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all because a compromise. which seems to be at a very low level if you look at the initial. proposals on the commission and do yourself that you had did you sacrifice the rule of law of the altar of compromise . and secondly. for one. person for the lion. with so little money will you be able to carry through your program. $100000000000.00 less in the recovery plan. through the european budget. which generation if any is going to get fixed well i'll try to help with. the vision to start work on the. how we are fully determined. and this is the 1st time in the history of you that there is this link between government and mobilizes of funds and the rule of law and motion of funds we've shown that the. council
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works on a qualified majority is very early in the morning when you had more time to read the details you see how ambitious this compromise is. around the table people spoke frankly looked at each other in there and tackle this issue to progress or our common values move them forward move government forward i reaffirm this was ambitious. this was an ambitious decision. and then on the amount. one can also say this is the 1st time this european project we've negotiated. such a big financial package people are giving the impression that there aren't many resources where there's 1.74 trillion in. office and then 750000000000 in the recovery. which trigger very fired up to
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some feeling that there is very substantial we talk about ambitions but you have to look at will be if it contains. to deal with you medium and long term strategic challenges this massive injection of boozed persona 50000000000 users. economic recovery but also health transformed the european project 19 hitters but even before the commission a parliament and the council had thought that it was time tree relaunch and transforming. the will of climate change and the heart of it there are 32 percent of the benefit of the recovery for have to be tied to these climate and measures and we've followed up on what we intended 'd to do before this all started
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and i see with great religion that these decisions we've taken will transform the world in a long term way the face of europe or the questions of the text that has been agreed on the rule of law has improved it's a very clear in the document a very clear commitment to the rule of law and a very clear commitment to the protection of the financial interests of the union. and this is linked against this background to the fact that the commission has proposed that instrument under which in case of creatures the measures will be adopted so there's a very clear link a reference to adopting or the voting will be by a qualified majority voting and finally we will also introduce instruments to strengthen the controls of the e.u. funds so there's more clarity there is more distinction in the. checks and the very
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clear reference which was important not only to the rule of law but also to the protection of the financial interests of the union and what the overall package is concerned and your question on the priorities for the european union it has it is an unprecedented size and scope of package that we have 1.8 trillion and the importance here is that the whole next gen church action aeration e.u. package of 750000000000 is composed in a way that the national recovery plans will be aligned with the european priorities that is the european green deal that is the digitization that there is resilience transmitted through the country specific recommendations so we have a very strong tool know that we can work together with the member states on
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not only the recovery but at the same time through the investment leap forward into a more sustainable a greener and more digitized future we want to build was a modern single market so this is a unique opportunity to modernize the european union. thank you next question is for david hess in harlem from politico. much brant good morning president president michel i wonder if you could address the concern the president founder line just raised calling it regrettable leaders had to cut some of the most innovative parts of the m.f.f. also that. you had to persist in the rebates which some people feel are sort of a budget gimmick in getting agreement here and if there was a moment in this for you president michel when throughout the summit what was the key moment when you had a deal and for president funny line
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a lot of this package obviously will be a national plan for the grant was you know issue of disagreement your mind how do you envision member states best using these grants in concrete ways obviously it's not like rebuilding from an earthquake or from a war it's a different type of recovery in a concrete way what do you envision the best national recovery plans might look like. i think. the research very least to in particular we look on the table of europe and jones ill to to act to act in the other to deliver because. we are convinced that climate change innovation that the supports hold the tournament for example cheat to develop of those 2 and program in this decision the n.f.l. if and the reach of the phone and we have to do to say we have the means you know
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that to tackle those important challenges for for the future it's also important to to observe the this back to you if you compare if you compare to decipher of the europe of the open g.d.p. also important to put it there to do we can at least. we all saw the developer at the national level it means the earth european union you use we send a very strong signal we are so that we are robust we are united and more than never we need to be united and you need to be stored in the other 2 who said this of you crosses. so to your question reforming. concerning the part i envisage to make sure that the investment goes in the right direction
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the program is a recovery interest illions facility is established in a way that is very clear 1st of all it's voluntary so the member states can choose to come forward with a national recovery plan. but it has to be aligned with the european semester and they're the country specific recommendations and the country specific recommendations address the victim weaknesses are deficiencies in their member states that should be improved where things should be reformed and they were always very interesting but did of not always have the necessary. effect in the member states because it was up to them to implement them or not now this instruments has a new package because the european semester is now connected to an enormous amount of grants or potentially loans so there's way more punch
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behind country specific recommendations and the necessary to respect the principles of the european green deal and of the digitization as i set the priorities of the european union we can make sure that. this will be implemented in a proper way because there will be milestones where you have a look whether that miles of have been reached and then the necessary investment that the payments will be dispersed so there is a very clear plan to have the balls the tool goals on the one hand the recovery of the member state but on the other hand to make sure that it's at the same time a modernization of the member states. i think your next question is for some fleming from the financial times. yes good
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morning by can i have on the question on these on rebates. d. clearly the rebates i'm only maimed or previous crass but they're actually increased with the frugal stakes in these discussions of fact to be trading their support for higher grants in exchange for higher rebates we disappointed that was the outcome that you saw given missions previous recommending rebates used out and do you think rebates now these high rebates are basically here to stay thank you. we took a decision to do fall the next time in faith and for the week of restraint in the framework of this decision we took also some decisions related to the to the rebates which we face. crises i repeat again and i said what's important is the
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fact that we find we find the way you know that to to take a very strong decision and indeed the rebate it's not a surprise when. expressed the idea a few weeks ago that we will need we need to tackle different building blocks praise your idea that would be part of the global package of the global decision you know at the level of the different tone scale is very difficult we need to decide you know any miti and that's why it's important to show respect for each other that's why it's important also to be able to the same time to take strong interest decisions and that's what we did today and remember only a few of us a group maybe and certainly the last this there was this little impression that it would be impossible mission but we did it and it's very important we were able to
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to take the decision we are united and we send the message europe is. next question is for really by a nice lady. similar for both presidents but today it's not really the end of the saga of the fords you still need to convince the european parliament and national parliaments to sign off on this deal so i was wondering if you could maybe talk a little bit about how you want to convey and it's likely. to sign off especially because we're already seeing some members of the european parliament raising concerns about certain bill in the end of your package i think you. we show we show respect for the important tool of the european parliament. and as you know we may need to insert many contacts with the european
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parliament unless we stood the last months and of course we would have. to do to maintain the destruction so it was the members of the european parliament and its chief for the european democracy process of course and just in time you are right we need also to show respect for the responsibility of the national parliaments meant to do there's a strong signal there's a sort of message why because $27.00 heads of states and if it's of developments they took the decision to axe together and did our sponsible before the national parliament i know that probably because it's the democratic process it will be difficult the minute you really need to to explain the what are the arguments what are the reasons for our decision that transparency is also very essential for this
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truth each process. really genes that we split it you louis louis particular courage to. turn student dale archer it will be possible to implement what we have decided today. well indeed from tomorrow. well you've been listening there to leaders speaking in brussels after 4 days and 4 nights of tense talks about their budget what's this time in a deal for nearly $816000000000.00 pandemic rescue package that is also the fast in person meeting since the start of the pandemic and there's been a huge division over how much of that money would be grants vest as learned as well as whether you funding should be linked to the rule of law we've been here. from michelle the president of the european council and slavonic elaine the president of the european commission they've been reiterating the unity and solidarity of the e.u. both describing it as the next generation european union especially the emphasis on
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green investments as they focus on the attempted economic recovery well let's now speak to our correspondents to fast and she joins me now on the phone from amsterdam stepped off to move the 90 hours of negotiation as a bunch of language saying that we finally have a deal a historic deal can you talk us through what's been agreed here. yes you heard the word mission impossible as several times of course during this press conference and it is indeed a big victory for the european council president shall because the future of the e.u. as a unity was basically hanging in his hand and it is of course a very important sign that all the 27 countries have signed this deal because if it would have not if it would have failed it would have been dramatic of course for the european union and at the end it's a compromise that was a long battle for 4 days and 4 nights about how this money would be divided it was a large grant package initially before the talks started but now most of 0 this
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package is going to be loans and half of it is still going to be grants but with strict conditions and this is a win for the so-called frugal 4 countries the smaller northern european countries like the nat'l and sweden denmark and austria pushed a lot for these strict conditions tied to the loans because the to the grand because they were afraid that like what happened in the past konami crisis like in 2008 lots of money would be disbursed and they would have no control over it and the countries here the netherlands typically is very much a prey to that the dutch taxpayers are paying too much and that money is going to be misspent so they have this kind of emergency break that the agreed on that if a country is not spending the money in the right way that the other countries can intervene and can stop the disbursement of the money so this is an important win
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for the smaller countries and it was dramatically because they were in a conflict with the from germany to big countries in the world dramatic moments when manuel mccrone was already starting his plane in the last couple of days pretending that he was going to leave but he wasn't at that. the moment so there was a lot of drama in this summit but as i said it was so important for the 27 countries of the e.u. to make this deal there was also a compromise on the rule of law agreements as you heard in the press conference hungry and poland was very much against a tightening of this money to the country's rule of law and also to smaller countries that were protesting against it they wanted 8 me to prove that they have this rule of law before they get any money and then they were referring to poland and hungary so they made a compromise on that but as 4 we shall in the press conference that he was still
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very pleased with the outcome and all the details will make that clear so it's a historic moment here and a historic outcome of this summit a step as you say it's definitely compromise and sandwich a country is still a very unhappy about this idea of shared debt but i believe we're now looking at a 1st for the e.u. setting collective bonds and then giving the proceeds in cranston is that a precedent for how things could work going forward. definitely it is the 1st and it's a is of course a huge package of money we're talking in total about $1.00 trillion euros and a lot of it will be polished on the on the financial capital markets here in europe which is also the 1st method to do it this way and there is this shared responsibility yet it is the 1st and that's why of course the european leaders were talking about victory it is it is difficult but it's also a very difficult time after one 'd countries are also facing this economy recession
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due to cope with 19 crisis so they're worse there's this feeling that they have to act # and if not there would be a huge crisis coming up in the next couple of years and of course we still have to see if this is going to be enough to to make care to to prevent this from happening because the spain italy greece they all are struggling deeply so this is going to be a huge task also for the european union to see if they can actually do this all together step you talked about some of the drama that we've seen over the last few days i mean this is the longest summit since by my count nice back in 2000 we saw some frayed tenders gloves even masks coming off and it felt like it really illustrated the divisions that we've seen image during this pandemic and also during practice so where does this leave the whole european project now. yes it was very dramatic as i said there were moments that there were stretched bangs on the table
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especially the dutch prime minister was very much criticized and name called he was called mr no no and bad guy and mr stingy because he played hardball in brussels he was one of the leaders of this movement that went against the majority of the european union who actually wanted much more to show more solidarity as they said to the southern countries so there was this divide and it was very painful because italy for example and spain they felt left behind they felt like northern countries didn't want to help them in this very difficult prices and of course nobody asked for coke at 19 and you can't be blamed for being affected by it so it was it became very emotional but the fact that they actually got 8 over it is definitely a good sign and i think that will definitely strengthen the mood in the e.u.
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which was already at a very low point because when they were dealing with go to 90 everyone every single country was doing their own thing they had their own policy so there was not much of a unity and hopefully now they will show that they actually do need each other well let me bring you all the details of that historic tale in the coming hours here on out of there our correspondents kept asking they're speaking to us from our stand thank you step. well let's move on to some other news now and there's been a breakthrough in the race to develop a covert 1000 vaccine the lancet medical journal has published promising results from scientists at oxford university who've already been conducting early human testing now scientists say it's safe for humans and also triggered the critical immune response which could stop the virus in its tracks now while the findings are encouraging larger trials still need to be done brennan has more from. phase one
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really could have gone much better for the oxford team early positive science now confirmed in the published research so this is an important milestone on the par but we're now moving rapidly forwards to try to evaluate whether the vaccine actually protects the population. by conducting large scale trials we have 10000 people already vaccinated around the world we still see how the vaccine in older people more is the disease than the. so that's the subject of work and the be more public and. the oxford vaccine is adapted from a common cold virus found in chimpanzees spike glycoprotein a genetic material from the covert 1000 virus was added the hope is the human body will develop immunity to the spike protein stopping the virus from entering cells and preventing infection tests indicate the vaccine produces 2 reactions by producing a defensive antibody response as well as t.
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cells which attack the infected cells t. cell response peaked just 14 days after volunteers were injected antibody response peak to 28 days and side effects were minor mainly just tiredness and headaches treated with paracetamol i'm hopeful i've got my fingers crossed but to say that i'm 100 percent confident that we'll get a vaccine this year or in the next year is a last just you know an exaggeration we're not there yet this is a hugely encouraging result for the team here in oxford but provoking an immune reaction is just the 1st stage in vaccine development phase 3 trials are already underway in the u.k. south africa and brazil are looking at issues such as optimal dosage and exactly how much protection vaccinated people have when exposed to the actual corona virus fairly cameron was injected with the oxford vaccine as part of the phase 3 trials
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she's a family doctor herself and has lost friends and patients to the virus. rather than sitting in front of the t.v. and screaming at the mortality rates every day or screaming at politicians or getting annoyed on social media right i really felt very strongly. that i wanted to do something i just wanted to be a part of the answer after i don't think there's going to be one and that cove it i think there's going to be a few different answers 9 in 10 vaccine projects and in failure and there's no guarantee that the early promise of the oxford trials will lead to an effective covert jab but it is a very positive step paul brennan al-jazeera oxford all the world health organization has welcomed to that breakthrough but says that any viable vaccine must be available to everyone with political commitment of course. that's the only way you can get you know fair distribution but. one of
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the worrying part of this we see is. some countries moving the other direction of course more and more countries are joining the. benefits the advantages of making this global public good. all now new cases of coronavirus and the u.s. state of florida have soared past 10000 for the 6th day in a row now california and texas are also experiencing surges and with expanded employment benefits set to expire next week u.s. president donald trump has met with republican leaders to discuss and now that massive relief bill alan fischer reports. as the u.s. heads towards 4000000 court cases the president has been discussing a new package for states being overwhelmed he plans to bring back the daily briefing he abandoned weeks ago frankly a lot of the country is doing well a lot of people say here is your step but we have had this big flare up in florida
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texas couple of other places. and so i think what we're going to do is get involved in more certifying briefings florida has no recorded more than 10000 new infections for the 6th day in a row the state. and reopen quickly protesters disrupted a briefing by the governor in orlando. in los angeles there are lines at the famous dodger stadium but no one's watching baseball these are for covert tests the site is handling your own 6500 tests a day but still people have to wait for hours in washington congress is back after a summer break 6 months to the day after the 1st positive us test the democratic controlled house has already passed a raft of new measures including a 3 trillion dollar relief plan the economy will only get worst worse if we do not if we do not continue to support working families in our country as we have done
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but the senate ignored the measure the republicans there say they're working on their own package. it would need to be another multi trillion dollar bridge loan to make up for a totally shut down economy nor an ordinarily an ordinary middle for an ocean ready to get back to normal the need. for more and between the president to have been reluctant to cover up has now sent out a picture of him wearing a mask on an issue which has become politicized he tweeted we are united in our effort to defeat the invisible china virus and many people see that it is peach you have to do with a feast mask when you can't socially distance there is nobody more peachy or take than me your favorite president it was just over a week ago the president was seen in public for the 1st time where you mask and he continues to reject the idea of issuing a national mask monday. al-jazeera washington the us president donald trump has
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also been putting the conflict in libya on his agenda holding talks with multiple leaders on the situation there and a phone call with egypt's president up to the white house says the 2 leaders affirmed the need for immediate deescalation in libya including through a cease fire but i also spoke with french president among a lock on about the escalation but the white house statement saying the situation has been exacerbated by the presence of foreign forces and on its own egypt's parliament later very said to allow president sisi to deploy troops abroad that allows a potential intervention in neighboring libya since he has previously threatened to support world haly for huffed us forces if tripoli is government and its turkish allies launched an assault on the city of says that area is under the control of have to us forces and is also a gateway to libya's oil rich region just before that parliament vote the u.n. warned against any foreign intervention in the libyan conflict and particularly
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singled out egypt. whether it's ca gyptian with already or were any other country. that has an influence over the parties in know in libya i think they all know our position that there is no military solution so this conflict this buildup of forces around sooty is worrying and just puts more libyan civilians at risk contacts have been had with the egyptian authorities as i say we're continuing to rich countries. to help relieve the ns agree on a lasting cease fire rather rather to night in or out fire. israel has fired multiple missile towards syria's capital according to syrian media they were seen flying over damascus late on monday evening its military insists most of the rockets way intercepted while monitoring group the syrian observatory for human rights says several missiles hit government and iranian backed toddy. police in
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zimbabwe have raided the house of a prominent journalist there hope alshon are live streamed the moment that security forces entered his room on facebook the investigative journalist has been reporting on corruption and anti-government protests in the country. hello again i'm astounded handa how with the headlines here on al-jazeera after 4 days and nights of marathon often acrimonious talks evil leaders have clinched a deal on a multi-billion dollar coronavirus rescue fund the recovery package will provide almost $860000000000.00 in grants and loans to counter the effects of lockdowns they had been divisions over how much of the package should be loans and how much would take the form of grants that don't need to be repaid e.u. leaders have called the deal historic. in we 3 spent 4 long
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days and nights of negotiation more than 90 hours but it was worth it this agreement is a signal that europe is able to act now in germany after all. people often accused europe as being too little too late whereas here we're doing stretching that the opposite is the case at the end of april the european council gave us the mandate of designing a recovery package and today to get only 2 months later next generation europe is. up and running and it has the agreement of the european council and in the history of the european union that is an absolute record for a new budgetary instrument. now oxford university has made a breakthrough in the race to develop a coronavirus vaccine early results appear to show it is safe and triggers an immune response the vaccine was adapted from a common cold virus found in chimpanzees the world health organization has welcomed
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the breakthrough but says that any viable vaccine must be available to everyone. u.s. president on trump has met congressional leaders from his republican party to discuss another coronavirus economic relief bill there that as cases continue to rise with florida california and texas all seeing a huge increase in infections egypt's parliament has voted to allow the president. to deploy troops abroad it allows for a possible intervention in neighboring libya as he has previously threatened to support world khalifa haftar us forces if tripoli is government and its turkish allies launched an assault on the city of. well those are the headlines do join me for more news here on al-jazeera after the stream stay with us. to own or is there a. is the government of the story optional to really address some of the structural issues we listen i still think that travel is the safest mode of travel and to
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