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Latest news bulletin | June 11th β Morning
euronews (in English)
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11/06/2024
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The EU elections have shifted the European Parliament to the right as hard right MEPs
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make significant gains.
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Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo has announced his resignation to King Felipe.
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Brussels business representatives celebrate the centre-right victory in the European elections.
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The Ukraine Recovery Conference chairman resigns one day before the event in Berlin in a bitter
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row with Kiev.
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Hard right MEPs won significant support from voters at the 2024 European election over
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the weekend.
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The results have rocked the continent and traditional power bases across Europe, forcing
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President Emmanuel Macron to call a snap election in France and Belgian Prime Minister Alexander
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De Croo to resign.
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In Germany, support for Olaf Scholz's centre-right Social Democrats also sank behind the extreme
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right Alternative for Germany, which surged into second place.
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According to fresh data published by the European Parliament, the centre-right has been reinforced,
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the far-right parties made gains, while Greens, Socialists and Liberals lost.
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Despite major upsets in France, Germany and Belgium and Liberal Renew Group and the Greens
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suffering painful losses, the make-up of the European Parliament remains largely unchanged.
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But an opposite swing has occurred in Hungary, with the new self-proclaimed centrist Tisza
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party winning a landslide of votes and coming in tightly behind Hungarian Prime Minister
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Viktor Orban's right-wing Fidesz party.
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Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo has visited King Felipe at the Royal Palace to
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announce the resignation of his government.
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The King must now consult political figures and begin the procedure for forming a new
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federal government.
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De Croo's resignation follows his party, the open Flemish Liberals and Democrats, crushing
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defeat in Belgium's regional, national and EU elections on Sunday.
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The right-wing New Flemish Alliance party emerged as the biggest winner at the national
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level with nearly 20% of the vote.
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While the far-right anti-immigration Vlaams Belang party came in second position with
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a vote share of 17.5%.
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De Croo's party meanwhile received less than 7% of the vote, leaving it lagging well behind
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the far-left.
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But, speaking after the results, Prime Minister De Croo remained positive about the future
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of his party.
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Dear friends, we Liberals are combative and we are resilient.
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And I am convinced that we will stand again.
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Despite the Social Democrats' historic defeat at the European elections, German Chancellor
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Olaf Schultz has ruled out calling an early snap election.
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AFD co-chair Alice Weidel said the party has set its sights on becoming the new ruling
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government at the 2025 federal elections next year.
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Liv Stroud, in Berlin, for Euronews.
06:05
Italian citizen Ilaria Salis will be released from detention in Hungary thanks to her election
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as an MEP.
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The 40-year-old teacher spent 15 months in jail after being accused of assaulting far-right
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demonstrators in Hungary.
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She is facing up to 20 years behind bars.
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However, she always maintained her innocency.
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The case made the headlines after the woman appeared in court handcuffed and chained.
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Following a public outcry, Rome summoned the Hungarian ambassador and eventually obtained
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Salis be moved to house arrest.
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The woman has been elected with the Green and Left Alliance Party and will be able to
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be released thanks to MEP immunity.
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In this stage, behind me, Prime Minister LuΓs Monde Negro and head of the list SebastiΓ£o
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Bogalho admitted that the current coalition in the government, the right-wing coalition
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AD, failed to have more votes than the Socialist Party, led in these European elections by
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the former Minister of Health Marta de Mido.
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The PS had a relatively small victory, with another MEP from the AD, to raise the entrance
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for the first time in the history of the Portuguese far-right in the European Parliament.
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However, for the Chega Party, this was a result also far from expected, with only two MEPs
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elected.
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The liberals also enter for the first time in the European Parliament, the Portuguese liberals,
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with the liberal initiative to elect two MEPs.
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Ricardo Figueira, Euronews, Lisboa.
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A pan-European organization representing European business and labor community celebrated that
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the center has held in the European Parliament after Sunday's election.
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They say that the previous Parliament's Green Deal could be reassessed.
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According to Eurochambers, the EU needs to overcome its weaknesses compared to the US
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and China in critical areas, namely manufacturing and clean technology.
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"We've had a lot of concerns with the amount of legislation that the Green Deal has led
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to.
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It implies a lot of burdens for businesses, a lot of compliance and reporting burdens.
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So one of our strong messages to the new members of the European Parliament and the new institutions
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is that we need to slow down before we start bringing in possible new legislation."
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Euronews advocates for a strong single market in order for a more autonomous European Union.
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"We need to tackle those fundamental structural challenges that businesses are encountering,
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particularly manufacturing sectors, energy costs, access to raw materials, access to
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supplies in general."
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Unions representing workers' interests across Europe stressed during the campaign that the
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cost of living needs to be a priority.
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The election results show that the Left and Green parties have declined in the current
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Parliament but there is still a good majority to advance the EU's social agenda and welfare
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model.
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"So most important, no deals with the far right.
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That's the most important.
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They can't be trusted and at every single opportunity in the past they voted against
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working people and their interests."
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Migration also dominated the far right's electoral campaign.
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"Migrant workers are very often the victims of exploitation by unscrupulous employers.
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We need to make sure that all workers are covered by fair terms and conditions of employment,
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that all workers, no matter where they're from or who they are or what jobs they do,
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they can join a union and that they can bargain for a fair wage."
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When it comes to renewing the Green Deal, the European Trade Union Confederation advocates
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for more social investment and a new EU Just Transition Directive.
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Berlin is preparing to host a new leg of the Ukraine Recovery Conference, the first one
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hosted in a EU country.
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This time around, the event is taking place in a tense atmosphere.
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On Monday, Conference Chairman Mustafa Nayem announced his resignation, citing systemic
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obstacles preventing him from performing his duties effectively.
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In a Facebook post, he took aim at the Ukrainian government, lamenting budget cuts and bureaucratic
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impediments.
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The final straw, he said, was the cancellation of his trip to Berlin by the Ukrainian government.
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The Ukraine Recovery Conference brings together heads of government and state to mobilize
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international support for the reconstruction and modernization of the war-ravaged country.
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This year, the event will be immediately followed by the Ukraine Peace Summit, which will be
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taking place in Switzerland on the weekend.
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