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Europe Today: la cena di Stato di Trump con Xi e la prima visita di papa Leone XIV in Francia
Il vertice ad alto rischio tra Trump e Xi a Washington è stato seguito in Europa, mentre papa Leone XIV visita per la prima volta la Francia. In scaletta anche un'intervista al ministro danese Lidegaard sull'accordo USA-Danimarca per la Groenlandia e un aggiornamento sulla crisi migratoria a Ceuta.
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Il vertice ad alto rischio tra Trump e Xi a Washington è stato seguito in Europa, mentre papa Leone XIV visita per la prima volta la Francia. In scaletta anche un'intervista al ministro danese Lidegaard sull'accordo USA-Danimarca per la Groenlandia e un aggiornamento sulla crisi migratoria a Ceuta.
ALTRE INFORMAZIONI : http://it.euronews.com/2026/09/25/europa-oggi-la-cena-di-stato-di-trump-per-xi-jinping-e-la-prima-visita-di-papa-leone-xiv-i
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00:14Good morning and yes it's Friday, September 25th, you're watching Euronews and this is Europe Today.
00:23Coming up, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping met for a high-stakes summit yesterday culminating in a state dinner at
00:30the White House.
00:31It was the first official state visit from a Chinese leader in the US in over a decade as tensions
00:36between the two countries remain high.
00:39The CIA warned several European countries of possible Russian attacks against targets in Spain, France or Italy.
00:46According to Spanish media, Moscow could launch drones with a range of 600 kilometers from merchant vessels.
00:54And Pope Leo XIV arrives in Paris today for an apostolic visit to France that will include popemobile parades,
01:02an open-air mass on the Champs Elysees and a trip to the sanctuary of Lourdes.
01:07It's the first papal state visit to France since 2008.
01:11Welcome to the program, I'm Stefan Grobeck.
01:14U.S. President Trump has thrown China's leader Xi Jinping a state dinner featuring a tech-heavy guest list
01:21as well as a number of billionaires, Washington power brokers and business leaders.
01:26The dinner on Thursday night wrapped up a day of talks between the two leaders
01:30that did not erase differences over issues like Iran, Taiwan, AI and trade.
01:36The meeting was closely watched in Europe as every meaningful agreement between Washington and Beijing has also an impact on
01:43the EU,
01:44as EU Commissioner Stéphane Sejourné told Euronews.
01:51We need a constructive dialogue between China and the United States.
01:55And we saw last year that the escalating trade tensions between Washington and Beijing over these issues could lead to
02:01a trade war.
02:02This could also affect the European economy.
02:04So yes, I hope this dialogue will be constructive and we can reach an agreement and that we can stabilize
02:10the situation.
02:18To make sense of what happened between Trump and Xi Jinping, let's bring in Ian Lesser now, distinguished fellow
02:25at the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
02:27Good morning, Ian. Good to see you.
02:30Stefan, very good to be with you. Thank you.
02:33So, Trump hosting Xi at the White House.
02:35Was this primarily a summit about managing rivalry or the beginning of a new friendship?
02:43Oh, I would say managing rivalry.
02:45And I think both leaders bring to the table, you know, their own agenda of that kind, even though, you
02:51know, we don't know all the details of what came out.
02:53Apparently, there were no blow ups, if you could say.
02:57There was nothing deeply negative.
02:58On the other hand, there wasn't a lot of progress on a lot of the substantive issues of trade and
03:02tech and other things people were looking for.
03:04But really, it was all about the symbolism.
03:07And the symbolism really, in a sense, is the substance to manage rivalry.
03:13China, you know, can come away from this perceiving that it was treated as an equal.
03:19And President Trump can also come away with what he could describe as a success.
03:24But also, you know, looking over his shoulder at the American political scene where, you know, tougher attitudes on China
03:29are there on both sides of the aisle, Democrats and Republicans.
03:33So, you know, there were certain risks in coming off as too much of a success for President Trump as
03:39well.
03:39I think it's some, you know, the result comes out somewhere in the middle.
03:43So both sides were talking about strategic stability.
03:46But underneath the diplomatic language, there was enormous mistrust.
03:50So how far could Trump and Xi actually reduce tensions?
03:55I think this does, in some sense, go a long way.
03:59This kind of very high level, very personalized diplomacy.
04:04Both leaders apparently value this.
04:06Both systems, in a sense, value this.
04:08You know, it does make a difference.
04:10The optics matter.
04:11But as you say, there are a lot of unresolved issues.
04:14Some of them are very technical kind and not things without a lot of preparation beforehand and agreement beforehand, not
04:22things that were likely to be settled at a summit like this.
04:24And so the fact on trade, for example, that the sort of trade war truce, if you like, has been
04:30extended for another few months is something of a success.
04:33But it also leaves a lot of work to be done.
04:35I got to ask you this, Ian.
04:38Yesterday, Trump caused consternation among European leaders by inviting Vladimir Putin to the upcoming G20 summit in Miami.
04:47Your reaction to that?
04:49Well, this is going to be viewed very negatively in a lot of places, not least in Europe, where there's,
04:55you know, no desire to give what might be seen as a diplomatic gift to President Putin.
05:04As the war in Ukraine drags on and the sanctions are getting tougher.
05:09And there is a certain irony in this in that the United States itself just enacted tougher sanctions on Russia.
05:14Whether he actually comes to Florida for the G20 meeting is unclear.
05:18But even the invitation is going to upset a lot of people, to be sure.
05:22But to go back to our earlier conversation, it's another piece of evidence just in terms of the style of
05:28the administration, President Trump's engagement with the world.
05:31He sees it very much through individual leaderships.
05:35And so in that sense, the invitation wasn't surprising.
05:38All right.
05:39Good stuff.
05:40Ian Lesser, distinguished fellow at the German Marshall Fund.
05:43Thank you very much.
05:45Now, just days after his country and the United States inked a deal on Greenland, Martin Liedegaard was the first
05:53Danish ministers to speak exclusively to Euronews about the agreement.
05:57The deal de-escalated a months-long diplomatic crisis over the Arctic territory, triggered by threats from U.S. President
06:04Trump to seize it by force.
06:07The business minister expressed hope that a new chapter can now begin.
06:12For more on this, I'm joined by Euronews' Lauren Walker.
06:15Good morning, Lauren.
06:17So what sense did you get from Minister Liedegaard on how momentous this agreement is?
06:23Yeah.
06:23Good morning, Stefan.
06:24So I think there is a clear consensus here that this is a very positive outcome.
06:29Denmark and Greenland, I think it's fair to say, will be breathing this sense of relief, this sigh of relief,
06:36because the agreement essentially brings an end to months of uncertainties and diplomatic difficulties for both parties.
06:45Cast your mind back to the start of this year, where Trump threatened several EU countries with sanctions.
06:53Now, this was in response, basically, to them criticizing another threat he made that he would, quote unquote, take Greenland.
07:01Now, over this, he cited national security concerns.
07:05Obviously, we need to bear in mind as well that there are these.
07:08It's a strategic location for the U.S. and the mineral wealth of Greenland as well.
07:13Now, when we look at the agreement itself, it's not really a new agreement.
07:18It's more of rebranding, adding on to an agreement from 1951.
07:23But there are some key differences here.
07:26One being Greenland as a signatory.
07:28That's very, very important, obviously, to Greenland.
07:31And then there are also these clauses that they've added that basically closes the door of Greenland for mining and
07:38military purposes to non-EU, non-NATO countries, unless, obviously, all three signatories agree otherwise.
07:46And this mining, Martin Ludegard also told me, is very, very important for Nuuk.
07:51We've also heard this from Nuuk themselves, because they really want to exploit the raw critical materials that they have
07:59in Greenland.
08:00Nuuk, of course, being the capital of Greenland.
08:02Now, from what you say, can we identify winners and losers here?
08:07So I want to start, obviously, with the Greenlanders.
08:10They will be very, very happy because this agreement, it really recognizes their right to basically decide on their own
08:18future.
08:19Denmark, as I said, is very, very happy because it brings an end to this very, very difficult, tumultuous period
08:25for them.
08:26Ludegard himself also said that they're now hoping this will bring a new chapter.
08:30A lot of it, obviously, does evolve around the U.S. military and civilian access to Greenland.
08:38We've already heard these reports of two additional military bases.
08:42The U.S. already has one on Greenland.
08:44They now want to create two other ones.
08:47So that's very, very important for them.
08:49I think it is important to say, though, and it's very notable that the agreement does stop short of this
08:55call from Trump,
08:57that he wanted Greenland basically to be recognized as U.S. territory.
09:01The agreement does not do that.
09:03However, this hasn't stopped Trump from making claims in recent days that the agreement gives him existential permanent control over
09:13Greenland.
09:14I put these claims to the Danish minister because obviously I was very interested to hear, does Denmark, does Copenhagen
09:20see this as in total, how would we say, in total contrast with what it says in the agreement that
09:28this is Denmark's sovereignty.
09:30But he brushed off any of these comments.
09:33There was a very clear consensus here that they wanted to focus on the positive.
09:37And he told me all three parties are winners here.
09:41Let's take a listen.
09:41Well, this is an agreement which all three parties are very satisfied by.
09:48And we are satisfied because that the territorial integrity is intact, that we ensure the self-dependence of the Greenland
09:59people.
09:59And I think that the Americans are very happy about the fact that they have a huge access to the
10:05Greenland territory when it comes to military bases, but also when it comes to minerals and stuff like that.
10:12And the Greenland are very happy about it because they have the self-dependence and, of course, can decide their
10:17own future.
10:18And then the different parties put different weight on different parts of the agreement.
10:25And would you say you're positive that this agreement will now set a course that we can avoid any escalation
10:31or the threats that we saw earlier over Greenland coming from the US?
10:35Yes, very much so. And it is my hope and my belief that now we can start a new chapter
10:42where we try to invest together in the security and the development of the Arctic region, also when it comes
10:49to nature and climate, but not least when it comes to defense and mining.
10:54In this agreement, it states that only EU or NATO countries can invest in Greenland. I want to ask you
11:01firstly, does this mean that there will be more, let's say, more investment in Greenland, perhaps more exploitation of critical
11:11raw materials in Greenland?
11:13I hope so. And I also think that the Greenland government hopes so. There is a huge desire in Greenland,
11:21you know, to grow, to create new jobs and also to, when it comes to mining, have a bigger sector
11:28than today.
11:29And that's, you know, you need investors, you need capital, but you also need a market. And here I sincerely
11:37hope that the EU can play a role.
11:39We need many supply chains when it comes to critical raw materials. I hope Greenland can be one of them.
11:46And what implications will this have on the EU, which is so clearly trying to secure its independence from other
11:54countries when it comes to these critical raw material supplies?
11:57I actually don't think so. I think there are minerals enough in Greenland that that all who are interested to
12:03invest in Greenland can actually do it and benefit from it.
12:07But it will, of course, be up to the Greenland government who they deal with, where and in which way.
12:13But as I hear the Greenland government, they open for business both with Europe and with the US.
12:22All right, our Lauren Walker there speaking to the Danish minister Martin Liedegaard.
12:28A mass migration surge from Morocco to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in July has led to a deterioration of
12:36relations between Madrid and Rabat.
12:38And it has revived the debate over migration in Europe.
12:42Our correspondent Maya de la Beaume spoke with Marion Maréchal, a French far-right member of the European Parliament and
12:49a niece of Marine Le Pen.
12:51Maya started by asking her about the reason for her visit to Ceuta this week.
12:58To alert Europeans to the fact that the problem has not been completely resolved.
13:03Today there are still several thousand people who continue to stay illegally in this enclave of Ceuta.
13:08We are talking about a minimum of one sexual assault per day, if not several rapes.
13:13Today there are a dozen dangerous jihadist profiles that are now identified by the Spanish intelligence services and are wanted.
13:20And above all, we do not yet have a lasting solution, if I may say so, because we know that
13:25today there are a certain number of illegal migrants who are transferred to Spain.
13:29Spain is now in the Schengen area.
13:31And so the objective of my presence is also to send a political signal and to say that tomorrow we
13:36will have to deal with the subject,
13:38the functioning of the Schengen area on the one hand, and on the other hand, the subject of asylum law
13:42and its misuse,
13:44which is today one of the main routes of illegal immigration in Europe.
13:50The European Union has put in place new migration rules since June, in particular allowing member states to create these
13:56famous return centers outside Europe.
13:59Do you think that's enough?
14:02This is one of the proposals among a whole range of proposals that should allow us to more easily intercept
14:07and return illegal immigrants to European soil today.
14:11A very important step, but once again, it is not enough.
14:14Tomorrow we will also have to tackle the issue of asylum, which, I would remind you, is first and foremost
14:19governed by European law and which is a massive illegal immigration channel today.
14:24We must focus on the free movement within the Schengen area, which has become dangerous today for all European residents
14:30and citizens.
14:31And I will tell you, I'm very hopeful that we will succeed, because if by chance tomorrow Marine Lupin is
14:36brought to power in France, if Giorgia Meloni is re-elected,
14:40we would have the possibility of having a Franco-Italian couple on these immigration issues who work together to reorient
14:46Europe in the right direction.
14:49Would you go so far as to close the border between France and Spain? Because we know that France did
14:54not close the border. It put border controls in place.
15:00Personally, I fully understand the legitimate decision of Giorgia Meloni to have closed their borders.
15:05Since I remind you, we do not say it enough, there are among these influxes of migrants potential jihadis, and
15:11that is very well documented by the Spanish intelligence services.
15:14So there is a security threat.
15:16So it would seem common sense to me, for reasons mainly of security, but also defending our European identity, to
15:22no longer defend free movement for all,
15:24which obviously makes us, I'd say, puts us hostage when socialist governments, like that of Pedro Sanchez, regulate massively, since
15:32it is all of Europe that is suddenly paying the consequences.
15:36Are we not dealing with a case of human rights violation?
15:40That is the problem, if you will. Today, most migration laws are no longer defined in national assemblies and parliaments,
15:47but by the case law of the courts and, in particular, the Constitutional Council.
15:50And that is not acceptable, if you want it, because we have major principles, that of our social pact through
15:56the Constitution, but which has been interpreted, over-interpreted, and sometimes even misguided,
16:01which means that today we no longer have perfect control of who can return, stay, or be expelled from the
16:07French territory.
16:11Marion Maréchal, they are interviewed by Maya de la Boume.
16:15Now, it's a major test for Pope Leo XIV as he prepares for his first apostolic visit to France today.
16:22The Pope will confront a country with deep Catholic roots, but with a rapidly changing relationship with religion.
16:30His message will go beyond the Church itself.
16:33Europe's future, migration, peace, and the challenges facing a continent under pressure will all be on the agenda.
16:40Let's head over to Paris, where our correspondent Estelle Nilsson-Julien is standing by for us.
16:47Good morning, Estelle. So, what are the vibes hours before the Pope's arrival? What are people saying?
16:55Well, good morning, Stefan, from the heart of Paris, where the city is awaiting the Pope's arrival later today.
17:02Over a million visitors are expected to flock to the city over the course of the Pope's two-day trip
17:08here.
17:08And later today, he will celebrate Vespers at Notre Dame Cathedral, which is just here behind me.
17:14On Saturday afternoon, the Pope will also lead an open-air mass near the Champs-Elysées and Place de la
17:19Concorde,
17:20with 600,000 people expected to attend before he then later heads to Lourdes and Metz.
17:27As you can imagine, the entire city is under tight control.
17:32A vast security apparatus has been deployed.
17:35I was standing by the Seine earlier, and I was moved twice by police officers,
17:38as they told me that they were tightening a protocol around the area.
17:42So, you could say that Paris is a fortress.
17:45It's a protective bubble at present, with Rafale anti-fighter jets, armed helicopters,
17:50and anti-drone systems deployed to ensure optimal security.
17:54But earlier this week, France's Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said that no major security threats had been identified so far.
18:03So, yes, things seem to be in order.
18:06And what we're waiting for in France is for church bells to ring for seven minutes at 10 a.m.,
18:12which is the time at which the Pope is expected to land on French Sol at Paris-Orly Airport.
18:19All right, Estelle, thank you so much.
18:21I'm happy for you that you can experience your first visit of a Pope in France,
18:27and I hope you'll continue to cover that for us.
18:30Thank you very much.
18:32Now, that does it for us today.
18:34Thank you for watching.
18:35Have an excellent weekend.
18:36I'm Stefan Grobe, and I see you again on Monday.
18:45are you for today?
19:07Bye.
19:07Have an excellent weekend.
19:07Bye bye.
19:08Bye bye.
19:28Grazie a tutti.
19:51Grazie a tutti.