Are you confident that a diplomatic solution can be found between the US and Iran?
05:14Am I confident?
05:16I have no crystal ball.
05:18Am I hopeful?
05:19Yes.
05:20And that, of course, is the first measure, is to stop the war,
05:24or at least come to some type of normalization of the shipping lanes in the Strait of Hormuz.
05:31But even if the war would stop today, you will need economic interventions to avoid that whole countries and whole
05:40populations are being pushed back in poverty in a structural way.
05:44Yeah, it's macroeconomic interventions that international financial institutions can do on, for example, providing targeted and time-limited cash-outs
05:56to populations who are impacted,
05:59or providing free access to fuel, cooking gas, and so on.
06:06If you don't do these targeted, timely macroeconomic interventions, you will have many more ripple effects.
06:15And we have not talked about the ripple effects of poverty, of food insecurity.
06:22That could lead to additional conflicts, that could lead to more displacement and migration flows, that could lead to other
06:30types of extremism.
06:31And you're obviously part of the UN, an institution which has been heavily criticized recently by the US president, for
06:39example.
06:39There are fears that his Board of Peace could replace it.
06:43What does the UN bring to the table in this geopolitical context that we're facing now?
06:49We have multiple UN organizations that, despite the criticism, and I'm not deaf for the criticism, are very, very much
06:59appreciated by the populations with whom we work.
07:03Now, the key element for us is to have access.
07:08For example, in Gaza, which is a really desolate place these days, more than 85% of people have lost
07:16their homes and are living in the middle of the rubble in tents that are not even worth the name
07:21of being a tent.
07:23We can help many more people.
07:25We can provide way more assistance, but we're not getting the access.
07:29My attitude would be, game on, let us show what we're capable of, but then also give us room to
07:36do so.
07:37For the moment, there's no access for UN organizations, but no one else is doing it.
07:44I'm open to work together with the Board of Peace.
07:47I think the Board of Peace is based on a Security Council resolution.
07:51It has helped in bringing a ceasefire or the diminishment of fire in Gaza.
07:58These are good things.
07:58I mean, these are realizations of the U.S. administration.
08:03But now we need to move into the next phase.
08:05And moving into that next phase really is urgent in helping people to reconstruct their lives.
08:14Lauren Walker speaking to Alexander de Croix there.
08:17Moving on now, because an EU delegation is expected in Budapest later today to meet with the team of the
08:23incoming Prime Minister, Peter Magyar.
08:25For more, we can cross over now to Budapest and bring in our correspondent, Sultan Shiboshegi, who is standing by
08:33for us there.
08:34Good morning, Sultan.
08:35Great to have you on the show.
08:36Can you first run us through what we're expecting from these technical talks between Brussels and Magyar's team today?
08:44Good morning, Europe Today. Thank you for having me.
08:47Yeah, today, finally, it's going to happen because originally this delegation was planned for yesterday, but they postponed it.
08:53It's going to be a really important one because Peter's Magyar key campaign pledge was to restore Hungary's ties with
08:59the EU and unblock billions in funding that had been withheld over rule of flow and corruption concerns.
09:05The recovery funds question is particularly urgent. Hungary stands to lose nearly 10 billion euros if payments are not disbursed
09:14before the end of August.
09:16On Monday, Magyar outlined the four-step plan to meet the conditions for accessing the funds, including join the European
09:22Public Persecutors Office, restoring judicial independence and safeguarding economic freedom.
09:28Peter Magyar has already spoken twice with the European Commissioner, President Ursula von der Leyen, whose pleasure support.
09:35But this is not just the only item what will appear on Friday's agenda.
09:39Hungary is currently withholding the EU's 90 billion euros aid package to Ukraine.
09:44After believing P.E. and Viktor Orban blocked their previously agreed decision at the March EU summit, for sure the
09:52delegation will try to convince Peter Magyar, even though we had it opt out.
09:59OK, Sultan, thank you so much for that update.
10:02And we'll keep an eye, of course, on those talks happening in Budapest today.
10:05Moving on now to Barcelona, where the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, is hosting a raft of left-wing world
10:13leaders, including the presidents of Brazil, Colombia and South Africa.
10:17Our EU editor, Maria Taveo, is there for us and just before the show sent us this update.
10:24Well, good morning indeed, Marit.
10:26We are in Barcelona, where the Spanish government is hosting a convention today and tomorrow, bringing together heads of states,
10:34intellectuals and activists of what it calls is the progressive social democratic world.
10:40In a way, you could argue this is the opposite, the complete opposite of the CPAC convention led in multiple
10:47occasions by President Trump.
10:49And, of course, it's not a secret that the Spanish Prime Minister and President Trump have clashed on pretty much
10:55every subject, including the war in Iran, which this country, Spain, says is completely illegal and will set the region
11:02on fire.
11:03Now, in terms of today, I spoke with Teresa Rivera.
11:07She is the executive vice president of the European Commission, also a former minister in the Spanish government.
11:13And I began by asking her in our interview, why is it that the world needs progressive ideas, but also
11:19has the European left lost the working class because of a disconnect between their vision and their needs?
11:26Let's take a look.
11:29My conviction is that we need to think on how to solve the problems.
11:33So it is not against anyone, but to be fair and solid on the type of responses that we are
11:38proposing and that we are playing and walking the path.
11:42So I would not say.
11:44Obviously, there is a political view that is pretty different from those political views being supported by the most conservative
11:54voices.
11:55But the main intention is to say what we want.
12:00That probably provides a different view of the things that others do want.
12:05But since you talk about the idea of progressive Europe, some would say the left has lost the European working
12:12class because it doesn't have the right priorities, because it has put forward an energy.
12:17I wonder, is this also a moment where the left needs to do a form of soul searching, too?
12:22On the contrary, I have the impression that climate action is providing opportunities to people that could feel the harm,
12:32the penalties of not taking climate action.
12:36Energy transition means counting on sources of energy that do not create additional problems and that allow people to have
12:44lower bills.
12:44So it is part of the discussion that has been distorted in purpose to prevent action in those areas that
12:52could help people to do things and to count on the high quality of life.
12:57Over the weekend, there was a very important election in Hungary in which the Hungarians voted for change.
13:03Prime Minister Viktor Orban will be leaving office after 16 years.
13:07He was obviously a big ally of President Trump in Europe.
13:10I wonder, what does that election, that result, that call for change, say to you when it comes to Europe
13:17at this stage?
13:21We've seen that Hungarians, they decide that they wanted to be Europeans, that they wanted to fight for their rights,
13:28that they thought that this was important in terms of democracy.
13:32And they decided to vote massively, massively.
13:35It was not a tight election.
13:37It was very clear the result.
13:39So I think that this shows to what extent this narrative against Europe, against working together, against being united, against
13:48the defense of the civil rights and the integration is not something that can win in the middle long run.
13:54On the contrary, it probably exposes the limitations and the harm that people could feel in the absence of these
14:02joint forces, joint efforts of the European nations to develop the European program.
14:10Just a final point on this.
14:11There's been reports now that the Commission, and obviously this now touches the core of your portfolio,
14:16this is a massive job that you have when it comes to the competition laws in the EU.
14:21And these reports suggest that there is now a plan to massively dilute some of the regulation to allow for
14:27mergers to create major European champions.
14:30Is that the case?
14:32Are you preparing for this?
14:33We are entering into the last phase to adopt an updated version of our merger guidelines.
14:39So we have already a very sound draft after having hurt everybody.
14:44We know that we need to update our reality to today's economy.
14:49But that doesn't mean forgetting the core bulk of our mission, which is protecting consumers from abuses of dominance.
14:58So this means that we may take into consideration innovation, long-term sustainability, resilience.
15:05This means that we need to be ready to understand the global context and the impact in the national and
15:12the domestic economy.
15:13But this doesn't mean forgetting about the importance of keeping the level playing field.
15:18So you're not, just as a final question on this, because it's important, so you're not preparing major deregulation to
15:25allow companies to come together.
15:26Of course not.
15:26That is not in the pipeline.
15:27No, no, no, of course not.
15:28And I say this because you have said in the past that too much simplification at times has made things
15:32confusing.
15:33So your fundamentals is still to say deregulation would be bad for the EU.
15:38This is not a product to deregulate.
15:43This is a product to modernize and to be transparent of the criteria that we will be using to assess
15:50when emerging is pro-competitive and provides positive effects to the economy.
15:55And when it is a real risk and it is not proven that the operation does not comply with what
16:04it is being said, either if it is innovation or sustainability.
16:08So I think that it allows much more innovation and much more security for all.
16:13But at the very same time, it is quite clear that we will remain defending the interests of the consumers
16:19and not accepting whatever as a blank check.
16:24That was Maria Tadeo speaking to the European Commission Vice President Teresa Ribeira.
16:29Now, there's another major election coming up in Europe this weekend.
16:34On Sunday, Bulgarians will head to the polls once again after a series of elections that have failed to break
16:41a persisting political deadlock.
16:44Our Jakob Yanis explains what's at stake.
16:49Bulgaria heads to the polls this Sunday for its eighth parliamentary election in five years.
16:54The country is the poorest in the European Union and the electorate is exhausted by a prolonged political crisis.
17:00And on paper, Bulgaria is a recent European success story, having finally adopted the euro on the 1st of January
17:07and joined Schengen.
17:08But there is a big euro hangover.
17:11On the ground, citizens feel impoverished and ignored by the political class.
17:16So who is stepping in to fill the void?
17:21This profound frustration has set the stage for a bitter showdown between two major figures.
17:26One side is Borko Borisov.
17:28He is the veteran center-right leader of the GERB party.
17:31While firmly pro-European, his decade in power was plagued by scandals, making him the symbol of the entrenched establishments.
17:40Facing him is Ruman Radev, the left-leaning former president, who sensationally resigned in January to run for prime minister.
17:49And Radev is riding a wave of populist anger, campaigning to dismantle the oligarchy.
17:54But his vocal opposition to military aid for Ukraine and softer stance on Moscow have left Western allies alarmed.
18:02And although polls show Radev leading Borisov 31 to 21 percent, neither is close to a majority,
18:10leaving the winner to inevitably cobble together a complicated coalition.
18:15And the battle for control is fierce.
18:18Just weeks before the vote, authorities detained over 200 people for electoral coercion.
18:24And the tactics are shocking.
18:27Some local officials tricked individuals into believing their state-funded winter heating and hot lunches
18:32were personal gifts from politicians.
18:35So Sunday is about much more than electing a government.
18:39It will determine whether the country can finally address these deep structural problems
18:43and rebuild public trust in the political system.
18:52Jakob Hiannis there.
18:54And of course, we'll bring you the analysis on the outcome of those elections on our show on Monday.
18:59But that's it for us for today and for this week.
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