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برنامه صبحگاهی اصلی یورونیوز «اروپای امروز» را ساعت ۸ صبح به وقت بروکسل تماشا کنید؛ تنها در ۲۰ دقیقه، از مهمترین خبرهای روز باخبر شوید.
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مشترک شوید: یورونیوز به یازده زبان دیگر در دسترس شماست
برنامه صبحگاهی اصلی یورونیوز «اروپای امروز» را ساعت ۸ صبح به وقت بروکسل تماشا کنید؛ تنها در ۲۰ دقیقه، از مهمترین خبرهای روز باخبر شوید.
لب بیشتر : http://parsi.euronews.com/2026/05/07/europe-today-eu-fails-to-agree-on-trade-deal-with-us-risking-trump-backlash
مشترک شوید: یورونیوز به یازده زبان دیگر در دسترس شماست
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00:14Good morning, it's Thursday the 7th of May. I'm Marit Gwynne and you're watching Europe
00:20Today, your daily dose of morning news and analysis, live here on Euronews. Coming up
00:26today, EU negotiators failed to reach an agreement on the bloc's trade deal with the US in late
00:33night talks here in Brussels. Talks could resume on May the 19th. Pressure is mounting after
00:39President Trump threatened to hike tariffs on EU cars to 25 percent, a move that would be in breach
00:47of the deal. And oil prices have fallen amid reports Iran and the US are closing in on a deal
00:54to end the war. But Washington and Tehran have offered conflicting reports on the state of
00:59negotiations. We speak to the US's former ambassador to NATO, Kurt Volker, about the conflict and its
01:06implications for the transatlantic alliance. Also, three people are being evacuated to Europe
01:13from the cruise ship at the center of a deadly Hantavirus outbreak. The ship is sailing towards
01:19the Canary Islands after the Spanish government gave permission for it to dock, despite the regional
01:24governments there rejecting the request. We'll have more details on that story too. But first,
01:31to our top story this morning. EU diplomats, officials and lawmakers failed to give their final approval
01:36to the bloc's trade deal with the US during talks which stretched late into the night here in Brussels.
01:42The delay risks adding to the frustration of President Trump, who has, of course, threatened to hike
01:48tariffs on EU cars to 25 percent. For more, we can bring in our trade reporter, Peggy Corlan. Good
01:54morning, Peggy. Good morning. So, no deal on implementing this agreement still. Tell us more.
02:01No deal. Yesterday night, EU lawmakers and EU member states didn't find an agreement to cut EU tariffs on
02:09US goods to zero percent, as agreed in the Thumbury Agreement. Let me remind you what this
02:14Thumbury Agreement is about. Last year, after weeks of trade disputes, the EU and the US agreed that they
02:22would impose US tariff at 15 percent on EU goods and that the EU would cut its tariff at zero
02:32percent.
02:33So, yesterday night, the Parliament's lead negotiator, the German MEP, Ben Lange, wanted to attach conditions
02:40to the deal. The core objective was to shield the deal from future US threats, like the one made last
02:48week over EU cars or like the one made a couple of months ago over Greenland. And the Parliament also
02:55wanted to make the deal temporary, which means expiring in March 2028, a couple of months before the end of
03:03Trump's mandate. Okay. And Peggy, I think we can also take a listen to what Maroshevkovic, the trade chief,
03:10who, of course, has been urging this deal to get over the line, had to say in Paris last night.
03:16We have to deliver on what was promised in Scotland, meaning lowering the tariffs for the US exports to
03:26European Union, as we agreed in our joint statement. And of course, for me, it's also very
03:31important that the United States would live up to the expectations and also would live up to what
03:37was agreed to the firm. And I'm talking here about return to 15 percent all-inclusive tariff, which was
03:43agreed up. And Peggy, we know that EU capitals governments are part of these talks. What are they
03:49saying? Well, EU governments consider that the Parliament's demands go too far. But the diplomats I
03:56talked to yesterday night told me that there could be room for compromise. But it's too early.
04:02Yesterday night was about presenting each side's political line and technical negotiations will
04:09come at a future stage for next round of negotiations. EU tropical, the capitals here are trying to
04:18balance two objectives. One, which is to avoid any move that would reinforce Trump's narrative,
04:26which is to say that the EU does not honor the deal, the temporary agreement, and at the same time
04:34protect the agreement from future US threat. So here there's room for compromise with the
04:41parliaments which pursue the same goal.
04:43OK, Peggy, thank you so much for that comprehensive update. We'll be keeping an eye
04:48on developments in the coming weeks, of course. Now moving on, after two months of conflict,
04:53it appears that the US and Iran are closing in on a one-page, 14-point memo to end the
04:59war.
04:59Reports suggest the deal could include a moratorium on nuclear enrichment and the easing of some
05:04sanctions on Iran. A key question is when the Strait of Hormuz can fully reopen. But the war has
05:09already put transatlantic ties under immense strain. Our correspondent, Shauna Murray, caught up with
05:15the former US ambassador to NATO, Kurt Volker, and started by asking him about his assessment
05:21of the prospects of a deal.
05:24It seems like there will be a mutually agreed opening of the Strait of Hormuz, so shipping can go in
05:32and out.
05:32There will be an end to fighting, and there will be a moratorium on uranium enrichment and a nuclear
05:40program with inspections. Those seem to be the outlines, probably also lifting of sanctions and
05:46returning funds to Iran. This is actually very, very similar to what was already in the JCPOA that
05:53was torn up. The differences, if there are any, and if what we read in the press is to believe,
06:00are that we've destroyed most of Iran's power projection capability. So it'll take them a while
06:06to restore that.
06:08Which is what the JCPOA would have done if it had been able to continue after 2017.
06:14Right. Well, that would have expired, I believe, in 2018.
06:17They could have renegotiated. I mean, the path of the JCPOA, the years before it took to negotiate
06:22that as well.
06:23Yeah. In that sense, yes. We are basically back where we were and achieving pretty much
06:30the same thing.
06:31So what can Donald Trump say that he achieved, particularly given the death toll? I mean,
06:36we saw 170 young schoolgirls killed on the first day of this war. I mean, then also other,
06:44obviously, civilian casualties and a regime still intact after it killed its own people
06:49back in January, which was actually the reason why this particular conflict started in the
06:55first place.
06:55There are many reasons why this conflict was there and the reasons kept shifting. Sometimes
07:01President Trump referred to the protesters or the 45,000 people, as he said, killed. I'm not sure
07:08the number was quite that high, but a large number of people killed by the regime. Other times it was
07:13the nuclear program. Other times it was ballistic missiles. But what I think he can say he achieved
07:20is setting Iran back both in terms of its military, its power projection capability, its proxies and
07:29its nuclear program. All of that is physically set back substantially. But as you say, the regime
07:37does stay in place and it does have the capability and the will to shut down shipping in the Persian
07:45Gulf if it wants to.
07:47And the issue is, though, that with the Strait of War, although it had been gamed that the
07:51Iranians could take control of it in the event of a war like this, they have institutionalized
07:57it now, the Iranians. They've sort of know, they know now that they can control this, turn
08:01it on and off as they like in the future.
08:04Yeah, that's right. And also the business model of the Gulf states of being a secure and relatively
08:11free place to do business globally is shaken a bit by the fact that Iran has shown a willingness
08:18to fire missiles and drones at them. So that's going to take some time to restore confidence
08:23there as well. So in a way, the Iranian regime comes out of this emboldened, even though they
08:28have been substantially weakened.
08:29What do you think this means for NATO? We saw the US president abruptly announce the
08:35withdrawal of 5000 troops because we haven't seen any strategy since from the Pentagon in
08:39relation to that.
08:40Let's put these into a couple of different categories. The first is President Trump's
08:44peak at NATO countries for not fighting alongside the US in the Persian Gulf. That's really, I think,
08:52a distraction. He never asked them to. There was no consultation. There was no agreement
08:56on a common plan. It was just a venting saying, well, you're not there for us, even though we're
09:03there for you. I don't think that is something we should take too seriously from a military
09:08point of view, but rather it is just a further reflection of President Trump's general unhappiness
09:14with NATO countries. Then you get to specific complaints about we were not able to use bases
09:20in Spain. We were not able to use bases in Italy. Germany said some nasty things about us.
09:26And so we're going to take some military steps. Well, there, I think we do have to take it
09:31seriously. President Trump is indeed unhappy and wants to take some steps. But then we have to look
09:37at what the US military wants to do. The presence of US forces in Europe is good for the United
09:43States.
09:47Ambassador Kurt Volker speaking to Shona Murray there.
09:50Now, three people with suspected Hantavirus are being evacuated from the cruise ship linked to the
09:57deadly outbreak of the virus. Three people have already died on the Dutch flagship known as MV
10:03Hondias. The ship is now on its way to the Canary Islands. For more details on this story, I'm joined
10:09by our health reporter, Marta Iraola. Good morning, Marta. Bring us up to speed. Remind us
10:15the story of this cruise ship. Good morning. Yeah, we're talking about a luxury cruise ship that took
10:22off Argentina the 1st of April, carrying more approximately like 150 passengers. It has since
10:29then crossed the Atlantic, making some stops in the Sandwich Islands in Santa Elena until it arrived to
10:35Cabo Verde. Cabo Verde was the original destination of the ship. However, at the beginning of April, some people
10:42started to feel sick in what it has now been confirmed as an outbreak of Hantavirus, a rare
10:48rodent disease. Since then, there have been eight infected passengers. Three of them have died. Some
10:55others are being treated in the hospital and the three have been are being evacuated to the Netherlands.
11:00Okay. And now what do we know about the fate of the remaining passages of this ship?
11:05Yeah, well, as you mentioned, the ship is now on its way to the Canary Island, where it's set to
11:09arrive
11:10this weekend on Saturday to Tenerife. The passengers will likely disembark on Monday and will from them
11:16from there be taken to their own countries where they will be put in quarantine. This decision of
11:22taking the ship to the Canary Island has raised some tensions between the local government and the
11:27national government of Spain. Here is Fernando Clavijo, who was here in Brussels and talked about this
11:33topic. Our technical position is that if the passengers are healthy, there is no risk of
11:39transmission. It makes no sense for them to have to travel to the Canary Islands to be repatriated.
11:43They can easily do so at the Cape Verde International Airport. If we are truly considering the best interests
11:49of these passengers and ensuring they can return home to put an end to this nightmare, the reasonable
11:53course of action is for them to do so immediately.
11:58Still, the national government of Spain, the World Health Organization and the European Union
12:04consider that Spain is more than ready to receive these patients and launch the appropriate public
12:09health response that is more prepared than Cape Verde. At the same time, the World Health
12:13Organization is tracking 23 passengers that disembarked the ship in Santa Elena and are now being
12:20tracked to see where they are. And 80 other passengers that took a flight to South Africa with one of
12:25the
12:25passengers that later died.
12:28Okay, Marta, thank you so much for bringing us up to speed on that story. We'll be keeping an eye
12:33out
12:33for any further developments, of course. But we're moving on now. The European Commission says it is
12:38upping its commitments to promoting the rights and inclusion of people with disabilities by reviewing
12:44its long-term strategy. Our Europe editor, Maria Tadeo, sat down with the EU's Commissioner for
12:49Equality, Hadja Labib, and started by asking her about the Commission's new initiatives.
12:54We are launching a new EU alliance for independent living, with a budget also to support service-based
13:08communities instead of institutions. And that is what we call deinstitutionalization, to be sure that
13:17a person with disabilities can live their own life independently. And it is about their dignity,
13:23their choice also. And then to put everything into place to be sure that they will have the capacity
13:30to be more included in the labor market.
13:33And I have to ask you, there's a very political question, but it matters because of the times that
13:39we're in. Some would argue there's been, well, pushback against the idea of inclusivity, that the
13:45political debate is sort of shifting into a form of right that is about power, a might, and looks at
13:53ideas
13:54of diversity, inclusivity. It is too woke. We don't want it. We don't like it anymore. Is that something
13:59that you're concerned about?
14:00Yes, I'm concerned about because I'm Commissioner for Equality, and we see a regression when it comes
14:07to gender equality. And all kinds of, you know, discrimination is something that we need to combat,
14:16because this is not the Europe we want to live in. We want a Europe that is forgetting no one
14:24that is
14:25inclusive, that is diverse. This is our added value as a continent. So it's important to be very vocal.
14:33And that's why we had this strategy. We could have gone until 2030 without, you know, creating new
14:41flagship, new communication. But we did exactly the contrary. It means that equality, values, principles
14:49matter in our Europe, and we are proud of.
14:52At what time horizon do you look at? What is something that is acceptable to you to see a Europe
14:59that looks like more like your proposal than the current one that we have?
15:03This is something that we should think about from yesterday, I would say, because it's linked to my
15:13my other parts, my other competence, preparedness. We need to rebuild Ukraine, for instance, with having in mind
15:24the number of people who are wounded today. You know, I visited hospitals where you see a lot of people
15:32imputed, unfortunately. And we need to have accessibility by design to be sure that when we rebuild new schools,
15:44new hospitals, new airports, that it is accessible, you know, from the starting point and not something that is an
15:52added
15:54afterthought.
15:54In this process, and I'm sure, as you said, you had many stories and you spoke to many different people.
16:02What did you learn,
16:03personally, out of this?
16:04That it's about all of us. And it's about who we are and how we want to live. You know,
16:12if you want to live in a society where
16:14the most fragile, vulnerable are left behind, you can, you know, think that it could be you, it can be
16:21your mother, it can be your
16:23children, your child tomorrow. And so it creates a lot of anxiety and a lack of confidence also. And what
16:32we are doing,
16:33it's exactly the contrary. We are building a trustful society where you know that we care about you, we care
16:43about all of us.
16:47We're moving on now. A crucial set of elections are taking place in the UK today. Voters in Wales and
16:54Scotland choose who runs their devolved governments, while many parts of England will elect local councils
17:00and mayors. The results are expected to provide a snapshot of the UK's fast changing politics.
17:06Our Jakob Janis has more.
17:11Today, millions across the UK are heading to the polls. In parts of England, voters are electing local councils
17:18and several city mayors. And voters in Scotland and Wales are choosing who will lead their devolved governments.
17:24And while the EU has not been a prominent campaign topic, your reporter started to wonder, could these elections matter
17:32for the EU?
17:35In England, the traditional dominance of the Labour and Conservative parties is being challenged by two insurgent forces,
17:42Nigel Farage Reform UK and Zak Polanski Green Party. With little experience in local infrastructure like bin collections or road
17:50repairs,
17:51their popularity was built on international issues. Brexit and immigration versus pro-EU stance,
17:58environmentalism and the conflict in Gaza. And amid growing unpopularity for Stammer's Labour government
18:04and low ratings for the Conservatives, parts of the public are seeking alternatives beyond the main parties.
18:11Moreover, predictions suggest Labour could lose nearly three quarters of its local council seats,
18:17its historic dominance in Wales and popularity in Scotland. And while Stammer is not on the ballot paper,
18:23a weak show for Labour could add to his domestic issues and disrupt his diplomatic UK-EU research.
18:30But here is a paradox. Ten years after Brexit referendum, recent surveys showed that majority of all voters
18:38now support rejoining the EU, rising even to over 80% among Labour and Green supporters.
18:44Yet, at the same time, the pro-Brexit Reform UK party is enjoying a massive surge,
18:50arguing that Brexit was completely mismanaged. And some even say they could from the future national governments.
18:58Alright, so even if these local elections are about fixing the potholes in the roads,
19:03Britons still seem to be unsure which road to take.
19:12And that's it from us for today. And today's show was in fact our 100th episode.
19:18Thank you to you for keeping us company today and every morning here on Europe Today.
19:23Euronews' Maeve McMahon and Sasha Vakulina will be moderating sessions
19:27at the European Business Summit in Brussels later.
19:30You can catch that on our live stream on our social media channels.
19:33And we'll be back again with you at the same time tomorrow.
19:36Euronews' Maeve Vanguard.
19:45In thevicium Summit in Brussels, UK
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