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Europe Today: Trump újabb iráni csapásokkal háttérbe szorítja a NATO-csúcsot
Az USA iráni csapásai beárnyékolják a NATO-csúcs végét, ahol rekord védelmi kiadásokat és Ukrajna támogatását ígérték. Az EU migrációs válsággal küzd, az OLAF hamis óvszerhálózatot leplez le, a vb a negyeddöntőknél tart.
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Az USA iráni csapásai beárnyékolják a NATO-csúcs végét, ahol rekord védelmi kiadásokat és Ukrajna támogatását ígérték. Az EU migrációs válsággal küzd, az OLAF hamis óvszerhálózatot leplez le, a vb a negyeddöntőknél tart.
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00:13Good morning, it is Thursday the 9th of July. I'm Maeve McMahon and this is Europe Today.
00:20Your morning fix of European news and analysis, live here on Euronews.
00:24Coming up in signs the US-Israel war with Iran may be entering a dangerous new phase.
00:31Donald Trump says the ceasefire is over.
00:34The US launched new strikes on Iran overnight and the conflict dominated the NATO summit in Ankara,
00:40where Donald Trump also met Vladimir Zelensky and announced Ukraine will be granted a licence to produce Patriot missile interceptors.
00:47Also, EU finance ministers are gathering today as the IMF has issued a new report warning inflation could rise faster
00:55than expected.
00:56The fund points to higher energy and commodity prices driven by growing tensions in the Middle East.
01:02Meanwhile, as temperatures climb across northern Europe once again this weekend,
01:07new data confirms June was the hottest June ever recorded across Europe and the world's oceans.
01:13Scientists say the Omega bloc claimed around 3,700 lives here in Belgium, France and the Netherlands
01:20and took a heavy toll on ecosystems, agriculture and labour productivity
01:24while fuelling destructive storms, drought and wildfires.
01:29But first to Ankara, where the much-anticipated NATO summit has come to a close
01:33with record spending commitments for Europe and Ukraine.
01:36But the mood was dampened by the US president, Donald Trump, declaring the ceasefire over in Iran
01:42and reigniting his demand to control Greenland.
01:45For more, let's bring in our NATO correspondent, Shona Murray, who's been following the summit all week for us.
01:51Well, good morning, Maeve.
01:52Look, we know that the object of this summit really was for NATO allies in Europe and Canada to prove
01:56that they're on a credible path to spending 5% of GDP on defence by 2035 as agreed at the
02:03last NATO summit.
02:04And I think we can say that they achieved that part for sure.
02:08We saw at the NATO Industry Defence Forum, there was $50 billion committed to of new capabilities
02:14when it comes to submarines, aircraft, ammunition, interceptors,
02:18all very important to protect the European continent as well as the Arctic in the medium to long term.
02:24There was also this NATO drone edge, which is drones and anti-drone technology,
02:28which also includes the recruitment and training of pilots for use all across NATO territory.
02:33Very important at the moment because we see all these drone incursions taking place
02:37across the Baltics and Poland and other parts of NATO.
02:40In addition, we saw Donald Trump having a better relationship with Vladimir Zelensky,
02:44the Ukrainian president, and appeared to approve the Ukrainians the licence
02:48to manufacture their own patriot defence systems,
02:52which is very important in terms of the Ukrainian air defence.
02:55But as with Donald Trump, you know, you're only one sort of issue away
03:00from the whole summit being upended.
03:03And we nearly had that because when he arrived, he castigated his allies over the war in Iran.
03:08And he also made the comments that the United States would like to control Greenland over Denmark.
03:14Take a listen to John Bolton, his former national security adviser,
03:18saying that Donald Trump does this just to court controversy.
03:21He's trolling people, as they say.
03:24In the first term, I was in his office once, he was dictating a tweet,
03:28and he told the person typing the tweet,
03:30capitalize all the letters in that last sentence, which a lot of people, it drives them.
03:36It just is very distracting for people.
03:38And he turned and said to me, do you know why I just said that?
03:41And I said, no, why?
03:42And he said, because it drives them crazy.
03:45So why does he talk about taking Greenland?
03:48Because it drives them crazy.
03:50That's what it's about.
03:50So that was John Bolton, Donald Trump's former national security adviser,
03:54making the point that Donald Trump makes these outlandish statements in order to create division.
03:59But we have to listen to the prime minister of Denmark as well yesterday, Mette Frederiksen.
04:04And she made the point that Denmark takes these comments very seriously.
04:08She said that Denmark was ready to protect all of Danish, Greenlandish and NATO territory.
04:14But she called on the United States to respect the sovereignty of Greenland and Denmark.
04:17And I think it's worth also pointing out that the prime minister of Greenland just a few months ago
04:21said that when he met the US envoy to Greenland, that the United States had not changed the position
04:27when it comes to taking over or having Greenland.
04:30So this is still an issue that is particularly ongoing and should be taken seriously.
04:35I think that's the point as well.
04:37Maeve.
04:37OK, Shona Murray, thank you so much for that update there from Ankara.
04:41Yeah. And now to dive deeper into the outcomes of that NATO summit, we can bring in Jamie Shea,
04:45former NATO security adviser who spent many years here in the headquarters of NATO in Brussels.
04:50Jamie Shea, thank you so much for joining us.
04:53Curious to hear your view.
04:54Was this a successful NATO gathering?
04:57I think, yes, ultimately it was.
04:59And good morning to you, too.
05:00And thanks for having me on the show.
05:02It ended better than it started.
05:04Clearly, Trump was in a more friendly mood towards the alliance in the private meeting.
05:10And I suppose that's the one that really counts than in some of his public remarks.
05:14For example, he did say that the US is staying in the alliance.
05:17Somebody like Trump hearing that is not always to be taken for granted.
05:22He signed off on a communique, which may not be the most interesting thing for the media,
05:27but it's important for diplomats.
05:29The official text where the US committed itself to NATO Article 5 collective defence and called it ironclad.
05:36These were the kind of things that the allies wanted to hear.
05:39And of course, he also showed some satisfaction, unsurprisingly,
05:45with the fact that his message on defence spending has been heeded.
05:49Mark Rutter and the other allies were at pains to point out that over the last year,
05:53Europe and Canada have spent 11% more on defence.
05:57The figure now is about an extra $250 billion over the last two years on military budgets.
06:04So although five allies out of the 32 today are on that 5% target, so there's still a long
06:11way to go.
06:12Allies have until 2035, but all of them practically, with a few laggards, are moving in the right direction.
06:19So the summit was designed, of course, to be a Trump-pleasing summit by showing that the responsibility for NATO
06:26is moving both financially and militarily onto Europe.
06:29So I think, yes, people were expecting a rough ride with Trump.
06:32You always get that.
06:34But, you know, as they said about Wagner's music, it's better than it sounds.
06:39And I think it ended up on a more positive note than people had feared when Trump first arrived in
06:44Ankara.
06:45And as you say, months of work, of course, goes into organising these summits.
06:48As you say, officials are happy for now.
06:51But, of course, Trump was very critical of allies like Spain and the UK.
06:54Is this really the end of NATO, do you think, as we know it?
06:57No, I don't believe so.
06:59But, you know, whether Trump doesn't like NATO or does, the messaging changes.
07:04I think, you know, if you look at the trend line, it's been pretty clear now and for a decade
07:09or so already,
07:10which is that the United States is going to stay in NATO, which is good, but it's going to do
07:14a lot less
07:15in terms of holding up the collective defence than allies were used to during the Cold War.
07:19For example, just at a NATO defence minister's meeting a couple of days before the Ankara summit,
07:24the US Secretary of War, Pete Hegssef, announced a number of significant reductions
07:29in US contributions to the NATO full structure.
07:33You know, only one aircraft carrier now instead of two, one strategic bomber instead of two,
07:37far fewer drones, far fewer fighter aircraft.
07:42And Europe has had to scramble to sort of find in its own arsenals those capabilities to replace the US.
07:49We have the specter of 5,000 US troops leaving Germany.
07:53They may, some of them may go to Poland, but it's not certain.
07:57I mean, the good news is that the United States continues to uphold nuclear deterrence for Europe.
08:01That's important and stays in the NATO command structure.
08:04But everybody now is talking about NATO 3.0, whereby they mean a NATO which is going to be run,
08:12financed, resourced, operated, you know, Europeans in the front line,
08:16much more a European show and less an American show than the NATO we've all been used to from our
08:22fathers and grandfathers.
08:24And just on Iran, though, we saw, of course, the war flare up in the last couple of days.
08:30Trump says the ceasefire is over.
08:32Where do we go from here, Jamie Shea?
08:34Well, I think we need to wait and see, because clearly the talks with Iran have not yet been broken
08:40off,
08:40even if they're not going anywhere fast.
08:43I think, you know, Trump knows from opinion polling in the United States and even the Senate passing the war
08:48powers resolution,
08:50that this war is not popular at home, even with his own Republican MAGA base.
08:55The Americans want him to end the war and he's got the midterm elections coming up.
08:59So, you know, I don't think he voluntarily wants to get back into a full scale war against Iran.
09:06And for Europe, of course, it's very bad news, because if Trump, on the one hand, wants Europe to spend
09:11all of this extra money on defence,
09:12the last thing you want to do is tank the European economies with higher oil prices and inflation and higher
09:19debt costs,
09:20which are going to make it so much more difficult to fund defence.
09:23And, you know, Europe was sort of hoping for a breathing space with the oil price going down to $60
09:28a barrel.
09:29It's now up 5 percent.
09:30You know, who knows where it's going to go?
09:31And therefore, all of the kind of pressures that we had a couple of months ago, including, of course, things
09:36like, you know,
09:37fertiliser, not getting out of the Gulf to feed hungry people in Africa, all of those difficult scenarios are going
09:42to return.
09:43But let's wait and see, because I think it's Trump's interest to keep this memorandum of understanding going and talks
09:50with Iran going.
09:51And therefore, you know, both sides may choose after, you know, a flurry of activity to de-escalate once more.
09:58OK, Jamie Shea, always a pleasure to have you on the programme.
10:00Thank you so much for joining us live this morning.
10:03And now for the humanitarian lens on all of this, we're joined here in the studio by Jean-Nicolas Beuse
10:08from the UNHCR here in Brussels.
10:10Good morning. Thank you so much for joining us.
10:12And of course, as we're reporting there, the war in Iran really flaring up again.
10:15What does that mean for your job and for, of course, migration flows and the humanitarian aspect?
10:20So every time that bombs are being dropped or drones attacks occur, we have people who are forced to leave
10:27their home,
10:27whether it's in Iran, in Ukraine or in Sudan.
10:30So we can expect that some people last night had to flee their home because they were destroyed.
10:35But also many others will flee as a preventative measure because they are afraid that they are the next target.
10:41What we saw in the case of Iran specifically earlier this year is that more, according to official figure,
10:47more than one million people were displaced, mainly to rural areas,
10:51to avoid the urban centre, which were targeted, but have no come back.
10:56Except that for 150,000 families who have their house destroyed, they will not be able to come back.
11:03So that's where the humanitarian, UNHCR and others have to step in to provide some support with the authorities in
11:10the case of Iran.
11:11And how are you providing that support when cuts are being, you know, there's many cutbacks to your organisation.
11:16We're hearing as well Trump saying that the bombing could get, quote, much worse.
11:21Every time we have to make choice, we have to decide, we have to prioritise who we are going to
11:26help.
11:26Are we going to help the mothers with three children or the mothers with seven children?
11:30Are we going to help the elderly people who have no support?
11:35Every time it's a choice because indeed, over the last two years, three years,
11:39the humanitarian partners have seen the budget put at their disposal by donor countries,
11:46the US, the European Union, the Gulf countries,
11:50really shing to almost less than half of what we had three years ago.
11:54And the needs are continuing rising.
11:56So therefore, we are unable to help everyone.
11:58And meanwhile, it's already one month since the EU's migration and asylum pact has come into force.
12:03What has changed in your view?
12:04So we will see the test is really the implementation in every of the 27 member states.
12:10We will see whether it will make the decision faster, fairer,
12:14whether it will make the life of the decision maker easier and less costly for us, the taxpayer,
12:19because it will be a more rapid decision.
12:22But also whether the principle, the protection principle behind the asylum system in Europe will help.
12:29Are we going to continue not detaining people or people who seek asylum will be systematically detained?
12:35Are we going to give them legal aid so they can navigate the asylum procedure, which are quite complex?
12:41Or are we going to leave them alone, figuring out what needs to be done with appeal,
12:47an appeal which are very costly for us?
12:49So the test now is really in the implementation.
12:51And a big focus now, of course, on returns.
12:53And we saw technical talks take place recently here between officials from the Commission and the Taliban.
12:58What was your view of this encounter?
13:00So what we need to remind everyone is that a country may be in different phases.
13:06We're speaking about Afghanistan with the Taliban.
13:09We're speaking about Syria with a new regime and probably more hope for people to return.
13:13And we're speaking about Sudan, where the return is not possible because it's a dire situation with the conflict and
13:20famine increasing.
13:21What is really important for the European Union is to keep the principle that nobody shall be returned to a
13:28possible situation of harm.
13:30And the harm can come from different actors, from different situations.
13:34So before sending anyone to Afghanistan, Syria or Sudan, we need to ensure that there is an individual assessment.
13:42Will this person be able to regain control over their life without being put at risk?
13:48Okay.
13:49Jean-Nicolas Beuse, thank you so much for coming into us here and being our guest on Europe today.
13:53But now moving on to another story.
13:55The EU's anti-fraud wing, OLAV, has caught an international trafficking operation responsible for counterfeit condoms.
14:01They're untested, uncontrolled and unsafe.
14:04Jacob Yanis has the story.
14:08It would be an easy topic to laugh at if it wasn't a matter of public health.
14:12Brussels' anti-fraud investigators, OLAV, just broke up an international smuggling group.
14:17And criminals tried to slip their illegal cargo past European border checks using a bizarre disguise.
14:24They declared their shipments as children's toys to evade customs controls.
14:28But there was a problem because the boxes did not contain toys at all.
14:33The cross-border network distributed more than 200,000 counterfeit condoms across the continent.
14:40Smugglers targeted three specific nations as their main entry hubs – Romania, Serbia and Spain.
14:46And when the border teams intercepted the fakes, it turned out they all come from a single source in China.
14:52And the total black market value of this illegal shipment sits at over 200,000 euros.
14:57But you see, potential health costs will be much higher.
15:00The European Anti-Fraud Office warns these fakes are untested and unsafe.
15:05Or, in plain English, they can spread infections and cause unplanned pregnancies.
15:10But there is also a bigger picture here.
15:13Fake condoms are just one part of the massive black market boom across the continent.
15:18And I'll give you an example.
15:20Last year, a global Interpol crackdown seized 57 million euros worth of counterfeit medicines.
15:26And this part is important.
15:29When it comes to Europe, the main targets were fake weight loss pens and cosmetic and performance enhancing peptide supplements.
15:36For distribution, criminals do not even need to use the dark web anymore.
15:40They simply flood social media to sell their knockoffs straight to your feed.
15:45But back to our fake condoms.
15:47Brussels claims this raid proves European enforcement works.
15:51That also shows how criminals exploit the system.
15:54The continent still remains open to black market fakes.
15:57And with countless cases going unnoticed, it might look like Europe is left without protection.
16:07Yeah, could be honest there.
16:08And now it's time for our World Cup segment.
16:16Well, following a day without World Cup action, after 27 days of games, goals and emotions, just eight teams remain.
16:24Six European, one African and one from the Americas.
16:27One side will be eliminated every day until Sunday.
16:30So here's four things that you should know about the quarterfinals.
16:34First, France probably remains the favourites.
16:37But standing in their way are Morocco, who, just like in 2022, are the only African team left at this
16:43stage.
16:44This time, though, they arrive as African champions and have a much more mature side.
16:47So expect a very good fight.
16:50Then Spain, who's the only team yet to concede a goal, with Unai Simone breaking the record for the longest
16:55run without conceding in the tournament's history.
16:58The question now, of course, can Belgium end that run?
17:01Now, the Red Devils definitely have some renewed confidence after knocking out one of the tournament's co-hosts, the United
17:07States.
17:08They've also faced Spain in the World Cup twice, losing in 1990 and winning in 1986 with a penalty shootout.
17:15And third, one team will be playing its first ever World Cup quarterfinals, and that's, of course, Norway.
17:21They've risen 12 places in FIFA's World Cup rankings since the start of the tournament, from 31st to 19th.
17:27If they beat England, they could enter the top 10.
17:31The clash will see two of the tournament's deadliest strikers go head-to-head.
17:34I'm talking, of course, about Erling Haaland and Harry Kane.
17:37So that is a match not to be missed.
17:40And finally, Messi.
17:41After leading Argentina to a late victory over Egypt with a goal and an assist,
17:46he became the very first player to score in nine consecutive World Cup matches.
17:50Messi is the tournament's all-time assist hero,
17:52and he's the first player, aged 30 or over, to score eight goals at a single World Cup.
17:58What record is left for him to break, and can he keep it going against Switzerland?
18:02Stay tuned and enjoy the games.
18:04But that brings this edition of Europe Today to an end.
18:07Thank you so much for tuning in, as always.
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18:15But from all of us, thank you so much for tuning in.
18:17Take care, and see you very soon on Euronews.
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