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Latest news bulletin | September 19th β Morning
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19/09/2024
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These are the first pictures at the first meeting of the new College of Commissioners that will be ruled by Ursula von der Leyen.
00:07
Right after her, with a super portfolio including competition and the transition to a cleaner industry,
00:13
there will be the Spanish socialist Teresa Rivera.
00:16
She is set to become the second most powerful woman in the EU.
00:20
One of her main tasks will be transforming the European industry so the EU can reach its 2050 zero emissions target,
00:28
taking the block from grey to green.
00:32
I think that it is also important to understand that what we try to do is not to colour or switch from a colour to another colour,
00:42
but to try to identify in a crystal clear manner what does not harm our ecosystems, our environment,
00:54
and how we can do it in a way that from an economic and social perspective makes sense.
01:01
However, her long career as a climate change expert and her anti-nuclear stance has granted her some opposition.
01:08
The EPP wants her mandate to be different from the previous vice president on the green transition.
01:15
We don't need a second Timmermans.
01:17
He was pushing things on industry, on SMEs, on farmers, and people were overwhelmed, so we need another attitude.
01:30
Since 2018, Rivera has been one of the most powerful women in Pedro SΓ‘nchez's government in Spain.
01:36
During her mandate, she negotiated the Iberian exception that allowed Spain and Portugal to limit the price of energy
01:43
and calendarise the closure of the nuclear plants in Spain.
01:46
But first, she will have to pass the final exam from the European Parliament like all the other future commissioners.
01:57
The European Union is set to allocate 14 million euros to the Canary Islands to improve their ability to accommodate migrants.
02:08
The funds will also be used to strengthen support for unaccompanied migrant children and teenagers,
02:14
many of whom lost their parents during the perilous boat journey from West Africa.
02:20
EU Commissioner Margarita Skinas made the announcement while on a visit to the islands,
02:25
where he met with President Fernando Clavijo Batlle.
02:30
Skinas highlighted the enormous pressure faced by Canarian institutions in the face of the growing crisis,
02:37
while Batlle added that Skinas had spoken of unity and solidarity during their meeting.
02:45
Between January and August of this year, the Canary Islands have recorded the arrival of 22,300 migrants,
02:52
a number which is expected to increase in the coming months.
03:01
The European Commission has rebuffed the Dutch government's recent request
03:06
to secure an opt-out clause from the EU's migration and asylum rules.
03:11
A Commission spokesperson told reporters in Brussels it had received the Hague's letter,
03:17
penned by the Dutch Minister for Asylum and Migration,
03:20
and that there were no plans currently to provide the exemption.
03:24
There's no treaty change upcoming, therefore this is the current situation.
03:30
We have also taken and welcomed the fact that the Minister has said that they will continue to
03:37
prioritise the implementation of the pact, which is clearly a priority for the Commission.
03:43
Marjolein Faber, the Dutch politician in charge of asylum and migration,
03:47
wrote the government wanted to drastically reduce the volume of migrants to the Netherlands
03:52
to deliver better social services.
03:55
However, the member of the far-right ultranationalist party conceded in the communique
04:00
that if their request fell on deaf ears, the Hague would continue to uphold the EU's migration rules.
04:07
Trust and participation in elections all over the world is declining for eight years in a row.
04:16
Something that is also happening in Europe, as the Global State of Democracy report states.
04:22
For Europe, polarisation in politics is one of the issues,
04:26
says Sam van der Staak, the director of International Ideas Europe programme.
04:31
It's countries that have been in the news, but also a lot of countries that,
04:36
as an outsider, you wouldn't suspect.
04:38
Countries like Greece and Bulgaria and Spain and Portugal and the Netherlands
04:43
and outside the EU, the United Kingdom.
04:47
They're still very healthy functioning democracies,
04:50
but you see that in parts of the system things are cracking.
04:54
And that's often because the politics is really putting a lot of pressure on how democracy functions.
04:59
There's more polarisation, there's more pressure from political parties to say
05:05
things need to change, and of course there's a lot of citizens that are dissatisfied
05:09
by the way that democracy is delivering on their everyday concerns.
05:13
But not everything is bad news in Europe.
05:15
For van der Staak, the improvement in Central and Eastern European countries
05:19
is closing the divide between old, established democracies and newer ones,
05:24
helping Europe come together.
05:26
The State of Democracy report identifies, however,
05:28
two main causes to explain why politics loses credibility.
05:32
We've seen it in countries like France, Spain, the Netherlands, Bulgaria,
05:38
all across Europe there's been votes for the extremes that after the election
05:43
stay out of power and people then wonder why go and vote at all.
05:47
There's also the pressure from outside.
05:49
So we see that there's forces such as Russia, but also other authoritarian powers
05:55
that try to abuse this weakness that we're seeing to stir even more dissatisfaction.
06:02
So there's a pressure from outside through disinformation,
06:05
through cyber attacks on elections, through foreign funding.
06:11
For van der Staak, elections worldwide are a source of concern
06:14
with 10% lower participation than 15 years ago,
06:18
and with 20% of recent years' elections where the losing candidate
06:22
does not accept the outcome.
06:29
The European Union has begun the process of deducting a 200 million euro fine
06:35
from Hungary's share of the EU budget after Budapest missed the payment deadline
06:40
for a second time.
06:42
Hungary was fined by the EU's top court for breaking the bloc's migration rules
06:47
by depriving migrants of their right to apply for asylum.
06:51
When it comes to the 200 million euro fine, the 15 day deadline expired yesterday.
06:58
That means that the commission is in accordance with the applicable rules
07:02
moving to what we call the offsetting procedure.
07:06
So what we are going to do now is to deduct the 200 million euro
07:11
from upcoming payments from the EU budget towards Hungary.
07:16
The court has also imposed an additional fine of 1 million euros
07:20
for every day that Hungary fails to comply.
07:24
In response to the fines, Hungary has threatened to send migrants
07:28
from its southern border to the EU's headquarters in Brussels.
07:34
It's also threatened to sue the EU executive to reimburse the cost
07:38
of protecting the bloc's external border,
07:41
which the government says has cost roughly 2 billion euros.
07:47
Both the Italian and French defence ministers attended the second day
07:52
of the European Air and Missile Defence Conference that took place in the Italian capital.
07:57
The debate over how to better protect European skies against the Russian threats
08:02
touched on the military, industrial and political aspects
08:05
in the presence of around 200 military and business leaders.
08:09
Russia's war in Ukraine has sped up the need to strengthen
08:12
the defence system across the continent.
08:14
Along with that, questions have been raised on how to support the European arms industry.
08:19
But, as Italy's defence minister Crosetto says, it's a race against time.
08:23
Ensuring the self-reliance of the European defence sector is one of the priorities.
08:45
Either we have a European industry that has the European capacity
08:50
and should not depend on anyone, or we are not able to guarantee its self-defence.
08:57
Building a dialogue among key players and connecting them is crucial
09:00
and it was one of the aims of the conference.
09:03
Having a cooperation between European states, European defence and European industry,
09:10
while eliminating all the bureaucratic barriers that make us waste time.
09:16
I think this strategic reflection is good.
09:18
It forces all players to share, to discuss.
09:22
It also allows us to closely associate the teams of the Atlantic Agency.
09:26
It also allows us to nourish a stronger intimacy between industrialists and our soldiers.
09:32
Another conference has already been announced for next year,
09:35
but the debate is set to continue within European institutions.
09:38
The EU has just named its first defence commissioner.
09:42
Bolstering European defence and security is in fact at the heart of the next EU Commission's agenda.
09:48
Giorgia Orlandi for Euronews in Rome.
09:55
The European Union has begun the process of deducting a 200 million euro fine
10:01
from Hungary's share of the EU budget,
10:04
after Budapest missed the payment deadline for a second time.
10:08
Hungary was fined by the EU's top court for breaking the bloc's migration rules
10:13
by depriving migrants of their right to apply for asylum.
10:17
When it comes to the 200 million euro fine, the 15 day deadline expired yesterday.
10:23
That means that the Commission is in accordance with the applicable rules,
10:28
moving to what we call the offsetting procedure.
10:31
So what we are going to do now is to deduct the 200 million euro from upcoming payments
10:38
from the EU budget towards Hungary.
10:41
The court has also imposed an additional fine of 1 million euros
10:45
for every day that Hungary fails to comply.
10:49
In response to the fines, Hungary has threatened to send migrants
10:53
from its southern border to the EU's headquarters in Brussels.
10:58
It's also threatened to sue the EU executive to reimburse the cost
11:03
of protecting the bloc's external border,
11:06
which the government says has cost roughly 2 billion euros.
11:11
Draft Resolution A-ES10-L31-Revision 1 is adopted.
11:23
The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted a Palestinian resolution on Wednesday
11:29
demanding that Israel end its unlawful presence in Gaza
11:33
and the occupied West Bank within a year.
11:36
The resolution also demands the withdrawal of all Israeli forces
11:40
and the evacuation of settlers from the occupied Palestinian territories without delay.
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