missionary, so for somebody, i think you know, the drill by now just to make sure we follow the same structure. you have one minute to appeal to your voters with no interruption. i am from a viennese of working class families and i'm proud of it. i grew up in the very humble conditions my parents had to sacrifice even the same to me to secondary school. so i know what social inequality is look like. and that's why i want to change these. i know that many of you also, it's difficult this to sustain their lives with high rent was precarious jobs. we think this is unfair. this is on trust. this is nearly road capital. the reason we want to change the system, we want to put people before a profit for the planet before profit. and if you're joining this, i call you to vote for the life.

thank you very much. me so by, if it is a direct address, let me get back to defense that you seem to have very strong views on you advocate for negotiation between ukraine and russia. how do you negotiate with someone who's bombarding a neighboring country? first of all, we are for a ceasefire into want that the european union plays the political world in finding a solution to the pro methics at ocean because i don't see a solution for the conflict taking place on the baptist people. do you think that russia is interested in diplomatic solution? we must put pressure on, on russia. china must put pressure on the ice, is happening to your opinions, putting pressure on pressure. where is it don't? obviously, the european union doesn't take any effort in mediating a political solution, trying to find that people not think solution after 500000. that's how when will these and we must put an end to this terrible war in order to create the safe and

prosper us ukraine to the future. if you get to another very important point, you post nieto expansion. but nato has been the backbone of europe in security since the 2nd world worth of you know, talking about before, are you really going to deny membership to those countries willing to join? every country decides a ton of mostly my card, which is the last raise, a neutral country and wants to stay in your country. and i believe that a security in the field trip can not be based on military blocks, but must be based on the collective system of security on obviously doctrines and on measures which reduce the threat of it war happening in europe. you also reject the migration fact. so what is your entrees? your answer to countries like 3 that'd be heard from like utility like speed. of course, if you have distribution of the incoming, my rent and then

a post migration fix. amongst other reasons, because if these against human rights, but because also because as all of it, the law states who do well not ready to receive your expertise to pay money for what i mean, that is a if you allow them to get out of a common sort of their respect, your opinion is sort of by shipping in by getting money for the solution. what's, what is the moral or of these? i don't do the right thing, but it keeps money in order to be allowed to do the right. so if you're in favor of the door opening to migraines, are you not helping your political valuables? ok, 1st of all, that is a human question is not a question of politics. but secondly, i'm 1st of all in favor of human rights and of the u. n. of the refuge you convention of the united nations drawn think the individual and the

rights of every person arriving on european side that his or her application for asylum is examined individually. and this is not secure. so the migration of all the kind of those that are on stage today, you seem to be disagreeing on, on many issues and disagreeing the most, maybe with everyone. is there anything that you agree on with others as generally or in the migration these? no, no, i mean, generally in general, of course i agree with the idea of transforming a date, european economy into an ecological economy of cost. i agree with the idea of a spending money for social policy. there is lots of the dream, it still the same is that there is a difference very often between verbs and dates and that's what we are criticizing just to buy our thank you so much for your time. thank you very much. please please . just the bio for somebody else's time is just lying by i don't know if

you have that feeling. we've come to our last topic. no, you may have noticed martin and i are real human journalist. but who's to say that these kinds of debates won't be held by other costs come the next round of elections, all the more reason to discuss innovation and technology, the social media and the internet, and no artificial intelligence or revolutionizing our world. but it is a revolution where americans, software and chinese hardware are so far proving dom d e. u has been at the forefront of attempts to regulate with its digital surfaces act and other legislation. but with this information from russia and others on the

rise, the risk for europe is that it continues to play digital catch up, while the real control profit and power for maintenance. and here we are again, the idea behind this debate is to bring in as many concerns and questions as possible from across europe and across the e. u. countries are public broadcast. the colleagues have helped us make that possible and that they are for this section. let's turn to romania and hear what they would like the candidates to address hello book, iris. the floor is yours. hello. euro. hello, from bucharest? i am rum on albert on misquote. we are watching good the debate here in our studio at the romanian television with this young and very you are you into yes, the crowd with me is a bill daughter. he's a young to special computer specialist and the she has a question for the candidate the please. hello, this is my question to you is

a frontrunner in regulating the a sector? do think the for the regulation will help or become a burden for european companies? thank you very much for that very clear question. mr. smith. it's all yours. yes. first, the technology is about goes technology is about the progress about economics, but also so social focus and i think we are in the situation where you are, is like you'd be i the money. yeah. and the only said using is to invest more. so it's not a very public policy which helps us is really investment, but it's not polls, it's agreed technologies. it's investing in green technology. it's about tell that we have a lot of tabs. we have to attract others from all over the world, but also old. so we have to encourage creative innovators, start up, because when we have good start ups, what happens? and he says it, it's not about regulation,

is about not getting to finance. and that's why we need the right finance. we need this capital markets union. i do not quote back to this very off, but there is a bank having said, if you want the green, did you wind up get it without the capital markets union. if you want to the logic of focus, you will not get it with up. so this is the way you of has to go. thank you very much. i remind you that you still have one card left. missed on the same question for you. it's really about the pros and cons of regulation in terms of innovation and european companies that want to go down the road. yes, we have been very careful in our a accident and the that data act, for example, that we enhance growth and all these fantastic ideas, some opportunity that for example, of traditional intelligence springs. but it of course also has a choice, and therefore we were the 1st continental, which was region in the world to regulate this and take the topic off picked up for

example. take talk. we have been with our digital service marker act, we have been able to say to take talk, listen, we're going to investigate. it's in the way you damage the mental health of young people with picks up lights, for example. and the moment this announcement of investigation came, picked up was to take the light of the app from the market because then you would would come so we have leverage for legislation that's helps people while opening the door to innovation. thank you very much times of the thank you for bringing this. you'll fix up, which is really important. innovation technology camcorders. let's go to a minute from belgium. she's 17. there you are. i can see you. yes. she's our young youngest 1st on what are i should say, she's a student and a d. j from on for you know, your question please. we have seen the rising popularity of take talk and the concerns about data security and its influence on you. my question is,

what action should d g g be taking to address the potential risks of big talk while best balancing innovation and freedom of expression. thank you, minutes. thank you for this really important question. mr. buyer. it goes to you. i think do you has taken reason that the mattress uh, for example, uh the uh the digital service act which provides safeguards against tom fool and in bed content. at the same time you are right, this is also about freedom and it must be only advanced. it must be publicly controlled. i like also that the european union takes measures against the big motor police to companies who control the electronic marketplace is. but please do not forget that these huge companies also have enormous profit to,

to harvesting uh or adopt. uh, so i would prefer that uh come on that uh, information and communication would become a common which would be socially, democratically controlled by the society. thank you very much. and the same question for me then it goes to units that goes what i mean. i'm a, i'm a father, i teach 2 young people. i'm very concerned with the protection of our children. i'm very concerned with the 5 to ensure the mentor protection online. and i think that, yeah, we agree they will be on commission on digital, big omission on the next to then jump. now we got these 2 months ago, the mean to insure it for the extra i think that we should introduce a majority online at 15 years old when you are 50 is old because we have a need to comb. funny what she'd done and then the to to be better and more protected online. and don't think doctor, we got the means. if they don't comply, we must the go against them. i'm not going picked up by the way and the on thing

for last. so, i mean, yeah, think friends that we have must have the same spot and see that to be asked to anybody as i don't want to just take the freedom of implants that box, they must be some spot, especially when that paid by someone we want to know whether they, if they say something is because the income paying for something like for transparency, these works with the, the within, you know, i'm 40 to go out as you go line, by the way. thank you mr. ghosts refund comes to the final question on this topic. and we see examples almost every day at the moment about the dangers of deep fates, technology. what would your permission do to make sure that your citizens know when they are seeing and hearing a real person and not a very life like fraud? and this last question goes to you, ms. ryans, can, i absolutely think we need more transparency and we also need to have the platform to take responsibility for this and to take down a, maybe

a content if it goes into that direction. the enforcement of the digital services will be key here, just having a low on tape. it's not enough. we need to enforce it. but let me end by saying something very personal, because i know that there are a lot of people in europe right now, who are afraid, i am myself in a relationship with a wonderful french woman as a bind national lesbian capital. we see in korea communities we see amongst black people amongst migrant communities, amongst for people that they are afraid of the future. and they don't know what is going to come with this election and whether they can still call europe at home. and it wants to be absolutely key a here europe is your home that stand together with philadelphia to that aside for equality and diversity. this continent has thrived on these values. thank you. we can use elections with executive dis, values. thank you ms. ryans give most of you made the decision to to have one card list. it's yours to play if you want to.

yes, on technology, i wanted to say that the world of work is changing fundamentally. due to a go to events. we launched this commission, launched the platform directive where there is an important part also on the control bye plan by i agree with them on with this. and this is a major, major challenge. i fully agree with all the issues about the fake news and take the dog and so, but we have really do have an idea about how the world of work would go in the future. i'm not a gauge artificial intelligence, but it has to be human center. thank you very much, mr. smith. then we that's we conclude this thing. yes, the thank you doesn't go to you, mrs. read only about to all of you, and we have come to the end. it's been a real pleasure debating europe's future with all of you before the election that comes up at a crucial time in our history. thank you very much for joining us here in brussels and across the you. thank you to everyone who puts in questions from all over

europe and thank you to, to the 1st voters present here. and last but not least, of course, thank you to the candidates for taking part in this debates. the parliament takes place between the 6th and the 9th of june. so go out and vote the future of your is in your hands. and we hope that this debates offered some food for phillips, at least. thank you very much. and from all of us here. good bye bye. and you with the news that was the final debate, the last face off of leading candidates before voters, go to the polls in 2 weeks and elect a new european parliament. we have analysis in real time, our e u correspond, it was the short and she is standing by right there in brussels,

is here at the big table with me is all a book and he's a senior advisor at cross musing global. so it's both of you, would it be you're talking about what we just saw right now? i mean, obviously, so let me go to you. it was a political debate that had, i wrote that had the look and feel of a mixture of the eurovision song contest in the game show family feud. i mean, we had 2 hours, 5 candidates and lots of issues didn't work. yeah. they have really been trying to touch on a lot of issues, a base, not the whole range of european policies, but really a broad range and, and also bringing in the people from europe, asking the questions. and i think what we observe was that there was not so much of challenging in between the candidates. so it was really like an a question and answer game. if you allow me to say that, and i think it was. and so, in

a certain way, it didn't, you know, it wasn't like explain ping pong between the, the candidates. but i think there is one exception to that. tonight, what i saw, the most heated debate came up was on the question of how to deal with the far right. and i think this is also where the most emotions came up there. s s we have for the, for the candidates of the far right brand know there because they did not want to bring forward the lead candidate. so them are discussing without them. but especially the question of how to deal with them seems to be or seems for me to be one of the outstanding points in the debate and that became clear. yeah. all of what did, what did you think about the entire thing? i mean, did it, does this format work? and did you see, did we see a winner in this debate? so i think the form would work. so as you said, sir, i think exactly the mix off styles. people like to watch on tv, sir. the former was kind of familiar, but sir, with some real life content political content. so was a good mix. so therefore it was entertaining in a way. um,

we were waiting that some of the candidates might start seeing they did not. they didn't know the, the fortunately i don't see a clear winner so you could see the level of professionalism. actually you could see that a standing commission president has a very different and stage presence here. so she was very firm. she was very prepared and this is every rank of from the grants was also you could see she at obviously prepared for this debate. she had very shorts, a answers and statement she, she had even in the very last question when it was on technology and innovation. she made a clear statement to the career community, which is definitely part of her constituency. so disregard web prepared. others were more spontaneous in a way you could think actually, okay, is they a little bit stereotype like represented where they're coming from? what their party stands for. so the nicholas smith, the social democrat, actually was always were just talking about the workers. yeah. the renewed kind of

dad looked like a liberal so. but other than that, i was like a caricature of a, of the parties that they represent there, except for the green ones to ask you, you know, the, the green leading candidate was asked, what do you think is the biggest threat right now to the european project and she, i thought she was gonna say climate change. yeah. but she didn't. and she said it was the rise of the far right. yeah. no, and as lucy, as that actually, so this was a red thread actually for all the debates or some of all of that kind of is at some point actually made that point. so in this regard, i think this is also the common denominator in the room, so that okay, this is the offer we have on the democratic spectrum. so the difference. so you could say there was a lot of confidence in the real on. so this was of course different elizabeth boring may be, but on the other hand, if you imagine that would be someone from the fall right in the rooms, this would be a complete different debate. so a little bit may be entertaining, also a little bit more representative of course, because we're talking about

a quarter of the electorate, at least if we're following the impulse. but on the other hand, so this was the democratic base. but europe actually presenting itself to the voters, and i could guess this was also reflected by the audience. so people who tend to vote for of the or others, definitely didn't want you to innovate. let's, let's see, let me ask you, get your opinion on this. you've covered european politics, the fact that we did not have any candidates from the far right parties. is that going to hurt or help the far right on election day? is this, this is very difficult to say because you can really question rather people that road for the file, right would follow this debate in its name. but you can also assume that parts of this debate will be distributed all over europe. so people will watch it and definitely hear that the far right candidates have not been there. so um, at the same time the, the far right is also, or the,

the success of the far right. especially for succession of the far right here in the european parliament after the election. they also strongly depend on how they can work together and how the fractions, the grouping. so it'd be built and we're just hearing also that for example, the id group, which is the identity democracy group has just decided to check out the german, a tentative for the, for george frontier alternative for germany. so there's, there a lot of things moving that i think might have a bigger influence in the end of how far right parties will be able to save yours in politics. and then today on this, do you think, what do you, what about are some of underlying that european commission president she is the incumbents. um, she is the person who can, who can say i've, i've been a part of the establishment. some people can say that makes her a target. um, how did she fail? excuse me. i didn't understand your question. i said,

how did she do in your opinion, how did she do as the incumbent? yeah, what was interesting to see because she's also been and actually take from the far right about her about how she wants to deal with the far right. because she did not fully exclude that she would cooperate to sam and she's been asked about this today . and then she didn't really, she said very ambiguous there. so she's been saying that she's willing to work with everyone who's pro european for who knows law and pro a pro ukes. right. and so these are her criteria. and she didn't want to say whether she would want to work together this george avenue and his brother utilities were not what we have seen. you heard you today from her voice. um, it's as also what i've said she was very prepared. these are her topics. she of course, has an avail bonus of being already in the office. and also if you look at the

reason, paul's been her particular opinions for european people's party are pointing strongest . so in case that the european council would follow the lead candidate process, then she would really be in the prime position to become also as an extra commission president. but the european council, it consists of the european heads of states and can decide whether they do this or not. so she is in a strong position. it looks like she might become most of the mixture of in commission president, but nothing is said until it actually happens. yeah. yeah. with that, that's the thing about politics and elections that it's so exciting. a lot of, let's talk about the situation for the far right that let's see what i was mentioning. it looks a little bit like you've got the alliance is beginning to implode across europe. how does that factor in into this equation leading up to election day? i think the 1st thing we need to acknowledge is that we are observing $27.00

national elections or the spin and each of the member states actually will be different depending on what the topics on the domestic agenda are actually are. and what's dominating and of course, for an increment e, for instance. so the of the struggling heavily with their candidates are, i think it's the 1st time that there's been some kind of gotten on the national level x to leave the number 2. and number one on the list actually declared that will not do any public appearances any longer due to the person of scandals they're involved in. so therefore, we can guess, actually the off they will come late way lower actually than what was expect as a couple of months ago. mm hm. this could be very different in other countries. so, and let me ask you this, let's, let's say that the far right does well, in the, in the selection in june, let's say 25 percent. will that make the chances for maureen le pen in france, if she wants to be the next president of france and the we have an election there, but in 2 years, is this going?

is this selection going to open the way for her to finally become a the far right president of france? the interesting thing is that he could see her reaction actually to the of the scandal. excellent. yesterday it was that she distances herself from, from that group and that's we just learned actually. so they kicked them all even off and the party group ended up in parliament. so because she has a very different strategy to win voters confidence, she wants to become perceive way more moderate than they are actually are. if you look into the party manifesto, it's more radical, actually more nationalistic sort, but of course she wants to be seen as okay. hey, we're just conservative. yeah, we are caring for your interest and, and this is way more difficult on her side actually to bill unit to you when you have these 27 nationalist meaningful, very interesting interest a lot. thank you very much. unfortunately, we're out of time is good to have you here in the studio. thank you. let's see it in russell was good to have your expertise as well as both of you. thank you and to

you at home. thanks for joining us. this is dw news. this has been our special coverage of the final debate before the european election in june state to i'll be back in the top of the hour with more world news. the

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