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يوروب توداي يستضيف رئيس مجموعة اليورو لبحث أسعار الطاقة وسباق خلافة لاغارد

تستأنف أوكرانيا وروسيا والولايات المتحدة محادثات السلام في أبو ظبي، بحضور فريق مشترك من الاتحاد الأوروبي ومسؤولين من فرنسا وألمانيا والمملكة المتحدة. نحاور رئيس مجموعة اليورو كيرياكوس بيراكاكيس حول السباق لخلافة كريستين لاغارد ونقدم تقريراً عن محادثات جديدة بشأن تقسيم قبرص.

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00:00موسيقى
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00:53NVIDIA shares took a dive yesterday after the chipmaker's board announced an investigation into reports that chief executive Jensen Wang
01:01was the target of a foreign espionage operation.
01:04Wang, the face of the global AI boom, said he would cooperate with the pro.
01:09He apologized to his family and NVIDIA employees for an affair, which U.S. officials believe was with a woman
01:16working as a Chinese spy.
01:18And Hungary's former Prime Minister Viktor Orban's brother, Aaron Orban, has reportedly been arrested in a suspected human trafficking investigation.
01:29Prime Minister Peter Marjar announced the development yesterday, pointing to police raids in Budapest and surrounding areas.
01:36Investigators are probing an alleged network involved in arranging visas and residence permits for foreign workers in exchange for money.
01:46The case adds to a series of corruption investigations launched since Marjar defeated Viktor Orban in April.
01:53Welcome to the program. I'm Stefan Grobe.
01:56The Eurozone is facing a crucial moment.
01:59With the race to succeed ECB President Christine Lagarde gathering pace, European finance ministers must decide who will steer the
02:07single currency through an increasingly uncertain economic future.
02:11Since the outbreak of war in Iran, energy costs have surged, while investors are demanding more to insure against European
02:19sovereign debt risks.
02:20Can Europe really deliver growth while reigning in public spending?
02:24Who better to answer these questions than the president of the Eurogroup himself, Kyriakos Piarakakis, Finance Minister of Greece.
02:32Welcome to the program. It's great to have you here this morning.
02:34Good morning. Great to be joining you.
02:36So, let's start with two warning sites that have been emerging recently.
02:41Rising energy prices and bond yields.
02:44How concerned are you about the economic impact of these developments?
02:48We're obviously mindful, and this is certainly something that the ministers of finance of Europe are discussing, not only in
02:55the Eurogroup and the ECOFIN meetings, but I would say continuously.
02:58We're continuously in touch to coordinate action.
03:01Obviously, we're in an era of expensive capital, an era of cheap capital is behind us.
03:05Even if you make the comparison of 2016 and 2026, average 10-year bond yield in 2016 was 1.1%.
03:13Now it's 4%. We're operating in an era of more expensive capital, and this is happening for a series of
03:19reasons.
03:19Part of it is fiscal, double the average deficit compared to 10 years ago.
03:22Part of it is what you describe right now, energy, higher spending, social spending, and greater investment priorities.
03:29So, Greece has been through a massive economic and financial crisis, you know that better than anybody.
03:35Do you see any perils with the current situation, or are we facing a fundamentally different set of circumstances?
03:43Every situation is different, and I'm often asked, you know, from my Greek hat, are there lessons in the Greek
03:49crisis?
03:49And I often try to reply, one, that the word hubris is Greek, and second, that I believe in inspiration
03:55in politics rather than in lessons.
03:57So, the inspiration here is that right now you have five countries in Europe in headline surplus.
04:02It's Denmark and the four countries that run bailout programs in the previous decade.
04:06So, we managed to take difficult decisions, take them, some with delay, some as fast as we could,
04:13and now we're in a position of fiscal strength.
04:15And this resilience, which is a title, I would say, overall for Europe, but certainly for Greece as well,
04:20is quite significant to be able to tackle the very significant headwinds that we have.
04:24Are there any lessons learned, to be learned, in Germany?
04:28Because there are a lot of calls right now that Germany needs to fundamentally engage in structural reforms.
04:37What can Germany learn from Greece?
04:38Well, I was recently in Berlin being asked exactly this.
04:42So, this was, what I said before, was my reply.
04:44I believe in inspiration.
04:46There are certainly no lessons on my end for my good colleague Lars Klingbeil and the German government.
04:52I think Germany knows what it needs to do and what it needs to deliver.
04:55It has a phenomenal potential and it can unlock significant growth.
04:59It's a productive powerhouse.
05:01And in one phrase, Europe needs Germany and Germany needs Europe.
05:04So, part of the reform agenda that we're prioritizing at the Eurogroup, actually,
05:08is going to help with the growth prospects of every single member state of Europe.
05:12The capital markets union, the banking union, our discussions on energy,
05:16all of those elements that can unlock growth potential will end up affecting Germany,
05:20will end up affecting Greece, every single citizen who's watching us.
05:24And this is why we need to move forward.
05:24Speaking about citizens, how concerned are you about inflation?
05:27Do you fear that prices will go up again?
05:30And how can households be protected?
05:32First of all, the number which was announced, this 4% number, is obviously driven by energy.
05:37So, overall, this is connected to your first question, the energy crisis that we have in front of us.
05:42And we're trying to coordinate our action and we're trying to coordinate our support towards citizens.
05:46This happens in different forms depending on the fiscal capabilities of every country.
05:51But, generally speaking, the overall idea is to support citizens at a quite challenging winter.
05:56Now, obviously, the best thing that you can do is invest in energy infrastructure.
06:00This is the most sustainable response, I would say.
06:03But, we also need temporary measures.
06:05We also need targeted measures.
06:07We also need tailored measures that will support, especially, the most vulnerable and those in need.
06:11So, this is exactly what we're trying to do.
06:13And part of our job, I would say, at the Eurogroup, and I think I can't stress this enough,
06:18is having a common understanding of the problem and a common vocabulary of the problem.
06:22If you look at the solutions, if you look at how you can optimally react, if you look at what
06:26happened...
06:27I want to change topic for a second.
06:31Yesterday, NATO Secretary-General Mark Ritter was with you, with the finance ministers.
06:37That is pretty unusual.
06:38Why was he invited and what did he have to say?
06:41Well, actually, it was a very interesting discussion.
06:43And what are we looking at?
06:45I mentioned at the beginning that we're operating in an era of more expensive capital.
06:49We need to make every Euro count.
06:52We need to unlock the value, the impact of every single Euro that we spend.
06:57And we have higher needs to invest in defense.
07:00So, by definition, we have the National Escape Clause in defense.
07:04Our calculus changed after Russia's invasion in Ukraine.
07:06So, what do we need to understand?
07:09How to do it?
07:09It's not only a question of how much.
07:11It's also a question of how.
07:13So, we know that we're not doing enough joint procurement.
07:16We know that we're not doing enough R&D in Europe.
07:18We know that we need more interoperability in our systems.
07:21So, coordinating this action, not only at the level of the defense ministers, by the way,
07:25but at the level of the finance ministers who need to pay the bills.
07:28I have one more question briefly.
07:31The Eurozone is heading into the winter of decisions.
07:34There's the Ukraine thing.
07:37There's the budget, the next EU budget.
07:39And there is the succession of Christine Lagarde.
07:41You think you can wrap these issues up by December, find an agreement?
07:46That's absolutely the time frame that we have in front of us.
07:49And I was asked yesterday about the last element of your question, the ECB succession.
07:54Be that in the reforms, be that in the decisions, or be that in filling the posts.
07:58Christine Lagarde has announced that she's going to be staying at her post until February the 7th.
08:02This means that, ideally, we need to have a decision formally by the end of the year, by December.
08:08It's a decision happening at the leaders' level.
08:10It's not only one position, actually.
08:12It's three positions.
08:13This is quite unprecedented.
08:14It's the president and two chief economists and one executive board member post as well.
08:20Many view this as a package.
08:22I think this is fair.
08:23So it's a decision taken at the level of the leaders.
08:26And the Eurogroup will facilitate.
08:27We will follow this closely as ever.
08:30Thank you so much, sir, for coming on this morning, Eurogroup president and Greek finance minister, Kriakos Pyrrakakis.
08:37On the ECB succession race, our Europe editor, Maria Tadeo, spoke exclusively with Spain's economy minister,
08:43Carlos Cuerpo, on the sidelines of the Eurogroup meeting.
08:47Madrid is pushing hard for its candidate, Hernández de Kos, to replace Christine Lagarde.
08:52Let's take a listen.
08:53It's the right window of opportunity for Spain, not only because of the way that we've been leading some of
08:58the important discussions
08:59at the European and the EU level, also looking at the performance of the Spanish economy,
09:03but mainly because I think we have the right candidate.
09:06Pablo not only has been in the central bank world for almost 30 years.
09:11He's been leading, as you said, the Spanish central bank, but also the BIS as a steady hand,
09:16a strong background in economics, and also, of course, a man who is able to gather consensus,
09:23which is very important at the head of an institution like the ECB.
09:25Some would argue the problem with the Spanish is that they are pro-debt, more joint debt,
09:31and perhaps not as fiscally conservative as others would like to see around the governing council.
09:36Is that going to be a problem?
09:37Well, the Spanish are very fiscally responsible.
09:39You just have to look at what has happened over the past few years with the Spanish fundamentals
09:43and the reduction in our debt-to-GDP ratio by more than 22 percentage points,
09:49strong confidence from the markets, from investors in the Spanish economy.
09:52That's what we are putting forward as well.
09:54You're putting forward a candidacy in the midst of an election campaign.
09:57You may not be in government in just a few months.
10:00Is that not going to penalize this process?
10:02Well, I think and I hope that what we are presenting is a Spanish candidate, not a governmental candidate.
10:08It's a candidate that has consensus also throughout the different parties in Spain.
10:11But you have to lobby for it too, and the prime minister is not going to show up at a
10:15European council this week either.
10:17How are you pushing for your guy?
10:19Well, we've been lobbying for the past few months already very heavily, both at the prime minister level and also
10:26myself,
10:27trying to also push and make everyone understand that this is the right man at this point to lead the
10:33ECB.
10:33He's the right person.
10:34So let's see, let's hope that the rest of the colleagues will also see it this way.
10:39And somehow it's for the leaders also to come to an agreement and to decide.
10:46Maria Tadeo speaking with Carlos Skuerpo.
10:49For the first time since February, Ukrainian, Russian and U.S. negotiators are set to meet in Abu Dhabi for
10:56a new round of talks
10:58aimed at ending nearly five years of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine.
11:03The two-day discussions beginning today are expected to focus on security guarantees
11:08after previous rounds earlier this year failed to deliver any tangible progress towards ending the war.
11:15For more on this, our correspondent Toby Gregory joins us now from the United Arab Emirates.
11:21Good morning, Toby.
11:22What do we know about the preparations, the negotiating format and the issues on the agenda?
11:29Well, we know that overnight Ukrainian, American and Russian officials all landed here in the UAE
11:35for the talks that are going to take place in a few hours' time.
11:38Of course, these are the first talks to take place since February and they have been shrouded in secrecy.
11:43We don't know the venue, we don't know if there's any media access
11:46and we certainly don't know any topics of discussion from authorities here in the UAE.
11:51But what we do know is it's a trilateral meeting.
11:53The United States were mediating between Kiev and Moscow
11:56and we also know that Ukraine are pushing for security guarantees,
12:00both against Russian aggression and also what their future defensive capabilities might look like.
12:05So for the EU, it's slightly different.
12:08They're not involved in the direct talks today,
12:10but they are going to meet Ukrainian officials at some point during these meetings to discuss the future.
12:16There have also been talks that they should, suggestions that they should have a seat at the table.
12:21We'll certainly keep you updated throughout the day as the talks progress.
12:25All right, Toby Gregory in the UAE, thank you very much for this update.
12:31Now, to make sense of what's happening in this round of peace talks,
12:34I have Sascha Vakulina with me here on the set.
12:37Good morning, Sascha.
12:38Sascha, you have been following these developments for a long time.
12:44Beyond security guarantees that I mentioned earlier,
12:47what else can we expect and how much progress is there realistically in the pipeline?
12:53Let's just set the scene here.
12:54Ukraine still wants a ceasefire and Russia still wants Ukraine to capitulate.
12:59Now, this is where we are and this is how we are going into these talks.
13:02In an evening address on Monday, Volodymyr Zelensky said that Moscow also plans to cut Ukraine into two parts along
13:08the Dnipro River.
13:10That actually is even more territorial demands than what we've heard already from Moscow regarding the four regions,
13:15including the territory that Russian forces never occupied, plus annexed Crimea.
13:20Zelensky also confirmed that Ukrainian team will propose de-escalatory steps.
13:26This is, of course, in line with Ukraine's first and foremost goal of having any sort of a ceasefire,
13:33specifically when it comes to the civilian energy infrastructure.
13:37According to the U.S. officials, now talks will proceed today in two parts.
13:43And both sides have allegedly shown a little bit more of flexibility privately when it comes to the territorial issue.
13:52This is, of course, the most crucial one, the most complicated one.
13:54And this is where Ukrainians are also hoping to take any steps and any progress regarding the possible trilateral meeting
14:00in the leaders' format where the territorial issue could be discussed, Stefan.
14:06We've heard that there are European representatives in Abu Dhabi,
14:09but they won't probably have a seat at the negotiating table.
14:15What is their role then?
14:17That is a very interesting setup, what was happening at the talks.
14:22Indeed, the European representatives will be there.
14:24They will not be at the table in the trilateral format, as you said.
14:28But who will be there?
14:29We know that the representatives from the U.K., France, Germany and Italy,
14:34as well as the EU and NATO will be there.
14:36There are certain consultations that are expected to take place with Ukraine
14:40and with the U.S. representatives before the trilateral talk.
14:44So there will be some contact.
14:46Now, Ukraine and Ukrainian officials do really want to have the Europeans at the table.
14:50They see Ukraine, of course, as part of any future European security architecture.
14:55But Russia opposes this idea.
14:58And in fact, Putin's foreign affairs advisor, Yuri Ushakov, said,
15:01quote, no one is going to invite them to the negotiating table.
15:06This is what he said regarding the European representatives.
15:09So there might be a little bit of an awkward moment in Abu Dhabi at the talks, Stefan.
15:14Interesting.
15:15Thank you, Sasha Rakulina, for all these details.
15:18Nearly half a century after the island was divided,
15:22the Cyprus conflict remains one of Europe's longest-running unresolved disputes.
15:27But a fresh round of talks this week has raised hopes of breathing new life into the stalled reunification process.
15:34The challenge remains enormous.
15:36The Greek Cyprus side insists on a federal solution, while Turkey continues to push for a two-state arrangement.
15:44For more on this, let's head to Athens, where our correspondent, Faye Dulgeri, is standing by for us.
15:50Good morning, Faye.
15:52So, we haven't heard about the Cyprus conflict in a long time.
16:02Why are there talks happening just now, Faye?
16:14Yes, good morning, Stefan.
16:15Making progress on the Cyprus issue has been one of the major challenges and a personal bet,
16:21we could say, for the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, whose term is ending by the end of the year.
16:28So, he would like to deliver, we could say, a kind of a roadmap to his successor,
16:33because he has acknowledged many times himself that this is a very important issue for him
16:40and he will consider his term very successful if he delivers that.
16:44Also, this has been one of the major challenges and the pre-election pledge of the president of Cyprus, Nikos
16:52Krustodoulidis,
16:53who is approaching the halfway point of his term, and he also needs to deliver results,
16:58especially if he wants to get re-elected in the presidential elections of 2028.
17:06And, of course, we must not forget that the passage of time is making the prospect of a de facto
17:13partition of the island
17:14very difficult to reverse, bringing Cyprus closer than ever to a permanent division.
17:22And, of course, everyone in the region of the eastern Mediterranean would like a less source of tension in these
17:30difficult geopolitical times.
17:33And, what can we expect from these talks?
17:38Yes, today's meeting was very positive.
17:42Nikos Krustodoulidis, the president of Cyprus, when he left the meeting was very cheerful.
17:49He said he was very satisfied by the meeting.
17:52The most important outcome was the opening of two new points in the green line that divides the island into...
18:04The next step, the yesterday's meeting paved the way to a new trilateral meeting
18:12between Nikos Krustodoulidis, Tufan Erhuman, and the UN Secretary-General this time, by the end of the year.
18:19And the main objective, of course, is to reach an agreement to convene an expanded meeting
18:26between Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, and the United Kingdom, which is a guaranteed country, in order to restart talks.
18:35And what are the complications in the process at this point?
18:41The main obstacle, of course, remains the disagreement on the form of the new state.
18:47The Greek, Cypriot, and Greece side want a bi-zonal, bi-communal federal state,
18:55while Turkey wants a two-state solution.
18:58Also, there are differences in political equity, in security arrangements,
19:03and the future of the Turkish troops on the island.
19:06So, the two sides also remain divided over the conditions and the framework for resuming negotiations.
19:15All right, Faye Dulgueri in Athens, thank you very much for these updates.
19:20And that's it for today. Thank you for watching.
19:23I'm Stefan Grobe. Take care and see you tomorrow.
19:26I'm Stefan Grobe. Take care and see you tomorrow.
19:31I'm Stefan Grobe. Take care and see you tomorrow.

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