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Europe Today: Ukraine am Wendepunkt, Europa stockt Hilfe auf
Ukraine vor politischem Neustart: Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj baut seine Regierung um, Russland intensiviert die Angriffe. Die EU schnürt neue Hilfen für Kyjiw, Ursula von der Leyen reist an; Ernährungssicherheit, Gibraltar und Zypern bleiben im Fokus.
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Ukraine vor politischem Neustart: Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj baut seine Regierung um, Russland intensiviert die Angriffe. Die EU schnürt neue Hilfen für Kyjiw, Ursula von der Leyen reist an; Ernährungssicherheit, Gibraltar und Zypern bleiben im Fokus.
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00:14Guten Morgen, es ist Wednesday, der 15. Juli.
00:17Du hast Euronews und das ist Europe Today.
00:22Welcome to the program, ich bin Stefan Grobe.
00:24Coming up, we shuffle in Kyiv.
00:27Lawmakers in Ukraine are getting ready to vote on another government this week
00:31after the president 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.
00:42In a shock announcement, Volodymyr Zelenskyy had said he would replace Yulia Swiridenko
00:46after she had only served a year in office,
00:49prompting speculation over who would get the top job at a time when Kyiv is facing intensified attacks.
00:56Reversal in the Gulf
00:57U.S. President Trump has backed down on a proposal he made just the day before
01:03to charge a 20% toll on shipping using the Strait of Hormuz.
01:07Trump's initial argument was that the U.S. should be compensated
01:10for the role it plays in protecting freedom of navigation.
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
01:30following the European Commission's decision to appoint a new special representative for Cyprus.
01:36The Turkish Cypriots characterized the appointment of EU Commission Vice President Rafael Efito
01:41as a unilateral overreach designed to influence the 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.
02:02Who expected La Rocha to be that strong?
02:06Well, certainly not the French.
02:09We'll have more at the end of the show.
02:11But first to Ukraine.
02:13After just one year in office, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Sveridenko is out
02:18as Parliament backed President Zelensky's call for a political reset,
02:22triggering 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
02:33as it battles Russia and pursues EU membership.
02:38Our correspondent Sascha Vakulina joins us now with the latest.
02:42Good 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?
02:54Look, Ukraine cannot hold elections because of Russia's full-scale invasion,
02:59because of the Moshe 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,
03:27Serhii 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.
03:36First of which is the protection of and energy resilience for the country,
03:41given Russia's strategy of deliberately knocking it out.
03:43And the second key position is the defense minister.
03:46And this is where things are a bit more tricky, because Mikhail Fedorov,
03:51he's been in the position only for six 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,
04:02or he's going to keep his position as a defense minister.
04:05Also, at the time when Ukraine has intensified its long- and mid-range strikes against Russian forces,
04:13and specifically in Crimea.
04:15And, Sascha, I want to talk about the military situation against, you know,
04:20the backdrop against which all this is unfolding.
04:24The month of June was among the deadliest among the civil population
04:29since basically the beginning of the war for a 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,
04:53since the very first weeks and months of Russia's full-scale invasion.
04:57Now, the reason for it is, of course,
04:58because Moscow is indeed on purpose exploiting Ukraine's shortage of anti-ballistic air defense,
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
05:26and to be able to produce the interceptors in Ukraine.
05:30All right.
05:31Sasha Vakulina, as ever, thank you very much.
05:34We stay in Ukraine, in the capital, Kiev,
05:37where 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.
05:53Now, 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.
06:07This 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 succession process was completely paralyzed.
06:37with 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 and intends to unblock the remaining four by the end of
07:08the year.
07:09We must admit that this is a remarkable turnaround for a country under invasion.
07:15This is a sort of encouraging message that von der Leyen will deliver today
07:19when she meets with President Volodymyr Zelensky here in Kiev.
07:24The two leaders are expected to announce a brand-new deal to build and store drones on European soil.
07:32These drones will then be used to either help Ukraine on the battlefield or reinforce the eastern flank.
07:39For 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, the battle for global food security is intensifying.
08:04Ukraine 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 Skow,
08:21Executive Director of the World Food Programme, who joins me now in the studio.
08:25Good morning, Karl. Great to have you here with us.
08:29Before we get to the global affairs, I 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. How are people struggling there?
08:42I regularly visit the front line in Ukraine,
08:45because we have operations from Odessa, Kherson 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, where they have just come through a very tough winter.
08:59And I was there last week for a week, visiting 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.
09:19And so the civilian population there is really terrorized.
09:23And what they call the killing zone has expanded from 15 kilometers from the active front line
09:28to some 50 kilometers, because 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.
09:41And I met one family who had had their house destroyed overnight at one of these transit centers.
09:47So I think that, you know, it's important also to keep an eye on the human dimension of this war,
09:52as always, but particularly on those front lines that are being terribly hammered right now.
09:58You mentioned your front line operations.
10:01What exactly is it that you can do?
10:05So we deliver to almost 700,000 people who 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, because the markets carry some products,
10:22but not everything you need to survive.
10:24But we're also supporting the children.
10:26There are in these bunker schools on the front lines with school meals.
10:29It's a way of ensuring that they have at 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 to help also the local farming community.
10:40And we are supporting farmers to get back on lands by surveying those lands
10:44so that they know what is contaminated by mines or other explosive ordnance,
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.
10:59Let'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 has 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 across the globe
11:22in two ways.
11:23One, the disruptions to supply chain that everyone involved in moving stuff has felt.
11:29It takes three to four weeks longer to move rice from India to Somalia, for example.
11:35But also the costs.
11:36In the Sahel, for example, the price of doing business has gone up almost 30 percent.
11:42And we are already in a situation where the needs are outpacing the available resources by far.
11:48And, of course, when our running costs go up, then less aid is delivered.
11:53The last and most serious impact is that it's driving up food security.
11:58So energy and food prices are very closely correlated.
12:01And in the poorest countries, people are now eating less and food insecurity is on the increase.
12:07All right, Karl Skau, Executive 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, the border controls and defense between Spain and Gibraltar disappeared.
12:20Yesterday, the EU and the United Kingdom signed the Gibraltar Agreement,
12:25one of the last remaining post-Brexit leftover issues.
12:29After the meeting, Spanish Foreign Affairs Minister José Manuel Álvarez expressed the hope
12:34for a new chapter in the relations between Gibraltar and Campo de Gibraltar.
12:41Basically, we have a guarantee that the way they were already living,
12:45because they were already relating, 50,000 people were crossing every day for work.
12:50People from Gibraltar had houses or were living also outside.
12:55There was always a trade relation.
12:58All that is protected, is increased.
13:00And now, instead of looking with distrust to the other side of the gate,
13:06there will be no more gate, you know that you have a neighbor with which you can cooperate.
13:13Álvarez maintains that the claim of sovereignty of Spain does not change a bit with the agreement,
13:19but says it solves concrete problems of the citizens.
13:22Chief Minister of Gibraltar, Fabian Picardo, shares the same view.
13:27You can look at the one page that contains the issue of sovereignty,
13:31or you can look at the 118 pages that contain all of the other issues that we agree on,
13:36all of the issues that we're going to work together on now going forward.
13:39Instead of living with our backs to each other,
13:41we're going to be getting bureaucracy out of the way of the citizen
13:44and making sure that where there was a fence, there is now fluidity.
13:49The conflict over Gibraltar is one of the oldest in Europe.
13:53Another one is the one over Cyprus.
13:55Since 1974, the island state and the eastern Mediterranean has been divided
14:00between the internationally recognized Republic of Cyprus, an EU member state,
14:05and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, which is recognized only by Turkey.
14:11Diplomatic attempts at reuniting the island have been plenty, but nothing came out of it.
14:16Now, there are new negotiations on the agenda,
14:18already overshadowed by the Northern Cypriot rejection of a new EU special representative for Cyprus.
14:25To make sense of all this, I'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.
14:35A pleasure, Stefan. Good morning. Good to be here.
14:37Yeah, good morning.
14:38First of all, what do you make of this rejection by the Turkish Cypriot side of the new EU special
14:44representative?
14:44Well, let us start by saying the following.
14:47When Cyprus acceded to the European Union in 2004, Stefan, it acceded in the entirety of its territory.
14:53It does not exercise effective control in the occupied areas, where Turkey occupies 37% of the territory,
15:01but it is European territory, so that as a starting point.
15:04There is now a renewed effort by the Secretary-General of the UN to resume negotiations on the Cyprus question,
15:14in line always with the UN Security Council resolutions.
15:18Now, the European Union has a very important role to play in this effort,
15:24in supporting the efforts of the UN Secretary-General.
15:28Why? Because the Cyprus question is a European question,
15:33and reunifying the last divided member state of the European Union
15:37will not only be transformative for Cyprus,
15:41it will also be transformative for the region of the eastern Mediterranean,
15:45sending a resounding message for peace and stability when we desperately need it.
15:51In the context of this, President von der Leyen appointed Vice President Fido as special representative.
16:00This follows the appointment, if you remember, of Mr. Johannes Hand, who had this role.
16:07Let us say that this is not the first time that we have an EU personality.
16:12It is, though, the first time that we have a political personality.
16:16And the aim there is to support the efforts.
16:20It is not to take sides, but it is very much to support reunification,
16:27and everyone stands to benefit from that.
16:29All Cypriots and, of course, EU-Turkey relations.
16:33Marina, I've got to ask you this.
16:35The island has been divided for more than 50 years.
16:38There have been talks that didn't lead to anything.
16:42Why should anybody believe that this time will be different?
16:47Because conditions are different right now.
16:49The geopolitical environment is different.
16:52We have a new President, Christo Dulides, assumed office three years ago.
16:58He made it a priority to re-energize the efforts.
17:02And I think that is the reason why we have these developments
17:07and the efforts of the Secretary General for a new effort.
17:11And then another important dimension, Stefan, is EU-Turkey relations.
17:19Turkey wishes to come closer to the European Union.
17:23Cyprus is the first member state that would like to see a positive agenda
17:28between the EU and Turkey.
17:30Why?
17:31Because we cannot change geography.
17:33Turkey will always be our neighbor,
17:35and we want to have good neighborly relations.
17:39There is a quick one, Maria, a quick one.
17:41And so it would also benefit the EU-Turkey relations
17:44at a time when Turkey wants it, the EU wants it.
17:48We have 30 seconds left.
17:49Do you still believe in reunification,
17:51or has it become just a political slogan?
17:54We absolutely believe in reunification.
17:57We prove it.
17:58President Russo Dulides proves it in action.
17:59We cannot accept that there is a European member state
18:05that is still divided and under occupation.
18:08And the EU is there to support these efforts.
18:12We will be doing our utmost to reunify Cyprus.
18:16All right, Marilena Rauna,
18:18Deputy EU European Affairs Minister of Cyprus,
18:21thank you for breaking it all down for us.
18:23Thank you so much.
18:24And now our World Cup Minutes.
18:33What a night in Dallas.
18:35Spain spoiled the Bastille Day party
18:37and beat France, the big favorite of the tournament,
18:402-0, with goals from Mikel Oyadabal and Pedro Poro,
18:44and is now in scoring distance to glory.
18:47A performance the team of Luis de la Fuente
18:50delivered with deadly effectiveness against Les Bleus,
18:53who were surprisingly confused.
18:55The final whistle sparked celebrations
18:57among the thousands of Spain fans
18:59who had traveled to Texas
19:00and among millions of people in Spanish cities.
19:03La Roja are back in a World Cup final
19:06and keep alive their dream of winning
19:08the second World Cup in their history after 2010.
19:11On Sunday, they will aim to be crowned world champions
19:14against the winners of the other semifinal
19:17between England and Argentina in Atlanta tonight.
19:20Kick-off is 9 p.m. Central European Summertime.
19:24That does it for us today.
19:26Tune in again tomorrow.
19:27I'm Stefan Grobel.
19:28Take care and goodbye.
19:29kick-off is 9 p.m. Central European Union
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