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00:00Leaders of Austria's FBO and OVP met with President Alexander Van der Bellen after coalition

00:07talks seemed to stall.

00:10Transatlantic twilight is the expression used by think tank ECFR following its survey on

00:16relations between the EU and Donald Trump's United States.

00:20European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced a 200 billion euro package

00:25to push the AI industry in the EU.

00:30With the deportation debate fueling polarization in Germany, political parties are promising

00:35quicker deportation and stricter migration controls.

00:45Leaders of Austria's FBO and OVP met with President Alexander Van der Bellen after coalition

00:52talks seemed to stall.

00:55Critical voices from the OVP raised increasing doubts throughout the day about a successful

00:59conclusion of the talks.

01:01FBO's Herbert Kickl and OVP's Christian Stocker met at separate times with the President at

01:07his office in Vienna's Hofburg.

01:10Ahead of Tuesday's talks, Kickl still seemed positive.

01:38Points of conflict include the suspension of the right of asylum demanded by the FBO

01:43as well as Kickl's critical stance towards the European Union.

01:47Earlier, other parties that gained seats in the parliamentary election told the OVP it

01:52should end coalition talks with the FBO.

02:00The European Union will respond to the 25 percent tariffs on steel and aluminium imposed

02:05by US President Donald Trump.

02:09The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has assured in a statement

02:13that unjustified tariffs on the EU will not go unanswered and will be met with firm and

02:18proportionate countermeasures.

02:22According to von der Leyen, the EU will act to defend its economic interests and protect

02:26its workers and businesses.

02:30Von der Leyen has not yet specified how the EU will defend itself against US tariffs.

02:35However, her message has received support from a large number of MEPs, but not the Patriots

02:41for Europe, who believe the Green Deal is partly to blame.

03:05In 2018, Brussels responded to Trump's tariffs with similar measures on US steel and aluminium,

03:14something that could be done again.

03:25The transatlantic twilight.

03:28This is the expression used by the think tank ECFR, or European Council on Foreign Relations,

03:34following its survey on relations between the European Union and President Donald Trump's United States.

03:42According to the study published today and carried out in 11 member countries, 50 percent

03:47of those questioned believe that the United States is a necessary partner, compared with

03:5221 percent who see Washington as an ally.

03:57These figures mark a shift in European opinion.

04:00The main lesson is that citizens are already accepting and acknowledging the fact that

04:09Europeans and European leaders need to adopt a more pragmatic approach towards America.

04:15So in that polling, people do not show too strong illusions about the US.

04:23They kind of accept that if Trump wants it transactional, then we need to be open to

04:29a transaction as well.

04:32Faced with Donald Trump's America First slogan, the report's authors suggest that the union

04:37should prepare to defend its interests and turn the page on the historic transatlantic link.

04:43So we call it a transatlantic twilight because we believe that the old transatlanticism is

04:53over and the new one is supposed to be born.

04:57It can be born based on the action of the European mainstream who could adopt a more

05:04transactional and pragmatic approach.

05:07In such a scenario, yes, the transatlantic relationship would be based less on the values

05:15than it was the case in the past.

05:20The poll highlights the divergent perceptions of the new American president in member states.

05:27The Republican has a positive image in Hungary and Bulgaria, while Denmark and Germany are

05:32much more sceptical.

05:35This is why the authors of the study call on EU leaders not to act in isolation to try

05:40to establish a privileged relationship with Donald Trump at the expense of their European

05:46partners.

05:47U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance warned against what he called excessive regulation of A.I.

05:59at the A.I.

06:00Action Summit in Paris on Tuesday.

06:03Vance's address challenged Europe's regulatory approach to artificial intelligence and its

06:07moderation of content on big tech platforms, saying it would cripple the fast-growing industry.

06:15We invite your countries to work with us and to follow that model if it makes sense

06:19for your nations.

06:21However, the Trump administration is troubled by reports that some foreign governments are

06:27considering tightening the screws on U.S. tech companies with international footprints.

06:32Now, America cannot and will not accept that, and we think it's a terrible mistake, not

06:38just for the United States of America, but for your own countries.

06:42European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced that Europe will mobilize

06:46200 billion euros for investment in artificial intelligence.

06:50She stressed that A.I. is a force for good as long as its benefits are widespread and

06:55accessible to all.

06:57The summit underscores a three-way race for A.I. supremacy, Europe striving to regulate

07:02and invest, China expanding access through state-backed tech giants and the U.S. under

07:07Trump prioritizing a hands-off approach.

07:12I hear that Europe is late to the race, while the United States or China have already gotten

07:21ahead.

07:23I disagree, because the A.I. race is far from being over.

07:30Truth is, we're only at the beginning.

07:34The European Union will channel 200 billion euros into A.I. investments in a bid to catch

07:40up with the thriving tech ecosystems in the U.S. and China.

07:44An announcement warmly welcomed by multiple European start-ups present at the Station

07:49F incubator in Paris for the A.I. summit.

07:52It's not all done to the largest companies.

07:55There's a lot that can be done.

07:56We have lots of innovation, lots of people figuring out how to do things more efficiently,

08:00faster, more respectful of the regulations that we do have here.

08:04There are tons to do there.

08:05The EU was one of the first global powers to introduce comprehensive regulations around

08:10A.I.

08:11But U.S. Vice President J.D.

08:12Vance criticized this regulatory environment in a speech on Tuesday.

08:17Some A.I. experts, however, believe European companies need to lose these regulations if

08:22they want to remain competitive.

08:24So what we need is European entrepreneurs working with American technology, and then

08:27we at least share the power, we share the revenue.

08:31But if we don't do anything and want to do it on our own, we will fail.

08:35Because we don't have it, and the Americans have it.

08:38They have the technology and the capital and the speed and the innovation.

08:41So let's tear down the wall and accept them, incorporate with them.

08:47Because the enemy is not the U.S.

08:49The U.S. and the U.K. have notably refused to sign the summit's declaration that encourages

08:54countries to abide by certain ethics of A.I. governance.

08:58Sofia Katzenkova reporting from Paris for Euronews.

09:05With the deportation debate fueling polarization in Germany ahead of the snap election in less

09:11than two weeks, both established political and populist parties are promising quicker

09:17deportations and stricter migration controls.

09:20Christian Democratic Union interior politician Christoph de Vries says the current EU deportation

09:26model is dysfunctional and says change is urgently needed.

09:30I think we have to be honest in this discussion.

09:35The deportations are not really satisfactory in any EU member state.

09:42And that leads us in the CDU to the realization that we have to stop the illegal migrations

09:47to Germany, but above all to Europe as a whole.

09:51Because we see how difficult the deportations are.

09:54And if people have just arrived, the legal and actual hurdles for deportation are so

10:00great that we will never be able to do it as satisfactorily as it would be desirable.

10:07According to figures from the German Interior Ministry, 60% of deportations fail in Germany

10:14every year.

10:15The German police union say there aren't enough detention spaces to carry out deportations

10:19properly.

10:20We ultimately have to work in a European way, that is, we have to get all countries in the

10:25European Union on the same page so that we ultimately have the same procedure, the same

10:31conditions for all people who are asylum seekers and ultimately seek protection.

10:36We need a clear distribution key for everyone and we have to protect our European external

10:40borders much better.

10:41This requires front-ex that have to be heavily stacked, which protect the European external

10:46borders better with the respective countries, so as not to endanger the freedom of travel

10:50within Europe.

10:53International travel expert Daniel Time says the system doesn't work because of poor inter-agency

10:57cooperation and high levels of cases.

11:01Germany is a country of immigrants, which needs immigrants, but we probably really have

11:05to distinguish between professional immigrants, qualified people who learn the language abroad,

11:11then come to Germany, work from the beginning, earn money, live in their own apartment and

11:16an asylum migration, which often, as the statistics show us, is unfortunately poorly qualified,

11:21where people don't speak German, are unemployed for the first time, are subject to the state

11:26and also take advantage of the very generous German social benefits.

11:30These are two very different forms of migration and I fear that this negative asylum discourse

11:36undermines the absolutely necessary positive attitude towards professional migration.

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