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00:00Υπότιτλοι AUTHORWAVE
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01:00Is there a risk for Europe to be squeezed between Trump's America and an ever more assertive China?
01:05We speak to former Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta.
01:10EU defense ministers convened in Nicosia for an informal summit dominated by the war in Ukraine
01:16and the thorny question of restricting Russia financially.
01:19EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kalas announced that Hungary cleared the path to unblocking 6.6 billion euros
01:27held in the European peace facility long frozen due to Budapest's objections.
01:33And France is to review 70,000 ongoing allegations of violence against minors
01:40after public fury over the death of an 11-year-old girl.
01:44The reason for the outrage?
01:46The admission by authorities they had not acted on previous child rape allegations against the main suspect.
01:53Lawmakers across the political spectrum now saying the case highlighted the justice system's failure
01:59to protect women and children from sexual violence.
02:04But first, the situation in the Middle East.
02:07Iran's armed forces announced the end of military operations against Israel
02:11but warned of a more crushing response if it resumes attacks on Lebanon or its territory.
02:19Tit-for-tat strikes had followed Israeli attacks on Iran
02:22with explosions reported in several Iranian cities as tensions escalated
02:27after Israel struck the southern suburbs of Lebanon's capital.
02:32For more on this, let's head over to Doha
02:34where our correspondent Laila Humaira has the latest for us.
02:39Good morning, Laila.
02:40So, help us decipher the development in the last 24 hours.
02:45How serious is the announced end of military operations?
02:50Good morning, Stefan.
02:52Yes, well, things are still very tense here in the last 24 to 48 hours over the weekend.
02:56As you mentioned, Iran and Israel exchanging direct attacks between the two.
03:01The first time this has happened since the April ceasefire.
03:04And yes, Iran has announced it will halt the aggression.
03:09Israel also announcing it will halt the aggression if the other side stops these attacks.
03:14Now, the halt in the aggressions came after international pressure
03:18and, of course, pressure from the U.S. President Donald Trump as well.
03:21Now, while the peace negotiation, the talks, seems to be at a standstill, a stalemate,
03:29yesterday Donald Trump seemed to allude that there is a movement in some direction on Truth Social,
03:36he posted.
03:37Both sides, Israel and Iran, are looking to an immediate ceasefire.
03:41Final negotiations on peace are proceeding, subject to ignorance or stupidity getting in its way.
03:48Things should move quickly.
03:50Now, we know that in these peace negotiations, there have been a few sticking points.
03:55Among them, Iran's missile and nuclear program,
03:58Israel's military, continued military campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon,
04:02security guarantees in the region,
04:05but also the freedom of navigation and the full reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, Stefan.
04:11Yes, you mentioned it, the Strait of Hormuz remains a flashpoint.
04:16What's the latest here?
04:17Well, it is essentially open, but traffic, shipping traffic, remains slow
04:24and is nowhere near the levels of pre-February 28.
04:27Now, in these latest round of escalations, it's also prompted Gulf countries
04:32to announce the rerouting of flight paths in order to resume or continue operations,
04:38flight operations in a safe way.
04:41But still, we know that there are still maritime mines in the Strait of Hormuz.
04:47But also this morning, earlier this morning, we have U.S. media reporting
04:51that a U.S. Army Apache helicopter downed in the Strait of Hormuz.
04:55Crew members were rescued safely, but it shows that the tense situation that we're still in,
05:01and with that peace negotiation or the outcome of these peace talks still elusive,
05:06everyone, it seems, to be remaining on absolute alert here in the region.
05:13All right.
05:14Laila Humaira there for us in Doha.
05:16Thank you very much for this update.
05:19And now to the war in Ukraine.
05:21The European Commission is expected to imminently present its 21st sanction package against Russia.
05:27From a Defence Council meeting in Cyprus, the EU's foreign policy chief, Kaya Callas,
05:32touted that 80 new listings will be added, aiming to bring the Kremlin to its knees.
05:38For more on this, I'm now joined by our EU correspondent, Angela Skugins.
05:43Good morning, Angela.
05:44Good morning, Stefan.
05:45So, what's the timeline of this package and what's in it?
05:49Yes, so the chatter here in Brussels is that the EU's 21st sanctions package against Russia
05:54could be unveiled as early as today,
05:56but the official line that we're hearing from the Commission is sometime this week.
06:00Now, in terms of the contents, we haven't been given a sneak peek,
06:03but I spoke to the EU's sanction envoy, David O'Sullivan, last week.
06:07He couldn't get in the weeds regarding what would be in the 21st sanctions package.
06:12However, he voiced scepticism regarding two key pillars,
06:15the first being the oil price cap, currently set at US $44.10 US per barrel.
06:22He didn't expect this to be revised down due to the oil price shocks that we just heard
06:27from our correspondent.
06:28He also voiced scepticism regarding the triggering of the full maritime service ban
06:34on Russia's shadow fleet.
06:36But the EU's foreign policy chief, Kaya Kallis, did give us an update as to how the Commission
06:41and the Bloc plans on cracking down on the Kremlin further.
06:45She made these comments from Cyprus on Monday.
06:48For next week, Foreign Affairs Council, my services have proposed more than 80 new listings
06:55targeting Russia's military-industrial complex, human rights violators and propagandists.
07:02Brick by brick, we are collapsing the foundations of Russia's war economy.
07:07Angela, there's one hot topic here that seems to be a substance named alumina.
07:15What is it and why is Ireland under fire for producing it?
07:20Yes, so alumina is a white or nearly colourless substance.
07:23It is the starting metal for the smelting of aluminium metal, a key ingredient for the
07:29production of weapons such as armoured vehicles, fighter jets and more commonly drones.
07:34Now, Organish alumina is a refinery in Ireland that has been connected to the production of
07:40various weapons commonly found on the battlefield in Ukraine, used by Russia.
07:46The EU's foreign policy chief, Kaya Kallis, will be touching down in Dublin today to speak
07:50with the Irish Prime Minister, Michal Martin, to discuss how this starting metal did wind up
07:57in Ukraine. But the big question is whether this will be included in the 21st sanctions package.
08:02Currently, it's not looking likely as you need unanimous support from the 27 EU heads of state.
08:09And with Dublin on the defensive, this is not looking likely.
08:12All right, Angela Skugins, thank you very much for updating us on that one.
08:18And now to another struggle. The efforts by the European economy to stay afloat in a
08:24geopolitical landscape marked by growing competition among major economic blocs.
08:30In about an hour, the Jacques Delors Friends of Europe Foundation will launch its Single Market
08:35Summit 2026, attended by some big names like former Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta,
08:42president of the Delors Institute, who will also give the opening address.
08:47But before he does that, he's on Europe today, this morning.
08:51Welcome, Prime Minister, and thanks for making time for us.
08:55It's a great pleasure. Thank you.
08:57So, what are you going to tell the audience?
09:02But we will try to say that it's an incredible opportunity, the opportunity to complete the single market,
09:08to strengthen the European economy, resilience, security, strategic autonomy in the main fields
09:14where the single market is not completed. Energy, connectivity, financial markets,
09:19and with this great opportunity to launch the 28th regime, the EU-INC, the EU-INC,
09:27this idea of having a corporate law valid everywhere in Europe for companies, for startups.
09:34We are launching this, you will see it. It's a campaign. It's a campaign. It's not only discussing, reflecting,
09:42but also making people aware around Europe and the fifth freedom and the freedom to stay.
09:47All the different aspects that are fundamental today to make Europeans aware that we have an opportunity
09:53to be more united and to be more autonomous.
09:58In 2024, you wrote a widely acclaimed report on the state of European competitiveness.
10:05What happened then? Have your recommendations been taken to heart?
10:12There was an acceleration in the last three months.
10:15The year 25 was a year in which we were all shocked by the new Trump II era,
10:22the tariffs, wars, and the rest.
10:26Then Greenland happened. I think Greenland was a big wake-up call
10:30for all European countries and leaders.
10:34And since then, so since February, three European Council meetings
10:38and the one, April 24, that launched the strategy One Europe, One Market,
10:4442 measures with deadlines. That is the most important part.
10:49Deadlines, Q3, 26 to Q2, 27. Deadlines for each of these 42 measures with the possibility then,
10:59in two years' time, to complete the single market and to complete this resilience.
11:04It's a great message to all Europeans. It's the message to say we can be more united
11:11and being more united. We can scale. And scale today is what is fundamental.
11:16We are too fragmented. Today we will launch with main speakers.
11:20We'll have the opportunity to have the general manager of the IMF, Kristalina Georgieva,
11:25the prime minister of Belgium. Belgium was, at the beginning,
11:29the one who launched the idea of a report on the single market with Spain and Sweden,
11:36and the three presidencies. And I'm very happy to have today the prime minister of Belgium,
11:41Bart de Weyver, who will be with us to conclude the event and to launch a campaign
11:46that starts here in Brussels. But we have the next date in autumn.
11:52We will be in Berlin, in Paris, in Stockholm, in Bucharest, in all the different countries.
11:57I want to bring up another hot topic. Right now, the Chinese are eating our lunch,
12:03and we're kind of passing them the forks and knives. It seems that Europe has no leverage over China.
12:09We need their rare minerals and their markets. So what should be our China strategy?
12:17But in reality, one of the 42 measures is the Industrial Accelerator Act,
12:22that is partially the first answer to this problem. We will discuss it today.
12:29The Industrial Accelerator Act has to be approved, and the discussion has to be the way in which we will
12:34approve it,
12:35the way in which this Accelerator Act, Industrial Accelerator Act,
12:41can protect European industry and can save our manufacturing.
12:45So there are tools. Now it's time to be able to land with these ideas.
12:51And as you said, China is one of the main issues.
12:54But in general, the message that we will send today is the following one.
13:00We don't want to be a colony of the US, and we don't want to be a colony of China.
13:05We want to be Europeans.
13:06And a quick one. When you look at China's state-backed industrial policy
13:09and Trump's tariff-driven protectionism, are Europeans the last true believers in free trade?
13:15And are they paying a price for it?
13:19Yes, we are. But also we are, I think, the point of reference for large part of the world.
13:27There are not only China and the US in the world.
13:30There are a lot of countries and places in the world that want to be in dialogue with us.
13:35And the fact that we had India, Indonesia, Australia, Mexico, and Mercosur
13:40has in the last four months agreements between Europe and this part of the world
13:44is for me a great message of power from the European Union
13:49and attractiveness from the European Union.
13:51We have to be a little bit more proud of what we are.
13:54All right, Enrico Letta, president of the Jacques Delors Institute.
13:59Thank you so much, sir, for helping us understand everything that is at stake here.
14:07All right, let's go back to Ukraine for a moment
14:11and talk about the vicious diplomatic clash that, for once, does not involve Russia, but Poland.
14:17And it has nothing to do with weapons, borders, or NATO logistics.
14:22It's about sensitive memory.
14:25Jakub Janas tells a story about historical grievances and wartime legacies.
14:34Politics is about symbols, and this time was no different.
14:37A recent military designation has sparked a major diplomatic crisis between Warsaw and Kyiv.
14:43President Volodymyr Zelensky named an elite special operations unit after UPA heroes
14:48to honor their modern battlefield performance.
14:51And in response, Polish president Karol Nawrocki announced intentions
14:55to strip Zelensky of Poland's highest state award, the Order of the White Eagle.
15:00This dispute exposes deeply conflicting national narratives.
15:04What exactly is going on here?
15:07For Poland, the UPA, so Ukrainian insurgent army,
15:11is responsible for a campaign of genocidal ethnic cleansing in the 1940s
15:16that resulted in the deaths of an estimated 100,000 Polish civilians
15:20in Woliń in Ukrainian or Wojny in Polish,
15:24so a historic region with deep Polish and Ukrainian roots.
15:27This violence also systematically targeted Jewish survivors who had escaped the Holocaust.
15:33Conversely, for Ukraine, the UPA is remembered as a symbol of anti-Soviet resistance
15:38and a heroic struggle for independence.
15:41And as Ukraine defends itself against the full-scale Russian invasion,
15:44this legacy of resistance is viewed as a vital tool for public resilience.
15:49And Ukrainian officials emphasize that this designation was a grassroots request
15:53from the front-line soldiers with no anti-Polish intentions.
15:57However, Polish leaders maintain that the memory of the victims is entirely non-negotiable.
16:03The risks of this trust crisis are exceptionally high,
16:06with some in Warsaw even calling for blocking Ukraine's EU accession over the scandal.
16:11And public solidarity is also facing pressure,
16:14as this unresolved dispute risks breaking the bond between both nations.
16:17In addressing the tension, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk noted that both nations
16:22must prevent historical emotions from destroying their solidarity.
16:26A prolonged conflict to squirm and ultimately only serves the strategic interests of Moscow.
16:32So as said, politics is about symbols, but this time it could be different.
16:37Because history shows that even the deepest historical wounds
16:40can be managed through active cooperation.
16:43A precedent clearly seen in the journey of Polish-German reconciliation.
16:49The Ukrainian insurgent army will always remain a deeply divisive symbol.
16:54Yet the shared security of both nations today depends on managing this historical pain together,
17:00rather than allowing the past to shatter their alliance.
17:08Jakob Janas there, thank you for your reporting.
17:12To France now, where the Justice Minister has ordered public prosecutors
17:16to review 70,000 allegations of violence against minors.
17:21A reaction to the public fury at the death of an 11-year-old schoolgirl
17:25that has exposed cracks in the country's judicial system.
17:29Across the country, thousands took to the streets to protest
17:33what President Macron has condemned as unacceptable lapses
17:37in the authorities' handling of the case.
17:40Let's bring in Denis Lochtier in Lyon, who has all the details.
17:44Good morning, Denis.
17:47Hello, Stefan.
17:48So, you were at the rally in Lyon last night.
17:51What are people demanding?
17:52Is it purely about justice for the poor girl, or is there a wider message?
17:59Indeed, in Lyon and around the country, the message from the crowd is clear.
18:05It's not just about justice for Lyanna, but it's about a system that many here believe
18:11has failed all children.
18:13People I spoke to described Lyanna's murder as a symbol of a wider problem.
18:19Adults who are reported for sexual violence against minors are being allowed to stay free,
18:26and complaints are moving too slowly through the system.
18:29And children left without real protection until it's too late.
18:35So, these rallies are demanding concrete changes.
18:39The demand that every complaint for abuse on a child is being treated as a priority,
18:46with clear deadlines and no more delays.
18:49And suspected abusers must be automatically removed from all contact from these children
18:56while investigations are ongoing.
18:58And more resources need to be given to child protection services
19:02so they can follow up on reports properly.
19:05So, the government has admitted serious failures.
19:09Ministers have promised a lot.
19:13Is that enough for the people you spoke to?
19:17Yes, ministers have said that they will review about 70,000 pending complaints involving children,
19:27and that will be done by 14th of July.
19:30The justice minister, Gérard Darmanin, has publicly acknowledged serious failures in Lyanna's case,
19:37and he said that the institutions did not protect the child as they should have.
19:44But, of course, for many people at the rally yesterday, that is not enough yet.
19:49They want to see that review lead to faster action, especially on repeated reports.
19:55Dennis, that's all the time we have.
19:57What a troubling story.
19:59Dennis locked here in Lyon there.
20:01Thank you very much.
20:02And thank you for joining us this morning on Europe Today.
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