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روابط اروپا با چین، آمریکا و بریتانیا همزمان تحت فشار است. کمیسر تجارت اتحادیه اروپا در پکن به‌دنبال بازتنظیم روابط است، روبیو اروپا را به بیداری فرامی‌خواند و لندن بازگشت به اتحادیه را می‌سنجد. در فرانسه دانشجویان امروز در خیابان‌اند.
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روابط اروپا با چین، آمریکا و بریتانیا همزمان تحت فشار است. کمیسر تجارت اتحادیه اروپا در پکن به‌دنبال بازتنظیم روابط است، روبیو اروپا را به بیداری فرامی‌خواند و لندن بازگشت به اتحادیه را می‌سنجد. در فرانسه دانشجویان امروز در خیابان‌اند.
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00:14Good morning, it is Thursday the 8th of October. 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, Marie Carmen, the 87-year-old woman who was evicted from her Madrid home
00:30and sparked the ongoing protests in Spain against the housing crisis, has passed away in a hospital in Madrid.
00:37Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez had called for SNAP elections in November
00:41with the hope that this ongoing housing crisis could overshadow other challenges Spain faces.
00:47And France has banned the police use of stun grenades after a 15-year-old critically hurt his hand this
00:54week
00:54during school protests that have swept the country and even spread here into Belgium.
00:59While critics say police are using disproportionate force against teenagers,
01:03the government says dozens of schools have been set alight, are vandalised.
01:07We'll head over to Paris for the latest.
01:10Meanwhile, Brussels airport is set for major disruption,
01:14with around 140 flights facing cancellation this Friday as ground-handling staff join a national strike.
01:21Unions are walking out in a standoff against the government's reforms they say hit pensions,
01:27salaries and working conditions.
01:29Meanwhile, Brexit is back.
01:32Just a few weeks into the job, the new UK Prime Minister, Andy Burnham,
01:35has launched the idea of a return to the European Union.
01:38We speak exclusively to the UK Minister for European Relations, Hamish Falconer,
01:43who finds himself in Strasbourg this week.
01:46But first to Beijing, where the EU Trade Commissioner, Maris Cetcovich,
01:51has arrived for a crucial two-day visit, seeking to rebalance EU-China relations,
01:55which have become rather lopsided in the past decade.
01:59To understand the high stakes of this trip that comes just days before the EU's October summit,
02:04we're joined by our political correspondent, Jorge Liberadero.
02:07Jorge, just remind us why the Commissioner for Trade is in China right now.
02:11Look, Maeve, if I were to draw the history of EU-China relations,
02:16I would not draw a straight line.
02:18I would draw a circle, because that's what we've been running around for these past 10 years.
02:24Maris Cetcovich now wants to break this circle, and what's inside of it?
02:27We know the issues.
02:29Dumping, state subsidies, market restrictions,
02:32for technological transfer, supply chain dependencies, and currency manipulation.
02:37These are issues that have been unaddressed for years,
02:41and that now have resulted in a €1 billion deficit per day.
02:45€1 billion per day, I have to say that.
02:48Brussels considers the situation unsustainable.
02:51And it's a situation that actually threatens the survival of our industry and our prosperity,
02:57so something needs to change.
02:59This is why Maris Cetcovich has engaged in these negotiations with China,
03:04and has imposed a deadline for this month to obtain the first tangible results.
03:09But now he's in Beijing to find out if these results will appear.
03:13And that's the question.
03:14Will he bring back these tangible results?
03:16He could succeed.
03:17He could fail.
03:18What happens when he gets back?
03:19There's a sequence of events, right?
03:21So Maris Cetcovich is now in Beijing.
03:23He's going to meet his Chinese counterpart, Wang Wen-Tao.
03:26Then he's coming back to Brussels.
03:27He's going to meet his boss, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
03:30Then on Sunday, there's an extraordinary meeting of ambassadors.
03:34The Commission is going to brief them.
03:36Then ambassadors will brief their own capitals.
03:39And then next week, here in Brussels, EU leaders will meet,
03:42and they will have to decide if these results brought back by Cetcovich
03:47are enough to continue the dialogue, or if it's time to take action.
03:51And you mentioned EU leaders, of course, meeting next week in Brussels.
03:54They've been becoming rather hawkish when it comes to China.
03:56We've seen a letter by Friedrich Merz, and also by Emmanuel Macron.
04:00Could we be on the brink of a trade war, Jorge?
04:02This letter, which I have here, by the way, is simply remarkable,
04:06I have to say, for at least two reasons.
04:09The first one is that one of the main factors that have held back
04:13the Commission's policy on China is Germany,
04:16particularly the German industry,
04:18who have been very afraid of retaliation from Beijing.
04:22Now Berlin has concluded that the damage inflicted by China
04:25is greater than the commercial opportunities presented by China.
04:29And then the second reason is the fact that this letter proposes to create a new instrument
04:36that could immediately cut off China from the European market
04:40if the situation continues to be unsustainable, as it is now.
04:43So the very fact that this radical option is put on paper
04:47and is signed by the President of France and the Chancellor of Germany
04:51shows you the exasperation and the desperation that Europeans have reached.
04:56The stakes couldn't be higher.
04:58Couldn't be higher, exactly.
04:59We'll read all your reporting on yournews.com.
05:01Thank you so much for that.
05:02But now, moving on, students in France are bracing for another major day of protests
05:08after trade unions joined them in demonstrations that saw around 250,000 people
05:13from all across the country on Tuesday.
05:15For the latest, we can head over to Paris and bring in our correspondent,
05:18Estelle Nilsen-Julien, who's standing in front of a very rowdy school this morning.
05:24And we can see schoolgoers back on the streets today,
05:27just two days after that major demonstration.
05:29They're clearly still not satisfied, Estelle.
05:33Yes, so students and unions will be back on the streets today in Paris and across the country
05:39because they say the government is not listening to them.
05:42As you can see, I'm outside a secondary school in the 5th arrondissement of Paris
05:47and students got here very early.
05:49I've been in the streets since half six and I've seen students drag bins, barriers,
05:54many of them wearing face masks to cover their faces.
05:59In terms of what the unions and teaching unions are calling for,
06:02they are urging the government to reverse some of its budget proposals,
06:06including things like pay freezes for public sector workers.
06:12And how has the government reacted? Have they made any concessions?
06:17Well, yesterday, Le Carnau, the French Prime Minister, addressed the nation
06:21and he made a point of saying that police officers and law enforcement officers
06:27had not been instructed to attack or have any acts of violence towards children.
06:34This comes amid intense scrutiny of police methods.
06:37And we've seen some shocking cases where children were hurt in instances of police brutality.
06:45But the government has also launched a mass online consultation this week,
06:50which has already gathered 40,000 signatures.
06:52And the Prime Minister said that the findings of this consultation
06:56would be used to inform any possible policy changes.
07:00And Estelle, how long could these protests go on for?
07:06How long? I can't tell you exactly, but I was just speaking to some students a few minutes ago
07:11who told me they would be on the streets for as long as it takes.
07:15They told me they were here because they felt their school days were too long
07:18and that they wanted more time outside of school for their personal life.
07:23Experts I spoke to, though, have told me that these kinds of social movements tend to dissipate
07:29in school holidays and France has a half term coming up in the coming weeks.
07:34So that could be a factor which could make things slow down a little bit.
07:38OK, Estelle, Missa, Julianne, thank you so much for your live broadcast there
07:41from the capital of France, from Paris.
07:44But now we can head to Athens, where the Secretary of State from the US, Marco Rubio,
07:48has arrived for the sixth round of the US-Greece Strategic Dialogue.
07:52Up for discussion, security, defence and energy.
07:56And speaking just last night in Athens, Marco Rubio said Europe needs to, quote,
07:59wake up from its long slumber.
08:01For more, we can head over to Athens and bring in our correspondent, Faye de Clary.
08:06Good morning, Faye.
08:07So quite an America first speech last night with quite a dig at Europeans to spend more on defence.
08:13Tell us more.
08:16Good morning, Maeve.
08:17Marco Rubio is calling again on European countries to take on a greater responsibility
08:22for defending their own defence.
08:25And he singled out Greece as an example.
08:27Speaking yesterday alongside the Greek Foreign Minister,
08:32Giorgos Supergara-Petritis, he praised Greece because the country is about to spend
08:365% of its GDP this year on defence with 3.5% solely on core defence.
08:45Speaking under the Parthenon in the afternoon, Rubio linked the war in Ukraine,
08:51the situation in the Middle East, the situation in the Red Sea and the Strait of Hormuz,
08:57with greater need of Europe to start defending more the continent and spending more on defence.
09:04And he warned Europe, as you said, to wake from its long slumber
09:09and strengthen both its defence and industrial base.
09:14And, Faye, the trip comes during quite a scandalous controversy, if you like,
09:18over the US ambassador to Greece.
09:20Tell us more about that.
09:23Yes, that was one of the highlights of the visit, I would say.
09:26An American colleague asked during the press conference, Marco Rubio,
09:31about the Wall Street Journal report concerning the American ambassador,
09:36Kimberly Guilfoyle, according to the Wall Street Journal, some weeks ago,
09:41in March, during a dinner with Greek and American officials,
09:45Kimberly Guilfoyle referred to the fall of Romania's government,
09:51saying, allegedly, that the United States had something, implying better,
09:56that the United States had something to do with it,
09:59and saying, allegedly, again, that the United States can do that with all the governments,
10:04even in Greece.
10:05As you can understand, this caused quite a noise here in Athens,
10:10and, of course, in Bucharest for some days.
10:14And some analysts even linked the timing of the visit to this situation.
10:19But Marco Rubio, yesterday, rejected all these allegations.
10:24He said that they were false,
10:26and he gave full support to the American ambassador in Greece,
10:31saying that she's doing her job great.
10:34OK, Fado Clary, thank you so much for that live broadcast there from Athens this morning.
10:40And moving on now, Brexit is back on the political agenda,
10:43after the UK Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, who's actually in Berlin today,
10:47said he would weigh a range of options for the future relationship with the European Union,
10:51including the possibility of rejoining.
10:54Intense talks on resettling the relationship between both sides
10:58continue ahead of a summit expected to take place here in Brussels next month.
11:02Your News' Marid Gwynne spoke to the UK Minister for European Relations,
11:06that's Hamish Falconer, who's actually in Strasbourg this week.
11:08And she began by asking him if Andy Burnham's remarks had radically changed his mandate
11:14as the UK's chief negotiator with Brussels.
11:18My Prime Minister set out a very ambitious approach last week.
11:22He believes that the current relationship that we have is not good enough,
11:26and I totally share that.
11:27And that's what I've been discussing with colleagues today.
11:30I've seen my counterpart, the Commissioner Sechevich, here,
11:33as well as many colleagues in the European Parliament.
11:36I am ambitious, as is the Prime Minister, to go further and faster with the European Union.
11:43We are eternal neighbours.
11:46We have real shared interests.
11:47And we're looking at this relationship with a real range of determination and ambition.
11:53What does that mean, then, Minister, for this UK EU summit
11:56that we're expecting as soon as November?
11:59Do you expect to simply sign off on the deals negotiated
12:02by the previous government of Keir Starmer, or can we expect more?
12:06And can we expect Burnham to lay out a more long-term vision in November?
12:12So, we haven't yet confirmed the date of the summit,
12:15but we hope to be able to do so soon.
12:17I want the most ambitious possible package.
12:19Of course, we've been conducting negotiations on a range of issues,
12:24including food, electricity trading standards, youth mobility.
12:28But we want to go further and faster, as I said earlier.
12:33And so, I'm not going to get too drawn into the detail of the negotiations.
12:36All I'll say is there's a real shared sense, both between me and my colleagues here,
12:42of a desire to bring Britain back closer to the European Union
12:46and be as ambitious as we possibly can.
12:48And in answer to your specific question,
12:50yes, I expect that my Prime Minister will set out,
12:53in more detail, some of the views that he talked about in our conference last week
12:59around the time of the summit.
13:01I appreciate you can't answer the details of these, you know, negotiations,
13:05but I want to ask you about Made in Europe,
13:07because I understand that for your government,
13:09the UK's inclusion in the Made in Europe industrial policy
13:13in order to avoid UK industries from being shut off,
13:17the European market is a major priority.
13:20Do you see that a deal on that could be close?
13:23Look, I think it's worth saying at the outset
13:26that the industries that have lobbied me with the most enthusiasm
13:30are European industries.
13:32And there's such a clear sense that the European industrial base is shared
13:37with the second largest export market for the EU,
13:41with the largest recipient of new EU vehicles,
13:45many of which are partially constructed in the UK.
13:47It would not be in either of our interests to see new barriers arising
13:53in our economic relations.
13:55It is so strongly in EU and UK interests
13:59that the existing strong arrangements that we have are sustained.
14:02And in terms of the concessions that you're willing to make
14:05in order to gain access and be included in that policy,
14:09you know, how far are you willing to go?
14:11So I think, as I said, I don't want to talk too much
14:14about the detail of the negotiations,
14:15but just in general, we've got very clear legally binding arrangements
14:20which govern the way in which the UK and EU markets are so closely integrated.
14:25That's the TCA.
14:26That provides strong protections to both sides on rules of origin
14:30and all sorts of other things.
14:31It is the underpinning of a really important shared industrial base.
14:37If we were to fracture that industrial base,
14:39that would simply mean a weaker Europe, both in the UK and in the EU.
14:43So I don't think talking about sort of concessions is quite the right place to start.
14:47This is a shared European industrial base.
14:49We face shared common challenges,
14:52which I've been very pleased to discuss for so many of my counterparts here today.
14:56I think it is vital that we don't do things to make European industry weaker.
15:05And staying in Strasbourg, MEPs from the left wing of the European Parliament
15:09have come up with a new proposal.
15:11They want to slash their net salaries in half from €8,800 per month to €4,400.
15:18For more, we can head over to Strasbourg and speak to Marc Bottenga,
15:21Belgian MEP from the left and actually one of the authors of this proposal.
15:25Good morning, Marc. Thanks for joining us.
15:27Tell us more about your idea here.
15:32Well, the idea is a very, I mean, as you know,
15:34that the salaries for members of the European Parliament,
15:36also members of the Commission, are extremely generous.
15:39You know, they can go up to €13,000, €14,000 a month easily
15:42without even the additional allowances.
15:44And so the question here is, in a situation in which many people struggle
15:48to make it to the end of the month, perhaps it is time to say,
15:51listen, we're going to cut these salaries a little bit
15:53in order to bring them down to earth.
15:55And in order for MEPs to, you know, realise perhaps a little bit more
15:59what the regular European is going through.
16:01But I'm sure this proposal would face a lot of opposition there
16:04in the Parliament among MEPs.
16:06So what can you actually really change?
16:11Well, I think it's important to put that discussion out there.
16:14That's the first thing.
16:15Obviously, you know, people are shouting populism.
16:18But I think it's very important that when, also for the outside,
16:21when people see that, you know, members of the European Parliament,
16:24the European Commission, they're very happy to discuss anything.
16:27Like they can discuss cutting the European social funds,
16:30the cohesion funds, the regional funds, whatsoever.
16:32All of this can be discussed.
16:33But when it's about themselves, when it is about, you know,
16:37their own privileges, their own salaries,
16:38then suddenly, oh, no, this cannot even be discussed.
16:40So I think it's good to put that out there,
16:42especially today when we have this energy crisis,
16:44you know, when many of us are afraid to go, actually, you know,
16:48go up, get your fuel, do your groceries and whatever.
16:53So I think that would be a really important signal.
16:55And I've seen some critics say this is a populist stunt here.
16:57What would you say to them?
17:02Well, you know, I would say why haven't they...
17:04The only thing, the only thing they're stressed about
17:07is their own salary, their own privilege.
17:08For the rest, they're very happy to discuss anything, as I said.
17:11Secondly, I do believe that the way you live
17:13influences the way you vote and the kind of proposals you make.
17:16You know, if you yourself have no clue what it means
17:19to be scared to, you know, pay for fuel,
17:23to pay for groceries whatsoever,
17:26you know, this is going to have an impact on the priorities
17:28and on the proposals you're going to make in Parliament
17:31or at the level of the European Commission.
17:33You know, you're not going to consider the energy crisis
17:36terribly horrible
17:37if you don't feel it yourself,
17:39a little bit at least, you know.
17:40So in this sense, I would say, you know,
17:42maybe it's time for you to get out of your bubble
17:45and realize what's going on outside.
17:47And if you want to lead by example, of course,
17:49why stop at the salaries?
17:50As you said, MEPs also get big allowances.
17:52Should they be looked at too?
17:57Oh, absolutely.
17:58I think there's a number of things we should be looking at.
18:01I mean, we've got different proposals as well.
18:03There's also the transitional allowance.
18:04So when MEPs leave Parliament, they get this transitional allowance.
18:07You know, we'd say, why don't you just integrate,
18:10you know, national unemployment schemes?
18:11Because there's a lot of pressure on unemployment schemes
18:14at national levels, also pushed by politicians.
18:17But then they themselves are exempt from those schemes.
18:20So I think there's a number of things that we can tackle.
18:23Also on the additional allowances,
18:25why should that be just a fixed amount?
18:27Shouldn't that be linked to what you're actually spending?
18:30You know, all of these matters are on the table
18:32and need to be put on the table.
18:34And that's what we're doing right now,
18:35because we're saying it's time to burst this bubble a little bit.
18:38People are angry outside,
18:39and they're angry at decisions that have been made
18:41in this Parliament and by this Commission.
18:43And in order to break away with that,
18:45to do away with that, sorry,
18:47I think this is a good first step.
18:49Well, people are certainly angry.
18:51Mark Patengo, we see protests from Madrid to Paris,
18:54and of course, Brussels bracing itself tomorrow
18:57for a national strike.
18:58Thank you so much for your time this morning
18:59and for joining us on Europe Today.
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