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Europe Today: Hiszpania mistrzem świata, USA kontynuują ataki na Iran
Hiszpania po raz drugi w historii mistrzem świata po wygranej 1:0 z Argentyną po dogrywce. USA dziewiątą noc atakują Iran, Andy Burnham zostaje dziś premierem Wielkiej Brytanii.
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Hiszpania po raz drugi w historii mistrzem świata po wygranej 1:0 z Argentyną po dogrywce. USA dziewiątą noc atakują Iran, Andy Burnham zostaje dziś premierem Wielkiej Brytanii.
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00:00Wszystkie prawa zastrzeżone.
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01:00The U.S. has continued to strike Iran for the ninth consecutive night, with another U.S. serviceman killed, this
01:07time in northern Iraq, during the controlled detonation of a downed Iranian drone.
01:12A Kuwaiti power and desalination plant was attacked by Iran for the second time in two days on Sunday, raising
01:20fears of a widening conflict. We'll have the latest from our correspondent in the Middle East.
01:25And Andy Burnham is set to become the U.K.'s new prime minister today, taking over from Keir Starmer.
01:32He's tasked with uniting a fractured party and fending off a growing threat from the far-right ReformUK party led
01:40by Nigel Farage.
01:42Burnham has also vowed to decentralise power away from London. We'll have more analysis.
01:48But first, this morning, we're taking you straight to Madrid.
01:52A dominant Spanish side was held by Argentina to a goalless draw during 90 minutes of play in last night's
01:59World Cup final.
02:00But despite Argentina's grit and resistance, Spain's striker, Ferran Torres, broke the deadlock in added time with the only goal
02:08of the match.
02:09That was after Argentina's Enzo Fernandes was shown the red card in stoppage time.
02:14So let's cross over now to Madrid and to our correspondent, Maria Muñoz, who's standing by for us there.
02:21Maria, good to see you. What a night for Spain. Give us a sense of the atmosphere there this morning.
02:29Good morning, Maret, from Spain.
02:31Well, people are still celebrating on the streets.
02:34They are being celebrating all night long.
02:36I was coming to the office this early morning and they were shouting, they were singing.
02:41They are all very happy.
02:43We've seen that Spain has gotten better and better match after match.
02:48They started with a draw against Cape Verde, but then they improved.
02:52They showed they are a collective team, something Luis de la Fuente has insisted on.
02:58They are not just some bright players.
03:00They are not just one single player who is the star.
03:04They are a family.
03:05Same philosophy that made the former national team champions in 2020.
03:11And they have shown they have improved against Belgium and against one of the main favorites in this tournament, as
03:19it was France.
03:20Yesterday, there was one team playing football and another one trying to prevent them from playing.
03:26Spain tried to score 20 times.
03:29The result is quite short after all those occasions, more than 20 they had.
03:35We may have witnessed last Messi match with the Argentinian squad.
03:41He was very sad.
03:42We could see him crying.
03:45But what can I say?
03:46We are very happy here.
03:47Yesterday, we were in the fan zone with the fans celebrating our triumph in this World Cup.
03:53Let's take a look.
03:58The match was incredibly exciting, right until the last moment when we secured the victory.
04:03We beat Leo Messi.
04:04Ciao Leo Messi!
04:06The match was very good, but the referee was very, very Argentinian.
04:12Spectacular!
04:12Very good!
04:13We came all the way from Puerto Rico.
04:15We arrived today to see the game.
04:17We wanted to be here at the heart of it all.
04:19We wanted to watch the game from Spain.
04:21and see the world champions.
04:24World Cup!
04:25I am Spanish!
04:27Spanish!
04:28Spanish!
04:29Spanish!
04:29Maria, briefly, we know that there are plans for celebrations in Madrid also late tonight.
04:39Yes, the team will arrive around 1 p.m. to Barajas Airport.
04:44Then they will go visit the royal family.
04:46And then, around 6 p.m., the real party will start with a bus parade with all the players offering
04:52the trophy to the fans.
04:54They will arrive around 9 p.m. to Cibeles, where the party is going to start with concerts and with
05:00all the happiness they've brought to us from America.
05:06Okay, Maria Muñoz, in Madrid for us this morning, thank you.
05:10And I'm sure we'll see more of those celebrations on Euronews throughout the day.
05:14But we're moving to the Middle East next, where the U.S. has carried out the ninth consecutive night of
05:19strikes against Iran.
05:21Meanwhile, Iran's Revolutionary Guard has vowed not to let a single drop of oil or gas pass through the Strait
05:27of Hormuz.
05:28For more, we can cross over to our correspondent, Adel Halim, who's in Qatar for us.
05:34So, Adel, more strikes overnight, and the current spiral of violence is showing no signs of subsiding.
05:42Good morning, Maher.
05:43Yes, the conflict continues to escalate.
05:45The U.S. has completed a nine consecutive night of strikes inside Iran, targeting military command centers, air defense systems,
05:52and missile sites.
05:53Meanwhile, Iran has responded with attacks of its own.
05:56The air defense systems have been activated across the Gulf, with Kuwait intercepting drones, Bahrain-sounding sirens, and Jordan reporting
06:06missile interceptions.
06:07The U.S. has also confirmed a third military death over the weekend.
06:11A service member was killed in Iraq in what is called a controlled detonation of a downed Iranian drone.
06:17This follows the deaths of two U.S. troops in Jordan.
06:21So, despite repeated calls for diplomacy, both sides are continuing to exchange fire, and the conflict is spreading across the
06:28region.
06:28And, Adel, we also know power and desalination plants in the Gulf are being increasingly targeted.
06:34How much of a worry is that in the region?
06:39Absolutely.
06:40One of the biggest concerns now is that critical infrastructure is increasingly being caught up in the fighting.
06:46We've seen allegations of attacks on power plants and water desalination plants in the Gulf.
06:53Those facilities provide drinking water to millions of people.
06:56If essential infrastructure becomes a regular target, the consequences extend well beyond the battlefield and start to affect everyday life.
07:04We're also seeing the conflict spread geographically.
07:07As we've heard, it's no longer just about the U.S. and Iran, where Jordan, Bahrain, and Kuwait have come
07:13under attack.
07:13That's why countries like Qatar and Pakistan continue to push for de-escalation and diplomacy.
07:18But, at the moment, the military action is moving much faster than any kind of diplomacy.
07:23Indeed. Adel, for us in Doha, thank you so much for bringing us up to speed there.
07:28Now, we're moving to the U.K. next, where Andy Burnham, the former mayor of Manchester, will today become prime
07:34minister, taking over from Sir Keir Starmer.
07:37Burnham is also expected to name his cabinet members today.
07:40For more, I'm joined live now by Tim Bale, who is a politics professor at Queen Mary University of London.
07:48Tim, really good to have you with us this morning.
07:50So, listen, Burnham is promising big change, the biggest change in U.K. politics in 40 years, he says.
07:56How crucial will his cabinet appointments now be in setting the tone for his government and ensuring he hits the
08:03ground running?
08:05Well, I think you're right to say they will set the tone.
08:07There's been quite a lot of speculation over the weekend and, indeed, the last week, particularly about the position of
08:13Chancellor of the Exchequer, the key finance ministerial position.
08:16It looks like it's slipped away from Andy Burnham's key ally, Ed Miliband, who is seen by some to risk
08:25spooking the markets, to coin that cliche, and instead go to Shabana Mahmood, who is seen to be more on
08:32the right of the Labour Party and probably will cause a few eruptions in the market.
08:38That means Ed Miliband will probably go to a foreign secretary.
08:42But it is absolutely clear that he does have to signal a departure from what's gone on before.
08:49Otherwise, in some ways, there is no point replacing Keir Starmer with someone else.
08:54So, yes, today will be very important.
08:57You don't get a second chance to create a first impression.
09:00So everything about today, the choreography and indeed the choreography for the next week, I think, will be absolutely crucial.
09:06You mentioned the importance of the chancellor and this resetting what many would call a broken economy.
09:13But he's also prioritising this push for more devolution or the idea of delegating power to the regions, even creating
09:21a number 10 north, he says.
09:23How much of a shift in thinking is this for a UK prime minister?
09:28I'm not sure it's as big a shift as people think, actually.
09:30Prime ministers for a long time, whether they be conservative or Labour, have been talking about the overcentralisation of the
09:39UK and particularly the overcentralisation of the UK economy.
09:43Even under the Conservatives, you saw an outpost of the Treasury being created in Darlington in the northeast of the
09:50country.
09:50So in some ways, I think this is more about mood music than it is necessarily about substance.
09:57That said, obviously, given that some of our more peripheral regions feel that they have been left out from whatever
10:05growth there has been in the British economy,
10:07it is important that we spread the wealth out from the southeastern London, where it is at the moment concentrated.
10:15And that obviously has a particular knock-on effect for the kind of jobs that are available in those areas.
10:22So I think devolution is important, but I don't think it is the magic bullet that some and indeed possibly
10:28Andy Burnham suggest it is.
10:29Very, very briefly, Tim, if I may, just to close.
10:32We're watching intently here from Brussels, of course.
10:34Do you expect a big shift in Burnham's EU and foreign policy compared to the Starmer government?
10:42Very briefly, no.
10:44Strong support for Ukraine, trying to handle an erratic US president and trying to move towards closer relationships with the
10:51EU.
10:52But in some ways, unfortunately, not really making a big move on the single market or the customs union.
10:57There'll just be incremental moves until possibly the next parliament if Burnham gets re-elected.
11:02OK, thank you so much for that analysis for us from London.
11:07But we're moving on now because last Friday, the European Commission unveiled proposals aimed at making European banks more competitive.
11:14It's widely seen as a move to close the gap with US rivals.
11:19Well, on Friday, our correspondent, Sasha Vakulina, caught up with the European Commissioner for Financial Services, Maria-Louis Albuquerque,
11:26and started by asking her what impact she hoped the proposals could have for European citizens and businesses.
11:33Banks are very important in the European economy.
11:36They're important for citizens, they're important for businesses, for financing.
11:40So we need them to be efficient and to work well.
11:44We have found a few problems which need to be addressed, and we have, with this diagnosis, also indicated the
11:52way forward.
11:53So it is about making our banking sector better prepared to support citizens, businesses, and the European's ambitions and vision
12:04for the future.
12:05And what is the key aspect here when it comes to the Europeans, to ordinary save-up?
12:11You focus on this category.
12:12What is the key?
12:13People typically go to banks for one of two things.
12:17Either they need to borrow money for a mortgage, for whatever objective.
12:22They should have banks which are efficient but also competitive, so that people can compare different offers and choose the
12:31one which is best.
12:33But also people save money and put money aside for a rainy day, for a pension, for whatever reason.
12:41And banks are often the agents, the intermediaries that people go to.
12:48So the more efficient the banks are, the more competitive the system is, the better will be the offer of
12:56such opportunities for our households wanting to save and invest their money.
13:00When we look at the world of big powers, does Europe need more cross-border mergers, meaning probably fewer but
13:07bigger European banks and therefore more consolidation?
13:11Yes, we need a few big banks.
13:15But if we compare the average size of even the bigger European banks and our competitors, who also operate in
13:26Europe, by the way, namely American banks, the size is completely different.
13:31And for some areas of business, that scale really matters.
13:36We have identified the fragmentation of the banking sector or the incompleteness of the single market in banking as the
13:44main problem holding us back in terms of competitiveness.
13:48That is actually the bigger problem we have discovered.
13:52This makes it very inefficient.
13:55This perspective of looking at member states in isolation is actually very costly to the European economy.
14:02I think that member states, this is, they come from the past where we looked at this from a national
14:09perspective.
14:10But I think we have all realized that our true competitors are other blocks.
14:18So it's Europe together with our other competitors.
14:22And that requires that change in mindset.
14:25Of course, it's difficult.
14:26It's a significant change.
14:29And there is a normal resistance to change.
14:32But I think the fact that there is awareness and the conscience that the costs of not moving are increasing,
14:39I think we have now better conditions to deliver on those objectives.
14:44The report argues that Europe's banks need to take more risk if they are to finance growth and compete globally.
14:52Where do you draw the line between encouraging certain risk-taking and avoiding the mistakes that led to previous financial
15:00crisis?
15:00It's not banks that need to take more risk.
15:04It's the whole Europe that needs to have a different approach to risk.
15:09So because of how we are, I don't know, also because of cultural elements, but because of some inefficiencies in
15:19our system and still the legacy of the previous crisis, we focused a lot on reducing and trying to eliminate
15:27risk.
15:30We know that risk-taking is indispensable for innovation, for economic growth.
15:36So what we are talking about here is a recalibration.
15:40Now, we need to adjust the parameters of the framework to say that some more risk-taking should be considered
15:49in the system as a whole when it comes to financing certain activities.
15:54But this is the political discussion.
15:56How much risk are we comfortable to allow into the system preserving financial stability?
16:02Because financial stability is a precondition.
16:05Without financial stability, nothing else works.
16:08So we need to find the right balance.
16:10What we are talking about here is rebalancing, allowing some more risk while preserving financial stability.
16:16It's a recalibration.
16:18It's not going back to the past because we have learned the lessons and we are much better prepared to
16:24manage risk in a sound and prudent manner now.
16:31Now, Europol, the EU's law enforcement agency, has said that online ecosystems are reshaping terrorist threats.
16:39In a report released last week, the agency also said that violence has become a means of gaining identity and
16:45belonging for a number of perpetrators and that this creates a more complex threat across Europe.
16:51To discuss those findings in more detail, I'm joined now by Anna Sjöbri, head of the European Counterterrorism Centre at
16:59Europol.
17:00Good morning, Anna. Great to have you with us.
17:02So your report states that the lines between established terrorist ideologies and other forms of violent extremism are being blurred.
17:10Why is that a reason to be worried?
17:14Yeah, we need to follow the development and this is also what we have been describing since, if we go
17:21back to 10 years since Europe experienced the wave of mass casualties and major attacks and also when European Counterterrorism
17:29Centre was created.
17:30And since that, we have done these trend and situation reports to describe the development of the threat.
17:36And this year, we actually describe that the threat is persistent, it still exists, and it's a major threat against
17:44European security.
17:46And the development, as you say, the blurred lines, it's because we are seeing an increasing number of different ideologies
17:55that are diversified ideologies, also not only the traditional ones.
18:00So you mentioned diversifying ideologies, but what would you say, based on your analysis, is the biggest threat that Europeans
18:09should be concerned about right now?
18:12We need to understand that the threat is persistent.
18:15If you go back to 2025 and look at the numbers of arrests, you have almost 500 terrorist-related arrests
18:23in the European Union.
18:25This shows that the threat is persistent.
18:27We also see that the major threat comes from jihadism, and that's also the most lethal threat.
18:34But we also need to understand the development of these new ideological platforms that are also popping up.
18:41Finally, I want to ask you, because the report also points to more lone actor attacks, doesn't that make preventing
18:49or addressing the threat almost impossible for law enforcement?
18:54Yeah, that's one of the challenging elements that we are also pointing out, because, of course, if you have a
19:00lone actor using simple methods, and that doesn't actually require a lot of preparation, but they are radicalized online.
19:10And it also, this provides a lack of possibility for law enforcement to intervene in timely manners.
19:18Okay.
19:19Anna Siobery, for us, speaking to us from Europol, thank you so much for your time this morning.
19:24But that's all we have time for today, I'm afraid.
19:27Thank you so much for tuning in.
19:29We'll be back at the same time, same place tomorrow.
19:32So we hope to see you then.
19:34In the meantime, take care.
20:00We'll be back at the same time.
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