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L'Europe globale est-elle la réponse aux changements d'alliances ? Les députés européens débattent sur The Ring
Dans cette édition de notre débat hebdomadaire The Ring, Damian Boeselager (Volt/Verts) et Helmut Brandstätter (Renew) se demandent si l'Europe peut jouer un rôle moteur dans un ordre mondial en mutation.
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Dans cette édition de notre débat hebdomadaire The Ring, Damian Boeselager (Volt/Verts) et Helmut Brandstätter (Renew) se demandent si l'Europe peut jouer un rôle moteur dans un ordre mondial en mutation.
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00:08Hello and welcome to The Ring, Euronews' weekly debate show broadcasting from the European Parliament here in Brussels.
00:16I'm Stefan Grobe.
00:18On The Ring, members of the European Parliament go face-to-face on some of the biggest issues facing Europe.
00:23Today, we want to talk about how greater Europe is coping with global instability and shifting alliances.
00:31Luis Alberto has more.
00:35The European political community's first meeting in the South Caucasus reflects the stretching contours of Europe, geographically, politically and strategically.
00:45The meeting in Armenia was a response to global instability, of which increasing trade tensions with the United States are
00:52a familiar part.
00:54Donald Trump's threat of 25% tariff on European cars has left Brussels scrambling to save a fragile transatlantic deal
01:01negotiated last summer.
01:03As global alliances shift, Europe is becoming a space others may want to join, align with or orbit around from
01:10Canada to the United Kingdom, from Iceland to the Balkans.
01:14Is Europe truly becoming an independent global power?
01:18Should the EU respond to external pressure with deeper unity?
01:21And is Europe ready to lead?
01:26A lot to unpack here for our debaters, and here they are.
01:31Damian Böselager, a German MEP from the Greens European Free Alliance Group and co-founder of VOLDI Europa.
01:37He is the vice chair of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and a member of the Delegation for
01:43Relations with Canada in the European Parliament.
01:45A strong advocate for deeper European integration, he said,
01:49Europe has finally seen that national politics are not enough to handle crises that don't know of or care for
01:56borders between our nations.
01:59Helmut Brandstetter, an Austrian MEP from the Liberal Renew Europe Group.
02:03He is the vice chair of the delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Association Committee and a member of the
02:08Committee on Foreign Affairs in the European Parliament.
02:10A strong supporter of transatlantic cooperation, he argues that Europe must respond to growing geopolitical instability with greater coordination,
02:19saying free trade and open societies are part of the same liberal democratic project.
02:27So let me welcome to the ring Damian Böselager and Helmut Brandstetter. Great to have you here. Good to see
02:34you.
02:34Now at the ring, we want to offer our viewers a glimpse of how members of the European Parliament debate
02:40each other.
02:41So you should feel right at home. And let's get started.
02:46Helmut, I want to start with you. Why should anyone see Europe as a hard power rather than simply a
02:52regulatory power?
02:54There's a lot of talk about geopolitical power and we should be strong or something like that.
02:59That doesn't really interest me. What's important is security and wealth for people living in Europe.
03:05And there's one thing is for sure. There is no sovereignty of one nation.
03:09So we only, or as Henry van Spack said, in Europe there are small nations and small nations who don't
03:15know yet that there are small nations,
03:18like, I'm sorry to say, the Germans. So that's the way it is.
03:21So we have to cooperate for the security, for the wealth of our people.
03:25That means common defense, common trade.
03:28These are the basics. And of course, a better cooperation between the nations and less nationalism.
03:34Damian, he mentioned Germany. Is Germany ready for this new task?
03:38Yes. Germany has a huge issue. We have a chancellor that always said he wants to be, you know, the
03:43foreign chancellor,
03:44but also the European chancellor. And he hasn't yet understood that running around in the world as basically a foreign
03:50policy chancellor,
03:51while not strengthening Europe, while not using his chance to make his additions to European integration,
03:56as his predecessors, for example, Helmut Kohl did. That's a problem.
04:00And I think Germany hasn't understood that they're a very small nation.
04:03Sadly, we often have national egos of people that lead nations that maybe stop them from strengthening Europe.
04:11And is there a discrepancy between hard power versus regulatory power?
04:15I think they're a bit different. So regulatory power often looks at the internal market and how companies can operate.
04:24We can, of course, talk about whether economic strength translates into foreign policy strength as well.
04:30Whereas the question of hard power is really is Europe able to have its voice heard basically across the world
04:38as well,
04:38especially in a world that is getting more insecure.
04:40So I think hard power is more questions of, like, what is Europe's military capacity look like?
04:46Do we have one united voice in foreign policy?
04:48Are we even listened to when we speak to partners outside the European Union?
04:52Good point. That brings me back to this conference in Armenia a few days ago.
04:59Was this the beginning of what we could call global Europe?
05:03I think the most positive and the greatest event was that Canada Prime Minister Carney was there.
05:09Because what he said was very clear. We have to cooperate.
05:13We are no superpowers. But if all the middle powers work together, we can be very strong.
05:18Again, not to be a superpower, but to do everything for the security of our people.
05:24And that brings me because it was said I'm pro-transatlantic.
05:26I used to be pro-transatlantic. But if you listen to Mr. Trump, you are not even sure, does he
05:33mean it seriously?
05:34He really wants to take Venezuela as the fifth ever first. He wanted Greenland. What else? He wants Canada.
05:40It's that's thinking of the 20th century. It's not about borders.
05:44I mean, Putin is is I mean, of course, he's a war criminal, but it was stupid enough to think
05:49I have a few more square meters and then I'm more powerful.
05:52No, it's the brains and it's research and it's cooperation. Putin doesn't understand it. Trump doesn't understand it.
05:59We understand it. And the Canadians understand it. So we have to work together.
06:03Of course, we can't do it with a mania because we know there's a lot of pressure again from the
06:08Russians against the democracy there.
06:10So global Europe, is that is that a feasible, reasonable concept?
06:16I mean, first of all, Europe is a continent, so it's difficult to make it global.
06:21I think what Europe shows is that when nations work together, they can be more successful if they actually transfer
06:28some power to a higher level,
06:30which which is, I think, a great example for other regions of the world if it works.
06:34And that's why it's so important for us to show that this idea that nations can only be strong if
06:39they expand the territory,
06:41if they subdue their neighbors, that this is a wrong notion and that in the end it's about cooperation and
06:47agreements in a house like this,
06:48like the European Parliament, basically a democracy that is a bit supranational.
06:53And I think this is where we need to go.
06:54But our global voice, again, will only be strong if we are a good example of cooperation and of success.
07:00So the world order is shifting, obviously.
07:03A lot of things are happening that were unthinkable a few years ago, like Sweden and Finland joining NATO,
07:10Norway and Iceland now considering joining the EU.
07:14Is Europe becoming the last beacon of hope, the last beacon of democracy in the world?
07:20I mean, we know there are less and less democratic liberal countries.
07:24And Europe is a hope for many people.
07:27That's the first thing.
07:28And the second thing, that's, again, it's not about power, but it's about our future.
07:34We should talk more about Africa.
07:36If you see how strong the influence of Russia is there, just talk to an African journalist,
07:42and he explained to me how they organize migration from Africa to Europe just to destabilize.
07:49And it's the Wagner Group, you know, they organize it.
07:51They want to destabilize it.
07:52But Russia is also China.
07:53And China is interested, of course, in the raw materials, Russia to destabilize.
07:58Where is Europe?
07:59And here is one strength of Europe.
08:01If you think about Austria, a small country, even Germany, we don't have a strong, we don't have a colonial
08:06past,
08:07like the Brits or the Holland or even, of course, France.
08:13So we should be stronger there and explain to them we don't want to grab anything.
08:19We want to cooperation because Africa is very close to us and we should cooperate with them.
08:25Again, it's not about global power.
08:26It's about better life for people in Europe and secure life.
08:30Would we be at this point, Damian, without Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin?
08:36It's true that sometimes, let's say, instability in the world can help us understand how precious our stability is in
08:43Europe
08:43and how our living standards are good.
08:48I hoped always that Europe would just be a project that integrates further and further,
08:53that builds a foreign policy that is actually coherent and that we understand that this is not a project that
08:58is done.
08:59This house here is not readily built.
09:00It's not done.
09:01It's not finished.
09:02It's a hybrid between, let's say, an intergovernmental situation and parliamentary European democracy.
09:08And I think we need to finish the pieces.
09:10I do think that some crazy leaders outside of the European Union are accelerating this process,
09:16or to put it differently, they put in front of us a challenge.
09:19And either we live up to this challenge and actually build a Europe that is able to live in the
09:23future,
09:24or we will fall apart because we are unable to actually come together as one.
09:29So Putin and Trump, the drivers of European integration, and are we, in addition to that, are we ready for
09:37this?
09:37Is Europe living up to this ambition?
09:41That's the point.
09:41That's the big question.
09:42I think we've understood it.
09:44But now it's about doing something.
09:46And when I saw Ursula von der Leyen, you know, with Trump, and then the shake hands,
09:51she should have known that he doesn't take it seriously.
09:54So it's not about shaking hands.
09:55It's not about talking.
09:57It's about doing.
09:57So now with the 25% on European cars, we have to react immediately.
10:04And we know they are soft apart, and that's the platforms, you know.
10:09That's the reason why Musk is friend and why they're all friends with Trump, because they are afraid of us.
10:16We could be much stronger against them.
10:19We have to explain to them, if you want to make business here, you've got to follow European laws.
10:25So we have to be not more outspoken, more outdoing, you know.
10:30It's, as Schumann said, Europe will grow in the Solidarität der Tat, in the Solidarity of Action, not of words.
10:38Very good.
10:39Let me stop you here, as we're just getting warmed up.
10:47Now it's time for our viewers to get a real flavor of the European Parliament Chamber,
10:51where members ask each other questions.
10:54That means it is time for you guys to challenge each other directly,
10:59just as you do in the hemicycle behind us.
11:02So let's get started.
11:03Damian, I'm starting with you.
11:04So the first question to you, Helmut, would be, your party was also in government
11:09and promised the United States of Europe.
11:11What have you done to actually make them a reality?
11:14That's a very good point, because, as you know, coalitions are very difficult to build.
11:20And with the social democrats, conservatives and liberals like us, there are a lot of differences.
11:26But what we have done, we have a very strong foreign minister.
11:28And she, her first trip was to go to Ukraine.
11:32She explained to the Austrians, it's important that Ukraine also defends us.
11:37We were always part, as a neutral country, always part of supporting Ukraine.
11:42And we expressed that and did much more than the others.
11:46So is it enough?
11:47No.
11:48But there were very important first steps we did take.
11:52Are you happy with this?
11:53I mean, I think the realities are what they are.
11:56It seems like we all, all of us, all the different nations have to do more to actually push for
12:02more European integration.
12:03I think what I'm missing from all the members of the councils of the 27 national governments
12:07is to take actually up the challenge of the European Parliament to change the treaties of the European Union.
12:12So I was just wondering if there were any initiatives coming.
12:15No.
12:15Short answer.
12:16Going to the parts, there was a European Parliament.
12:19And you can see it in the Austrian Parliament.
12:20It was the old Reichsrat of the Habsburgs.
12:24And why did it fall apart?
12:27Because of nationalism.
12:29Nationalism first killed Europe and then killed many, many people.
12:33And that's, we have to explain again.
12:35So I invite everybody to go to the Reichsrat in Vienna and visit it.
12:39There you see a European Parliament.
12:40But you are right.
12:41We have to do more, yes.
12:43Yeah.
12:43I remember François Mitterrand in Strasbourg saying nationalism is war.
12:46Yeah.
12:47That's the main question.
12:48I have another...
12:49Your question to Damien.
12:50Can I ask another one?
12:52No.
12:52First him.
12:53My question is very simple.
12:56What I hear in Austrian companies is bureaucracy.
12:59There's the Austrian bureaucracy and there is the EU bureaucracy.
13:02What did you do?
13:04And people, and you know, the companies, especially SMEs, they are drowning in bureaucracy.
13:08What do you do for more competition and less democracy?
13:11My dream would be is that we are actually following small entrepreneurs in different sectors to understand how much is
13:18actually communal, how much is regional, how much is national, and how much is European bureaucracy.
13:24And how can we put that on a matrix of, like, the most annoying and most useless ones that we
13:28can actually look at?
13:29What I did personally is that in almost all the laws I negotiated, I tried to include the minimis clauses,
13:35meaning for smaller companies, SMEs, startups that are starting off, that they're excluded from many of the rules that we
13:43write.
13:43Because it's always an issue with regulation that it hits the smallest companies first, because they don't have the big
13:50legal departments to deal with it.
13:51And the second thing that I really want to underline is, because this is missing in the debate, we often
13:56talk about simplification, reducing the regulatory burden.
13:59What we don't talk about is harmonization.
14:02We need to finish the internal market, meaning there shouldn't be any sectoral legislation on the national level stopping us
14:09from growing from one country to the next.
14:11I want startups and scale-ups in Europe to be able to grow across borders as if there was no
14:15border.
14:16And I don't think we're there. Why?
14:17And this is something you actually mentioned earlier, because there are hard choices to be made.
14:21And I'm unhappy at the moment, because there's only a fake single market program at the moment in the European
14:27Union, whereas harmonization would be the solution.
14:30One law can replace 27, and we should do that.
14:33And we need a capital market.
14:35This is luckily something I work on in the Econ Committee.
14:38How lucky you are for this.
14:41Now it's your time to ask Hemund another question.
14:44Yes, there's a range of questions.
14:46Maybe I'll start with one on nationalism again, because I had a panel with Robert Menasse, who's an Austrian writer.
14:53And it was very interesting, because I felt he was much more against the nationalism and the nation-state as
15:00a whole.
15:00He was much more for regional identities, whereas for me, I think there can be regions, nations.
15:05But what's really important is that the European Union functions well as an actual democratic government elected by the European
15:13Parliament.
15:13So where do you stand? Do you think the nations need to be abolished, or you don't care?
15:17No, that's interesting, because I know Robert Menasse since our Common Times at the University of Vienna, and we discussed
15:22it before the last elections.
15:24And he said, I'm against your program, because we said United States of Europe.
15:28And he said, no, no, we don't need United States, we only need one Europe.
15:32And I said, you see, in the United States, it's also United States, and there are regional identities, as we
15:39know, between Texas and Massachusetts, great difference.
15:41But it's foreign policy, it's the dollar, it's defense.
15:46That's important.
15:47So I think there is sometimes it's a regional identity, there is also national identity.
15:53I don't fight national identity.
15:55I just want to explain chauvinism, so one country thinks or one nation thinks they are better.
16:01That's the problem.
16:02Plus, I think that what Robert says is a little bit of a dream.
16:06I think we should think in steps.
16:07And the next step is more likely to be the United States of Europe than only one European state.
16:14All right.
16:15We have heard the views from our guests.
16:17And at this point, I would like to introduce a new voice.
16:25For our quote of the week, let's bring in Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who was mentioned already.
16:31He participated in the conference in Armenia.
16:34And here's what he said.
16:35Take a listen.
16:36We're here because of the moral and security imperatives of our cooperation in the Caucasus, in the Baltics, in Ukraine,
16:45across Europe.
16:46And also because of the immense potential for our partnerships to build a better, more prosperous, sustainable and just world
16:53for our citizens.
16:54And I'll close with this.
16:55It's my strong personal view that as the international order will be rebuilt, but it will be rebuilt out of
17:05Europe.
17:05The international order will be rebuilt out of Europe.
17:09Do you agree?
17:09I think we have a potential.
17:12I think the world is looking at this block right now, seeing how we react to this challenge that Donald
17:17Trump and that Putin actually confront us with.
17:21And we have a chance, especially if we follow Mark Carney's advice and start building real relationships, deep relationships with
17:29other partners to diversify our trade away.
17:31But just make it more resilient.
17:34But also, yeah, to work with partners on eye level.
17:37And I think we have the opportunity.
17:38We just need to do it.
17:40And I don't see it happening right now.
17:41It's interesting that this comes from the prime minister of Canada, a country of British political traditions and French culture.
17:48What can this country bring to the table?
17:51British tradition, French culture and German immigrants, German immigrants in danger from the US, you know, because what Trump said
17:58about about Carney and also about Canada.
18:01It's also very important.
18:02So that's probably also part of it that he thinks cooperation will help us.
18:06But I want to add one more thing.
18:08We didn't talk about migration yet.
18:09When I talked to the Canadian ambassador in Vienna about migration in Canada, they said, OK, we also have a
18:15problem.
18:15So we developed a system that if there is a family coming, we find another family and they have to
18:22be, you know, like a partner family and they have to do something for them.
18:25And I think that's a good idea.
18:26And what I would say is that for me, one of the most important things is Europe, we learn from
18:31each other.
18:31There are some things better in Germany, in France, in Ireland, wherever.
18:35And there's something which is better in Canada.
18:37So if we cooperate as far as that's concerned, if we learn from Canada, wonderful.
18:42And I think if you listen to Carney, you have to love him.
18:44He's wonderful.
18:45Will this new order be rebuilt without the United States, knowing that Donald Trump will not be president forever, Damian?
18:53I think at the moment it's clear that the United States, or at least the president, has no interest in
18:58building lasting, deep relationships with Europe.
19:00It's quite the opposite.
19:02His security strategy says clearly that Europe needs to be dismantled.
19:05Why?
19:06Because it's actually a functioning union of democracies.
19:09This might change.
19:10I'm a transatlanticist as well.
19:11I lived for two years in the United States.
19:13I love the United States, but it's also true that at the moment we need to understand we have an
19:18over-reliance on the United States,
19:19and we need to diversify our reliance, which means more trade relationships with different geographies,
19:25more deeper ties with others, a functioning European defence.
19:28And then we can also, of course, we have to also work with the United States as productively as we
19:35can.
19:35But at the moment, with the tariffs that also Helmut mentioned, we are in a situation that is quite negative
19:40and that might need a friend that is a bit more strict from the European side now rather than, like,
19:46open arms.
19:47All right, let's take a break here on The Ring.
19:50We'll be back with more after this.
20:01Welcome back to The Ring, Euronews' weekly debate show.
20:05I'm Stefan Grobe, and I'm joined by two members of the European Parliament.
20:08From Germany, Damian Böselager, representing VOLT Europe, caucusing with the Greens.
20:14And from Austria, Helmut Brandstetter from Renew Europe.
20:18I'd like to bring in the voices of the European sovereign now, the people who send you here.
20:24It's the latest Eurobarometer polling on the general satisfaction of citizens with the European Union.
20:31And here we see that nearly three quarters believe their country has benefited on balance from being a member of
20:39the EU.
20:40More than half, 57 percent of EU citizens, are satisfied with the way democracy works in the EU.
20:46And 51 percent of Europeans trust the EU.
20:5251 percent trust.
20:53Is that number too low?
20:55Yes, of course, it is too low.
20:57We are not good enough.
20:58We are not good enough in explaining what we are doing.
21:01But, of course, also, the democracy is not perfect.
21:04I think the system, that the nation-states are too strong, that's a problem.
21:08But the second thing is, we learned a lot about Russian desinformation here.
21:13And there are, you know, the right-wing groups, they are the puppets of Putin.
21:17And they, you know, they say the same things like parrots.
21:21Sometimes their propaganda is better than our truth.
21:24We have to work on that.
21:25So the first question I always ask is, do you think there's stuff we need to do on the European
21:29level?
21:29And everybody says something, you know, defense, internal markets, climate, whatever is on their minds.
21:36They understand that we need to cooperate.
21:38And then I ask, how would you like to cooperate?
21:41Do you think it should be the 27, you know, national leaders sitting in a room like in the medieval
21:44times?
21:45Or do you think there should be a functioning government?
21:47And a lot of people actually are happy with, you know, a functioning government.
21:51And we actually have one number in the Eurobarometer, which you didn't mention, which is that there are 90, I
21:56think it's 80-something percent of people, you can fact-check, that want more European integration.
22:01That think we could actually do more on the European level together.
22:04So how does it work with the mistrust number that you have just mentioned?
22:07The truth is not, I think, that we're not explaining well enough.
22:10The truth is that around 60 percent of the laws are already coming from the European level that goes through
22:15the German Bundestag, for example.
22:17But people don't know.
22:19And the reason for that is very simple.
22:21It's national parties.
22:22So we are actually, it's our own fault as national governments, it's our own fault that people don't really understand
22:30how Brussels works because we're not fixing it.
22:34Helmut, is the European public at large ready for a huge overhaul of sort of Europe's vision?
22:41We mentioned global Europe at the beginning.
22:43I think not yet.
22:44And, you know, there's one reason the enemies of the European Union, they are very strong.
22:50Emotionally, we are very strong here and they are here.
22:54We have to be way more emotional about Europe.
22:58Of course, it's not always talking about the past.
23:00But, you know, the generation of my father or his grandfather, they were in the war or in resistance.
23:06They had to fight for their life.
23:07We live in peace here together.
23:09So we are not strong enough to explain how great emotionally this Europe is, that it's never been before.
23:15And today we can live here.
23:17We can discuss.
23:19But we don't.
23:20There's a war between France and Germany.
23:22It's impossible.
23:25But emotionally, we are not good enough to explain that.
23:28Is that right?
23:29No.
23:30I think now we can actually debate, you know, because there's one question, you know, is it, are we not
23:36doing a good enough job as Europeans explaining to everyone what's happening?
23:40I don't think, honestly, I don't think it's on us this time.
23:43I, you know, like when my grandfather and your father's generation basically started to build the European Union, they were
23:50starting in a moment of hate towards each other, of hate.
23:53So they didn't have the emotions to carry this project, but they understood as leaders, especially the political leaders, that
24:00they need to explain this and that they need to make this happen.
24:02I don't see a single European leader being like the national leaders currently making the step of explaining why Europe
24:10needs to integrate further.
24:11So I don't think very clearly, I don't think we can defend the status quo.
24:15We do.
24:16We shouldn't even try saying like this hybrid between national European.
24:19No, we should actually say there's a vision of where it will go.
24:21Let me.
24:23On this emotion, and I think this is a very powerful point, hate certainly is an emotion, but reconciliation is
24:31also an emotion.
24:32So are we not emotional enough?
24:34And that was his point.
24:36I feel that like saying we somehow need to convince the hearts of the people, while at the same time
24:42national petitions constantly lie about what's happening in Europe,
24:45while citizens are not being properly informed about what's happening in Europe,
24:49where people hate the idea of front of the line because she's not elected by them.
24:54I think this is an uphill battle that we will not win.
24:56We need the national level.
24:58She was elected.
24:59She was elected by the European Parliament, who was elected by the people, right?
25:02Like Mr. Merz.
25:03But the issue here is that she did not campaign, neither for the first time nor for the second time,
25:08as the lead candidate of her party.
25:11People didn't have the feeling that they can change.
25:13So what is important in elections?
25:14The feeling of being able to change the future.
25:16This is something that people do not connect.
25:18They vote for a regional party in Germany for the European Parliament elections.
25:23That's absolute bullshit.
25:24That makes no sense.
25:25Now it's time to move on to our fifth and final round.
25:32You want to do something different here.
25:34I'm going to ask you a set of questions and you can only answer with yes or no.
25:42Damian, has Europe for a long time confused moral leadership with geopolitical power?
25:50No.
25:52Yes.
25:54Yes.
25:55Should Europe create a joint European army?
25:58Absolutely.
25:58Yes.
26:00By the way, in what language is that army going to operate?
26:04English.
26:06Just a thought.
26:08I mean, in which language are we speaking here?
26:11Should defense spending rise above 3% of GDP across Europe?
26:18At the moment it seems necessary, yes.
26:21Look, if we would actually pool the money, we would have much more and we could potentially spend less.
26:25But we are spending it very inefficiently.
26:27Okay.
26:28Is the EU currently capable of acting as a true global power?
26:32No.
26:32No.
26:34Has Europe become too risk averse to act like a great power?
26:38Yes.
26:40We never tried.
26:42Okay.
26:45Will Canada join the EU someday?
26:47I absolutely hope so.
26:50I hope so.
26:51Okay.
26:53And in European elections, should voters across the EU vote for any candidate anywhere they like?
27:00Yes.
27:02There should be list elections.
27:03So, no.
27:04No.
27:05So, I could not vote for somebody I like in Italy, for example.
27:08And look, there should be two votes, one for a European list for the party you like and one for
27:12a regional representative.
27:14So, it's a bit of a yes, no.
27:15Okay.
27:17Okay.
27:17That final answer brings us to the end of this edition of The Ring.
27:21Thanks again to Damian Böselager and Helmut Brandstetter.
27:24Thank you.
27:24For a very interesting, lively conversation here from the European Parliament.
27:29Thanks to our audience at home.
27:30If you like, you can continue the conversation by sending us your comments to theringateuronews.com.
27:37That's it for today.
27:38I'm Stefan Grobe.
27:40Take care and see you soon here on Euronews.
27:42We'll see you soon here on Euronews.
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