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Los ministros de Defensa de la UE se reúnen ante el aumento de los ataques híbridos. 'Europe Today' analiza la amenaza rusa, la guerra en Ucrania y las elecciones francesas, y entrevista a los eurodiputados Terry Reintke y Juan Fernando López Aguilar.
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Los ministros de Defensa de la UE se reúnen ante el aumento de los ataques híbridos. 'Europe Today' analiza la amenaza rusa, la guerra en Ucrania y las elecciones francesas, y entrevista a los eurodiputados Terry Reintke y Juan Fernando López Aguilar.
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00:14Good morning, I'm Maeve MacMahon and this is Europe Today.
00:19Your morning dose of European news and analysis live here on Euronews.
00:24Coming up, EU defence ministers flock to Ireland today for high-stake talks on the security of the continent.
00:31The EU is on high alert after the CIA chief made a surprise trip to Moscow recently to warn Russia
00:39not to attack the Baltics.
00:42We'll be crossing live to Dublin to speak to our correspondent Shona Murray.
00:45This as President Donald Trump, whose approval rating has slumped to its lowest level yet, has threatened to hit Iran
00:53hard after the two sides exchanged fire for the first time in weeks.
00:58Iran says it's not seeking war, but it will not remain passive in the face of this aggression.
01:06Meanwhile, the French President Emmanuel Macron has racked up a trip to Sweden where he sealed a 4.3 billion
01:13euro deal for the country to buy four French frigates.
01:17But back home in France, as politicians get back to work, the presidential election campaign is already in full swing.
01:25We'll be crossing live to Paris to our correspondent.
01:28And Hungary says it's met the conditions to unlock billions in EU funding.
01:33On hold for years due to democratic backsliding by the previous administration, around 10 billion euros could now soon be
01:41released.
01:42The EU Council President, Antonio Costa, will travel to Budapest tomorrow.
01:47But first, to Ireland, where EU defence ministers are meeting today amid an escalation of hybrid war attacks across the
01:54continent.
01:54Ministers are due to discuss increased threat levels on the continent linked to Russia's war in Ukraine.
02:00And their talks come just as a massive Russian missile and drone attack struck Kyiv last night, killing four and
02:06wounding dozens.
02:07Our correspondent Shona Murray is in Dublin and joins me now.
02:11Shona, good morning.
02:12Look, the last few weeks have seen an upsurge in these attacks.
02:15Just tell us more.
02:18That's right, Maeve.
02:19That's certainly the backdrop of this meeting here in Ireland this week.
02:22We saw a few weeks ago a US intelligence assessment saying that the Kremlin may plan to attack NATO territory
02:31in a limited way in order to test NATO resolve.
02:34Then, as you mentioned there, we had John Radcliffe, the head of the CIA, visiting Moscow last week, which is
02:40emerging as he told the Kremlin and Putin not to attack NATO territory.
02:44Donald Trump in the last few hours has tried to play this down, saying this is a routine visit.
02:48It is not a routine visit for the head of the CIA to visit the Kremlin.
02:52The last time that actually happened was under Biden when they tried to persuade Putin not to attack Ukraine in
02:58the full scale invasion.
02:59Then, in addition to that, of course, Maeve, we've seen a major surge, a significant surge in hybrid activity, non
03:05-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 other parts of the Baltics.
03:13But just a few weeks ago at the start of August, German authorities intercepted an explosive-laden drone in Leipzig
03:20Airport.
03:21Now, this was military-grade explosives. There was three drones in total.
03:25The German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in the last few days has said that he will formally attribute this to the
03:30Kremlin.
03:31That's the first time that's ever happened because these attacks normally tend to be sort of below the radar and
03:36grey area, sort of a grey zone.
03:38So it's hard to apply attribution.
03:40But we're expecting over the next few days for Friedrich Merz to do that.
03:43That will be a real topic of conversation here in Ireland today and over the next few days.
03:48So I caught up with the Swedish Foreign Affairs Minister, Maria Malmer-Stanegard, and I asked her about this.
03:53I really don't like the term hybrid threat because it sounds like an environmentally friendly car when it's something completely
04:02different.
04:03This is extremely serious. We are in the most serious security situation since the Second World War.
04:10We take the drone incidents in Leipzig extremely 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 type of attacks, they're sort of
04:25the grey area.
04:26It's very hard to be 100% concrete about attribution, which is why the likes of Russia and China can
04:32get away with this.
04:32Well, we're not there yet. Like I said, we are in close contact with our German colleagues and we take
04:39these incidents extremely serious.
04:42But we will have to see what comes out and I cannot disclose any information that has been handed to
04:49us.
04:50Okay. Just want to ask you about the unfreezing of Russian frozen state assets and using them to pay for
04:59Ukraine, Ukraine's defense reconstruction.
05:01That's back on the table now. Is that something that we'll be hearing about over the next few days?
05:05And do you hope that the Belgians might change their mind on this?
05:09Yes. So Sweden, the Netherlands, Poland and Spain have taken the initiative to take this back to the table because
05:17what we see is that Ukraine needs more support.
05:20And to be honest, we are not providing enough support bilaterally and through the EU.
05:26And then what is left is the frozen assets.
05:29And I take Belgium's concerns very seriously.
05:35But I think it is also basically what my colleague Prevost said, that we have to make sure that we
05:44share the risks and 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 with this risk.
05:56Do you think the EU is willing to do that or are we in the same position we were in
06:00before Christmas?
06:01In 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.
06:09It'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 from
06:21the Belgian authorities, they haven't moved in their position.
06:24And of course, as you heard there, an increasingly more hostile security situation all across Europe.
06:30So what a way to get back into September.
06:33Maeve?
06:34Okay, Shona Murray, thank you so much for that live broadcast there from just outside Dublin Castle in Ireland.
06:39But now moving on, it's back to school today for students in France.
06:43But for politicians, the summer break ended much earlier.
06:47With presidential elections scheduled for next April, the political campaign is already gathering pace.
06:52For the mood in the capital, we can cross now to Paris, where correspondent Estelle Nielsen-Julien is standing by
06:58for us this morning.
06:59Good morning, Estelle. Just give us an idea of where things stand today and why this is set to be
07:04such a monumental year for France.
07:08Well, good morning, Maeve. As you say, it's set to be an absolutely monumental year for France.
07:13In less than eight months, voters across the country will decide who next, what next, after a decade of French
07:20President Emmanuel Macron being in power.
07:22It's too early to say confidently what the polls mean.
07:26But at present, they are saying that there is a front-runner.
07:29That is the national rally parties, Marine Le Pen, followed by Jean-Luc Mélenchon from the far left, a France
07:35unbound party.
07:37Between them, there's somewhat of a political vacuum.
07:40The question is, how will this be filled?
07:43Will parties form alliances?
07:46How will they organize themselves?
07:48Will they strike deals or not?
07:51Last week, seven key candidates participated in a debate organized by the MEDEF, France's most powerful business lobby.
07:58And they were grilled on questions about the economy, public debt and pensions.
08:03Mélenchon and Le Pen were, of course, there, but also MEP Raphael Glucksmann and two of Macron's former prime ministers.
08:10That's Edouard Philippe and Gabriel Attal.
08:13But these may be some of the key contentors.
08:16But don't be mistaken, candidacies are still rolling in over the weekend.
08:22We heard former prime minister Dominique de Villepin say that he wanted to be a candidate.
08:27And former president François Hollande is still maintaining the mystery around whether he will run or not.
08:34But, of course, candidacies will thin in time as primaries occur and unions take place across different blocks.
08:45And just to remind our viewers that to be an official candidate, a politician needs the backing of 500 elected
08:53officials 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.
09:04And the candidates have very divergent policies when it comes to Europe.
09:09Le Pen, who once advocated for Frexit this time around, is calling for a drop in France's contributions to the
09:17bloc.
09:17And she's also calling for many of the EU's norms to be scrapped.
09:21Mélenchon has said that he wants to get rid of EU laws that don't suit French citizens.
09:26And he also peddled a very controversial proposal to scrap a large chunk of France's public debt,
09:33held by the Bank of France on behalf of the European Central Bank.
09:37But there are, of course, pro-European candidates such as Raphaël Glucksmann,
09:41who believes that it's at the European level that issues such as Chinese competition and regulating big tech companies should
09:52happen.
09:53But for a fully accurate picture, what we're waiting for is the party manifestos
09:59to be able to break down the finer details of candidates' policies.
10:02Okay, Estelle Nilsson, Julianne, thank you so much for that primer on what's set to be a very interesting eight
10:08months.
10:08But now, moving on, the EU institutions are bruised after Iceland rejected to kickstart negotiations
10:15to join the Club of 27 in a tight referendum last weekend.
10:19It's a huge blow to Brussels' 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.
10:45I would have wished for another result. I would have loved Iceland to become part of the European Union.
10:50However, I would not make this a big question about whether the European Union is an attractive bloc,
10:56because 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're already a member of the European
11:11Economic Area.
11:12And so they're already applying, for example, a single market legislation.
11:16I think the question of fisheries played a very important role in the discussion in Iceland before the referendum.
11:23And I think maybe the lesson learned that we should take, which I think was also what we learned from
11:28the Brexit referendum,
11:30is that European politicians should maybe have been more active in the debate and taken part in it,
11:36and also advocating for joining the European Union to make it.
11:40Was that a mistake not to get more involved?
11:42I think looking back now, maybe we should have taken a bigger part in this discussion,
11:47because I think at the end of the day, we also have to go into other countries
11:52and advocate for what is good about being part of the European Union.
11:56Iceland is already having some of the positive outcomes, but from a geopolitical, from a security point of view,
12:01I think it would have been good to start further negotiations.
12:04And is the Commission President too weak? I mean, her response was so muted.
12:08In reaction to this referendum outcome, we got a three line outcome, a three line statement.
12:14For me, the lesson learned of this, again, is that we should take a more active role in debates like
12:20this.
12:20We should not just, you know, highlight them as domestic discussions.
12:25Whether Iceland is joining 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.
12:45We have big elections as well with state elections in Eastern Germany this week, where the AFD could win.
12:49Yes, we have a very critical election happening in Sachsen-Anhalt this Sunday.
12:57And it will be tight.
12:59And whether the Greens are going to join the parliament in the end, we are tied to the threshold,
13:04will probably define whether the AFD, so a fascist far right party in Germany,
13:09can win an absolute majority in Sachsen-Anhalt.
13:12So we are putting everything into a strong campaign so 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.
13:20Thank you so much for joining us here on Europe Today.
13:23But now, moving on, in a sign that the passport-free area Schengen is under major stress,
13:29Italy and Spain have extended border controls for another 15 days due to the mass irregular migration crisis
13:36in 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,
13:45who's been following the 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.
13:52Good to have you with us.
13:53Thank you for having me.
13:53On the programme.
13:54You're a member, of course, of Pedro Sánchez's political family.
13:59Is he being too defensive on this story? What could he have done better?
14:03Well, certainly it's a critical situation.
14:07Not only migratory, it's humanitarian, and most importantly, national security.
14:11We 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.
14:23No.
14:23That's what the locals in Ceuta said.
14:24I can't agree, I can't agree.
14:26Ceuta, to begin with, is the only, with Melilla, terrestrial border of the European Union with the African continent.
14:32The most unequal terrestrial border on Earth.
14:35Second, there's a particular situation in which we have seen the population,
14:43the size of a population of Ceuta over the external border,
14:50but swimming by the sea over the harbor, with the ground of a ruling of the Supreme Court,
14:58which says that those people entering by sea cannot be returned to the country of transit of origin.
15:05They have to be handled as migrants or asylum seekers.
15:08So it's a situation that we've got to face.
15:10And we've got to do it according to law.
15:13Who is to blame for the situation?
15:14Because we're seeing last night Pedro Sánchez said it's disinformation fueled from Russia and Israel that's also created so much.
15:21It should be thorough investigated, that's for sure.
15:23And it's only obvious that it couldn't happen without some overlooking of Moroccan authorities.
15:29That is only obvious.
15:30And common sense says so.
15:33But the thing is that the government has to act based on facts and evidence.
15:39But most importantly, it has to combine rule of law, the implementation of the EU laws to begin with,
15:46and, of course, ensuring national security, because we're facing international issues here.
15:53And that's why you've called on Frontex for help.
15:55That's also a bit of an admission of defeat.
15:57Absolutely.
15:59It's the response of European institutions offer of increasing their presence in that particular very special terrestrial external border of
16:11the EU with Africa, of Spain with Morocco.
16:15But having said this, I must add that it's also obvious that the response has to involve European authorities.
16:22There are a number of contradictions which are obvious to human eye.
16:28One contradiction is that Spain has to combine its response with Morocco with cooperation with Morocco.
16:37You need Morocco to handle the situation.
16:40And second, you also need the European Union to scale up, because if you want to reassess the bilateral relation
16:47of the EU with Morocco,
16:49it takes the whole of the European Union because we have a strategic association with Morocco.
16:53Are you too reliant on Morocco, perhaps?
16:56Well, it's impossible to ignore a neighbour.
17:00And you have a neighbour in Morocco.
17:02Spain has, and the whole of the European Union has.
17:05That is why the European Union has linked itself with Morocco through an association which it calls strategic.
17:12But the thing is that if we are to keep up that strategic association with Morocco, we need to ask
17:18for Morocco to behave.
17:20But for our viewers watching that chaos unfold some month ago with almost 80,000 irregular migrants landing in Ceuta,
17:29where is the migration pact that we've been discussing and implementing?
17:33Precisely.
17:35It's miserable that after all the bother, all the energy, all the work that we put into the adoption of
17:41the migration as an impact,
17:43based on two principles, shared responsibility and binding solidarity,
17:47we have seen that in this situation solidarity has been missing.
17:51It's only regrettable because Spain has paid solidarity with the Baltics facing Russia,
17:57with Poland facing Russia in Kaliningrad, with Finland facing Russia,
18:02some of them also facing Belarus Lukashenko.
18:06We have paid solidarity with Italy in Lampedusa.
18:09So it's absolutely intolerable that we have seen no solidarity from Italian government in a situation as such.
18:16Well, 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.
18:29There is a Schengen governance code, which says that Schengen, which is free movement,
18:33can only be suspended on the grounds of necessity, proportionality communicated to the European Commission
18:39and under the oversight of the European Commission. So it's bound by law.
18:44And it's also certain that certain cannot be suspended by a member state to another member state.
18:53Okay, Juan Fernando López Aguilar, thank you so much for coming into this morning here on Europe Today.
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