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Europe Today: l'Ucraina a un punto di svolta mentre l'Europa aumenta il sostegno
L’Ucraina affronta un azzeramento politico: il presidente Volodymyr Zelenskyy rimpasta il governo mentre gli attacchi russi si intensificano. L’Ue prepara nuovi aiuti a Kiev con la visita di Ursula von der Leyen; restano centrali sicurezza alimentare, futuro post-Brexit di Gibilterra e tensioni a Cipro.
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L’Ucraina affronta un azzeramento politico: il presidente Volodymyr Zelenskyy rimpasta il governo mentre gli attacchi russi si intensificano. L’Ue prepara nuovi aiuti a Kiev con la visita di Ursula von der Leyen; restano centrali sicurezza alimentare, futuro post-Brexit di Gibilterra e tensioni a Cipro.
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00:14Buongiorno! It's Wednesday, the 15th of July. You're watching Euronews and this is Europe Today.
00:21Welcome to the program. I'm Stefan Grobe.
00:24Coming up, reshuffle in Kiev. Lawmakers in Ukraine are getting ready to vote on another government this week after the
00:32president dismissed his prime minister in a move he said would bring fresh thinking.
00:37But critics warned could stoke disorder at a key point in the war.
00:41In a shock announcement, Volodymyr Zelenskyy had said he would replace Yulia Swiridenko after she had only served a year
00:48in office, prompting speculation over who would get the top job at a time when Kiev is facing intensified attacks.
00:56Reversal in the Gulf. U.S. President Trump has backed down on a proposal he made just the day before
01:02to charge a 20% toll on shipping using the Strait of Hormuz.
01:07Trump's initial argument was that the U.S. should be compensated for the role it plays in protecting freedom of
01:13navigation.
01:14It was never clear how Trump's proposed toll would work or be enforced.
01:19The U.S. president doubled down, though, on his threat to reimpose a blockade on Iran's ports.
01:25A sharp diplomatic rift has opened between Brussels and the Turkish Cypriot leadership following the European Commission's decision to appoint
01:33a new special representative for Cyprus.
01:36The Turkish Cypriots characterized the appointment of EU Commission Vice President Raffaele Fito as a unilateral overreach designed to influence
01:44the community ahead of upcoming informal peace talks.
01:48We'll speak to a minister of the Republic of Cyprus.
01:51And Spain booked their ticket for the World Cup final on Sunday, awaiting Argentina or England.
01:58The Spanish left the experts, who had mostly bet on France, speechless.
02:03Who expected La Roja to be that strong?
02:06Well, certainly not the French.
02:08We'll have more at the end of the show.
02:10But first to Ukraine.
02:13After just one year in office, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Sveridenko is out as Parliament backed President Zelensky's call for
02:21a political reset, triggering a full-cabinet reshuffle at a critical stage of the war.
02:27The move raises fresh questions over Kiev's strategy, governance and the country's reform agenda as it battles Russia and pursues
02:36EU membership.
02:37Our correspondent Sascha Vakulina joins us now with the latest.
02:41Good morning, Sascha.
02:42Good morning.
02:43So, Sascha, the Ukrainian parliament backed Volodymyr Zelensky here on this matter.
02:51Tell us about the back story.
02:53Why is this happening now?
02:55Look, Ukraine cannot hold elections because of Russia's full-scale invasion, because of the Marshall Law.
03:00So, this sort of a reshuffle is the only way to introduce certain changes.
03:05This is not the first time it happened since the beginning of the full-scale invasion in February 2022.
03:11And the previous one was, of course, last summer.
03:13Now, the big questions here are two key positions specifically.
03:17First of all, of course, who will replace Yulia Sveridenko?
03:20And it's not confirmed yet, but widely expected to be the CEO of Ukraine energy company Naftogaz, Serhii Koretsky.
03:28Now, his appointment would be interesting.
03:31It also reflects a lot of Kiev's strategy and the focus on two key things.
03:35First of which is the protection of and energy resilience for the country, given Russia's strategy of deliberately knocking it
03:43out.
03:43And the second key position is the defense minister.
03:46And this is where things are a bit more tricky, because Mikhail Fedorov, he's been in the position only for
03:52six months,
03:53and he's really widely respected among the military, among the defense sector and the civil society.
03:58So, the question is whether he is going to be replaced or he's going to keep his position as a
04:04defense minister,
04:05also at a time when Ukraine has intensified its long and mid-range strikes against Russian forces, and specifically in
04:14Crimea.
04:14And, Sascha, I want to talk about the military situation against, you know, the backdrop against which all this is
04:22unfolding.
04:24The month of June was among the deadliest among the civil population since basically the beginning of the war for
04:33a lack of air defense.
04:34Now, how can Ukraine strengthen that air defense?
04:38Indeed, and this is where Ukraine needs the help and the support of the partners on numerous aspects.
04:43Now, confirmed by the UN, at least 293 civilians were killed in the month of June.
04:50This is the highest since April 2022, Stefan, since the very first weeks and months of Russia's full-scale invasion.
04:57Now, the reason for it is, of course, because Moscow is indeed on purpose exploiting Ukraine's shortage of anti-ballistic
05:03defense,
05:04but also in doing so, Russia is targeting specifically densely populated urban areas.
05:10Now, this death toll does not include anything regarding the frontline situation.
05:14This is why Ukraine is insisting on better and faster supplies of air defense for the ballistic missiles,
05:21but also on that license that Trump promised sort of to give to Ukraine and to be able to produce
05:27the interceptors in Ukraine.
05:29All right, Sasha Vakulina, as ever, thank you very much.
05:34We stay in Ukraine, in the capital Kiev, where Ursula von der Leyen just arrived about an hour ago.
05:40The EU Commission President is preparing a combined support package for Ukraine worth up to 18 billion euros,
05:48with announcements on this expected during von der Leyen's visit.
05:52Now, we don't know all the details of what von der Leyen will be doing while in Kiev,
05:58but our correspondent Jorge Liborero was with her on the official train covering this visit,
06:03and he sent this report literally minutes ago.
06:08This is the second time this year that Ursula von der Leyen travels to Kiev,
06:12but the situation has drastically changed.
06:15Last time in February, the Commission President encountered a truly bleak landscape.
06:21Ukraine was going through a horrific winter of widespread blackouts caused by Russian attacks.
06:29The 90 billion support loan was blocked by Hungary,
06:33and Ukraine's accession process was completely paralyzed, with no solution in sight.
06:39But now, as von der Leyen says, the tide is turning in Ukraine's favor.
06:45The country's launching long-range strikes against Russian refineries,
06:50triggering a painful fuel crisis that is turning the heat on the war economy.
06:55The 90 billion loan is up and running, and the accession process is gaining traction.
07:00This week, Ukraine opened a new cluster of negotiations
07:04and intends to unblock the remaining four by the end of the year.
07:09We must admit that this is a remarkable turnaround for a country under invasion.
07:14This is a sort of encouraging message that von der Leyen will deliver today
07:19when she meets with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy here in Kiev.
07:24The two leaders are expected to announce a brand-new deal
07:27to build and store drones on European soil.
07:32These drones will then be used to either help Ukraine on the battlefield
07:36or reinforce the eastern flank.
07:40For Ukraine, the real benefit is the European industrial scale.
07:44And for Europeans, the benefit is Ukraine's technological ingenuity.
07:53Jorge Liborero from Kiev, thank you very much.
07:56As the wars rage in Ukraine and in the Middle East,
08:01the battle for global food security is intensifying.
08:03Ukraine remains one of the world's key grain exporters,
08:07while tensions with Iran are driving up energy and fertilizer costs,
08:11threatening harvests far beyond the conflict zones.
08:15The ripple effects are being felt across the globe.
08:18To discuss this further, let's bring in Karl Skau,
08:21Executive Director of the World Food Programme,
08:23who joins me now in the studio.
08:25Good morning, Karl.
08:26Great to have you here with us.
08:29Before we get to the global affairs,
08:31I want to talk about the people who really suffer in this world.
08:35You just came back from a trip to Ukraine.
08:38Tell us about what you saw.
08:40How are people struggling there?
08:42I regularly visit the front line in Ukraine
08:45because we have operations from Odessa,
08:47Kherson in the south to Kharkiv in the north.
08:50We every day have deliveries on those front lines.
08:53I was there last in the beginning of March,
08:56where they have just come through a very tough winter.
08:58and I was there last week for a week,
09:01visiting all points of that front line.
09:05And frankly, the situation has gotten even worse
09:07because there are relentless attacks, drone attacks happening now.
09:11I was in Donetsk when they registered some 1,400 drone attacks in only 24 hours.
09:18And so the civilian population there is really terrorized.
09:23And what they call the killing zone has expanded from 15 kilometers
09:26from the active front line to some 50 kilometers
09:30because that's the range that these drones are now attacking.
09:33And I met families who had left overnight their house.
09:37They had enough.
09:38Some had been encouraged by authorities to leave.
09:40And I met one family who had had their house destroyed overnight
09:45at one of these transit centers.
09:47So I think that, you know, it's important also to keep an eye
09:49on the human dimension of this war, as always,
09:53but particularly on those front lines
09:55that are being terribly hammered right now.
09:57You mentioned your front line operations.
10:01What exactly is it that you can do?
10:04So we deliver to almost 700,000 people
10:07who are stuck on that front line every month.
10:10And so where there are no markets, it's food.
10:13It's packages with food.
10:14Where there are some functioning markets, it's cash.
10:17And in some places, it's a mix of both
10:19because the markets carry some products
10:21but not everything you need to survive.
10:24But we're also supporting the children
10:26that are in these bunker schools on the front lines
10:28with school meals.
10:29It's a way of ensuring that they have
10:31at least one nutritious meal a day.
10:33It's also a way of making sure they come to the school
10:36and we buy the food locally from farmers
10:37to help also the local farming community.
10:40and we're supporting farmers to get back on lands
10:42by surveying those lands
10:44so that they know what is contaminated
10:46by mines or other explosive ordinance
10:50but that they can be back and farm on the others
10:53which is important for food security in the area
10:55but also for the resilience of those communities.
10:58So let's switch to the Middle East for a minute.
11:02How does the war in Iran affect global food security?
11:07Well, it's hit at many levels.
11:10I mean, the most immediate humanitarian impact
11:11has been, of course, in Lebanon
11:13with hundreds of thousands of displaced people there.
11:16But at a second level, it has hit our humanitarian operations
11:20across the globe in two ways.
11:23One, the disruptions to supply chain
11:25that everyone involved in moving stuff has felt.
11:29It takes three to four weeks longer to move rice
11:32from India to Somalia, for example.
11:35But also the costs, you know, in the Sahel, for example
11:39the price of doing business has gone up almost 30%
11:42and we are already in a situation
11:43where the needs are outpacing the available resources by far.
11:48And of course, when our running costs go up
11:50then less aid is delivered.
11:53The last and most serious impact
11:55is that it's driving up food security.
11:57So energy and food prices are very closely correlated
12:00and in the poorest countries, people are now eating less
12:03and food insecurity is on the increase.
12:07All right, Karl Schau,
12:08Executive Director of the World Food Programme.
12:10Thank you so much for your insights this morning.
12:13Thank you.
12:14Now, just a few hours ago,
12:16the border controls and defense between Spain and Gibraltar disappeared.
12:20Yesterday, the EU and the United Kingdom
12:22signed the Gibraltar Agreement,
12:24one of the last remaining post-Brexit leftover issues.
12:29After the meeting,
12:30Spanish Foreign Affairs Minister José Manuel Álvarez
12:32expressed the hope for a new chapter
12:35in the relations between Gibraltar and Campo de Gibraltar.
12:41Basically, we have a guarantee
12:43that the way they were already living,
12:45because they were already relating,
12:4750,000 people were crossing every day for work,
12:50people from Gibraltar had houses
12:52or were living also outside.
12:54There was always a trade relation.
12:58All that is protected, is increased.
13:01And now, instead of looking with distrust
13:04to the other side of the gate,
13:06there will be no more gate,
13:08you know that you have a neighbor
13:10with which you can cooperate.
13:12Álvarez maintains that the claim of sovereignty of Spain
13:16does not change a bit with the agreement,
13:19but says it solves concrete problems of the citizens.
13:22Chief Minister of Gibraltar, Fabian Picardo,
13:25shares the same view.
13:27You can look at the one page
13:29that contains the issue of sovereignty,
13:31or you can look at the 118 pages
13:33that contain all of the other issues
13:35that we agree on,
13:36all of the issues that we're going to work together on
13:38now going forward.
13:39Instead of living with our backs to each other,
13:41we're going to be getting bureaucracy
13:43out of the way of the citizen
13:44and making sure that where there was a fence,
13:47there is now fluidity.
13:49The conflict over Gibraltar
13:51is one of the oldest in Europe.
13:53Another one is the one over Cyprus.
13:55Since 1974, the island state
13:58and the eastern Mediterranean
13:59has been divided
14:00between the internationally recognized
14:02Republic of Cyprus,
14:03an EU member state,
14:05and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus,
14:08which is recognized only by Turkey.
14:11Diplomatic attempts at reuniting the island
14:13have been plenty,
14:14but nothing came out of it.
14:16Now there are new negotiations on the agenda,
14:19already overshadowed
14:20by the Northern Cypriot rejection
14:22of a new EU special representative for Cyprus.
14:25To make sense of all this,
14:27I'm glad to have Marilena Rauna by my side now,
14:30the Deputy EU Affairs Minister of Cyprus.
14:33Thanks for coming on the show today.
14:34A pleasure, Stefan.
14:36Good morning.
14:36Good to be here.
14:37Yeah, good morning.
14:38Well, first of all,
14:39what do you make of this rejection
14:40by the Turkish Cyprus side
14:42of the new EU special representative?
14:45Well, let us start by saying the following.
14:47When Cyprus acceded to the European Union
14:49in 2004, Stefan,
14:51it acceded in the entirety of its territory.
14:53It does not exercise effective control
14:55in the occupied areas,
14:57where Turkey occupies 37% of the territory,
15:01but it is European territory.
15:03So that, as a starting point,
15:04there is now a renewed effort
15:07by the Secretary-General of the UN
15:10to resume negotiations on the Cyprus question
15:14in line always with the UN Security Council resolutions.
15:18Now, the European Union
15:20has a very important role to play in this effort
15:24in supporting the efforts of the UN Secretary-General.
15:28Why?
15:29Because the Cyprus question
15:31is a European question,
15:33and reunifying the last divided member state
15:35of the European Union
15:37will not only be transformative for Cyprus,
15:41it will also be transformative
15:42for the region of the Eastern Mediterranean,
15:45sending a resounding message
15:48for peace and stability
15:49when we desperately need it.
15:51In the context of this,
15:53President von der Leyen
15:54appointed Vice President Fido
15:58as Special Representative.
16:00This follows the appointment,
16:02if you remember,
16:03of Mr. Johannes Hand,
16:05who had this role.
16:06Let us say that this is not the first time
16:09that we have an EU personality.
16:12It is, though,
16:13the first time that we have
16:14a political personality.
16:17And the aim there
16:18is to support the efforts.
16:20It is not to take sides,
16:24but it is very much
16:25to support reunification,
16:27and everyone stands to benefit from that.
16:29All Cypriots and, of course,
16:31EU-Turkey relations.
16:33Marina, I've got to ask you this.
16:35The island has been divided
16:36for more than 50 years.
16:38There have been talks
16:40that didn't lead to anything.
16:42Why should anybody believe
16:43that this time will be different?
16:47Because conditions are different right now.
16:49The geopolitical environment is different.
16:52We have a new President,
16:55Christo Dulides,
16:56assumed office three years ago.
16:58He made it a priority
17:00to re-energize the efforts.
17:02And I think that is the reason
17:04why we have these developments
17:07and the efforts of the Secretary-General
17:10for a new effort.
17:11And then another important dimension,
17:14Stefan,
17:14is EU-Turkey relations.
17:19Turkey wishes to come closer
17:22to the European Union.
17:23Cyprus is the first member state
17:25that would like to see
17:26a positive agenda
17:28between the EU and Turkey.
17:30Why?
17:30Because we cannot change geography.
17:33Turkey will always be our neighbor,
17:35and we want to have
17:37good neighborly relations.
17:40Quick one, Maria,
17:41a quick one.
17:41And so it would also benefit
17:43the EU-Turkey relations
17:44at a time when
17:46Turkey wants it,
17:47the EU wants it.
17:48We have 30 seconds left.
17:49Do you still believe
17:50in reunification
17:51or has it become
17:53just a political slogan?
17:54We absolutely believe
17:56in reunification.
17:57We prove it.
17:58President Rousseau-Dulides
17:58proves it in action.
17:59We cannot accept
18:01that there is
18:03a European member state
18:05that is still divided
18:06and under occupation.
18:08And the EU is there
18:10to support these efforts.
18:11We will be doing
18:13our utmost
18:14to reunify Cyprus.
18:16All right,
18:16Marilena Rauna,
18:17Deputy EU,
18:19European Affairs
18:19Minister of Cyprus,
18:21thank you for breaking
18:22it all down for us.
18:23Thank you so much.
18:24And now,
18:26our World Cup minutes.
18:32What a night in Dallas.
18:35Spain spoiled
18:35the Bastille Day party
18:37and beat France,
18:38the big favorite
18:39of the tournament,
18:402-0,
18:41with goals from
18:42Mikel Oyadabal
18:43and Pedro Poro
18:44and is now
18:45in scoring distance
18:46to glory.
18:47A performance
18:48the team of
18:49Luis de la Fuente
18:49delivered with
18:50deadly effectiveness
18:51against Les Bleus
18:52who were surprisingly
18:54confused.
18:55The final whistle
18:56sparked celebrations
18:57among the thousands
18:58of Spain fans
18:59who had traveled
18:59to Texas
19:00and among millions
19:01of people
19:02in Spanish cities.
19:03La Roja are back
19:05in a World Cup final
19:06and keep alive
19:07their dream
19:07of winning
19:08the second World Cup
19:09in their history
19:10after 2010.
19:11On Sunday,
19:12they will aim
19:13to be crowned
19:14world champions
19:14against the winners
19:15of the other semifinal
19:16between England
19:17and Argentina
19:18in Atlanta tonight.
19:20Kickoff is 9 p.m.
19:22Central European
19:22summertime.
19:24That does it
19:25for us today.
19:26Tune in again tomorrow.
19:27I'm Stefan Grobe.
19:28Take care
19:28and goodbye.
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