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Europe Today: Ceuta chiede aiuto all'Ue, l'Ungheria espelle 10 diplomatici russi
Il sindaco di Ceuta Juan Jesús Vivas ha chiesto maggiore sostegno europeo per la crisi nell’enclave spagnola, dopo l’ingresso illegale di 80.000 persone il mese scorso. Intanto il governo ungherese ha deciso di espellere 10 diplomatici russi per attività giudicate "inaccettabili".
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Il sindaco di Ceuta Juan Jesús Vivas ha chiesto maggiore sostegno europeo per la crisi nell’enclave spagnola, dopo l’ingresso illegale di 80.000 persone il mese scorso. Intanto il governo ungherese ha deciso di espellere 10 diplomatici russi per attività giudicate "inaccettabili".
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00:14Good morning, it's Wednesday the 9th of September, you're watching Euronews and this is Europe
00:22Today. Coming up, the political reaction to the surge of migrants into the Spanish enclave
00:28of Ceuta laid bare how sharply Europe's migration debate has shifted. From the far right to the
00:34center-left, political leaders overwhelmingly called for stronger borders and more effective
00:39deterrence. At the same time, nearly 9 in 10 Spaniards blamed Morocco for the mass migrant
00:45crossings into Ceuta in late July. That's according to a poll released this week. We'll speak to a
00:51former Spanish foreign minister. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was personally alerted
00:58by the President of the United Arab Emirates that Hamas was planning a large-scale offensive
01:03against Israel a week before its 7th October 2033 attack, but did not act on the warning.
01:11That's according to an investigation by reporters of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. The claim,
01:16which comes amid a crucial election campaign, prompted Israeli opposition leaders to describe
01:21the Prime Minister as unfit for office. Netanyahu denounced the report as an absolute lie.
01:28And a wave of explosions rang out in Kyiv yesterday until this morning as Russia resumed strikes on the
01:36Ukrainian capital after a three-day halt. Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered the
01:41pause in attacks as US President Donald Trump's envoys visited the Russian and Ukrainian capitals over
01:47the weekend. According to the authorities, the latest strikes killed at least five people, injured 35,
01:54and damaged buildings across the capital, including a TV station while journalists were live on air.
02:01Welcome to the program. I'm Stefan Grobe.
02:04It's been more than a month since around 80,000 migrants crossed into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from
02:12Morocco in the most dramatic border search in Europe in recent years. Yesterday, Ceuta's mayor
02:18president, Juan Jesús Vivas, met with senior EU officials in Brussels to seek greater European support
02:25for the continuing crisis, warning that the city was still on the edge of the abyss. Our correspondent,
02:32Merrick Gwynne, followed those meetings for us and joins me now in the studio. Good morning, Merrick.
02:37Good morning, Stefan.
02:38So, why don't you tell us what was the message to Brussels of the mayor?
02:43Well, the mayor president of Ceuta came to Brussels, Stefan, above all, with a plea for help. He said that
02:48the people of Ceuta are still suffering, that they haven't regained a sense of normality in their
02:55day-to-day lives. He, in fact, described the enclave as a pressure cooker about to explode. Now,
03:01to remind our viewers, in late July, in the space of just 48 hours, around 80,000 migrants crossed
03:07into the enclave from Morocco. The population of Ceuta is around 80,000. That really tells you all you
03:13need to know about the scale of this crisis. Let's take a listen now to what Juan Jesús Vivas had
03:18to
03:18say yesterday.
03:20Ceuta is experiencing the most difficult moment in its history. I can say with complete certainty
03:26that it is on the brink of collapse. And to emerge from this situation, to return to normality, and to
03:33emerge stronger from this difficult time, it needs alliances and it needs to draw upon its strengths.
03:44Now, Stefan, I've never seen the press from where he spoke earlier in the day yesterday so full,
03:49such is the interest in this story, which, above all, was also, of course, a humanitarian and human
03:55crisis with over 100 migrants also losing their lives in late July during that crossing. Now,
04:00Juan Jesús Vivas also had concrete requests for senior officials in Brussels, including the
04:05Commissioners for Migration and the Mediterranean. He said he wants a greater presence for Frontex that use
04:10border agency in the enclave, that he wants a special status for both Ceuta and Melilla before the EU,
04:17and that he also wants financial contributions to help fortify the border with Morocco and address
04:22the needs of the unaccompanied minors that remain in Ceuta. Now, also, very interesting, I think,
04:28above all, this is what struck me from the visit yesterday, Stefan, is that he asked for a more
04:34forceful and firm position from the EU towards Morocco. Now, he clearly pinned the blame on
04:41Morocco, saying they had some sort of involvement in this crossing, citing the police reports,
04:47the leaked police reports that suggest that Moroccan security officials did facilitate the crossing in
04:52late July. We know that the Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has stood in defense of Rabat since the
04:57start of this crisis. But for Juan Jesús Vivas, he told the EU that any fruitful cooperation with a
05:03third country needs to start from respect. And he said that Morocco is clearly not respecting the
05:08territorial integrity of either Ceuta or Europe. And we know, Stefan, finally, that Morocco and the EU are in
05:14the process of negotiating a new agreement, a broad cooperation agreement, which will include border
05:20controls. So a real pressure now on Brussels to listen to Ceuta and Spain's concerns when that
05:26agreement is being formed. Yeah, we're going to talk about Morocco next. Thank you so much,
05:30Marit, for your reporting. Ceuta has, once again, exposed the fragile and often complicated
05:37relationship between Spain and Morocco and raised much bigger questions for the European Union.
05:43For Madrid, cooperation with Rabat is essential to controlling one of Europe's most sensitive external
05:49borders. But when migration becomes part of a diplomatic dispute, how vulnerable does that make
05:55Spain and the EU? Joining me now to discuss this is Arantxa Gonzalez-Laya, a former Spanish foreign
06:02minister under Pedro Sánchez. Good morning, ma'am. Good morning, Stefan. So Ceuta has once again become
06:10the focal point of a confrontation between Spain and Morocco. Has Spain been too dependent on Morocco to
06:17control one of its borders? Well, first I would say in order to characterize the situation is a hybrid
06:24attack suffered by Europe in its external border. This external border happens to be in Spain. But if we
06:32want to characterize the situation is an attack on an external border of the European Union using humans,
06:39using migration as a tool. So migration is the tool. The objective is, and let's be very clear about
06:47that also, to weaken the Spain and through that to weaken the European Union at the time when the European
06:56Union is going through a lot of electoral process at that time, when there are questionings in the European Union,
07:03including from political parties within the European Union and where migration is a sensitive social
07:09issue. So I would say let's start there so that we understand how the European Union can help protect
07:16better this external border of the EU, which happens to be in Ceuta, Spain.
07:23So when Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez broke decades of official neutrality to endorse Morocco's autonomy plan for
07:31Western Sahara in 2022, many labeled it a policy of appeasement. Well, that appeasement obviously failed during the
07:41Ceuta crisis in July. How can Madrid reset its relations with Morocco?
07:47I think it's important that we take this as European Union relations with the neighbor. And to me there, you
07:56know,
07:56Europe must have the best relationship possible with its neighbors, whether it's the neighbors in the south, whether it's
08:04the neighbors on the east. Some neighbors lend themselves better to a more cooperative approach and some are more difficult.
08:11But the starting point has to be to have as best as possible a relationship with European neighbors,
08:17because this at the end of the day would be good for the stability of Europe. But in the specific
08:22case of Spain,
08:24I think there's two things that we need to keep into account. First, the incredible vulnerability of our neighbor.
08:32when 80,000 citizens cross the border without anything but a mobile phone as soon as the border is open,
08:43this shows a
08:44fragility. It shows that these people don't find an answer to their future, you know, lives and prospects in their
08:52country and they want to look elsewhere. This is a vulnerability that is medium to long term to stay with
08:58us. We need to take care of that.
09:01Ma'am, that's all we have time for. I'm very sorry, but thank you so much for sharing your thoughts
09:08with us.
09:08That was Arantxa Gonzalez-Laya, a former Spanish foreign minister.
09:12France and Canada have joined the United Kingdom in imposing new trade sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements.
09:20London, Paris and Ottawa are also among 11 countries which issued a joint statement yesterday
09:25warning the Israeli government's actions in the West Bank are threatening the possibility of reaching a
09:31two-state solution. This comes as, according to a new investigation by Israeli newspaper Haaretz,
09:38the United Arab Emirates president warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Hamas was planning a
09:44major operation against Israel 10 days before the October 7th massacre in 2023. For more on this,
09:52our correspondent Sasha Vakulina joins me now in the studio. Good morning, Sasha. So, Sasha,
09:58give us a sense of the magnitude of this revelation.
10:03Well, it is kind of a bombshell revelation if, of course, the report is true. Netanyahu,
10:09as you said, denies the report, saying this is all a blunt lie. But, nevertheless, according to the
10:14Haaretz report, allegedly Netanyahu received this warning 10 days prior to the attack. As you say,
10:19what makes it different? Because we do know that Israel allegedly received other warnings as well
10:24prior to the attack. What makes this one different is also how this happened. This was a one-on-one
10:29conversation between the president of the United Arab Emirates and Benjamin Netanyahu himself.
10:34And then the other thing is that Netanyahu allegedly did not pass on this warning to his security
10:40chiefs, which makes this warning very different from all the others. Now, I asked what he should
10:46have done and how this should have been preceded. I asked this question to the former Israeli government
10:51press person, Aylin Levy, and this is what he had to say, Stefan.
10:56If this report is true, it's hard to say why he wouldn't pass that on, other than that he didn't
11:02think it was credible. And that's because Netanyahu was really convinced that Hamas was deterred.
11:08Israel believed that Hamas's leaders would have to be psychopaths to launch a war that would invite
11:14a fierce Israeli response. Because even though Hamas's leaders are terrorist scumbags, they enjoy
11:20being in power in Gaza and wouldn't want to sacrifice their hold on power. If the prime minister receives
11:27such a sensitive warning from a senior figure, one would expect that to be passed on to the
11:32security chiefs. And one of the big what ifs of Israeli history is if this warning was indeed
11:39received, would it have led the intelligence agencies to interpret intelligence a little
11:45bit differently if they could connect the different pieces of the puzzle together? It was not just an
11:49intelligence failure, a failure to read individual warning signs. It was a basic strategic failure to
11:56understand the nature of the enemy facing Israel, its true intentions, and its real capabilities.
12:04And you know, another thing that makes it different from other warnings is the timing, Stefan. The
12:09Haaretz investigation comes to seven weeks before the national elections in Israel on the 27th of October.
12:15Mind you, this is going to be the first vote since the tragedy of the October the 7th and this
12:22matters. Now let's take a listen to this. It's too early to rule Netanyahu out, but October 7th is
12:28overshadowing the elections on October 27th. Ultimately, that's what the poll is about. About
12:35responsibility for October 7th, about the fallout and the social and economic costs of this war,
12:41and about the military successes of this war. The opposition wants to make this about responsibility
12:47for October 7th itself. Netanyahu wants to make it about Israel's genuinely impressive military
12:53achievements since the massacre. But undoubtedly, there is huge anger inside Israel and a broad
13:00majority of the public who want a state commission of inquiry. So the worst disaster in Israel's history
13:06can be interrogated properly and we can learn the lesson so it never happens again.
13:14Sasha Vakulina, they are reporting for us. Hungary expelled 10 Russian diplomats in a move to end what
13:21they called unacceptable actions. Russia condemned the move while the European Union expressed solidarity
13:27with Budapest. To bring you more, I'm joined now by our Hungary correspondent, Sándor Zíros. Good
13:34morning, Sándor. So tell us about the background here. What is the real story?
13:41Well, the real story is about spying. During the era of the government of Viktor Orbán, Russia developed a
13:50sort of spying hub at its embassy in Budapest. At least half of the stuff was related to intelligence
13:59agencies. There were a couple of investigative reports and other investigations into this matter
14:07as well. And now we had a government change in April in Hungary and the new government of Peter
14:13Magyar decided to break this down, this spy network and to send a very strong message to Russia that
14:20this is not acceptable. This shows also a very sharp policy shift of the foreign policy of Hungary.
14:28They will end the very close relationship with Russia that we had before. And this move,
14:35especially this foreign policy move, is very well received in Brussels. Let's take a look of what
14:42the Commission spokesperson told me yesterday. This is an expected reaction with view of Russia's
14:49persistent campaign in using hybrid attacks against EU and its member states. The European Union
14:55expresses its full solidarity with Hungary and reaffirms its support for the diplomatic and consular
15:02activities of all member states conducted in accordance with international law.
15:07So I guess the Russians were not happy. How did they react? And what does it actually mean
15:12you know, going forward for relations between Hungary and Russia?
15:16Well, that's right. Russia reacted swiftly and very angrily, I would say.
15:25Very likely that they will expel also 10 Hungarian diplomats and the Foreign Affairs spokesperson
15:32Maria Zakharova, she explicitly threatened Hungary. She said that russophobes in Hungary will face
15:39a hard and painful response. So nevertheless, Russia believes that, you know, Peter Magyar executed
15:46an order from Brussels. So he is acting on behalf of the European Union by doing this.
15:53We don't know what this response will be, but one Russian deputy already threatened Hungary to cut off
16:01its energy supplies from Russia because of these unfriendly moves.
16:07All right. You know, I love these spy stories, Shando. Thank you so much for covering this for us.
16:12Now, how well are the world's education systems preparing young people for the future?
16:17The latest OECD PISA report offers a fresh snapshot and, for many countries, a worrying reality check.
16:25From widening inequalities to declining performance in key skills, the results raise urgent questions
16:32about whether schools are keeping pace with a rapidly changing world.
16:36To discuss the report's findings, let's head to Warsaw, where we're joined by Maciej Jakubowski,
16:42Director of the Educational Research Institute and a former Undersecretary of State at the Polish Ministry of Education.
16:49Good morning, sir.
16:51Good morning.
16:52So, student performance in reading, maths and science is declining across OECD countries.
16:59A worrying trend, according to the EU Commission.
17:02Yesterday, the Commissioner for Skills and Quality Jobs, Roxana Minsato, reacted to the report saying,
17:08and I quote, too many young Europeans are falling behind in essential skills.
17:13We recognize the scale of the challenge and the need to act.
17:17So, give us a sense of, you know, how EU countries measure up here.
17:24We see declines across the board, maybe not in the main domain of science,
17:30in which only some countries decline, but in mathematics and reading,
17:34so foundational skills you need across the board when you think about education and adult life.
17:41The decline is in most European countries.
17:44And we see an increasing number of students who are not reaching the basic level of proficiency
17:49in reading or in mathematics.
17:52Around one-third of young Europeans are now below so-called level two in PISA,
17:57which means that, functionally, they are illiterates.
18:01Well, that's quite disturbing.
18:04How much of the problem is linked to smartphones, social media and declining attention spans?
18:12So, that's very difficult to link.
18:14These are cross-sectional data.
18:15We cannot say causally that there is a relationship, but that's the first guess.
18:21I mean, basically, we see students are not reading that much anymore.
18:24They read on smartphones, which is not the same reading.
18:27I mean, they read very short text, but a lot of them are just watching short movies.
18:33So, the reading skills are falling down.
18:35And the same is with mathematics.
18:37Mathematics is a practice-intensive domain.
18:40So, they are not really using, for example, technology like AI to learn.
18:45They are using AI to solve problems, to get quick solutions.
18:48So, we see that the practice is less intensive and we think that's a problem.
18:55Okay, well, thank you so much for your insights, Maciej Jakubowski.
19:02Thank you.
19:03That does it for us today.
19:05Thank you for watching.
19:06I'm Stefan Grobe.
19:07Take care and see you tomorrow.
19:39Take care and see you tomorrow.
19:39Grazie a tutti.
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