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Europe Today: España celebra el Mundial y Burnham asume el cargo en el Reino Unido
Dos millones de personas salieron anoche a las calles de Madrid para recibir a los héroes del Mundial. En el Reino Unido, Andy Burnham dio su primer mensaje a la nación, mientras en Alemania el canciller Friedrich Merz anunció una remodelación del Gobierno.
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00:14Good morning, it's Tuesday the 21st of July, I'm Maret Gwyn and you're watching Europe Today,
00:21your morning dose of European news and analysis broadcast live from Brussels.
00:26Coming up on today's programme, UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has unveiled his new cabinet vowing sweeping political and economic
00:35reforms to restore stability in the UK and tackle the cost of living crisis.
00:41He also held first calls with US President Donald Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
00:48We'll have more analysis for you.
00:50Meanwhile, Donald Trump has warned Iran it will pay many times over for the killing of US service members over
00:58the weekend.
00:59Iran's president has meanwhile declared his country is in a, quote, full-scale war as hopes of a return to
01:07negotiations continue to fade.
01:09And in other news, as Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky continues to grapple with fierce protests over the sacking of the
01:18former defence minister,
01:19there are reports that the country's commander-in-chief, Oleksandr Sirsky, could be dismissed imminently as a result of pressure
01:29from the demonstrators.
01:32But first, for our top story this morning, we're crossing to Spain, where the World Cup party shows no signs
01:38of stopping.
01:40Madrid was a sea of red and gold last night as almost two million people lined the streets to welcome
01:46home their World Cup heroes,
01:48with players celebrating on an open-top bus.
01:52Spain's latest World Cup triumph also cements their place as a dominant force in world football.
01:58Their European champions, Olympic champions, are now the first country ever to hold both the men's and women's World Cup
02:05crowns at the same time.
02:07Meanwhile, FIFA has opened an investigation into the Argentine team's post-match conduct.
02:14Mid-fielder Leandro Paredes was shown a red card after the final whistle after he took a hand to the
02:21throat of Spanish opponent Eric Garcia.
02:24As you can see, some violent scenes on your screens there.
02:27Remember, FIFA is already investigating Argentina over an incident involving a banner with a political message on the Malvinas or
02:35Falkland Islands as well.
02:37For more analysis on all of this, let's now bring in Jorge López-Torrezia and Pablo Montaño.
02:43They're both Spanish football journalists.
02:46Great to have you both with us.
02:48Let me come to you first, Jorge.
02:50We get the sense that there's a real collective generational talent in this Spanish team.
02:56Do you think we're entering another decade of Spanish domination?
03:03I mean, there are certain points that allow us to think that way, not only because of that, of, of,
03:09after seeing that Spain was the most talented team during the World Cup, but also when you get to analyze
03:13the youth of the, of the players, the, really the whole road that they have to, to, to come, they've
03:20just started their own careers.
03:21So there are certain, there are certain points that get us to, to think that way.
03:26This is also going to be a very difficult road because yes, there's also France, there's also Argentina, there are
03:31also other teams.
03:32So we could think that, and I think it's, it's fair to, to, to think that way right after the
03:39World Cup, but I would rather wait and see.
03:41Very careful words there.
03:42Pablo, coming to you next.
03:44For you, what is it that made this team click?
03:47Because there was certainly a sense of teamwork here.
03:49And would you say there's something cultural to this Spanish winning streak?
03:55Yeah, I think it's the, the key thing about this Spanish national team is that there's no big stars.
04:03They have really big players.
04:04Lamey Jamal, Rodri Hernandez, Pau Koubarci.
04:07But the difference from all the national teams we saw in the, in the World Cup, like France, that they
04:14had Kylian Mbappé or Argentina, same with Lionel Messi.
04:19The Spanish biggest star is the whole team because they work like an engine, perfect engine because of the coach,
04:28because of the manager, Luis de la Fuente.
04:29And they feel, as the, Luis de la Fuente, the coach says, as a family.
04:35They, they work as a, as a club team during the, during the whole season.
04:40And that's the principal and biggest key that they will fight and they will play for each other, for the
04:46colleague.
04:47And no matter how many minutes they play, they will do and give their best.
04:51And moving on, just to discuss Argentina a little bit, there was a debate before the match, as you've mentioned,
04:59as to whether Spain's teamwork could overcome Messi's sort of individual genius.
05:03He is, after all, said, well, to be by many the greatest in history.
05:07And that was certainly the case.
05:09The Spanish teamwork did triumph in the end.
05:11Jorge, where do you think this game has left Argentine football?
05:16How difficult will it be for this team to come back strong?
05:21I think that the main point now for Argentina is knowing which players are going to still be in the
05:26squad, because for most of them, this was their last dance.
05:29And once they clear which other players are going to be in the new squad, there's this new wave of
05:37young talent captained by Nico Paz, which had a really strong season at Como.
05:42But once we know if this was Messi's last game, not only that, but also Leandro Paredes, Nicolás Otamendi, there
05:50were so many players that feel like this was their last match.
05:56Argentina's game plan throughout this whole World Cup was just trying to make the opponents as uncomfortable as they possibly
06:03could.
06:03And that led them to the final.
06:05They were not strong enough or they didn't have that confidence or that physical edge to top Spain.
06:13But I think there's a little bit more of a road to conquer for Argentina, considering that there's no World
06:21Cup in less than four years.
06:24So the main point now is knowing which players are going to be on that squad and who's going to
06:30be the manager.
06:30Because Scaloni also said that he doesn't know what the future holds.
06:33Indeed, and we saw a very emotional Scaloni in the recent days as well.
06:37Pablo, I know you're in London and there is also scrutiny over the image of the Argentinian squad sent to
06:44the world from this tournament.
06:45Including after the England match, you know, we saw that very political banner regarding the Islas Malvinas, the Falkland Islands.
06:52But also, of course, after the final where we saw quite violent scenes, we know FIFA now investigating some of
06:59the players who seem to be, you know, taking a hand to the throat to some players of the Spanish
07:04squad.
07:05What do you think of this?
07:07Has it cast a shadow over this tournament and kind of has been a sour ending to see that kind
07:13of behavior at the end?
07:15I believe that there's many English fans that were supporting Spain in the final because what they saw and what
07:26we all saw in the semifinals against the English national team was really similar to what happened in the final.
07:35That's why we could read in the newspapers and one of the biggest media in the UK as the Telegraph,
07:44in Times, in BBC, that Argentinian players were told and said about them,
07:50that they were like criminals, that they were about Argentina felony, thuggery, that they were quite tough because of their
08:00commitment and how they disrespect Spain in their celebration.
08:08And they were so critical and that they didn't know how to lose because as you need to know how
08:16to win.
08:17And I think Spain knew it. Argentina didn't know how to lose.
08:22They were world champions four years ago and we could see some of these ways of being in the Argentinian
08:30players.
08:31And now we saw it again. But losing that was the UK media has been so critical and so tough
08:37with Argentinian players.
08:39OK, that's all we have time for. I'm afraid I'm sure we could continue speaking about this.
08:44Jorge and Pablo, thank you so much for your time this morning.
08:48To Germany next, where Chancellor Friedrich Merz has signalled he is open to reshuffling his government as he seeks to
08:56fill the vacancy left by his centre-right CDU party's parliamentary leader, Jens Spahn.
09:03Spahn was forced to step down last week.
09:05To explain why and what this all means for the Chancellor, let's bring in Sonia Issel, our correspondent who's standing
09:12by in Berlin for us this morning.
09:15Sonia, great to see you. Talk us through this controversy first.
09:20Why was Jens Spahn forced to step down?
09:25Good morning, Mariette. Well, it was a fateful weekend for Friedrich Merz and the CDU.
09:31Like you already said, Jens Spahn, the leader of the parliamentary group, he had to step down due to a
09:36scandal.
09:37That scandal being that he recently became a father with his husband through a surrogate in the US.
09:43Now, the big problem is surrogacy is illegal in Germany and Jens Spahn is one of the main supporters that
09:50wants this procedure to stay illegal within the country.
09:53Now, the fact that he went to the US to use surrogacy to start his own family caused a major
10:00backlash within the opposition parties, within his own party.
10:03People called him a hypocrite and the pressure just kept on building until Friedrich Merz in the end had to
10:10ask him to step down.
10:12And so, Sonia, what does all of this now mean for Merz and also for the shape of his government?
10:21Well, the pressure is on for Friedrich Merz now.
10:24He has to refill this position as soon as possible because we have very important state elections in Germany in
10:31about two months.
10:32And he already said that he might be open to some drastic steps.
10:36He might be open to reshuffling the whole government just to fill this one position,
10:41which again shows us how important the role of a parliamentary leader really is in Germany.
10:47And there are several names being thrown around at the moment.
10:51One of them being Alexander Dobrindt.
10:53He is the interior minister at the moment.
10:55The other one is Thorsten Frei.
10:57He's the chancellery minister.
10:58So both of them already have a very important role within the government.
11:02And if Merz chooses either of them, he will have to replace them as well.
11:06Like I already said, this whole thing couldn't come at a worse time as well because we have these very
11:12important state elections in September.
11:14And it is now very much a big scandal.
11:19And Friedrich Merz would probably rather focus on these elections because the CDU is not in a very good position.
11:25If you look at the polls, the far right AfD, they are at around 40 percent in some of these
11:30states.
11:30The CDU is only at around 20 percent.
11:33So Friedrich Merz would probably rather focus on these elections.
11:37Instead, he is dealing with a major personnel crisis.
11:41OK, Sonia, thank you so much for that analysis for us from Berlin.
11:45And we'll keep an eye out on that developing story here on Euronews.
11:48But now we're heading to the UK, where Andy Burnham walked through the black door of number 10 Downing Street
11:55yesterday and delivered his first address to the nation as prime minister.
11:59In that speech, he promised to be a circuit breaker for Britain, pledging a new political and economic direction after
12:07years of instability.
12:12Britain needs to show the world that we can regain our stability once again.
12:21And that is our challenge, to make politics work, to make it work better.
12:29I know people at home are fed up with politics.
12:32I hear you.
12:34And I want to be honest with you.
12:36We have not been good enough.
12:38And we need to be better.
12:41Burnham also later in the day unveiled his new cabinet.
12:44John Healy, who recently resigned as defence secretary in protest over defence spending plans, becomes chancellor of the Exchequer.
12:53West Reeting, who also resigned as Starmer's health secretary, is also back in government and becomes the new defence secretary.
13:01For more on all of this, I'm joined now by Professor Tony Travers from the London School of Economics.
13:07Very good to see you this morning.
13:09First of all, could you just share with us your view on this new Burnham cabinet?
13:15What does it say about his vision for this next government?
13:20Well, the people he's chosen include many have been in this government since his predecessor, Keir Starmer, was elected in
13:292024.
13:30And some of them have a history going back even to the Tony Blair, Gordon Brown era of British politics
13:36when Labour was in power up to 2010.
13:38So it's a balance between those with some experience and bringing in new people, loyalists really, to Andy Byrne and
13:46some of whom have also been in the Keir Starmer government.
13:50So I don't think it's a tilt particularly to the left, I mean, or the right within British politics.
13:56What it is, is an attempt to reassure the markets with the appointment of John Healy, as you say, the
14:01former defence secretary, as the chancellor of the Exchequer, that's the UK's finance minister.
14:07And Wes Streeting, who had, as you say, resigned as the defence secretary with Ed Miliband as foreign secretary.
14:12So it's recognisable to politicians in Europe and beyond, people they will know, but in different jobs.
14:19Indeed. And in terms of the message that Burnham is now sending to international partners, including in Europe,
14:25what does it say to them bringing John Healy into number 11 after he had, of course, previously resigned in
14:33protest over low defence spending plans?
14:37Well, clearly he's there to convince the markets and the bond markets in particular that a Burnham government is not
14:45going to break the so-called fiscal rules in the UK.
14:48It's not going to increase borrowing and do anything that will alarm the money markets.
14:53So I think that's the signal that's being sent there. There's a lot of discussion who would be in this
14:59position.
14:59I think beyond that, what they're trying to do is to give a bit of a sense that there'll be
15:05more popular changes that will affect people.
15:08So, for example, a cut in value added tax on fuel next winter, but costed in a way that doesn't,
15:16as I say,
15:16make the markets think this government will be less fiscally responsible than its predecessor.
15:22And Tony, very little in Burnham's first speech, really, on foreign or European policy.
15:28He did have a call with the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen last night,
15:33and they've both vowed to work towards a summit on UK-EU relations later this year.
15:40Do you expect, Burnham, to give this reset with the EU the same dedication, the same energy as Keir Starmer
15:48previously did?
15:50Oh, I think he'll probably give it more energy.
15:52I think he's more in favour.
15:55When he was mayor of Greater Manchester, he made a number of statements that were much, much closer,
16:01or suggesting a much closer relationship between the UK and the EU than, I think, Keir Starmer,
16:07who was really quite cautious about it, didn't want to upset public opinion.
16:10Public opinion has moved on to some extent.
16:14There's now a majority polling shows for a closer relationship between the UK and the EU.
16:19So it'll be interesting to see how far Andy Burnham is prepared to go,
16:24and, of course, how far will the EU be prepared to go.
16:26It'll be a negotiation.
16:27But I think this signals a slightly closer relationship between the UK and the EU than Keir Starmer would have
16:34wanted.
16:36OK, Professor Tony Travers, that's all we have time for this morning.
16:39But thank you so much for sharing your insights with us on Europe today.
16:43OK, now we're moving on again to Budapest, where there is a little bit of a reshuffle, we might say,
16:52there as well.
16:54So yesterday, just hours after Prime Minister Peter Maggia publicly called on chess icon Judith Polgar to become the country's
17:03next president,
17:04she politely declined that invitation, saying the responsibility of healing a divided Hungary was simply too great for her.
17:14An interim president is now in post, and that's, of course, after the Orban-appointed president previously resigned
17:22that was under pressure from Prime Minister Maggia, who'd been campaigning to remove him from office.
17:27Now, I believe we can now cross over to our correspondent, Soltan Siposhegi, who is standing by for us in
17:35the Hungarian capital of Budapest this morning.
17:39Soltan, really good to see you.
17:41And maybe tell us first, what do we know so far about this interim president who's now in post,
17:46and when will she eventually have to be replaced?
17:50Good morning, Europe.
17:51So in the Hungarian politics, nothing looks like, as it seems, because it wasn't actually a resignation,
17:58just Tomáš Šujok, the ex-president, realized that he has no other choice than signing the 17th Amendment of the
18:07Constitution.
18:08So it ended his term.
18:11The House Speaker automatically, according to the Constitution, steps forward as a president,
18:17and Agnes Forshopper's career is skyrocketing, because just two years ago,
18:23he wasn't elected even to the assembly of a small countryside town.
18:28She joined the TISA party in 2025, and now, a week ago, she was a House Speaker, and now she
18:36is a president.
18:37But just an interim for 30 days, the government is searching another interim president, actually,
18:45because they promised that they will change.
18:50And very, very briefly, Sultan, how much of a knock to Madja?
18:56I believe we've lost Sultan there.
18:59But thank you so much for your time this morning.
19:02I'm sure we'll bring you more on that story from Budapest in the future on Euronews.
19:06But that's all we have time for this morning.
19:08Remember, we'll be back at the same time and the same place tomorrow.
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