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Europe Today: Ucrania, la OTAN y el futuro de la ampliación de la UE
Rusia intensifica sus ataques contra Kiev antes de la cumbre de la OTAN, mientras Ucrania reclama más apoyo militar y avances en su camino hacia la UE. En Alemania, miles de personas se manifiestan contra la AfD y Bruselas prepara una reforma del proceso de ampliación.
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Rusia intensifica sus ataques contra Kiev antes de la cumbre de la OTAN, mientras Ucrania reclama más apoyo militar y avances en su camino hacia la UE. En Alemania, miles de personas se manifiestan contra la AfD y Bruselas prepara una reforma del proceso de ampliación.
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00:13Good morning, it is Monday the 6th of July. I'm Maeve McMahon and this is Europe Today,
00:19your daily update of European news and analysis live here on Euronews.
00:24Coming up, another massive overnight Russian attack on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.
00:30With at least 8 people killed and dozens more injured.
00:33It comes just ahead of the NATO summit in Ankara this week.
00:37And just after the US President Donald Trump held separate calls with the Russian President Vladimir Putin
00:42and the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
00:44We'll be joined live here in the studio by Ukraine's ambassador to the European Union.
00:48And, schools out for the summer.
00:51And as the holiday season gets underway across Europe, travel disruption is hitting airports.
00:57The EU's new digital system for checking non-EU travellers' documents is causing bottlenecks
01:03at border controls during one of the most busiest times of the years.
01:07European airlines are urging Brussels to suspend the checks for the next two months.
01:12Meanwhile, more than 20,000 protesters from unions, civil society groups and left-wing parties
01:18gathered in Erfurt, Germany this weekend in an attempt to prevent the far-right AFD delegates
01:23from attending their party's conference.
01:25Some states sit in blockades across the city and others clashed with riot police.
01:30We'll have an update from our correspondent.
01:32But first, Russia has launched another massive barrage on Kyiv, striking a residential area
01:38in the centre of the capital.
01:39The attack came just hours after President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Moscow was preparing
01:45a new large-scale strike timed to coincide with the U.S. Independence Day and the NATO summit
01:50happening in Ankara.
01:52For more on this, we're joined now in the studio by the Ukrainian ambassador to the EU,
01:56Chentsov.
01:57Good morning, ambassador.
01:58Thank you so much for joining us.
02:00Good morning.
02:00Thank you.
02:00So just fill us in on this latest attack that comes just ahead of the NATO summit in Ankara.
02:05Yeah, Russia is sending its message that they want to continue this war, but definitely both
02:14Ukraine and our allies will send our message back because war is going back to Russia and
02:24Ukraine already has its answer and we call it kinetic sanctions.
02:29But definitely, you mentioned NATO summit, it's a good opportunity to keep the unity and to
02:38send a strong message that Ukraine will have this support and it's first of all about anti-ballistic
02:47missiles.
02:48But when you see this attack last night, we saw a similar one last week.
02:51Does Ukraine feel a little bit abandoned by your allies?
02:54No, we don't feel abandoned.
02:56Definitely, Russia is very aggressive because probably they do not see that those attacks
03:04work and we need definitely to keep pushing back.
03:09And how will you respond?
03:10As I said, with the Ukrainian kinetic sanctions, which means deep, deep strikes, but definitely
03:19we need to continue pressure on Russia through the sanctions, through Ukrainian support, first
03:28of all anti-ballistic missiles to protect Ukraine, but also to send to Ukraine all equipment, all
03:36ammunition, which Europe and other partners have to offer now.
03:41Let's talk about EU enlargement and some EU member states have been toying with this idea of
03:47associate membership, like the German chancellor.
03:49How does Ukraine feel about this?
03:50Look, let's not really concentrate on the title, let's concentrate on substance, because how
03:59we understand this idea, it's not only German suggestions of a number of member states and
04:06also European Commission, they started to think what to do between now, when we started this
04:13journey and the final point, when we joined the union, what to do in between.
04:20And the idea is good, because we need to deepen our partnership, we need to deepen economic cooperation,
04:27also institutional setup, because there were several ideas, how to get Ukraine closer.
04:33And I think we just need to work together and to make sure that Ukraine already feels benefit
04:43of benefits of enlargement already on this stage.
04:47And of course, you want to open the all six accession clusters as soon as possible, but
04:51this is clearly not happening.
04:53What does a realistic timetable look like to you?
04:56Look, we already we are ready to open even today, all six clusters.
05:01Why?
05:02Because we spent a lot of time doing so called front loading, which means that we did all
05:09technical work necessary to open the clusters.
05:13Now it's pure for member states to give a green light.
05:18And as we heard that it's already possible to open the sixth one, which is a foreign policy
05:25cluster.
05:26But we don't think that there there is any reason to keep this process pending.
05:34So we we we need to move as fast as possible.
05:37And this will be a big issue, of course, for the Irish rotating presidency that is now underway.
05:42We saw the special ceremony last week with, of course, President Zelensky in Dublin.
05:46Ireland says it will be an honest broker, but it's also under pressure over Lumina exports to Russia.
05:52So what is your hope for the next set of sanctions that Ireland as well will have to be in
05:57control of?
05:58But definitely I know that there is a political will to fix this issue.
06:03There are legal issues as well.
06:06But Ireland is a good partner, good, strong partner now incoming already EU presidency.
06:14So my hope is that we are going to fix it for us.
06:19OK, we'll have to keep an eye on that and keep an eye on the Irish government.
06:22Ambassador, thank you so much for coming into us today and being our guest on Europe today.
06:26And as you heard there, EU enlargement very much high on the Brussels agenda this summer.
06:31After the recent EU Western Balkans summit in Montenegro, the European Commission is now working on a plan to
06:37reform the enlargement process and have its own say, aiming to regain control over a debate now largely shaped by
06:44EU member states.
06:46That's according to an exclusive story broke on Euronews this morning by our very own Luca Portugia,
06:50who joins me now here in the studio.
06:53Good morning, Luca, great to have you with us.
06:54Just tell us more about this story that you broke this morning.
06:57Yeah, indeed.
06:58We see enlargement is a very hot topic right now with countries like Montenegro and Albania next in the line
07:05to join the bloc.
07:06Ukraine has made the topic a very geopolitical issue right now.
07:11And in the past few weeks, EU countries have advanced a series of proposals to reform the accession process.
07:19A key proposal is to strengthen, safeguard to avoid that new members breach democratic standards and the rule of law,
07:28which is basically a lesson EU capitals say they have learned from Viktor Orban's Hungary.
07:34We have also seen proposals from France and Germany about a potential gradual integration of EU countries to show early
07:44benefits before you fully join the bloc.
07:48And finally, we have heard from the Germans about this idea of associated membership for Ukraine, which would introduce security
07:56guarantees before Ukraine fully joins the bloc.
07:59So that's what the members say, I think. What about the Commission? How are they trying to weigh in now?
08:04Indeed, the Commission has sort of lost the initiative and now they're trying to regain it before EU leaders discuss
08:10this very sensitive topic at the European Council in October.
08:14Plans are currently being discussed at the highest political level, and we are going to see them probably before the
08:22October summit.
08:23So since last year, the Commission is due to present the pre-enlargement policy reviews, which is basically a blueprint
08:32for how the EU members would work with 30 plus member states.
08:38So this is a very sensitive conversation to have, since it would redistribute money and power within the bloc.
08:46And it's probably too early to have this conversation, especially with the French presidential election coming up next year.
08:53So instead, the Commission is likely to focus on democratic safeguards to avoid that the burden falls all on Montenegro.
09:01Well, Montenegro, of course, they aspire to be the next country to join as early as next year.
09:06What does this all mean for them?
09:07Well, it basically means that they risk to become the testing ground for these new rules.
09:14And that is precisely what the Commission wants to avoid, since it would mean punishing your best-in-class student.
09:21So safeguards, in fact, already exist in the accession process.
09:26Croatia, when it joined in 2013, faced post-accession monitoring for breaches of the judiciary and the rule of law.
09:33But there are countries that want to go much further, proposing swift sanctions for breaches of democratic standards, including the
09:42suspension of EU funding and even voting rights.
09:45These proposals are, however, very controversial because they touch a core EU principle, which is the equality of member states.
09:53So this discussion is still in the early stages, but it will shape not only the next wave of enlargement,
10:00but also how the EU will look like in the future.
10:03It's a fascinating discussion. It's worth pointing out to our viewers that there has been no EU enlargement since 2013.
10:08Luca Bertucci, thank you so much for joining us.
10:10And we, of course, can read more of his article there on yournews.com.
10:14But now we can move on to Germany, where thousands of people spent their weekend protesting against Germany's far-right
10:20AFD party as they held their annual conference in the city of Erfurt.
10:24For more, we can head straight over to Berlin and bring in our correspondent, Sonia Izzel.
10:28Good morning, Sonia. Great to have you with us on the programme.
10:31Just bring us up to speed on what actually happened at the conference.
10:37Good morning, Maeve. Well, this weekend, it was all eyes on the far-right AFD conference party.
10:42They are right now. It seemed to be the rising power in Germany.
10:46And the focus of this party conference was mainly the personnel, Alice Weidel and Tino Krupala.
10:52They have both been re-elected as party leaders, which is no surprise.
10:56But we did have some changes.
10:58And if we look at them, we can see that the AFD wants two things.
11:03One being they want to become younger.
11:05And the second being that they want to move more to the right.
11:10Now, if we look at the whole conference itself, it was very surprisingly calm.
11:18There were no internal fights.
11:19There was no discussions, which is very uncommon.
11:23This is due to the fact that because of the upcoming elections,
11:28the AFD wants to seem more professional and they want to normalise themselves.
11:34And tell us more about the protests.
11:36We're reading 20,000, 30,000 people spent their weekend trying to stop the actual conference from taking place.
11:43Well, these protests, they were actually much calmer than expected as well.
11:47Around 60,000 people were expected.
11:49In the end, around 31,000 showed up.
11:52But we did have some severe clashes.
11:55There was one specific case where a media representative was hunted down and beaten by radical leftists.
12:0228,000 police officers were injured.
12:05Now, in total, though, the police, they did a very positive conclusion.
12:09They said it was mostly peaceful.
12:11And by Sunday morning, most of the protesters were already gone.
12:15And by Monday morning now, everything is going back to normal in Erfurt.
12:19Okay, Sonia Isal in Berlin.
12:21Thank you so much for joining us this Monday morning here on Europe Today.
12:24And as you heard earlier in the programme, leaders of the NATO member states will be expected later this week
12:29in Ankara for a major summit.
12:31It's the first Turkey will host in 2022 years.
12:35For more on what to watch out for, here's our Yakubianos.
12:39This Tuesday, NATO leaders land in Ankara for an annual summit.
12:43And it is a big thing, as they will try to map out the future of Western defence.
12:48The pre-negotiated statement promises an iron-clad 32-member family committed to collective protection.
12:54But the official documents are not always reflecting the reality.
12:58Last Thursday, Donald Trump blasted again his allies on Truth Social,
13:02saying that Europe abandoned the US with its Iran war.
13:05And it is ridiculous for Washington to keep up its one-sided relationship with NATO.
13:10It is a bold statement, so let's look at the raw numbers to see if its most powerful member is
13:15right about it.
13:17Reports show a massive 20% surge year-on-year in core defence spending across Europe and Canada.
13:23In plain English, the Allies injected an extra $258 billion into the ports over the last two years.
13:31And NATO's Secretary General points out that Allies have spent $1 trillion on defence since Trump's first administration.
13:39He even calls it the Trump Trillion to flatter the White House,
13:43while demanding it turns into combat-ready capabilities.
13:47Finally, NATO members even pledged to hit a massive 5% GDP defence target by 2035 to build a revamped
13:55NATO 3.0.
13:57But here is a problem.
13:58This math does not change the cold reality on the ground,
14:01even if big chunk of that cash flows straight back to US defence firms.
14:05Washington is shrinking its wartime resource pool and withholding long-range bombers,
14:11fighter jets, submarines and warships from European commands.
14:15But the absolute leverage comes down to artificial intelligence.
14:18The US controls the monopoly on next-generation military AI models like Claude Mephas.
14:23And Washington treats this software as a tactical weapon, enforcing strict export bans.
14:28So Trump decides which ally receives digital protection and which country gets left behind.
14:34So it seems like buying a trillion dollar ticket does not buy a permanent American protection.
14:40Europe is paying the bill for this alliance, but Washington still holds the keys.
14:49And now it's time for our World Cup update.
14:57Well, Norway are into the quarterfinals of the World Cup for the very first time in history, knocking out Brazil.
15:04And great news for English supporters who are also through after a rather dramatic win against Mexico.
15:10And meanwhile, tonight at nine, the much-anticipated clash between Spain and Portugal fighting for their space in the quarterfinals.
15:18For more on the feeling on the ground ahead of those games, we can head now straight to our correspondents
15:23in both Lisbon and Madrid,
15:25Joao Azevedo and Cristina Tiquiat.
15:27Good morning. First to Lisbon, Joao. What is the mood there ahead of this big match?
15:34Hey there, Maeve. Good morning.
15:36I'm standing here at this marina in the Lisbon area by the Atlantic,
15:41which has hosted several watch parties throughout this World Cup.
15:44It's already 25 degrees this morning, but temperatures are expected to be even higher later on,
15:52not least because this place will be crawling with Portuguese supporters eager to see the national team make it through
15:58to the quarterfinals.
16:00The task ahead, anything but easiest. Spain remains unbeaten in the tournament.
16:05The Spanish side is known for basing possession,
16:07but it's worth noting that the Portuguese midfielders have the technical skills to prevent the Spaniers from dictating the tempo.
16:14That might well be the defining dynamic going into this knockout tie.
16:19Also, Cristiano Ronaldo announced yesterday that this will be his last World Cup.
16:24Will he start against Spain?
16:27And, well, Gonzalo Ramos scored a stoppage time winner against Croatia.
16:31When Ronaldo had already been subbed off, all of that, of course, increasing pressure on manager Roberto Martinez,
16:38who hinted, though, in his presser that he will not bench the captain.
16:43Whichever decisions are made, Portugal's not taking the back seat here.
16:48The Portuguese players making it absolutely clear that they're ready to go toe-to-toe with the reigning European champions.
16:56Now, let's get the perspective from the other side.
17:00Good morning to you, Cristina.
17:01You're in Madrid, not too far from here.
17:04What's the mood like in the Spanish capital?
17:09Good morning.
17:10Well, here in Spain, there is a lot of excitement and optimism before tonight's encounter.
17:16Spain has some unfinished business with Portugal after last year's Nations League final,
17:22where Portugal won after a penalty shootout.
17:24So, the team is excited.
17:27They have come into this encounter with a lot of energy.
17:31However, the players have been very careful not to underestimate Portugal.
17:35Forward Mikel Oyarzabal summed it up perfectly when he said that Spain is approaching this match with respect,
17:43but without fear.
17:45Spain really do believe that they are worthy and able to reach the quarterfinals at this World Cup.
17:52Now, tonight, all eyes are going to be on Lamin Jamal, one of Spain's top star players.
17:58However, many fans have noted that this year there is less focus on individual stars
18:04and more focus on the collective team effort,
18:07which is what has ensured Spain's success at this World Cup so far.
18:11But everyone knows that in a match like this against Portugal, any small mistake could mean a defeat.
18:17So, optimism but caution from the Spanish side tonight.
18:21Optimism but caution.
18:22Cristina, ti quer?
18:24And ciao, Azevedo.
18:25Thank you so much for that update.
18:27We'll be keeping, of course, a very close eye on that match.
18:29And also, coming up tonight at 2am, the Belgian Red Devils take on host nation, the US.
18:36But in a controversial decision just ahead of the game,
18:38FIFA has suspended the ban on their top US striker, Folleran Belagoon,
18:42who received a red card in the previous match against Bosnia and Herzegovina.
18:46According to reports, it was actually President Donald Trump himself
18:49who calls the FIFA president to ensure that the top US striker could play.
18:54The Belgian Federation is looking into what action it can take
18:58after decision critics say was influenced by politics.
19:01But that brings this edition of Europe Today to an end.
19:04Thank you so much for tuning in.
19:05As always, you can reach out to us at europetoday at euronews.com.
19:09But in the meantime, have a great day and see you soon on Euronews.
19:14We'll be right back.
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20:18We'll be right back.
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