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اروپا امروز: پیروزی تاریخی AfD و آزمون تشییع ملادیچ برای مسیر اروپایی صربستان
حزب راست افراطی آلترناتیو برای آلمان در انتخابات ایالتی ساکسونی-آنهالت پیروز شد. همزمان، خاکسپاری راتکو ملادیچ در بلگراد پس از هشدار اتحادیه اروپا درباره تجلیل از او، آزمونی برای عضویت صربستان در اتحادیه است.
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حزب راست افراطی آلترناتیو برای آلمان در انتخابات ایالتی ساکسونی-آنهالت پیروز شد. همزمان، خاکسپاری راتکو ملادیچ در بلگراد پس از هشدار اتحادیه اروپا درباره تجلیل از او، آزمونی برای عضویت صربستان در اتحادیه است.
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00:15Good morning, it's Monday the 7th of September, you're watching Euronews and this is Europe
00:22today. Coming up, political earthquake in Germany. The far-right AfD party won the regional election
00:30in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt. This is the first time since 1945 that political power
00:37may go to a right-wing party which the authorities consider a potential threat to the constitutional
00:43democratic order. We have the latest live from Berlin. In a show of high-stakes diplomacy,
00:50US peace envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Kiev for their first visit to the
00:56Ukrainian capital since the war started more than four years ago, after holding talks with
01:01Vladimir Putin in Moscow the day before. The mission comes after days of escalating Russian
01:07aerial attacks. And Ursula von der Leyen is in Greenland where she is expected to sign a joint
01:14declaration with the Danish Autonomous Territory later today. The EU Commission President wants
01:20to express the bloc's steadfast support of Greenland amid continuous calls from President Donald Trump
01:26for the United States to acquire it. Welcome to the program, I'm Stefan Grobe.
01:33Let's go straight to the historic election in Germany where the far-right AfD party won the majority
01:39in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt. Will this shake up Friedrich Merz's coalition government
01:45in Berlin? Let's head over to our correspondent Laura Fleischmann in the German capital. Good
01:51morning, Laura. So help us understand this AfD landslide. What was actually driving this result?
02:01Good morning to you too, Stefan. And well, let me first lay out the current situation in Saxony-Anhalt.
02:07The AfD won around 43% of the votes looking at the latest projection. And the CDU who is currently
02:13governing in Saxony-Anhalt is at around 17% and was slashed in half. So the current situation in
02:21Saxony-Anhalt is that the AfD is planning on governing with an outright majority, but there are only three
02:28seats shy of that. And this leaves them with the situation that they will need to form a coalition
02:33before the top candidate of the AfD, Ulrich Siegmund, has stated that he would not want to form a
02:39coalition, but now he seems to have to. So the CDU stated that they will rule out a coalition with
02:45the AfD. This only leaves the BSW, but they also said that they would not vote for Siegmund for a
02:52state minister, for a minister president in the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt. This now is a very
03:01difficult coalition puzzle to solve in Saxony-Anhalt. And what led a lot of the voters to now vote for
03:08the
03:08AfD, this is due to a campaign of the AfD for first-time voters and also for people who are
03:15usually non-voters.
03:17And they also had a significant gain with former CDU voters who now decided to instead support the
03:23AfD. This is, of course, a clear signal to Friedrich Merz and his party, the CDU.
03:29Laura, the election is now over, but the anger towards Chancellor Merz remains.
03:35What does the result mean for Merz and his government going forward?
03:41This is, of course, a political disaster for Merz. He is losing support from his party space and also
03:47from his coalition partner, the Social Democrats. But he stated, or it has officially been said,
03:53that he will not resign. However, the AfD's co-chair, Alice Weidel, stated that she expects
03:59Merz to step down before Christmas and that if the AfD would govern on a federal level, that they would
04:04cut the government's spending radically and that they would also start a major deportation campaign.
04:10Looking at the weeks ahead, the government also faces a difficult situation in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,
04:15where there will be state elections in just two weeks. And the AfD is also right now leading the polls.
04:22All right, Laura Fleischmann in Berlin. Thank you very much. And we stay in the German capital,
04:29where we are now joined by Günter Kings. He is the vice chairman of the Christian Democratic
04:33Parliamentary Group in the Bundestag. Good morning, sir.
04:37Good morning.
04:39So, to say the Christian Democrats lost yesterday would be an understatement. It's a disaster.
04:46Your party practically lost half of its voters. All this on Chancellor Merz's watch.
04:52Will he face personal consequences?
04:55It was a devastating result, and that's certainly clear. It was even worse than was expected.
05:00Of course, on the one hand side, there is a long-term trend in Saxony-Anhalt. From election
05:05to election, the AfD did significantly better from the last state election than the European
05:10election, federal election. But still, of course, this result has to do with the perception
05:15of our policy in Berlin. And it's also clear that one day after this election, we will not talk
05:21about personnel, but we have to talk about analyzing these results. We have to see clear what the
05:27message was sent to us. And at least the perception of our reform course is not in a way that
05:34we
05:35had the chance to win over voters or to at least hold them. And so that doesn't mean that the
05:43reform
05:43course is wrong, but the perception and the credibility also of our party is at a low.
05:49Well, you elegantly evaded a straight answer on Friedrich Merz. Again, how can he possibly
05:55exercise even a shred of authority after this election result? Wouldn't the party be better
06:00off without him at the helm?
06:03First of all, this is a state election, even though it has big federal policy implications.
06:09It's not the right thing for our party. We are a party that is a party of responsibility
06:13that has governed this country for decades. And to talk about changing the chancellor just
06:19one day after this election will not be the right thing. But of course, there will be talks
06:22also about how are we equipped and what will be our standing in the next weeks. And there
06:31will be no taboos in this discussion. But there's much more than the discussion about personnel,
06:36it's not content, it's about also how we communicate, how we will win back our credibility.
06:41So it's much broader than just the question of personnel.
06:46And finally, will this election result trigger a political course correction in Europe as the
06:53far right will unquestionably be emboldened?
06:56Certainly the far right feels emboldened. It's certainly also a signal of alarm.
07:01And that also should be perceived in Europe. I mean, a significant part of the anger that
07:07the voters, that the voters cost or that caused the voters to vote for the AFD comes from European
07:14decision. So the European Union also should ask what did we contribute to this anger and what
07:20do we have to change?
07:23All right, Günther Kings, vice chairman of the Christian Democratic Parliamentary Group in
07:27the Bundestag. Thank you very much for your time this morning.
07:32U.S. Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Kiev yesterday as part of a renewed push for
07:38peace by Washington. They spoke with President Volodymyr Zelensky about diplomatic ways to end
07:44the war. The talks took place only a day after they met with President Putin in Moscow for more than
07:50three hours behind closed doors. The meeting ended without announcements of any breakthroughs.
07:56Our correspondent, Sasha Vakulina, knows more and she joins me now in the studio. Good morning, Sasha.
08:02So let's talk about the meeting in Kiev first. What can you tell us? What's the latest?
08:08There has been no breakthrough, sadly, from the meeting in Kiev, Stefan, with the envoy stating that
08:16Russian President Vladimir Putin is not willing to compromise on its maximalist demands, Russia's demands from the very
08:23beginning, meaning that they are still demanding Ukraine to withdraw forces from its own territories.
08:29And therefore, Russia's war against Ukraine is most likely set to continue into next winter, in which case Kiev will
08:37need more support.
08:38Let's take a listen.
08:41If the war continues into winter, we are very much counting on the winter package, which I discussed in great
08:47details today with Steve, Jared, and our European partners.
08:52But the most important thing about this visit and about those talks in Kiev is the fact that they did
08:56take place, as you said.
08:58For the first time, Witkow and Kushner were in Kiev. So many times it was postponed.
09:03They were expected around Independence Day by the end of August in Kiev. That didn't happen.
09:08Same way as this visit was very shaky until the very last minute, with Russia targeting Kiev's airports, with Witkow
09:15and Kushner reportedly willing to fly to Kiev,
09:19despite Ukraine having its airspace closed since February 2022.
09:23Let's take a listen to Wladimir Zelensky.
09:26The Russians have made it clear with their air attacks that from a security perspective,
09:30the U.S. envoys cannot land or use the plane, even though we had everything ready.
09:35Our airports were operational.
09:37Yeah, Sascha, you mentioned it was the very first time that Trump's envoys, Witkow and Kushner, visited the Ukrainian capital.
09:45But they have been in Moscow many times, eight or nine times or something like that.
09:50But without yielding any sizable result, any success, is this time different?
09:57Not really. But also, all the talks, every time there are talks in Moscow, they're very different from what we
10:02saw in Kiev.
10:03Though there's never any sort of openness regarding what happens behind those closed doors.
10:08There was no ever any presser like the one we saw in Kiev on Sunday.
10:14And also, regarding the results of these talks, they're rather confidential, with just a couple of bits happening and, you
10:20know, us finding out about things.
10:22But clearly, all those visits do mean that the conversations and the relations between the U.S. envoys, specifically Steve
10:29Witkow, with the Russian president, are quite deep.
10:32Let's take a listen to what he said to Putin on Saturday.
10:36First of all, President Putin, thank you. Thank you so much for having us.
10:40We were sitting outside just now, me, Jared and Carol, and then Yuri joined us.
10:45And we were all talking about when we retire, we'll have all these incredible stories and incredible memories.
10:53And yours will be right at the top of it all.
10:57Unclear whether they're going to be the next meeting, probably trilateral, with the U.S., Ukraine and Russia, Stefan.
11:03Yeah, well, that topic will certainly not go away any time soon.
11:07Sasha, thank you so much for bringing us up to speed.
11:11The death of Ratko Mladic was supposed to close one of the darkest chapters in the Balkans.
11:17Instead, it has opened a new political battle in Serbia.
11:21The funeral of the convicted Bosnian-Serb war criminal will take place in Belgrade later today, but without state or
11:29military honors, probably.
11:30Senior EU officials had warned last week that any glorification of Mladic could undermine Serbia's relationship with Brussels
11:38and even derail its bid to become an EU member.
11:43To learn more on this, I'm joined by our correspondent, Merit Gwynn.
11:47Good morning, Merit.
11:49So, tell us why EU officials have been raising the alarm over plans for Mladic's funeral.
11:58Also, Stefan, as you know, Ratko Mladic, often referred to as the Butcher of Bosnia,
12:03is a convicted Bosnian-Serb war criminal found guilty of genocide, crimes against humanity.
12:12And his name is essentially synonymous for many with one of the darkest periods in Europe's recent history.
12:17Now, when he died in late August, while serving a life sentence in The Hague,
12:22the Serbian justice minister at that time initially said that he would be buried with all the state and military
12:29honors.
12:30Now, the official line coming from Belgrade now is that that is not the case,
12:34that the funeral will happen later today without state honors, without the presence of official government figures.
12:41But, Stefan, despite that, and despite the president of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic,
12:46not attending the funeral today and trying to distance himself from the justice minister's comments,
12:52the optics and the imagery coming out of Serbia around the commemoration of Mladic's death
12:57has really hit a nerve here in Brussels.
13:00We saw the body of Mladic transported from The Hague to Belgrade last week, last Thursday,
13:06in a government plane, his coffin draped in the Serbian flag, in the presence of a cabinet minister.
13:13And the following day on Friday, we know this was raised at a meeting of EU ministers in Dublin,
13:18and we heard from the EU's Commissioner for Enlargement, Marta Kos.
13:23She issued a stern warning on social media.
13:25I believe we can look at that now.
13:27She said the glorification surrounding his Mladic's death is incompatible with the values on which the EU path is built,
13:35the values that underpin our common future are not negotiable.
13:39She then said, in this context, I have decided not to proceed with my planned visit to Serbia.
13:44So, Stefan, I think the Commissioner for Enlargement cancelling her planned trip to a EU-Canada country
13:50really speaks volumes about the extent of the outrage that Brussels has really felt here in response to these events.
13:57Yeah, absolutely. I mean, the whole story is pretty disturbing.
14:01And you mentioned the optics.
14:02Now, we know there's not going to be a state funeral.
14:07No pomp and circumstances here.
14:09Is that enough to undo some of the damage that has been done already?
14:14Well, that's a good question, Stefan, because last week, in fact, we had ministers,
14:18just the Belgian foreign minister, warning that any state on us would effectively, you know,
14:23see Serbia backtrack on its path to become an EU member.
14:27So, that would have really, I think, triggered a really firm response from the EU.
14:32But I think it's fair to say that a lot of the damage has already been done because of the
14:36optics of this.
14:37The commemoration that happened over this weekend was held at a state-owned army house in Belgrade.
14:42The Justice Minister was present there.
14:44We even saw the derby, the football derby in Belgrade last night being held with a minute of silence for
14:50Mladic.
14:50So, all this imagery really doesn't help Serbia on its path to become a EU member.
14:55And this is already a very tense relationship.
14:58We know that a member states are already reluctant to open or to progress Serbia on its path to become
15:04a EU member.
15:05And one diplomat confirming to Euronews last week, in fact, that any commemoration, any glorification around Mladic,
15:12state honours or not, would really be a setback for Belgrade on its bid to become a EU member.
15:17All right, Marek. Thank you so much for your insight.
15:20Now, there's a lot to discuss when the EU agriculture ministers meet in Dublin today and tomorrow.
15:26Europe is recovering after a summer of heatwaves and droughts that have devastated crops
15:32and left many farmers facing huge financial losses.
15:35France has announced more than 1 billion euros in aid for farmers.
15:39So far, Brussels has said EU farmers can be compensated through flexibilities in their strategic plans and via state aid.
15:47Marek Gwynn sat down with the European Commissioner for Agriculture, Christoph Hansen,
15:51and started by asking him what more Brussels could do.
15:55Well, first of all, it has indeed been a very challenging summer and even the late spring was already in
16:01many regions heavily under pressure
16:03because of climate effects, because of drought, because of wildfires.
16:08And this is, of course, putting a lot of pressure because farmers are losing their harvests, partly at least.
16:14Then, of course, our farmers were as well our best line of defense or the first line of defense for
16:19wildfires,
16:20because with their tanks, with their machinery, they were on the spot to help our firefighters.
16:26And now comes, of course, the financial aspect of it.
16:29They have liquidity problems.
16:31And that is why we are helping them.
16:35I wrote a letter as well to the ministers in the beginning of this week to elaborate on the tools
16:40that we already have,
16:41that they can use advanced payments, for example, but as well derogations from certain obligations,
16:47because farmers can just not meet them under these conditions.
16:50And let's not forget, we presented before summer a fertilizer action plan where we made available 540 million euros,
16:58which can be topped up by the national budgets.
17:02This will be a first financial relief, but the situation is far from being over.
17:07You mentioned the liquidity problem, and this obviously comes when we also have a fertilizer and fuel cost crisis.
17:13It seems like there's a perfect storm here for farmers.
17:15Are you confident you're doing enough?
17:18Because there seems to be flexibilities in current programs, but no new cash, which is what many farmers are calling
17:23for.
17:24The farmers know exactly that the cash is limited.
17:26That we will, of course, have for the next year.
17:30We have the agricultural reserve, 450 million that we can use.
17:33I think we need as well to speak about solidarity in what is produced currently,
17:39because often the consumers want the perfect apple, the perfect potato.
17:43This might not be the case this year.
17:45And as well, retailers expect a certain quality.
17:49And I think there we need to think differently as well to find new solutions so that the product can
17:54still be sold.
17:56That is a lot what can be done.
17:58A lot of additional money, of course, we know this is difficult.
18:02I have to ask you about the situation in Ukraine, because we know they are facing big difficulties exporting their
18:07grains due to increased Russian attacks on Black Sea infrastructure and ports.
18:13What can the EU do here to help find a solution for Kyiv?
18:18Well, of course, Ukraine is not the only one concerned, because in the end, they are as well heavily attacking
18:25Russian infrastructure.
18:26And that has an effect as well.
18:28But nonetheless, I think we have meanwhile an experience of helping Ukraine getting their grains to the world to get
18:36to their traditional markets.
18:38The solidarity lanes is one part of it.
18:40But I think we have as well to look into the Danube corridor, even though we know that waters have
18:48been quite down.
18:50If I may, on the solidarity lanes, because this has been a very political issue in the past.
18:54We know that the states have been protesting against this.
18:57Do you see room to expand those lanes?
19:00I think what needs to be avoided is that we had during the autonomous trade measures and temporary liberalization and
19:07this liberalization led to disruptions, led to a price decrease and as well leakage of grains, for example,
19:16that were supposed to go through Europe, but not to leak into the market.
19:20I think we have meanwhile as well very clear experience what went wrong back in time.
19:25And this needs to be addressed for future exports of Ukraine through Europe.
19:32But that is not meant for the European market.
19:37All right.
19:38That does it for us today.
19:40I'm Stefan Grobe.
19:41Take care and see you tomorrow.
19:46Bye.