from politics to flash from housing to top this is where. welcome to the 77 percent. this weekend g.w. . they have a fun thing that is not working some people decide not to see it why not have the palin luncheon for all the fine countries in canada are you talking about baghdad or paris why don't you put the other side. france's president emanuel macrolides to be seen as one of the driving forces for reform in the u. but his efforts to change his own country around it's a serious trouble i guess this week here in brussels is his former europe minister not only was one of his most vocal cheerleaders in the european parliament is the my call revolution advancing or has it run out of steam.

not only welcome to conferences. nobody has talked more about reforming the e.u. than emanuel merkel why should anyone listen when he's making such heavy weather of reforms in his own country. why 1st you've been reforming from for more than 2 years with steady paff. the country is in chaos their country is not in care of there is no threat anymore are in real with all public transportation and there will be the most ambitious pension systems reform for the kids would wish which will pass in the parliament in the next week people have died in the instructions paris has reeked of tear gas for weeks on end you have gigantic disruptions in

transport so the worst transport disruption since the 1960 s. are you talking about that obviously i am talking about paris you don't seem to come often to paris are i do i have my family in paris yes there with our from protests that a french tradition birds are 0 to 700 people injured across the country 17 and hurt a number of policemen injured among them and some casualties were due to this yellowjacket protest movement are you see it throughout the word right now middle class is wondering whether globalization is a good or bad for it for them and they need to get on for it and the government from the government they got 70000000000 euros program that he catered at increasing wages and increasing public services and they found out that the president has an increasingly authoritarian streak the last year's report by the

national ombudsman spoke of an unprecedented number of preventive arrests so the long with the decline of public service is a policy of strength and security and repression taken root is a path work is ations from the official watchdog charged with defending the rights of french citizens and i strongly deny it we are in a democracy you think it makes it on our up to one you think you mix it up i think well he 3 truth. it and i would like to ask a lot of the other self areas where people are that free to protest or to deny what's happening and the government isn't much good if you just dismiss it when he says it are this is my writers on this is really i took a lot of public services the undermining of funding meant a learners i'm not in the government i'm an elected member i have 23 elected members of my party here in the european parliament i have as much freedom of expression as any french citizen we are in a democracy where in

a country where we have rule of law every problem has been or is being investigated with independent treasury i would love to see it as open as balanced and with such a rule of law in other places in the european union i think you should focus on what's happening in poland on what's happening in hungary rather we talk to pose with we're talking to you about france and you're still a member of the president's party homo she are still one of his most vocal cheerleaders so that's why i'm putting these points to you especially when both the u.n. and the council of europe weighed in against what they saw as disproportionate force against demonstrators on the streets of fronts there was this proportion of the violence in my country and there were casualties caused by. blockades by yellow vests can should we forget about it should we forget about the number of traits of

a sunni which closed because of this unrest i will never because i was elected by my fellow citizens united knowledge was addressing the points the many people have raised the paris think tank for instance general assembly leap so last year the clampdown on civil liberties was part of a consistent pattern since mr merkel took office and i deny it because there are freedoms they are respected they are protected for and. and freedom to go on strike that's fine that's even constitutional in my counter but frink freedom not to go on strike should be protected as well and freedom of movement should be protected as well you want to see hours of police increased as they were in october through the 17 knew a deterrent or substantially increased police in february 28th in the immigration or reduce the rights of migrants and asylum seekers in october that year the supreme court refused to halt the creation of a biometric database containing detailed information of all french citizens as

surveillance and these are measures that are causing concern one prominent lawyer and long time supporter actually i'm assuming across france or soon will put it bluntly said fundamental rights are under attack while our i know mr question well i know the n.g.o.s he is dealing with on refugees because i'm dealing myself on a private basis and the rights of refugees are but please are fighting against terrorism the 1st freedom of my fellow citizens is security and my country was struck again and again by terrorist attacks should we are 3 as we were before and say we are doing nothing this is not a nobody asked you to do nothing this is they say not to want to undermine fundamental rights and liberties as they are not in a fight you can always go to court and you always have your rights protected i know what my fellow citizens want they want security. more than rights more than for no

ones they want both of them and will protect both of them. does mr merkel believe he can have greater success on the european stage with reforms than he's had at home time after time he proclaims the need for new organizations in the but it's a bit like picking random tickets out of a hat isn't it reforms to immigration defense trade the european agency to protect democracy european council for interior security european climate bank and the reaction from the rest of europe was resulting silence to these proposals are. i'm not sure we are talking about the same word about my country or about here up your obviously very anti mccrone that's all right that's a surprise because i thought that was fair internal listen but it is not that you're right or right it's my it's my job to put the other side to your micro supporter and putting the other side to ask although the growing that's the way you see things that are necessarily the way other people eternalism but that's alright

i don't deny others the road to learn through 1st answer or less or go to reforms in france yes they are working we are the 2nd most attractive kountry in the european union for foreign investors we have one of the highest growth rates in the european union we are the number of unemployed which is the creasing steadily you know street terms there employed a number of germany that's right but we don't have many jobs when we talk about jobs which we talk about jobs will full pay that's her choice and we are also fighting against point and we are changing the rules for apprentice for instance and it is working and considering the european union are you mentioned the climate bank this was something i was complaining for in favor of when i was the head of the list of when they thought in the european union election and now this isn't a program of this. this from the lion her new green deal includes

a european climate bank includes. a 1000000000000 euros in the coming 7 years to finance green crew jets so this is precisely what we have were advocating for and this is precisely what the ropin union is indicating committed to but there was a huge backlash against your climate proposals was in there when the yellow vests protested against the new carbon tax which was introduced to try to get the troops to change their behavior people in rural areas so it was deeply in the tax had to be abandoned well handled throughout europe you have. claims for a more through and vironment a more anti global warming policy and at the same time people fear not in my backyard not on my our fuel expenses we face it every single developed country which is one single tax year but we have

a burned and raising tax but we are working with the european union with the commission on a mechanism providing for our protection of european companies compared to 30 kountry companies if they don't respect the same and fire imminent rules they should pay for the difference there is no reason to impact all companies for a nickel for regulations that we are choosing on a room in europe but you're independent advisory council on climates this report last june strongly suggested your record didn't match the promises you've made tell me of 11 single european country matching the result with the promises every counter is lagging with some difficulty and you so you and there's a bunch of climate that's a tragedy and one on target and that's why i mean this european parliament is a. you rocky in on ther we couldn't we cannot have one member state taking

decisions and another going and a different path we have to take common objectives and abide by them we have to have objective worked 420342050 we are in the process of doing it but then rose if you were serious about the environment you would halt this incredibly wasteful process of convening the european parliament for one week every month in strasbourg and the rest of the time in brussels why not have the parliament in strasbourg all the time i agree i mean you know but at the moment this is hugely damaging for the environment and hugely costly to the european taxpayer but it's france's vanity project it's into treaties. and it's germans vanity projects you have the european central bank in frankfurt and inflection of advantage of projects to have premises election with the whole european parliament doesn't get up like a travelling circus as some people have said once every month how do you have

a cost of over $100100000000.00 euros a year have you asked the cost of having premises in luxembourg in frankfurt and in many other places in europe that doesn't justify this doesn't my toward a specific interest you must you want your regret to stay in a brussels bubble. cut from the reality of the ground cut from member states is that what you bought is that what citizens have been voting for for them and they are telling us please go to mammoth things please get out of this but these areas to most of us live once a month i'm not telling you that. in my country it is only telling you about the cost of between $11000.00 listening to my voters between 11019000 tons of extra c o 2 emissions every year just to make this stunt possible you know every time

you don't load a program on your smartphone you are participating and carbon emissions and thought you were doing it yes we'll have to have change our habits but why are you finger pointing the heart of european democracy where we have the council of europe where we have the you open court you've already seen that is right you don't need to go to work once a month yes we can stay in strasbourg i agree the european concern have to osama from this group said it was time for any peace to get their own house in order and the traveling circus no organization can honestly claim to be serious and tackling climate change and still maintain the work of working which is so manifestly destructive to the environment while i hope that you know rob again our conservative group also notices that poland one of its main supporters is far as lagging far behind in terms of a mission and still denying the need for our green new deal let's talk about

foreign policy emanuel merkel's foreign policy because there's been a strong perception that he favors go it alone diplomacy instead of the multilateral initiatives that you was close to value one of your president's harshest critics here in brussels the green m.e.p. philip blumberg scuse him of being drunk on power and said you don't shape europe by bullying europe. shit europe by building alliances this is what we saw in in previous decades but a very lively you rock well listen to on the your world stage it was so obvious that we were when en that we were united an official come on you all know united on russia policy on russia manuel barroso since operation russia look at the normandy form and summit that we had in paris a few weeks ago what did it get you we defended ukraine's rights we favored an exchange of prisoners which had not taken place for months and news and we are

fully in line with the your property and position on ukraine crimea dhanbad and the rest just the council on foreign relations as a lot of people claims the sumac and didn't even inform them ahead of time when he sent his foreign and defense ministers to moscow last september seem to be part of an emerging pattern of unilateral actions should you say the same one angle americal good to moscow to meet with blood in your putin know they are playing their role france is an important member state of the european union france has a permanent seat in the security council we have responsibilities with a firm european values we carried a rope in voice and we have share european positions we are fully in line with those a bore while there is not the year that of a slice of paper between what was that boris and vacating for and what we are pushing for bilaterally it strengthen europe it doesn't weaken it was wonder

whether when mr all bar prefers to talk to put in or to talk to other well and says that they are hungary and commissioner is of the service of observation wonder whether he supports european union policy last august mr merkel called for a new architecture in europe based on trust and security because he said the continent would not be stable without easing and clarifying europe's relations with russia. what he didn't spell out was how you base a new relationship with russia on trust and security when there isn't any and you suggested us or we are virtually and my our political party was hacked by russian 'd activist during the presidential campaign when there was a chemical attack involved in the u.k. who was pushing the other europeans for a coordinated onset it was a man unlucky and no one else we are perfectly aware of the threat of.

russia nostalgic of the path but then will it change geography what do we prefer to have russia turning definitely to china or to have russia and gauged in the dialogue with the european union and join the concessions does that involve doesn't enjoy a country that bulldozes international borders should stand commercial aircraft as you say senses assassins to europe while murder of people for ethical weapons for instance i would have preferred not to theatre not trying to protect supported so heavily by germany because it deepens or dependency on russian gas that's a problem and we have said that and then i'm back on 38 very bluntly it's not a question of confessions it's a question of having or a voice her it is a consistent voice the if we look at the question of enlargement in the european

union for instance in august. sumac rome was the leader who told europe to really invest geographically in the west balkans warning that if it didn't fate of the region could be decided by the u.s. russia and turkey and then just 2 months later he effectively blocked or at the very least delayed those countries from joining the e.u. doesn't fit does it contradiction it's not the 1st time that a bloc i have. looked at myself a year before we wind up both you can tell us a short acting from from these other countries that are taking an interest in the west balkans and then not all serious but construe i assume you're going to ship look at serbia serbia started in succession process did serbia distance itself from russia not a 2nd. do you think that exceptionally good solutions are the magical recipe to have counter is distancing themselves from russia look at hungary it has not worked we have to reassess the who accession the concession process it was not

working do we want to turn a blind eye and just consider that we have a policy when we have only bureaucracy now we have to be serious i am dead serious about the importance of a european perspective for western balcones and it because i believe in it i don't want to leave it to bureaucrats wants to be deeply involved in what we ask this country's work to what will take them accountable war for the fight against corruption fight against organized crime understand the council on foreign relations european council formulation said you french action may have actually weaken the e.u.'s leverage in this region french veto of north macedonia is albania such a negotiations as a mix secondly changed the context for resolving bilateral problems in the west or once again look at serbia they are in the process they are negotiating they are

opening chapters and closing chapters and they are closer than ever to moscow there with something that is not working some people decide not to see it we decided to name it because we want to reform it if we are serious about enlargement and we are serious it's not just a slogan it's not just to play nice and then go to some countries and try to make business it's about giving one hand the known trade with the other it's being in having them ready to enter the european union and not being a failure and not and then injuring the european project to me about the rumblings in the party because that in some signs of serious discontent 2 months ago a more deported the illusion of. president do they are much group in the chamber written to macro warning about the state of his parliamentary majority and pushing him to rebuild trust with rank and file m.p.'s series this year when the presidents and then please don't trust him oh if it were the case our that would be

a serious issue and there are are many examples throughout iraq in union of we could nation with weak political parties absence of majorities of varying their own majority you have a one and a stake in european union which doesn't face this problem and this is front there is a clear big strong majority there is but by the end of the november 11 employees in the national assembly had quit or been pushed out of the parliament. and then she group in the summer 60 on march 1st are because they were out of the principles and values of the other parties and this is healthy so party discipline is breaking down in the summer 60 our march m.p.'s abstained or voted against the government over the free trade agreement with canada could meet one single draft bill which was not voted by the majority of 2017 put just one there is now you've got an official party candidate in the race for mayor of paris in march benjamin greville

another our marsh m.p. said the big deal and he has decided he's going to run anyway despite failing to get official backing it's a mess isn't it the non-accrual now is not north korea agree we are not russia or agree we are a recount free with freedom in political party whether you agree with that i feel a need for running where there is going to marry for the answer is no but he is free and then to god we are in a free country and losing the youth vote as the elections. for the european parliament though it didn't they had never been as many young people voting and a number of them voted for omar well compared to 2017 you lost 6 percent among 18 to 24 year. rhodes and 11 points among voters aged 25 to 34 problem is that you should compare what is comparable compare it with previous european elections and you will see that the turnout was much bigger and young people went to the polls

where they were not voting for previous european elections the highest school in the europe in the elections categories was in the category of people over 70 years old now but no party can be complacent about that we are a party which was created out of trap scratch in 2016 and we are a party which when the presidential election the national election and we fear the world in the european election we are going to have 23 and a piece in this parliament exactly the same number as the far right i would have preferred to have even more than that but compared to my predecessors i'm quite proud of the result but the party that came to power representing above all the younger poorer more metropolitan sectors of society dissent that caring about climate now wasn't that was not the it's a party that denies the traditional left right divide and rightly so look at where traditional right and traditional left are today in france and it's true throughout

europe you're about to take a position in the parliament steering box it steering group well is one of the only directory noisily is going to be you click on the initial route he has and you have a deal in 11 months while are not on everything on have a bare bones deal probably yes. i could have done a deal with the reason my why didn't the do that you would have. sit in the remember you jim says she's only our irish backstop but because it's killed that finished her off didn't it well she had no majority in her parliament and she could have got an agreement through if you'd let her on the backstop at least 2 of them really think that protecting the rights of 4 companies offer citizens are protecting please an island was not a key priority i don't agree with you government so that was a key priority but the backstop wasn't necessary but you're going to end up know

with a with an outcome if britain leaves without a deal that's an outcome that nobody wants as usually the brains yeah but you didn't want it either though but going to cause massive disruption for you to buy it my point is you pile voice it's a choice for the press if they want to destroy their country i don't think this is what they want they have to be responsible leaders it's time for responsible it's going to suffer too that's for sure i mean there is no good record redhat is bad whatever form it has but protecting the rights of a company's protecting or priority is protecting the european project is clean they have chosen in britain to get out of the year european union fair enough. we have chosen to just to destroy the european union all right and will not i tell you thank you very much for your call to.

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