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Европа сегодня: победа АдГ усиливает давление на Мерца, Украина ищет деньги на войну
На канцлера Мерца усиливается давление после исторической победы АдГ в Саксонии-Анхальт. Украина ищет деньги на войну с Россией, а в Сербии тысячи людей простились с Ратко Младичем на пышных похоронах.
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На канцлера Мерца усиливается давление после исторической победы АдГ в Саксонии-Анхальт. Украина ищет деньги на войну с Россией, а в Сербии тысячи людей простились с Ратко Младичем на пышных похоронах.
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04:17Мерц, of course, also spoke about mistakes.
04:19He pointed out a lack of emotion in the CDU's communication and also in his government's communication, and he promised
04:26to change that in the future.
04:27One thing he wants to stick to, though, is his current reform course. He called it necessary, even though it
04:33is particularly unpopular among voters and is also one of the key factors contributing to his unpopularity.
04:39The Social Democrats' coalition partner, however, wants to change course. They want to correct their policy, especially looking at the
04:48pension reform and the care system reform. So there seems to be quite a coalition storm brewing right now.
04:53All right, Laura Fleischmann in Berlin. Thank you very much for these updates.
04:59Friedrich Merz promised to weaken the AfD. Instead, it is stronger than ever. Now the chancellor faces an agonizing dilemma.
05:07Stick to the political firewall and risk watching the AfD grow even further or change course and risk tearing his
05:15own party and perhaps his government apart.
05:17Earlier this morning, I spoke to Bela Ander from 2002 to 2005, chief spokesman for the federal government, Ander Gerhard
05:26Schröder, and now head of the PR company, Ander Business Communication.
05:30I asked him about the options Friedrich Merz has now and whether he can regain control of the political narrative.
05:38Well, it's going to be very hard for Chancellor Friedrich Merz to regain control because there's a substantial amount of
05:47people within his party who are now very critical of him and his politics.
05:52However, I'd say that 90 percent at least of the people in this party are in favor of keeping a
06:01strong distance towards the AfD that has just gained so much, about 45 percent of the voters' share in the
06:09state election of Sachsen-Anhalt.
06:12But so what can he do? He can continue on his reform path, which he's set out to do, and
06:19try to keep the coalition together, which is increasingly difficult because the Social Democrats are on their own path of
06:28avoiding reforms.
06:30And what is the biggest mistake Merz has made?
06:37Communication is the key, something I always say, and he's done very poorly at communication.
06:44He's acknowledged that himself yesterday when he stood up, when he came after talking to his colleagues at the CDU,
06:54at the CDU Presidium, he came out to journalists and said, well, I got to be better than this.
06:58It's always something journalists hear often, and politicians say often, I see this, that's what he said, but I have
07:07to be also more capable of delivering my emotions.
07:11And people will say, oh, please don't do this, because Friedrich Merz has shown some emotions, but in the wrong
07:18way, agonizing of arguments brought to him by the normal public.
07:24So, but it was clear what he meant. He has to deliver in a way that is understood, that the
07:30German public understands why the government is continuing on this reform path.
07:36And that is something, the most important thing, basically, that he has to do.
07:41You are a close aide to Gerhard Schröder. If you were in the same position now with Friedrich Merz, what
07:48would you recommend? What would be your advice to him?
07:54My advice would be, let Friedrich Merz be Friedrich Merz, especially towards the people around him.
08:01And so he has to be more the person that he actually is and not be this person on one
08:11day and the other on the next day, because that's been sort of also a pattern in the last one
08:17and a half years that we've seen.
08:18While he was in government, he was strong on one topic and then totally changed, flip-flopped, basically, and then
08:26was sort of the opposite on the next day when he saw some criticism coming up.
08:31So, keep to your principles and continue on this reform path.
08:37Try to explain more, but in forms, in ways that are more amicable to you than the ones you've chosen
08:45in the past.
08:47Okay, thank you so much, Mr. Ender. It was great having you on the show.
08:52Thank you, Stefan.
08:53One of these days. And have a good flight. I heard that you're going to go to the airport now.
08:58Thank you.
09:02Bela and a former government spokesman under Gerhard Schröder.
09:07Ukraine is fighting on three fronts.
09:10On the battlefield, Russia continues to press its advantage, while Ukraine is increasingly taking the war deep into Russian territory.
09:18Diplomatically, there's a fresh U.S. effort to revive peace talks.
09:21And economically, Ukraine faces another enormous challenge, keeping the country running.
09:27Joining me now is Timothy Milovanov, a former Ukrainian minister of economic development, trade and agriculture,
09:34and now president of the Kiev School of Economics.
09:37Good morning, sir.
09:38Good morning.
09:40So, let us start with the battlefield.
09:42Is Ukraine holding the line, losing ground, or beginning to regain the initiative?
09:51So, it's still losing, on average, this year, but at a very, very small, really minimal rate.
09:59And, for example, if you do a calculation, just, you know, back of the envelope calculation,
10:05how much time Russia would need to achieve its objectives in Donbass, that would be four and a half years.
10:11Maybe up to ten years, if we take the last months, the summer months, rate of advance.
10:17So, yeah, de facto, the front line is stale.
10:22U.S. envoys have been in Moscow, in Kiev, but there has been no breakthrough.
10:28Are these serious peace negotiations, or simply another round of diplomatic positioning?
10:36There are serious attempts at starting negotiations.
10:39So, that's exactly what it is.
10:41There are no negotiations yet.
10:43But the offer, what we hear, again, I don't have direct access to.
10:47This is a very tight inner circle, for obvious reasons.
10:50But, you know, what actually Americans are saying, American sources to us, to me, to our school, are saying,
10:56and some of Ukrainian sources are saying that the Russian position has not really changed since the February talks.
11:04That means limiting army of Ukraine, giving up more unoccupied territory, and recognizing legally the occupied territories as Russian.
11:17Practically, all of these demands are not feasible, because they would contradict a constitution that would take years for Ukraine,
11:25even to attempt to do that,
11:27plus committing people in unoccupied territories to Russian rule.
11:31That's a travesty, and no, no Ukrainian will ever accept that.
11:37So, you know, nothing has changed, but there are attempts to establish a process.
11:42You know, there is a discussion about maybe a trilateral meeting, another round.
11:46This is a development, but a very limited one.
11:51All right.
11:52When you look at Ukraine today, after years of war, are you more optimistic or more worried than you were
11:58a year ago?
11:59You have 30 seconds.
12:00Both.
12:02I am pessimistic or worried that the war will take a long time, but I am optimistic that Ukraine will
12:08hold.
12:08It's ready for a prolonged war, even though it will be very, very costly on people.
12:14All right.
12:15Timothy Milovanov, former Ukrainian economy minister, thank you so much for coming on the show this morning.
12:22A meeting of the so-called Ukraine Defense Contact Group is taking place today amid the urgent need for Ukrainian
12:29air defense.
12:29The meeting will be attended by U.S. Undersecretary of Defense Elbridge Colby,
12:34who is due to brief allies on the severe challenge facing Ukraine and NATO when it comes to air defenses.
12:41Our NATO correspondent Shona Murray joins me now with details.
12:45Good morning, Shona.
12:47Good morning, Shona.
12:49So, U.S. envoys, tell us about this online meeting.
12:54I'm still on the diplomatic line here.
12:57So, there's real concern that the U.S. cannot fulfill the demands from Europe and from Ukraine for air defenses
13:04due to the Iran war.
13:05So, where does that leave NATO and Ukraine?
13:09I think this is what we can say is very much a cautionary tale for European strategic autonomy.
13:14Because, as we know, the Europeans have been purchasing these Patriot air defense systems for Ukraine to intercept these Russian
13:23ballistic missiles that are coming fast and heavy, even overnight.
13:28Before the Iran war, this is also a risky strategy because the Europeans should have been investing in their own
13:33industrial base to be able to provide interceptors as well for Ukraine.
13:37Cue the Iran war.
13:39And we know the United States has burned through critical munitions, including these Patriot defense systems.
13:44Now, the system itself is about a billion dollars.
13:47A missile is about four million dollars.
13:48So, you're talking very expensive, very complicated to produce.
13:52And at the moment, there's absolute scarcity.
13:55That term scarcity is what I've heard from NATO officials for the past few days.
13:58This meeting today will very much focus on getting these interceptors to Ukraine.
14:02But there's a lag because the production can't keep up with the need.
14:06Now, what we saw is Germany has been given the license to manufacture them.
14:10What I've heard is that won't happen.
14:13There won't be any production until really December.
14:15And even with that, half of that needs to go to the United States because America also needs these systems.
14:20And then we saw at the NATO summit, Donald Trump telling Zelensky, you can produce them.
14:25But that will take years to get that production up and running.
14:27So, this is a real issue for European defense and something the Europeans should have been thinking about in the
14:33long term.
14:34Interesting.
14:34Interesting, Shona, from Washington, it's Undersecretary Colby who is attending and not the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth.
14:43Is there a special message?
14:44Well, the Ukraine Defense Contact Group is something that the Americans set up under the Biden administration.
14:49Lloyd Austin, who was Secretary of Defense at the time, when the Trump administration came in, Pete Hegseth said, I
14:54don't want really to chair this.
14:56So, Elbridge Colby would be there.
14:57But the other point about him being there is he would be briefing NATO allies on America's plans to withdraw
15:04U.S. troops from NATO territory.
15:07Now, not all the troops is around 80,000 to 85,000, but certainly they are in the middle of
15:12a posture review.
15:13So, that is not great news when it comes to European security at a time when the war in Ukraine
15:18is really hardening.
15:20The ballistic missiles are really attacking and killing civilians, and we're coming into winter.
15:25So, that's going to be also probably a difficult conversation.
15:28Stefan.
15:28All right, Shona.
15:29Thank you so much, Shona Mari, our NATO correspondent.
15:33The convicted Bosnian-Serb war criminal Ratko Mladic was given a pompous funeral in Belgrade yesterday with government ministers among
15:42those paying their tributes.
15:43That's despite warnings from the EU that any glorification of his death would be incompatible with the bloc's values.
15:51For more, I'm joined again by Marit Gwynn, who has followed this story closely.
15:57Good morning, Marit.
15:58Good morning, Stefan.
15:58So, first off, tell us about what happened yesterday at the funeral.
16:02Indeed.
16:03Just to remind our viewers, the message we were getting from Serbian officials yesterday was that this funeral of Ratko
16:09Mladic, a convicted war criminal,
16:11would be organised by the family and not by the state.
16:15So, the Serbian government really trying to say this is not a funeral with state honours.
16:20However, Stefan, the images, and I think our viewers can see them on the screen shortly,
16:24coming out from that funeral seemed to tell a very different story.
16:28We saw the coffin of Mladic draped in the Serbian flag, flanked by what looked like military officials.
16:36Local media also reporting that there were at least three government ministers present to pay their tributes.
16:43This suddenly felt like a funeral with pomp, with fanfare, and for many people did look at least like a
16:50funeral with state honours.
16:51The European Commission was asked about this yesterday as these images were coming out of Belgrade.
16:56They were asked about the nature of this funeral, and they again repeated this message about not tolerating the glorification
17:03of genocide and this war criminal.
17:09But they did say that it was not the case that this was a funeral with state honours.
17:14Now, that has not gone down well in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
17:18Now, we can take a look at a statement that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Bosnia put out yesterday,
17:24directed at the commission's spokesperson.
17:26They said, are you even aware of what you are saying?
17:29Five ministers, they said, from the Serbian governments were seated in the front row at the funeral.
17:34A convicted war criminal was given military honours.
17:37What are you afraid of?
17:39Why are you unwilling to call this what it is?
17:42So it's clear, Stefan, that the reaction of the commission, because there has been the cancelling of the trip of
17:47Marta Koz, the EU's enlargement chief, to Serbia, but no real action beyond words of condemnation.
17:53And this is generating frustration in Bosnia, but also in the wider international community.
17:58And surely, Mara, Brussels is now under pressure to take action, is it not?
18:04Well, you would think so.
18:05I spoke to a diplomat who said that, in fact, there will be no appetite now amongst member states to
18:12open the next phase of Serbia's accession talks, the talks of becoming an EU member.
18:17And they do need the unanimous approval of all member states to do that.
18:20So there will be an impact.
18:21But the question is now, is Brussels, is the commission willing to go further?
18:25Because theoretically, there are more that they could do.
18:28We know in the past they've frozen the accession process of Georgia over fears of democratic backsliding.
18:34We know that in the past they've also withheld funding from Serbia over controversial judicial reforms.
18:42That was earlier this year.
18:43But I spoke to officials last night, also this morning.
18:46For now, no confirmation as to whether they're going to go further and actually introduce some repercussions and punitive measures
18:53against Serbia.
18:54And this is because this is a very sensitive subject, Stefan.
18:57The commission does see the enlargement into the Western Balkans of the EU as a geo-strategic imperative.
19:04Serbia is a really key, crucial country in that regard.
19:08They don't want to let Serbia fall further into Russia's orbit.
19:12And so this is a very delicate balancing act for the commission as well.
19:15Right.
19:15And we will be following that.
19:17You will be following the story very closely.
19:19Mari, thank you so much for your great reporting.
19:22That's it for today.
19:23Stay tuned for more news here on Euronews and Euronews.com throughout the day.
19:28Thank you for watching.
19:29I'm Stefan Grobe.
19:30Take care and see you tomorrow.
20:00We'll see you tomorrow.
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