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Europe Today: Rusia amenaza a Europa, la crisis de Ceuta se agrava y AfD lidera
Rusia apunta a los europeos para dividir a los líderes de la UE y sembrar miedo. En España, Sánchez afronta la crisis por miles de migrantes irregulares en Ceuta, mientras en el este de Alemania AfD podría ganar unas elecciones locales.
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Rusia apunta a los europeos para dividir a los líderes de la UE y sembrar miedo. En España, Sánchez afronta la crisis por miles de migrantes irregulares en Ceuta, mientras en el este de Alemania AfD podría ganar unas elecciones locales.
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00:13Good morning, it is Friday the 4th of September, I'm Maeve McMahon and this is Europe Today.
00:20Your daily dose of European news and analysis live here on Euronews.
00:25Coming up, Russia is actively targeting Europeans in an effort to divide EU leaders and spread
00:32fear among European citizens.
00:35That's the main message coming out of Ireland this week, where a series of very high-level
00:41EU meetings have been taking place since Monday.
00:44Our correspondent Shona Murray is on the ground where she sat down exclusively with France's
00:49European Affairs Minister, Benjamin Haddad.
00:51And Ukraine risks losing billions in international funding after failing to advance legislation
00:58required by the International Monetary Fund.
01:00We'll hear exclusively from the Finance Minister of Ukraine, Sergei Martenko, who says the war
01:06intensified very quickly in August.
01:08He's calling on allies to start thinking outside the box.
01:12Plus, local elections with huge consequences.
01:17All eyes are on Saxony-Anhalt in eastern Germany this weekend, where the far-right anti-EU AFD is
01:24soaring high in the polls.
01:26We'll check what this could mean for the CDU party of Friedrich Merz with live analysis from
01:32our correspondent in Magdeburg.
01:33But first, to Spain, where Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and his government are having
01:38a very difficult week.
01:40More than a month after thousands of irregular migrants entered Ceuta, the small Spanish city
01:45in North Africa, Pedro Sánchez is facing calls to step down.
01:49Speaking in Parliament, he defended his government's handling of the crisis and denied that there was
01:55any evidence that Moroccan authorities had orchestrated the mast crossing.
02:01Our agents had to make an operational decision in a few minutes.
02:05They had to choose between momentarily guaranteeing the border's tightness or defending human life.
02:10And they chose to defend human life.
02:13We have also requested financial and institutional support from the European Commission.
02:20Let's face it, it did not set the example of solidarity that I believe all Spaniards expected
02:25during these days.
02:26Certainly, in Spain, we say that the European Union is above all about solidarity.
02:30It was in La Medusa, it is so in Greenland, and it is also so in the Canary Islands.
02:36For reactions now from the opposition on how this is impacting Spain, and also, of course,
02:40EU migration policy, we're joined now by Antonio López Estudis, Spanish MEP from the European
02:46People's Party.
02:47Good morning, Mr. López, thank you so much for joining us.
02:50Now, we've seen Spaniards protesting this week over the government's handling of the crisis.
02:54Tell me, what would your party have done differently here?
02:58Good morning, Maith, and thank you very much for this invitation.
03:03Of course, our party would have paid attention in government to the reports that were given
03:10by the National Police and the intelligence services two days before, advising the government
03:16about the crisis that was going to be developed.
03:20That is where the Prime Minister of Spain lied clearly.
03:25He always maintained during the whole month of August that there was no information, that
03:30they didn't know anything about it.
03:32But now we know, thanks to the leaking, unfortunately, but this is the case of reports, you know, that
03:40tell us a very different story.
03:42So what role do you believe Morocco played here?
03:47A role who played who?
03:48Morocco.
03:50Ah, Morocco.
03:51Well, it is clear from these reports, and this will, it's now in the hands of the judges
03:56in Spain.
03:57I will go through the usual judiciary process of investigation, but there are these leaking
04:03show photographs of Moroccan police helping these 80,000 people descending from trucks and
04:13going into the Spanish frontier.
04:15I cannot tell you this is true or not.
04:17Judges will tell us, you know, and the further investigation, but it is clear that at some
04:23level, it seems that Morocco was involved in this.
04:26This is not, by the way, the first time.
04:28Remember that in 2021, already the European Parliament condemned the Spanish government
04:32for doing exactly the same.
04:34Nothing against this kind of test from the Moroccan government.
04:39And there's a lot of disinformation and misinformation online as well about this episode.
04:43Do you think that there's Israeli bots or Russian bots here responsible, like Pedro Sanchez has
04:47suggested?
04:48No, no, this is the usual neighboring relation, you know, that has happened before.
04:54At that time in 2021, Israel or the United States, no one had Russia, no one had nothing
05:00to do.
05:00It's always the same.
05:02It's Morocco testing the will of a government in Spain to keep the frontier safe for Spain
05:08and Europe.
05:09Of course, now the moment is clear.
05:13The Spanish government is surrounded by scandals, corruption.
05:18A minister was condemned for 24 years in jail for corruption.
05:22The wife of the prime minister, his brother, are indicted.
05:26I mean, what else can you ask here?
05:28You know, this is weakness.
05:30The Spanish government is weak.
05:32And unfortunately, this is also European interests.
05:35OK, Antonio Lopez, thank you so much for joining us this morning and bringing the view from
05:39the European People's Party on that crisis that's hit Spain.
05:43But now moving on, the EU is on high alert as NATO Secretary General Marco Dutta and security
05:48services within EU member states say Russia is actively targeting European states with
05:53the intention of striking fear among citizens over the government support of Ukraine.
05:58For more, we can bring in now our correspondent Shona Murray, who's been in Dublin for us all
06:02covering these high stake talks.
06:05So Shona, the message really seems to be here to stay vigilant.
06:11That's right, Maeve.
06:12I mean, the context of this, of course, is that watershed moment last month when German
06:16security authorities intercepted an explosive laden drone at Leipzig airport.
06:21And then this week we had the German government formally attribute blame to the Kremlin.
06:27So it marks a step up or a development in the confrontation between Europe and the Kremlin.
06:32And with that, we have security organizations in Denmark and France saying that the Kremlin is
06:37actively targeting European countries with a bid to unravel support for Ukraine and also,
06:43of course, cause harm.
06:44And with that, I caught up with Benjamin Haddad, the French EU affairs minister.
06:49And I asked him about this threat.
06:51This is the first test for European security.
06:55And we've only accelerated and increased our support for Ukraine at the European level in
07:00the last month.
07:01Remember where we were just a year and a half ago, after the Oval Office meeting between
07:05President Trump, President Zelensky, Vice President Vance, when many people thought that
07:10Europeans would stand aside as Ukraine would be forced into capitulation by a deal signed by
07:16Russia and the United States.
07:18On the contrary, we've taken ownership of our own security and defense.
07:22Today, the bulk of support for Ukraine is provided by Europeans.
07:26I suppose it's very hard to define the situation we're in now, because up until now, you've had
07:31these sort of below threshold hybrid attacks.
07:34But as we heard from Mark Rutte, the Secretary General of NATO, and Kaya Callas, these attacks
07:38are becoming much more kinetic, much more frequent, much more violent and reckless.
07:42Are we at war with Russia?
07:45Well, you know, it's not war, but it's certainly not peace.
07:48And this is why we need to continue to increase our effort, first to bolster our defense against
07:55these hybrid attacks.
07:56But would you say, though, the situation we're in now is, let's say, vastly different to
08:00even the security situation a year ago, that we're getting much closer to that confrontation?
08:05I think we've known for a long time that we were facing a threat coming from Russia.
08:09And by the way, we just need to listen to the constant questioning of European security,
08:15of the European security architecture coming from the leaders in the Kremlin.
08:19So I think, you know, the most important thing is stay calm, stay the course, continue to
08:24invest in our security and defense, continue the support for Ukraine, continue the pressure
08:30and the economic pressure that we're putting on Russia.
08:33You can see, by the way, what's happening on the battlefield with Ukrainians showing incredible
08:41ingeniosity and innovation on the battlefield with drones.
08:43You can see the success of the long-range tracks.
08:46They're bringing also the war to Russia with the impact that it's having, including on the
08:51Russian people.
08:52Marine Le Pen goes from strength to strength, it appears.
08:56Despite the fact that, you know, she has a conviction for misuse of funds, which something,
09:00you would imagine voters would be something that would put them off.
09:04What have you guys done wrong?
09:06You know, I think you see the rise of the far right and populist everywhere in Europe.
09:11And we should take this with a lot of humility.
09:14And our first responsibility, first, is to continue to deliver on results.
09:18But I know something for sure.
09:19The French are deeply pro-European.
09:21The French are proud of the role that their country is playing on the European stage.
09:26And Marine Le Pen, for a long time, has been the candidate of Brexit.
09:31She's been the candidate of leaving the euro.
09:33She was the candidate of the alliance with Vladimir Putin.
09:36She's trying to make people forget about all of this.
09:39And sometimes even says that it never happened, even though we know her stance on the European
09:43Union for a long time.
09:45At the same time, they're getting stronger.
09:47And they did ever so well at the European Parliament election.
09:50I think, you know, you have a broader sense of maybe loss of control in globalization.
09:57You have a world that's changing very rapidly, where a lot of the certainties that we had
10:01in the 90s and the 2000s are crumbling.
10:04You know, trade is being weaponized as a tool of pressure.
10:07You see the rise of China and the subsidized overcapacities that are coming to our markets
10:15are destabilizing our industries.
10:17You see our traditional alliances that are being questioned and a war of Russian aggression
10:22on our continent.
10:24And so when you have all this transformation, uncertainties, and a lot of the pillars on
10:30which we had built our systems, our European Union, our transatlantic alliance that are being
10:36questioned, yes, I think, you know, these periods of transition paved the way very often for
10:41radical answers.
10:42I don't think they're the right answer.
10:43I don't think that in a world where you have the pressure from China, from the U.S., the
10:48threat coming from Russia, we would be stronger going it alone.
10:54Meanwhile, Ukraine's finance minister has warned the country is facing serious budget constraints,
11:00the toughest since 2022, when the full-scale war began.
11:03In an exclusive interview with our Europe editor, Maria Tadeo, Sergi Marchenko urged European
11:08finance ministers to, quote, think outside the box.
11:11He revived cause to use frozen Russian assets as Ukraine heads into another very harsh winter.
11:18We believe that it's fair enough to expect, envisaging another year of war, that Ukraine
11:25needs additional sources to finance their needs.
11:29Definitely, we're in full support of such incentives.
11:32We would like all other European countries to join this incentive.
11:36It's not only Sweden, but also Poland and other countries.
11:39But we would like a broader coalition of countries to discuss this issue during the recent months.
11:47We believe that it's fair enough to expect, envisaging another year of war, that Ukraine
11:54needs additional sources to finance their needs.
11:57And the proposal which we would like to discuss is the possibility to transfer custodian of frozen
12:05ashes from Belgium to European Union.
12:08It will help to settle everything and mitigate the risk.
12:12So explain to me, how is your plan different compared to six months ago?
12:16The plan is definitely different because it creates conditions when it's not the responsibility of
12:25Belgium to have any court disputes, future disputes with Russia.
12:32So it's a totally different scenario.
12:34So we don't want this money to operate from the euro clear side.
12:38We want this money to be transferred into some accounts which operate under European jurisdiction.
12:45Well, have you detected because governments across Europe are seeing the cost of this war, which
12:50they help you finance now practically alone without the United States, is going up, that
12:55has changed their political calculus?
12:57It's better now to tap into Russia rather than to pay out of pocket?
13:01European countries should think out of the box and to discuss broader sources to finance
13:06Ukraine needs.
13:07And moreover, from our side, now war intensified very quickly.
13:13So we realized ourselves in totally different reality during last month.
13:18Recent attacks on our logistics, we see that we will expect a very hard winter before us.
13:26It means that escalations means that we should have means to survive these escalations.
13:32But after any escalations, we believe it will be a good possibility to peaceful negotiations.
13:40OK, so you're saying the budget for next year, including the funding needs, will be based
13:44on the idea that the war will continue.
13:46You also say you're expecting a difficult winter also on the front, and that will impact
13:51the economy.
13:51What numbers are you working on from just a macro perspective?
13:55Our basic needs to attract foreign financing is the same, practically speaking.
14:02So we are talking about around 50 billion US dollars per year.
14:06And what we realize is that uncovered financial needs for 2027 is rather big.
14:13Our estimate is around 32.6 billion US dollars at this moment.
14:19We are finalizing our budget, and our mission, IMF mission, worked in Kyiv during these three
14:26days.
14:26We discussed budget with them in details, and I believe that we have the same estimates of
14:33our uncovered needs as them.
14:35Can you confirm to us that you will ask the European Union to accelerate the payments coming
14:42out of the 90 billion US dollars that were just approved over Christmas last year?
14:46I am not ready to tell you that we need to accelerate it for a budget needs for 2026.
14:53But your question is about if we have any risk which can materialize in the military field.
15:00Yes, I can tell you for 100% that our Ministry of Defense requested additional money to procure
15:08weaponry.
15:09They requested additional 27 billion US dollars or 23.2 billion euro this year to be able
15:18to procure some weaponry to front load some procurement for 2027.
15:24So we already see some issues with liquidity.
15:30We envisage liquidity shortages in our budget.
15:34It means that we can postpone some payments for leisure because of lack of sufficient liquidity
15:41in our budget.
15:42It means that we have some consequences.
15:47Some payments which are not fully related to war.
15:52Okay, but the consequences would be what?
15:53We didn't have such a situation starting from the beginning of the war.
15:58In 2022, we really did suffer a lot.
16:01We really did feel some lack of sufficient liquidity in our budget accounts.
16:05But right now, we are really too far near the same scenario we had in 2022.
16:13What I detect from you this time around is there's a form of concern.
16:19And I've heard you say now multiple times, if there is no cash, we will have to make cuts.
16:23There could be budget cuts imminent.
16:25Difficult winter.
16:26Just how worried are you?
16:27Well, you know, Maria, I am worried, but I prefer to be calm and concentrated.
16:35So because it's not time for worry, it's time for actions.
16:42Now, moving on to Germany, where the far-right AFD party is leading the polls ahead of regional
16:48elections this Sunday in Saxony-Anhalt in the east of the country, putting Friedrich
16:53Merz, governing Conservative CDU, under pressure.
16:56For more on this, we can head now straight to Magdeburg, the capital of the state of Saxony-Anhalt,
17:00where our correspondent, Laura Fleischmann, is standing by for us just outside the very Saxon
17:05state parliament.
17:07Good morning, Laura.
17:08Just tell us first, what is at stake here and what would an AFD government actually look
17:13like there?
17:15Good morning to you, too.
17:17And well, this election could truly send shockwaves through German politics.
17:21This could be the very first far-right state government since Germany was founded, the
17:25Federal Republic of Germany, that is.
17:27And well, I looked at the party's programme and it has quite interesting points in it.
17:33And well, it says that the party demands efforts to put an end to illegal and culturally alien
17:39and anti-native mass migration.
17:41Furthermore, launching a major deportation and re-migration campaign is absolutely necessary,
17:45is what the party writes there.
17:47And by winning, the AFD would also gain significant influence over education here in Saxony-Anhalt
17:52due to the way the German education system is set up.
17:55They want to reinstate school exchanges with Russia and they also want special classes for
18:00refugee children to show them that their stay in Germany is only temporary.
18:06And the top candidate of the AFD, Ulrich Siegmund, he also stated that he is potentially open
18:11to abolishing the office for the protection of the constitution here in Saxony-Anhalt.
18:16It is an institution that is responsible for monitoring extremist organisations, including
18:21the local AFD branch.
18:23OK, Lara, so that's the manifesto.
18:24But the big question, can the AFD actually govern in Saxony-Anhalt?
18:28And what would that mean for Friedrich Merz and for Germany as a whole?
18:33Well, there's one important piece of vocabulary to understand here, and that is the Brandmauer,
18:38the firewall.
18:38So far, all the German mainstream parties have refused to cooperate with the AFD.
18:43So this could mean that even if the AFD wins the vote, they won't necessarily be able to
18:48govern.
18:49But this could also lead to a very difficult coalition puzzle to solve, since all the other
18:53parties either don't want to cooperate or they won't be able to form a majority.
18:57And there's one more important factor to know or to be aware of, that is the 5% threshold.
19:02Multiple parties are currently struggling with this, and this could mean that their votes
19:06won't translate into seats and therefore leading to a majority of seats for the AFD, even
19:12though they don't have 50% or more of the votes.
19:15And Friedrich Merz is currently struggling with low approval ratings.
19:18For him, this is truly a test on whether his CDU can actually contain the far right.
19:23Lara Fleischmann reporting there live from Magdeburg on a story that's been closely watched, of
19:28course, here in Brussels.
19:30But that does bring Friday's episode of Europe Today to an end.
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