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Kaja Kallas, az EU vezető diplomatája exkluzív interjút ad Maria Tadeónak, amikor a vezetők Brüsszelbe érkeznek egy csúcsra az energiaárakról és a hétéves költségvetésről. Megszólal Abu Abughazaleh, Jordánia beruházási minisztere is.
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Kaja Kallas, az EU vezető diplomatája exkluzív interjút ad Maria Tadeónak, amikor a vezetők Brüsszelbe érkeznek egy csúcsra az energiaárakról és a hétéves költségvetésről. Megszólal Abu Abughazaleh, Jordánia beruházási minisztere is.
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00:14good morning it's Thursday October 15th you're watching Euronews and this is Europe today coming
00:22up spiraling energy prices the EU's long-term budget and support for Ukraine in the wake of
00:28Donald Trump's latest pressure campaign these are the topics that will dominate the conversation
00:33as the leaders of the EU gather for a two-day summit in Brussels today the meeting will start
00:39in a couple of hours with a hotly anticipated discussion on energy prices which hostilities
00:44in the Middle East have since skyrocketing we'll discuss the issues live with EU High Representative
00:50Kaya Callas who is in our studio diesel markets will remain tight well into next year and wholesale
00:57diesel prices in Europe could rise again in the coming weeks the International Energy Agency
01:02warned in its monthly report the Paris-based energy watchdog said recovering Gulf oil supplies had
01:08failed to resolve the fuel squeeze with global output still falling short of consumptions supply
01:15rose by 2.5 million barrels today in September to more than three-quarters of pre-war levels but
01:22remains slightly below global demand the IEA estimated and 58 members of the European Parliament have urged
01:30the EU Commission to shield the International Criminal Court from US sanctions that threatened to disrupt its
01:36operations in a letter seen by Euronews the members called and commissioned President von der Leyen to defend
01:43the Hague-based court against what they described as an attack by a foreign power on an entity on EU
01:50territory
01:50the Trump administration had announced fresh sanctions against the ICC last Friday following repeated
01:57criticism of the court over its arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu welcome to the
02:04program I'm Stefan Grobe EU leaders are meeting in Brussels today for a heavy agenda involving the EU's next
02:11seven-year budget the gathering takes place amid deteriorating relations between the US and Europe over Ukraine
02:19and now let's go directly to my colleague Maria Tudeo who is with a special guest the EU High
02:26representative Kaya Kalas yes absolutely chef and good morning and madam Kalas good morning thank you for
02:32joining us on Euronews this has been a difficult week a dramatic week some would suggest it started with
02:38that diesel deal with Russia and now there seems to be real operational issues when it comes to the intel
02:43on the ground in Ukraine the president of Ukraine Zelensky says this is a betrayal it feels like a
02:49betrayal has the US president betrayed Ukraine and by extension the Europeans well the diesel deal is
02:56definitely a gift to Putin the question is what that is he given in return what we see he's actually
03:04increasing the attacks on the civilian and civilian infrastructure the ceasefire that was also announced
03:09is not really working on the Russian side and to that point the president of Ukraine seems to indicate in
03:16an
03:16interview with the FT that he is prepared and will hit back Russian refineries there is a clash of visions
03:23here the
03:23president of the US says don't hit them we need them because there is an energy crisis it started with
03:29the
03:29Strait of Hormuz the Ukrainians say we have to because that is the core of the operation the moneymaker for
03:35Russia and your view as a top European diplomat should Ukraine hit them?
03:39I mean the core issue is that Russia should stop this war so there wouldn't be any attacks on the
03:46refineries either but you know if we look at the big picture then the majority of the financing for this
03:55war comes from oil and that is why Ukraine is also targeting them while Russia is targeting the energy infrastructure
04:03inside Ukraine to cause as much suffering for the Ukrainian people for the upcoming winter and this escalation we've seen
04:11since August on the cities but just to pick up on this point would you say yes the president of
04:16Ukraine has a legitimate point he is right to hit the refineries?
04:21yes if we look at the you know the international law it is clear that it is in defense of
04:27Ukraine because that is where the funding comes for this war to kill Ukrainian people every day
04:33and to me it seems the administration is looking currently at this scenario suggesting that the war is now not
04:39going to change that line on the battlefield that is the end of it and you have to make a
04:44deal
04:44they seem to think that with Russia it's a matter of business financial incentives we see that with diesel reports
04:52that they may want to use some of the frozen assets potentially give them to Russia
04:56is the administration wrong are they just miscalculating fully what Vladimir Putin wants well clearly you know we have to
05:05see the bigger picture which is that we have one aggressor and one victim so pressuring the victim to surrender
05:11is maybe bringing the pause to this war but not you know in long term and that's why the pressure
05:18should be on the aggressor what we are doing on European side and if we would do this together with
05:24US then the message
05:26to Russia would be clear stop this war and all your worries when it comes to oil refineries and what
05:33not will also stop to me from the outside what it seems however is we are a point of rupture
05:39the US has taken on a very different path compared to that of the Europeans do you look at it
05:43and you say we need a wake-up call it is just a moment of we need to put our
05:49own plan and why has that not happened now
05:51well we have put our own plan and that is a clear message also to Russia that you know all
05:59these things that they are interested in lifting the sanctions I mean getting you know the the release of frozen
06:05assets that's actually up to the Europeans to decide now Russians want to discuss and negotiate with US so that
06:13US would deliver them what they want so so you know Europe is just a nuisance here but actually you
06:20know we have our own
06:21requests for Russia requests for Russia because they have started this war we want to make sure that they don't
06:27continue also you know the sabotage acts hybrid attacks that they have on European soil so clearly clearly you know
06:35the message is there that you know you need to talk to the Europeans as well but it seems to
06:40me and I say this with all due respect because the EU is a complex institution the capitals too but
06:46there is a lack of leadership
06:47when you are blindsided when you are blindsided every four months when you are blindsided every four months when you
06:50are not really at the heart of the negotiations when the hybrid attack escalates the message I get is that
06:56the US does not respect the perspective of the Europeans and that Russia is willing to test them why where
07:01is the failure coming from because the calculation is that you know if Russia and US agree then you know
07:09Russia will get what they want but they have miscalculated
07:12because you know when what's the anchorage agreement it was August last year so it is more than a year
07:19that they have tried to pressure Ukraine but the but the calculus it has been wrong because Europeans have been
07:28supporting Ukraine and Ukraine has not surrendered even though Americans have been pressuring and yet I see a very difficult
07:36political calendar with the political calendar with the elections that are lining up in Europe yesterday Marie Le Pen was
07:41in Brussels and she said and this is a quote France is not in a position where it can't pay
07:45for Ukraine anymore if others want to pay they can't but France will not pay they cannot do it anymore
07:51when you hear that are you concerned because it seems to me the political tide is not working in favor
07:56of Ukraine it is true that we are all democracies and a lot of elections are coming up and and
08:03also there are a lot of you know the public support
08:05support is also in a different place than it was you know four years ago that's also very clear but
08:11this is what the Russians are actually you know playing at they are playing at that the Europeans will get
08:18tired and then they will get what they want and what I want to stress is that then we will
08:24only have a pause and the appetite for them will grow and to that point there is a financial cost
08:30however the Europeans let's be honest can they pay a hundred billion assuming maybe that
08:35that's the number we're looking at the number we're looking at to help the Ukrainians who is going to finance
08:40this and ultimately is it not just obvious that you got to tap into the Russian frozen assets before the
08:45Americans do it well the frozen assets are frozen in Europe and also I mean the agreement between the European
08:54leaders is that they are going to remain frozen until Russia pays reparations so yes clearly a lot of member
09:02states are pointing at these two billion two hundred billion that
09:05you know we should take this money that you know we should take this money that Ukraine needs from this
09:09frozen assets and what's it going to take to change dynamics
09:12and what's it going to take it's it's going to take a clear plan to actually you know divide the
09:20risk because yes some member states have the frozen assets they are afraid of the risk
09:26that comes to their way if all the member states would share the risk is that idea still alive yes
09:33it is it is still alive but you know also the clear plan needs to need to come and just
09:40a high representative as a final point over the past six months there has been a campaign something I've not
09:46seen in a long time in Brussels to undermine your work and your institution what I see today is a
09:51high representative that is determined and is not going anywhere are you going to fight for your
09:56institution of course of course I'm going to fight and it's a good institution meaning that we do a lot
10:03of good work the EU delegations that everybody is very happy with are working well for also the member states
10:10I think this is the moment in time where we need to be effective in our foreign policy we need
10:15to be united and that's why the discussions I actually welcome how can we make them more effective and that's
10:21your message to the capitals too that you will be on top of this dossier yes absolutely and that's
10:26that has been my message and also the message of my secretary general who has been traveling I see you
10:32revitalized this morning I see you energized yeah is that how you feel absolutely I mean you know tough times
10:39are need to have a tough you know stance well to that point Kaya Callas thank you so much for
10:45joining us on your news this morning thank you Stefan thank you Maria and thank you high representative Kaya Callas
10:52Europe is facing a strategic choice over its future
10:56borders with Ukraine with Ukraine Moldova and the Western Balkans pressing for EU membership enlargement is back at the heart
11:03of the European debate Austria is proposing a new approach giving candidate countries access to the single market as they
11:11complete reforms rather than making them wait for full membership but does it accelerate enlargement or risk creating a permanent
11:19halfway house yesterday I had a chance
11:22to speak to speak to Austria's foreign minister to discuss her proposal and I started by asking her why the
11:30enlargement process is moving so slowly is it because the candidate countries are lacking reforms or because of political reluctance
11:38inside the EU itself here's what she said
11:43there are so many countries now in the waiting room for or have been in the waiting room for over
11:4720 years especially those countries from the Western Balkans and you know that Austria is a fierce promoter of Western
11:55Balkan accession I think it's both first it's a very complicated and bureaucratic process and it's hard to do reforms
12:03to reform everything in your country which is what we ask for from these states but on the other hand
12:10it's also
12:11a little bit the well not only political reluctance but also bureaucratic reluctance of Brussels not being able to promote
12:21ideas like this asexual integration the step-by-step membership as we introduced now into the discussion on that point
12:33Austria has proposed to give EU
12:35EU candidates access access to parts of EU candidates access to parts of the single market before they become members
12:40isn't this essentially EU membership a la carte
12:44no it's not a la carte because this is not a membership only in a single point and that's it
12:50then the the target the goal is always full membership but what we have seen now over the last two
12:56decades is that those exceeding
12:59countries in some countries they do reforms in some countries in some countries they do reforms in some countries on
13:02a faster pace and some a little bit more slowly but they do reforms but it has been always everything
13:09or nothing so if you do all the reforms you get eventually the full membership and now this idea of
13:16step-by-step membership it's in development out of our gradual integration approach means that if you do reforms in
13:24a respective area you can enter the single market there
13:27so it's not like I don't know an elevator you take it's not getting any faster but you see the
13:35effects of the reforms immediately now there are fewer than half of Austrians who currently support EU enlargement why should
13:44Austrian taxpayers and voters see another enlargement as being in their interest well actually that is our communication job and
13:53I see the numbers as well and I I'm a little bit wondering what has been
13:57the communication over the last two decades because Austria is among the top investors in nearly all exceeding countries especially
14:06in the Western Balkans but also takes for take for example Ukraine I think Austria has been the sixth largest
14:13investor there more than 200 companies are already there with every enlargement round we made after Austria was a full
14:21member of the European Union we saw that Austria benefited enormously so that
14:27wealth in the wealth in our own country and jobs have been created now finally if the EU doesn't offer
14:35the Western Balkans a credible part to membership now are we effectively handing the region to Russia and China yes
14:43we are I always say there is no such thing as a vacuum into your politics and the enlargement is
14:50the most powerful and important to your strategic instrument the European Union has
14:58So it is primarily in my opinion a political decision to be taken that we say no this is our
15:06backyard we want the countries of the Western Balkans we want also Ukraine Moldova be part of the European Union
15:14but apart from that we are not only an internal market we are also a union created out of values
15:22so they have to do the reforms but we have to find possibilities
15:26how to make it much quicker than in the past once again for Western Balkan countries there has been more
15:33than two decades and we are losing the population there and if the population is getting frustrated it's very easy
15:40for Russia or China or the US to enter those countries
15:49and now to the Middle East but not to Iran Jordan is looking to turn its partnership with the European
15:58Union into a major economic opportunity with billions of euros on the table Amman wants European investment in everything from
16:06energy and infrastructure to technology and logistics but beyond the money this is also about geopolitics
16:13As wars and instability reshape the Middle East Jordan is positioning itself as a stable gateway between Europe the Gulf
16:22and the wider region
16:23So what does Jordan want from Brussels and what can it offer Europe in return? To learn more about this
16:30I am now joined by Jordan's investment minister Tarek Abu Ghazale
16:34Good morning sir and welcome to the program
16:36Good morning Chef Finn
16:37So you are in Brussels asking Europe to invest more in your country what is the single biggest reason for
16:47a European investor to put money in Jordan?
16:52Simply any investor is looking for predictability and due to what's happening not only in the region in the whole
16:58world growth is questionable now and Jordan and Europe
17:03is working hard to elevate the comprehensive and strategic partnership to a level where is a productive investment opportunity are
17:12available for investors to yield more growth and prosperity at the end of the day for all related nations
17:21So the EU has committed around 3 billion euros to Jordan through 2027
17:27What do you want from Brussels now that you are not getting from that package?
17:33Actually we are having good talk with Brussels and we are working closely to make things happen properly
17:41Now Brussels is helping us on the technicalities of the investment opportunities etc.
17:49And supporting us in bringing to the conference high level officials interested investors to make sure that dialogue is transforming
18:00from only talks to potential deals that will support as well the continuity of businesses and the modernity of the
18:10economical situation in Jordan and the region
18:13Plus as you mentioned Jordan is becoming the safe gateway to support all neighbouring countries ensure there is more cohesion
18:23between the plans and the economic integration in the Middle East
18:27If I may on that on that point as you say Jordan sees itself as a hub a wider gateway
18:33into the Middle East but for investors it's also a very unstable region
18:40So why should they choose Jordan rather than avoiding the region altogether?
18:47Because the region has a lot of potential in the future and instability will fade out soon
18:56So you have to be ready in order to ensure you seize the opportunity from now
19:03Plus Jordan has eventually showed all the investors that we have a resilient economy
19:11For example our capital market grew 40% in the last year despite all the instability in the market
19:19And was named by Bloomberg as the first Arab productive and performance capital market
19:29Our economy is growing steadily at 3%
19:33So...
19:34Alright, sorry Minister, I have to stop you here
19:37That's all the time we have for today
19:39Thank you for coming on the show
19:40Thank you
19:41And that's it for today
19:42Thank you for watching
19:43I'm Stefan Grobe and I'll see you tomorrow
19:46I'll see you tomorrow
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