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00:34ترجمة نانسي قنقر
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01:30But first, to our top story this morning, EU diplomats, officials and lawmakers failed to give their final approval to
01:37the 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 tariffs on EU
01:49cars to 25%.
01:51For more, we can bring in our trade reporter, Peggy Corlan. Good morning, Peggy.
01:55Good morning.
01:56So no deal on implementing this agreement still. Tell us more.
02:00No deal. Yesterday night, EU lawmakers and EU member states didn't find an agreement to cut EU tariffs on US
02:09goods to 0% as agreed in the Thunbury agreement.
02:12Let me remind you what this Thunbury agreement is about.
02:16Last year, after weeks of trade disputes, the EU and the US agreed that they would impose US tariff at
02:2615% on EU goods and that the EU would cut its tariff at 0%.
02:33So yesterday night, the Parliament's lead negotiator, the German MEP, Bernd Lange, wanted to attach conditions to the deal.
02:41The core objective was to shield the deal from future US threats, like the one made last week over EU
02:49cars or like the one made a couple of months ago over Greenland.
02:53And the Parliament also wanted to make the deal temporary, which means expiring in March 2028, a couple of months
03:02before the end of Trump's mandate.
03:04OK, and Peggy, I think we can also take a listen to what Maroshevkovic, the trade chief, who, of course,
03:10has 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 European
03:26Union, as we agreed in our joint statement.
03:29And, of course, for me, it's also very important that the United States would live up to the expectations and
03:35also would live up to what was agreed to the firmery.
03:38And I'm talking here about the return to 15% all-inclusive tariff, which was agreed up.
03:43And, Peggy, we know that EU capitals' governments are part of these talks. What are they saying?
03:50Well, EU governments consider that the Parliament's demands go too far.
03:55But the diplomats I talked to yesterday night told me that there could be room for compromise.
04:00But it's too early.
04:02Yesterday night was about presenting each side's political line.
04:07And technical negotiations will come at a future stage for next round of negotiations.
04:14EU tropical, the capitals here are trying to balance two objectives.
04:20One, which is to avoid any move that would reinforce Trump's narrative, which is to say that the EU does
04:29not honor the deal, the temporary agreement,
04:33and at the same time protect the agreement from future US threats.
04:38So here there's room for compromise with the Parliament, which pursue the same goal.
04:44OK. Peggy, thank you so much for that comprehensive update.
04:46We'll be keeping an eye on developments in the coming weeks, of course.
04:51Now, moving on, after two months of conflict, it appears that the US and Iran are closing in on a
04:56one-page, 14-point memo to end the war.
04:59Reports suggest the deal could include a moratorium on nuclear enrichment and the easing of some sanctions on Iran.
05:05A key question is when the Strait of Hormuz can fully reopen.
05:09But the war has already put transatlantic ties under immense strain.
05:13Our correspondent, Shona Murray, caught up with the former US ambassador to NATO, Kurt Volker,
05:19and started by asking him about his assessment of the prospects of a deal.
05:24It seems like there will be a mutually agreed opening of the Strait of Hormuz,
05:30so shipping can go in and out.
05:32There'll be an end to fighting,
05:34and there'll be a moratorium on uranium enrichment and a nuclear program with inspections.
05:42Those seem to be the outlines, probably also lifting of sanctions and returning funds to Iran.
05:47This is actually very, very similar to what was already in the JCPOA that was torn up.
05:54The difference is, 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,
06:05so it'll take them a while to 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.
06:19I mean, the path of the JCPOA, the years before it took to negotiate that as well.
06:23Yeah, in that sense, yes.
06:25So we are basically back where we were and achieving pretty much the same thing.
06:31So what can Donald Trump say that he achieved, particularly given the death toll?
06:36I mean, we saw 170 young schoolgirls killed on the first day of this war.
06:42I mean, then also other, obviously, civilian casualties and a regime still intact
06:48after it killed its own people back in January,
06:50which was actually the reason why this particular conflict started in the first place.
06:55There are many reasons why this conflict was there and the reasons kept shifting.
07:01Sometimes President Trump referred to the protesters or the 45,000 people, as he said, killed.
07:07I'm not sure the number was quite that high, but a large number of people killed by the regime.
07:12Other times it was the nuclear program.
07:14Other times it was ballistic missiles.
07:17But what I think he can say he achieved is setting Iran back,
07:23both in terms of its military, its power projection capability, its proxies, and its nuclear program.
07:30All of that is physically set back substantially.
07:35But as you say, the regime does stay in place and it does have the capability and the will
07:43to shut down shipping in the Persian Gulf if it wants to.
07:47And the issue is, though, that with the Strait of War Muslims,
07:49although it had been gamed that the Iranians could take control of it in the event of a war like
07:55this,
07:55they have institutionalized it now, the Iranians.
07:58They've sort of know, they know now that they can control this,
08:01turn it on and off as they like in the future.
08:04Yeah, that's right.
08:05And also the business model of the Gulf states of being a secure and relatively free place
08:12to do business globally is shaken a bit by the fact that Iran has shown a willingness
08:18to fire missiles and drones at them.
08:20So that's going to take some time to restore confidence there as well.
08:24So in a way, the Iranian regime comes out of this emboldened,
08:27even though they have been substantially weakened.
08:30What do you think this means for NATO?
08:31We saw the U.S. president abruptly announce the withdrawal of 5,000 troops
08:36because we haven't seen any strategy since from the Pentagon in relation to that.
08:40Let's put these into a couple of different categories.
08:43The first is President Trump's peak at NATO countries
08:47for not fighting alongside the U.S. in the Persian Gulf.
08:51That's really, I think, a distraction.
08:53He never asked them to.
08:54There was no consultation.
08:56There was no agreement on a common plan.
08:59It was just a venting saying, well, you're not there for us, even though we're there for you.
09:03I don't think that is something we should take too seriously from a military point of view,
09:09but rather it is just a further reflection of President Trump's general unhappiness with NATO countries.
09:15Then you get to specific complaints about we were not able to use bases in Spain.
09:21We were not able to use bases in Italy.
09:24Germany said some nasty things about us.
09:26And so we're going to take some military steps.
09:29Well, there, I think we do have to take it seriously.
09:32President Trump is indeed unhappy and wants to take some steps.
09:36But then we have to look at what the U.S. military wants to do.
09:39The presence of U.S. forces in Europe is good for the United States.
09:47Ambassador Kurt Volker speaking to Shona Murray there.
09:51Now, three people with suspected Hantavirus are being evacuated from the cruise ship
09:56linked to the deadly outbreak of the virus.
09:59Three people have already died on the Dutch-flagged ship known as MV Hondias.
10:04The ship is now on its way to the Canary Islands.
10:07For more details on this story, I'm joined by our health reporter, Marta Iraola.
10:12Good morning, Marta.
10:13Bring us up to speed.
10:14Remind us the story of this cruise ship.
10:18Good morning.
10:19Yeah, we're talking about a luxury cruise ship that took off Argentina the 1st of April,
10:25carrying more approximately like 150 passengers.
10:29It has since then crossed the Atlantic,
10:31making some stops in the Sandwich Islands in Santa Elena
10:34until it arrived to Cabo Verde.
10:36Cabo Verde was the original destination of the ship.
10:40However, at the beginning of April, some people started to feel sick
10:43in what it has now been confirmed as an outbreak of Hantavirus,
10:47a rare rodent disease.
10:50Since then, there have been eight infected passengers.
10:53Three of them have died.
10:54Some others are being treated in the hospital
10:56and the three are being evacuated to the Netherlands.
10:59Okay, and now what do we know about the fate of the remaining passengers of this ship?
11:05Yeah, well, as you mentioned, the ship is now on its way to the Canary Island,
11:09where it's set to arrive this weekend on Saturday to Tenerife.
11:12The passengers will likely disembark on Monday
11:16and will from there be taken to their own countries,
11:19where they will be put in quarantine.
11:21This decision of taking the ship to the Canary Island
11:24has raised some tensions between the local government
11:26and the national government of Spain.
11:28Here is Fernando Clavijo, who was here in Brussels
11:31and talked about this topic.
11:35Our technical position is that if the passengers are healthy,
11:38there is no risk of transmission.
11:39It makes no sense for them to have to travel to the Canary Islands
11:42to be repatriated.
11:44They can easily do so at the Cape Verde International Airport.
11:47If we are truly considering the best interests of these passengers
11:50and ensuring they can return home to put an end to this nightmare,
11:53the reasonable course of action is for them to do so immediately.
11:58Still, the national government of Spain,
12:01the World Health Organization and the European Union
12:04consider that Spain is more than ready to receive these patients
12:07and launch the appropriate public health response
12:10that is more prepared than Cabo Verde.
12:12At the same time, the World Health Organization
12:14is tracking 23 passengers that disembarked the ship in Santa Elena
12:19and are now being tracked to see where they are,
12:22and 80 other passengers that took a flight to South Africa
12:25with one of the passengers that later died.
12:28Okay, Marta, thank you so much for bringing us up.
12:30To speed on that story, we'll be keeping an eye out
12:33for any further developments, of course.
12:35But we're moving on now.
12:37The European Commission says it is upping its commitments
12:40to promoting the rights and inclusion of people with disabilities
12:43by reviewing its long-term strategy.
12:46Our Europe editor, Maria Tadeo, sat down with the EU's Commissioner
12:49for Equality, Hadja Labib,
12:51and started by asking her about the Commission's new initiatives.
12:54We are launching a new EU alliance for independent living
13:01with a sub-budget also to support service-based communities
13:08instead of institutions.
13:12And that is what we call de-institutionalization,
13:16to be sure that a person with disabilities
13:18can live their own life independently.
13:21And it is about their dignity, their choice also.
13:25And then to put everything into place
13:28to 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,
13:37but it matters because of the times that we're in.
13:40Some would argue there's been, well, pushback against the idea of inclusivity,
13:44that the political debate is sort of shifting into a form of right
13:50that is about power and might
13:53and looks at ideas of diversity, inclusivity.
13:55It is too woke.
13:56We don't want it.
13:57We don't like it anymore.
13:58Is that something that you're concerned about?
14:00Yes, I'm concerned about because I'm commissioner for equality
14:04and we see a regression when it comes to gender equality
14:09and all kind of, you know, discrimination is something
14:15that we need to combat because this is not the Europe we want to live in.
14:20We want a Europe that is forgetting no one,
14:25that is inclusive, that is diverse.
14:26because this is our added value as a continent.
14:30So it's important to be very vocal.
14:33And that's why we had this strategy.
14:36We could have gone until 2030 without, you know,
14:41creating new flagship, new communication.
14:43But we did exactly the contrary.
14:46It means that equality, values, principles matter in our Europe
14:51and we are proud of.
14:52At what time horizon do you look at?
14:55What is something that is acceptable to you
14:57to see a Europe that looks like more like your proposal
15:01than the current one that we have?
15:03This is something that we should think about from yesterday,
15:10I would say, because it's linked to my other parts,
15:14my other competence, preparedness.
15:17We need to rebuild Ukraine, for instance,
15:22with having in mind the number of people who are wounded today.
15:28You know, I visited hospitals where you see a lot of people imputed,
15:34unfortunately.
15:34and we need to have accessibility by design
15:40to be sure that when we rebuild new schools,
15:44new hospitals, new airports,
15:48that it is accessible, you know, from the starting point
15:51and not something that has an added afterthought.
15:55In this process, and I'm sure, as you said,
15:57you had many stories and you spoke to many different people.
16:02What did you learn personally out of this?
16:04is that it's about all of us
16:06and it's about who we are and how we want to live.
16:11You know, if you want to live in a society
16:13where the most fragile, vulnerable are left behind,
16:18you can, you know, think that it could be you,
16:21it can be your mother, it can be your children,
16:24your child tomorrow.
16:26And so it creates a lot of anxiety
16:28and a lack of confidence also.
16:31and what we are doing, it's exactly the contrary.
16:35We are building a trustful society
16:39where you know that we care about you,
16:42we care about all of us.
16:47We're moving on now.
16:49A crucial set of elections are taking place in the UK today.
16:53Voters in Wales and Scotland
16:55choose who runs their devolved governments,
16:57while many parts of England
16:58will elect local councils and mayors.
17:01The results are expected to provide a snapshot
17:04of the UK's fast-changing politics.
17:07Our Jakob Janis has more.
17:11Today, millions across the UK are heading to the polls.
17:15In parts of England,
17:16voters are electing local councils
17:18and several city mayors.
17:20And voters in Scotland and Wales
17:22are choosing who will lead their devolved governments.
17:24And while the EU has not been
17:26a prominent campaign topic,
17:28your reporter started to wonder,
17:30could these elections matter for the EU?
17:35In England,
17:36the traditional dominance of the Labour and Conservative parties
17:39is being challenged by two insurgent forces,
17:42Nigel Farage, Reform UK,
17:44and Zak Polanski, Green Party.
17:46With little experience in local infrastructure
17:49like bin collections or road repairs,
17:51their popularity was built on international issues,
17:55Brexit and immigration versus pro-EU stance,
17:58environmentalism and the conflict in Gaza.
18:00And amid growing unpopularity
18:03for Stammer's Labour government
18:04and low ratings for the Conservatives,
18:08parts of the public are seeking alternatives
18:10beyond the main parties.
18:11Moreover, predictions suggest
18:13Labour could lose nearly three-quarters
18:15of its local council seats,
18:17its historic dominance in Wales
18:19and popularity in Scotland.
18:20And while Stammer is not on the ballot paper,
18:23a weak show for Labour
18:25could add to his domestic issues
18:27and disrupt his diplomatic UK-EU research.
18:31But here is a paradox.
18:33Ten years after Brexit referendum,
18:35recent surveys showed that majority of all voters
18:38now support rejoining the EU,
18:40rising even to over 80%
18:42among Labour and Green supporters.
18:44Yet, at the same time,
18:46the pro-Brexit Reform UK party
18:48is enjoying a massive surge,
18:50arguing that Brexit was completely mismanaged.
18:54And some even say
18:55they could from the future national government.
18:58All right, so even if these local elections
19:00are about fixing the potholes in the roads,
19:03Britons still seem to be unsure
19:05which road to take.
19:12And that's it from us for today.
19:15And today's show was, in fact,
19:16our 100th episode.
19:18Thank you to you for keeping us company
19:20today and every morning here on Europe Today.
19:23Euronews' Maeve McMahon and Sasha Vakulina
19:26will be moderating sessions
19:27at the European Business Summit in Brussels later.
19:30You can catch that on our live stream
19:32on our social media channels.
19:33And we'll be back again with you
19:35at the same time tomorrow.
19:38We'll be back again with you.
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