Strack-Zimmermann, liberal lead candidate, shares her take on von der Leyen, Orbán and the far right

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Her name is Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann and she is one of three lead candidates chosen by the European liberals for the upcoming EU elections. But what does she really think?

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00:13 I'm a little bit surprised.

00:39 She was, for six years, the minister of defense.

00:43 And the last five years, there were no one word

00:47 about the question of security of Europe.

00:49 And it's not the first attack from Russia to Ukraine.

00:53 We remember 10 years ago.

00:55 And so not one word.

00:57 I think this is really a little bit crazy,

01:00 because we could see what happens around.

01:03 And the other thing is that with La Fonda line is--

01:07 I mean, the Green Deal is now--

01:08 it's not only Timmermans, it's also--

01:10 Ursula von der Leyen is the Green Deal.

01:12 And so if the effects of the Green Deal, I mean,

01:15 touch the question of economic for companies.

01:20 And so we are really astonished in Germany.

01:22 And I tell you also people from her party

01:27 that she is more green than--

01:29 how could I say--

01:30 black at the CDU.

01:31 It's a color of black.

01:33 So I think we have to talk.

01:36 And we have to clear how the future could be.

01:39 But if you look in the past, I think

01:43 it was not the biggest show from Ursula von der Leyen.

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01:50 We have to be really careful, because it's a tragedy.

01:57 You could see it even on the hard left wing,

02:01 that after a while, in the first years, everybody say,

02:04 oh, thanks, God.

02:05 Please don't do it.

02:06 Don't touch it.

02:07 And after a while, it becomes a little normal thing.

02:10 But it's not normal.

02:12 And to be the right wing, they will destroy Europe.

02:16 And Mrs. Weigel, the head of the AFD,

02:19 she said in an interview of the Financial Times

02:22 that she is looking forward that Germany will go out of the EU.

02:27 I mean, could you imagine?

02:29 So you have to explain to people,

02:31 if they vote for the hard right wing or the left wing,

02:35 they cut their own success in economic things,

02:38 in peace things.

02:39 So--

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02:43 You know, before the wall opened in Germany,

02:51 his country, Hungary, was really very, very

02:54 important for the unification.

02:56 Well, the first moment when the wall opens a little bit,

03:00 and in this area, this time, 35 years ago,

03:05 was a very, very important partner for us in Germany,

03:08 especially in Germany.

03:10 And I'm really disappointed to see what Viktor Orban said

03:13 and how he's making policy.

03:16 And for me, it's unacceptable that he

03:19 stops every very important, for example, support for Ukraine.

03:24 And it's very good that the European Union, the parliament,

03:28 is now looking why he got 10 billion euro for looking

03:33 for the restroom.

03:35 I mean, you know what I mean.

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