00:01The European Commission will present next week its first European anti-poverty strategy.
00:0793 million Europeans, one person out of five, live at risk of poverty and social exclusion.
00:14Many of them are affected by in-work poverty.
00:17Executive Vice President of the European Commission for Social Rights, Roxana Minzatu, told Euronews.
00:23Obviously, it is important that we present the right tools to support on a lifelong cycle, and this is new
00:31to our approach,
00:32people that are not just already affected by poverty, by low income, by lack of access to services, but to
00:38prevent these situations.
00:40And the main rationale beyond everything is that we cannot build competitiveness based on social fragility.
00:49Child poverty is put at the center of the strategy.
00:53We will present a reinforced child guarantee, which is our main tool, to make sure that children are not affected
01:01by their families' vulnerabilities,
01:03and that we are helping them go to school, have access to medical health care, to support services.
01:10The European Commission plans to rely on private investments, member states, and the European Social Fund to fund this strategy.
01:18Minzatu says 100 billion euros will be allocated to poverty prevention in the European Commission's proposal for the next EU
01:26long-term budgets.
01:31The EU must deal with the US as an equal partner, not as a junior one, European Parliament Vice President
01:38Sophie Wilmès told Euronews on Wednesday,
01:41as EU leaders weigh a harder line with Washington over the Iran war and trade tariffs.
01:47What is very important regarding the United States is that we are talking to each other as equal partners and
01:53not as a big brother against the little brother or the little sister.
01:57That's not the way I see things.
01:59On Wednesday, the European Parliament is also voting on the European Commission's 2025 rule of law report.
02:05The vote coincides with the first visit to Brussels by Hungarian Prime Minister-elect Peter Magyar,
02:12who is due to meet Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday evening.
02:16Wilmès is hopeful that this new government will put things back on track.
02:24Europe's first complete lithium mine begins operating in Sivajavi in western Finland.
02:30The strategic resource is critical for manufacturing modern electronics.
02:36At a cost of around €783 million,
02:40Project Keleba was mainly funded by South African mining giant Sibani Steel Water and the European Union.
02:47Hanu Hotala, CEO of Keleba, explains the full production chain to produce battery-quality lithium.
02:55We are now extracting spodumane ore.
03:00It contains some 1 to 1.3% lithium oxide.
03:07Then we transport it to the concentrator.
03:10And there the lithium oxide content is increased to 5%.
03:15And further to lithium refinery and there the lithium concentrate is produced as battery-quality lithium hydroxide.
03:29Meanwhile, locals from a nearby town say they have mixed feelings about the mine,
03:34as they recognise it is good for employment but worry about the environmental impact.
03:39The Keleba project covers more than 500 square kilometres and six other mining sites are planned in the area.
03:47Some compare the role of lithium nowadays to the role that oil played at the start of the 20th century.
04:00Closer to home, shorter stays and above all cheaper.
04:03Against a backdrop of geopolitical tensions, a global energy crisis and inflation eroding purchasing power,
04:11the French are scaling back their vacation plans for the summer of 2026.
04:15According to an IFOP survey conducted for the French Tourism Alliance,
04:20only 37% of them say they are certain to go away compared to 50% last year.
04:2771% of them plan to stay in France, favouring free accommodation options such as staying with relatives.
04:34C'est vrai que le choix de la destination là, on réfléchit à deux fois, on ne pense à quelque
04:39part quand même.
04:39L'avantage c'est qu'on a une maison de famille et que du coup ça minimise les coûts et
04:45les dépenses des vacances.
04:46On les a pris avant l'invasion américaine au Moyen-Orient, on va dire.
04:54C'était peut-être la première semaine où ça commençait à chauffer, donc les prix n'étaient pas encore à
05:02ce niveau.
05:02In the face of inflation, financial trade-offs are becoming increasingly important for many households,
05:10and the budget allocated to vacations is shrinking.
05:13On average, the French plan to spend 1,530 euros on their summer vacations,
05:19which is about 150 euros less than in 2025.
05:24Plus de 50% des Français envisagent de dépenser moins que l'an dernier sur les différents sujets,
05:31évidemment l'hébergement, la restauration, l'ensemble des dépenses sur place.
05:35C'est-à-dire, c'est très sensible sur les dépenses, les dépenses faites sur place.
05:40Peut-être plus que sur l'hébergement, 60% des gens pensent qu'ils vont réduire ces dépenses.
05:46Access to vacations remains heavily influenced by social inequalities.
05:5084% of affluent households plan to go on vacation, compared to only 58% of lower-income households.
05:58C'est-à-dire, c'est-à-dire, c'est-à-dire.
06:41In the past, our view of the world was shaped in part by how artists saw the world.
06:48How Picasso painted changed how we saw the world.
06:51How Warhol talked about consumerism, pop culture, that changed how we saw those things.
06:57Now, our view of the world is shaped by tech billionaires who own powerful algorithms
07:02that decide what we see and what we don't see.
07:29What we see and how we see and what we see and what we see is that the world is
07:35created.
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