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اروپا تودی: نشست وزرای دفاع اتحادیه اروپا همزمان با اوجگیری تهدیدهای روسیه و انتخابات فرانسه
همزمان با نشست وزیران دفاع اتحادیه اروپا در میانه تشدید حملات جنگ هیبریدی، «اروپا تودی» از افزایش تهدیدهای مرتبط با جنگ روسیه در اوکراین، پیشنمایش انتخابات فرانسه و گفتگوی دو نماینده پارلمان اروپا گزارش میدهد.
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همزمان با نشست وزیران دفاع اتحادیه اروپا در میانه تشدید حملات جنگ هیبریدی، «اروپا تودی» از افزایش تهدیدهای مرتبط با جنگ روسیه در اوکراین، پیشنمایش انتخابات فرانسه و گفتگوی دو نماینده پارلمان اروپا گزارش میدهد.
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00:14Good morning, I'm Maeve MacMahon and this is Europe Today, your morning dose of European
00:21news and analysis live here on Euronews. Coming up, EU Defence Ministers flock to Ireland
00:28today for high-stake talks on the security of the continent. The EU is on high alert after the CIA
00:35chief made a surprise trip to Moscow recently to warn Russia not to attack the Baltics. We'll be
00:42crossing live to Dublin to speak to our correspondent Shona Murray. This as President Donald Trump,
00:48whose approval rating has slumped to its lowest level yet, has threatened to hit Iran hard after
00:55the two sides exchange fire for the first time in weeks. Iran says it's not seeking war, but it will
01:02not remain passive in the face of this aggression. Meanwhile, the French President Emmanuel Macron has
01:08racked up a trip to Sweden, where he sealed a 4.3 billion euro deal for the country to buy
01:15four
01:15French frigates. But back home in France, as politicians get back to work, the presidential
01:21election campaign is already in full swing. We'll be crossing live to Paris to our correspondent.
01:28And Hungary says it's met the conditions to unlock billions in EU funding. On hold for years due to
01:35democratic backsliding by the previous administration, around 10 billion euros could now soon be released.
01:42The EU Council President António Costa will travel to Budapest tomorrow.
01:46But first, to Ireland, where EU defence ministers are meeting today amid an escalation of hybrid
01:53war attacks across the continent. Ministers are due to discuss increased threat levels on the
01:57continent, links to Russia's war in Ukraine, and their talks come just as a massive Russian missile
02:03and drone attack struck Kiev last night, killing four and wounding dozens. Our correspondent Shona
02:08Murray is in Dublin and joins me now. Shona, good morning. Look, the last few weeks have seen
02:14an upsurge in these attacks. Just tell us more. That's right, Maeve. That's certainly the backdrop
02:20of this meeting here in Ireland this week. We saw a few weeks ago a US intelligence assessment
02:27saying that the Kremlin may plan to attack NATO territory in a limited way in order to test
02:33NATO resolve. Then, as you mentioned there, we had John Radcliffe, the head of the CIA,
02:37visiting Moscow last week, which is emerging as he told the Kremlin and Putin not to attack NATO
02:43territory. Donald Trump in the last few hours has tried to play this down, saying this is a routine
02:48visit. It is not a routine visit for the head of the CIA to visit the Kremlin. The last time
02:53that
02:53actually happened was under Biden when they tried to persuade Putin not to attack Ukraine in the
02:58full-scale invasion. Then, in addition to that, of course, Maeve, we've seen a major surge,
03:02a significant surge in hybrid activity, non-kinetic normally all across Europe over the past year,
03:08and in particular the last few months, mainly drone incursions into places like Romania and
03:12other parts of the Baltics. But just a few weeks ago at the start of August, German authorities
03:17intercepted an explosive-laden drone in Leipzig airport. Now, this was military-grade explosives.
03:23There was three drones in total. The German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in the last few days has said that he
03:28will formally attribute this to the Kremlin. That's the first time that's ever happened because
03:33these attacks normally tend to be sort of below the radar and grey area, sort of a grey zone,
03:38so it's hard to apply attribution. But we're expecting over the next few days for Friedrich Merz
03:42to do that. That will be a real topic of conversation here in Ireland today and over the next few
03:47days.
03:48So, I caught up with the Swedish Foreign Affairs Minister Maria Malmer-Stanegard and asked her about this.
03:53I really don't like the term hybrid threat because it sounds like an environmentally friendly car
04:01when it's something completely different. This is extremely serious. We are in the most
04:06serious security situation since the Second World War. We take the drone incidents in Leipzig
04:13extremely serious and we are in close contact with our German friends.
04:18So, what are the implications of attributing this to Russia? Because we know these types of attacks,
04:24they're sort of the grey area. It's very hard to be 100% concrete about attribution,
04:29which is why the likes of Russia and China can get away with this.
04:32Well, we're not there yet. Like I said, we are in close contact with our German colleagues
04:38and we take these incidents extremely serious, but we will have to see what comes out. And I cannot
04:46disclose any information that has been handed to us.
04:50Okay. I just want to ask you about the unfreezing of Russian frozen state assets and using them
04:58to pay for Ukraine, Ukraine's defence reconstruction. That's back on the table now. Is that something that
05:04we'll be hearing about in the next few days? And do you hope that the Belgians might change their mind
05:08on this?
05:09Yes. So, Sweden, the Netherlands, Poland and Spain have taken the initiative to take this back to the table,
05:17because what we see is that Ukraine needs more support. And to be honest, we are not providing enough support
05:24bilaterally and through the EU. And then what is left is the frozen assets. And I take Belgium's concerns very
05:34seriously.
05:35But I think it is also basically what my colleague said, that we have to make sure that we share
05:44the risks
05:45and that Belgium is not left alone with the risks.
05:48But Belgium was looking for full guarantees for any unintended consequences if things go wrong
05:55with this risk. Do you think the EU is willing to do that? Or are we in the same position
05:59we were in
06:00before Christmas? In my opinion, we cannot stay in the same position as we were before Christmas.
06:05We have to move on because this is what is fair to Ukraine. It's what is fair to the taxpayers.
06:15So, Maeve, the issue of frozen Russian state assets back on the table this week, from what I've heard
06:21from the Belgian authorities, they haven't moved in their position. And of course, as you heard there,
06:25an increasingly more hostile security situation all across Europe. So what a way to get back into
06:32September. Maeve? Okay, Shona Murray, thank you so much for that live broadcast there from just
06:37outside Dublin Castle in Ireland. But now moving on, it's back to school today for students in
06:43France. But for politicians, the summer break ended much earlier. With presidential elections
06:48scheduled for next April, the political campaign is already gathering pace. For the mood in the
06:53capital, we can cross now to Paris, where correspondent Estelle Nielsen-Julien is standing by for us this
06:58morning. Good morning, Estelle. Just give us an idea of where things stand today and why this is
07:04set to be such a monumental year for France. Well, good morning, Maeve. As you say, it's
07:10set to be an absolutely monumental year for France. In less than eight months, voters across the country
07:16will decide who next, what next, after a decade of French President Emmanuel Macron being in power.
07:22It's too early to say confidently what the polls mean. But at present, they are saying that there is
07:28a front-runner. That is the national rally party's Marine Le Pen, followed by Jean-Luc Mélenchon from
07:34the far-left France Unbowed Party. Between them, there's somewhat of a political vacuum. The question
07:41is how will this be filled? Will parties form alliances? How will they organise themselves? Will
07:48they strike deals or not? Last week, seven key candidates participated in a debate organised by
07:55the MEDEF, France's most powerful business lobby. And they were grilled on questions about the economy,
08:02public debt and pensions. Mélenchon and Le Pen were, of course, there. But also,
08:06MEP, Raphael Glucksmann and two of Macron's former prime ministers. That's Édouard Philippe and Gabriel
08:12Attal. But these may be some of the key contentors. But don't be mistaken, candidacies are still rolling in.
08:21Over the weekend, we heard former prime minister Dominique de Villepin say that he wanted to be a
08:26candidate. And former president François Hollande is still maintaining the mystery around whether he
08:32will run or not. But of course, candidacies will thin in time as primaries occur and unions take
08:42place across different blocks. Just to remind our viewers that to be an official candidate,
08:50a politician needs the backing of 500 elected officials in France.
08:55And just briefly, Estelle, this election is huge as well for Europe.
09:00Yes, Maeve, it's certainly a huge election for Europe. And the candidates have very divergent
09:06policies when it comes to Europe. Le Pen, who once advocated for Frexit this time around,
09:12is calling for a drop in France's contributions to the bloc. And she's also calling for many of
09:19the EU's norms to be scrapped. Mélenchon has said that he wants to get rid of EU laws that don't
09:24suit
09:25French citizens. And he also peddled a very controversial proposal to scrap a large chunk of
09:31France's public debt held by the Bank of France on behalf of the European Central Bank. But there
09:37are, of course, pro-European candidates such as Raphael Glucksmann, who believes that it's at the
09:43European issue that issues, European level, sorry, that issues such as Chinese competition
09:50and regulating big tech companies should happen. But for a fully accurate picture, what we're waiting
09:56for is the party manifestos to be able to break down the finer details of candidates' policies.
10:03OK, Estelle Nelson, Julianne, thank you so much for that primer on what's set to be a very interesting
10:07eight months. But now, moving on, the EU institutions are bruised after Iceland rejected to kick-start
10:14negotiations to join the Club of 27 in a tight referendum last weekend. It's a huge blow to
10:20Brussels' hopes that geopolitics and security fears could lure rich countries to the bloc.
10:25For reactions now, I'm joined by Teri Reinke, German MEP and co-president of the Greens.
10:30Good morning, Teri. Lovely to have you with us.
10:32Good morning.
10:33This is a big, it's a bad story for Europe. It's a huge blow. Is the EU just not attractive
10:38anymore?
10:40First of all, I'm, of course, unhappy about the outcome of the referendum. I would have wished for
10:46another result. I would have loved Iceland to become part of the European Union. However,
10:50I would not make this a big question about whether the European Union is an attractive
10:56bloc, because we can see that there are a lot of countries that want to join the European Union.
11:00When we look at the Western Balkans, when we look at Ukraine, Moldova or Georgia, for example,
11:06I think that the specific situation in Iceland we have to look at, they are already a member of the
11:11European economic area. And so they are already applying, for example, a single market legislation.
11:16And I think the question of fisheries played a very important role in the discussion in Iceland
11:21before the referendum. And I think maybe the lesson learned that we should take, which I think was
11:27also what we learned from the Brexit referendum, is that European politicians should maybe have been
11:33more active in the debate and taken part in it and also advocating for joining the European Union to
11:40make it. Was that a mistake not to get more involved? I think looking back now, maybe we should have
11:44taken
11:45a bigger part in this discussion, because I think at the end of the day, we also have to go
11:50into other
11:51countries and advocate for what is good about being part of the European Union. Iceland is already having
11:57some of the positive outcomes. But from a geopolitical, from a security point of view, I think it would have
12:02been good to start further negotiations. And is the Commission President too weak? I mean,
12:06her response was so muted. In reaction to this referendum outcome, we got a three-line outcome,
12:12a three-line statement. For me, the lesson learned of this, again, is that we should take a more active
12:19role in debates like this. We should not just highlight them as domestic discussions. Whether Iceland is
12:26joining the European Union or not is something that has an impact on the full European Union.
12:30So I think for future moments like this, whether there will be a debate in Norway or wherever else,
12:35European politicians should take a role in the debate and also be bold enough to say,
12:40we have an opinion about this and we are happy to discuss with you.
12:43And we just heard about the French elections. We have big elections as well, with state elections
12:47in eastern Germany this week, where the AFD could win.
12:49Yes, we have a very critical election happening in Sachsen-Anhalt this Sunday. And it will be
12:58tight. And whether the Greens are going to join the parliament in the end, we are tied to the
13:03threshold. We'll probably define whether the AFD, so a fascist far-right party in Germany,
13:09can win an absolute majority in Sachsen-Anhalt. So we are putting everything into a strong campaign
13:14so that the democratic forces will prevail in this election.
13:17OK, a story we'll be keeping a very close eye on here in your news, Terry Rankin. Thank you so
13:20much for joining us here on Europe Today. But now, moving on, in a sign that the passport-free
13:27area Schengen is under major stress, Italy and Spain have extended border controls for another 15 days
13:33due to the mass irregular migration crisis in the Spanish city of Ceuta just one month ago.
13:40For the view from a Spanish Socialist MEP, I'm now joined by Juan Fernando López Aguiar, who's been following
13:45the migration debate closely for more than a decade here as an MEP in the European Parliament,
13:50Juan Fernando López Aguiar. Welcome to Europe Today. Good to have you on the program. Thank you for having
13:54me. You're a member, of course, of Pedro Sánchez's political family. Is he being too defensive on this
14:01story? What could he have done better? Well, certainly it's a critical situation. Not only migratory,
14:08it's humanitarian, and most importantly, national security. We are facing a hybrid situation, yes.
14:14But the government is responding, and certainly it's facing difficulties, which are only obvious.
14:21But they're responding too little too late. No. That's what the locals in Ceuta said.
14:24I can't agree. I can't agree. Ceuta, to begin with, is the only, with Melilla,
14:29terrestrial border of the European Union with the African continent. The most unequal terrestrial
14:34border on Earth. Second, there's a particular situation in which we have seen the population,
14:43the size of a population of Ceuta over the external border, but swimming by the sea over the harbor,
14:54with the ground of a ruling of the Supreme Court, which says that those people entering by sea cannot
15:01be returned to the country of transit of origin. They have to be handled as migrants or asylum seekers.
15:08So it's a situation that we've got to face. And we've got to do it according to law.
15:13Who is to blame for the situation? Because we're seeing last night, Pedro Sánchez said it's disinformation
15:17fueled from Russia and Israel that's also created.
15:21It should be thorough investigated, that's for sure. And it's only obvious that it couldn't happen
15:26without some overlooking of Moroccan authorities. That is only obvious. And common sense says so. But
15:34the thing is that the government has to act based on facts and evidence. But most importantly,
15:40it has to combine rule of law, the implementation of the EU laws to begin with, and, of course,
15:48ensuring national security, because we're facing a national security issue here.
15:53And that's why you've called on Frontex for help. That's also a bit of an admission of defeat.
15:57Absolutely. It's the response of European institutions offer of increasing their presence in that particular
16:07very special terrestrial external border of the EU with Africa, of Spain with Morocco. But having said
16:16this, I must doubt that it's also obvious that the response has to involve European authorities. There
16:22are a number of contradictions which are obvious to human eye. One contradiction is that Spain has to
16:31combine its response with Morocco with cooperation with Morocco. You need Morocco to handle the
16:39situation. And second, you also need the European Union to scale up. Because if you want to reassess
16:45the bilateral relation of the EU with Morocco, it takes the whole of the European Union, because we have
16:51a strategic association with Morocco. Are you too reliant on Morocco, perhaps?
16:56Well, it's impossible to ignore a neighbour. And you have a neighbour in Morocco. Spain has,
17:04and the whole of the European Union has. That is why the European Union has linked itself with Morocco
17:09through an association which it calls strategic. But the thing is that if we are to keep up that
17:15strategic association with Morocco, we need to ask for Morocco to behave.
17:20But for our viewers watching that chaos unfold some months ago with almost 80,000 irregular
17:26migrants landing in Ceuta, where is the migration pact that we've been discussing and implementing?
17:33Precisely. It's miserable that after all the bother, all the energy, all the work that we put into the
17:41adoption of the migration as an impact based on two principles, shared responsibility and binding
17:46solidarity, we have seen that in this situation, solidarity has been missing. It's only regrettable.
17:53Because Spain has paid solidarity with the Baltics facing Russia, with Poland facing Russia and Kaliningrad,
18:00with Finland facing Russia, some of them also facing Belarus Lukashenko. We have paid solidarity with
18:07Italy in Lampedusa. So it's absolutely intolerable that we have seen no solidarity from Italian
18:13government in a situation.
18:15Well, precisely on the contrary, the Italian government is using this for political gains.
18:19And as we see, Schengen is fizzling out, perhaps.
18:22The thing is that Schengen is bound by rules. Schengen is not a convention, as we call it. Schengen is
18:28EU law. There is a Schengen
18:30governance code which says that Schengen, which is free movement, can only be suspended on the grounds of
18:36necessity, proportionality communicated to the European Commission and under the oversight of the European
18:42Commission. So it's bound by law. And it's also certain that certain cannot be suspended by a member
18:50state to another member state.
18:53Okay, Juan Fernando López Aguilar, thank you so much for coming into this morning here
18:56on Europe Today. For more on that story, of course, you can take a look at Euronews.com. And any
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