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not only was old one of his most vocal cheerleaders in the european parliament is the market revolution advancing or has it run out of steam. not only was all welcome to conferences. nobody has talked more about reforming the e.u. than emanuel mccall why should anyone listen when he's making such heavy weather of reforms in his own country while 1st has been informing france for more than 2 years with steady poff. the country is in chaos the country is not in k. off there is no strike any more and railways or public transportation and there will be the most ambitious pension system to form full decay. it would wish which

will pass in the parliament in the next few weeks people have died in them stray sions paris has wreaked of tear gas for weeks on end you've had gigantic disruptions in transport so the worst transport disruption since the 1960 s. are you talking about that obviously and i'm talking about paris you don't seem to come often to paris are i do i have my family in paris yes they're with are from protests that suppression addition 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 yellow tackett protest movement are you see it throughout the word right now middle class is wondering whether globalization for good or bad for it for them and the need to get on for it and the government from the government they've got 70000000000 euros program that catered at increasing wages and

increasing public services and they found out that the president has an increasingly authoritarian streak doesn't 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 in a democracy you can make saddam are up to one you think you mix it up i think well he 3 to say it and i would like to outlaw the yourself with where people are that free to to protest or to do you know i what's happening and the government isn't much good if you just dismiss it when he says it are this is my go i need to sign this is it yes i was a client of public services the undermining of funding mental rollovers i'm not in the government i'm an elected member. i have 23 elected members of my party here in

bigger apia 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 no every problem has been or is being investigated with independent and traditionally 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 we're talking to you about france and you're still a member of the president's party home machine 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't should we forget about it should we forget about the number of trades off a city with which closed because of this unrest i will never because i was elected by my fellow citizen journalism knowledge was addressing the points the many people have raised the paris think tank for instance general has your leap so last year the clampdown on civil liberties was part of a consistent pattern since mr michael took office and i deny it because there are freedoms they are respected they are protected for instance freedom to go on strike that's fine that's even constitutional in my county but free 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 the new deterrent or substantially increase police in february 28th in the immigration. will 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 longtime 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 on 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 30 as we were before and so we are doing nothing this is not a nobody asked you to do nothing this is the same not to want to undermine fundamental rights and liberties that's now not in

a fight you can always go to court and you will have your rights protected i know what my fellow citizens want they want security. more than rights more than for no sense 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 i mean 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 micro and that's all right that's a surprise because i thought that was fair journalism but it is not that's all right or right it's my it's my job to put the other side to you you know micro

support and putting the other side to ask the growing that's where you see things that are necessarily there where other people eternalism but that's all right i don't deny others who wrote to learn to 1st answer 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 half the number of unemployed which is the the creasing steadily you have 3 terms the unemployed will move germany that's right but we don't have many jobs when we talk about jobs when we talk about jobs will full pay that's a choice and we are still fighting against the employment and we are changing the rules for apprentice for instance and it is working and considering the european union 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. from the lion her new green deal includes a european climate bank includes. a 1000000000000 euros in the coming 7 years to finance green projects 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 with the yellow vests protested against the new carbon tax which was introduced trying to get the troops to change their behavior people in rural areas it was deeply and firm the tax had to be abandoned or hardly handled throughout europe you have. claims for a more pru environment a more anti global warming policy and at the same time people feel not in my

backyard not on my are hugely expensive we face it every single developed country choose one thing it affects your but we have a burden raising the tax but we are working was 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 shooting on a room in europe when you're independent advisory council on climates this report last june strongly suggested your record didn't match the promises you made our tell me of 11 single european country matching the result with the promises every counter is lagging with some difficulty and you say you handle it out of line

that's a tragedy and one on target and that's why i mean this european parliament is a you. rocky and on 3rd 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 project to have the european central bank in frankfurt and it's less of advantage of projects to have

premises election given the whole european parliament doesn't get up like a travelling circus and 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. my to more than just specific interest you must you want your crap to stay in brussels public . 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 they are telling us please go to mammoth things please get out of this but these areas to work once a month are not telling you that. in my country it is only something in you but at 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 know what a program on your smartphone you are participating in carbon emissions and thought you were doing it yes we'll have to have to 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 don't really matter right you don't need to go to work once a month yes we can stay in strasbourg of the european concert i have to do something 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 don't rob again our conservative group also notices that poland one of its main supporters as 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 manual mccall's foreign policy because there's been a strong perception that he favors go it alone diplomacy instead of the multilateral initiatives that he or was close to value one of your presidents harshest critics here in brussels the green m.e.p. philip lambert skews to him of being drunk on power and said you don't shape europe by bullying europe. shoot 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 well for instance our policy and russia look at the normandy form and summit that we had in paris

a few weeks ago what did we get to we defended ukraine's rights we favored an exchange of prisoners which had not taken place for months and needs and we are fully in line with the your property and position on ukraine crimea i don't buy that on 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 you say the same one angle america all good to moscow to meet with a blood in your putin no 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 friend european values we carry your rope in voice and we have to share european positions we are fully in line with as a boy while there is not the year that of

a slice of paper between what throws the ball is a 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 you know to talk to other well and says that they are hungary and commissioner is at the service of a wonder whether he supports european union policy last august monsieur merkel called for a new architecture in europe based on trust and security because he said the continent would never be stable without easing and clarifying europe's relations with russia. 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 vigilant my our political party was hacked by russian 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 you would prefer to have russia turning definitely to china or to have russia and gate in the dialogue with the european union and major concessions does that involve doesn't into a country that borders is international borders shoots down commercial aircraft as you say senses assassins to europe what are the murder of people for example 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 went back on 3rd it very bluntly it's not

a question of confessions it's a question of having a home 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 that 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 a few block eyebrows. it myself a year before we wind up both you can tell us short acting from some of these other countries that are taking an interest in was balkans and then not isolated areas but going through understanding of the ship look at serbia serbia started in succession process did serbia distance itself from russia not a 2nd. do you think that exceptional go situations are the magical recipe

to have counter is to 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'm dead serious about the importance of a european perspective for western balcones and that 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 balkans 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 is 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're 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 and then straight with the other it's being in having them ready to enter the european union and not being a failure and not and then geraint the european project to me about the rumblings in the our most party because they've been some signs of serious discontent 2 months ago the mood reported the illusion of. president of the amish group in the chamber driven to macro warning about the state of his parliamentary majority and

pushing him to rebuild trust with rank and file m.p.'s serious issue when the president said 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 the european union of we could nation with weak political parties absence of majorities of varying their own majority you have a woman stating 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 to sociate on when 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 abstain though 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 27000 put me just when there is now you've got an official party candidate in the race for mayor of paris in march benjamin drivel another piece of 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 only our non-accrual now does 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 they feel a need for running where there is going to marry her with the answer is no but he is free and then thought 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 pools where there were not voting for previous european elections the highest school in the europe in the elections in the 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 he pees 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 correct 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 argentina in france and it's true throughout europe you're about to take a position in the. steering box it steering group well as one of the leaders right at illinois city is going to be u.k. caught in a little room we have and you have a deal 11 months while are not on everything on have a bare bones deal probably yes. you could have done a deal with the reason why why didn't the you do that you would have. brought sit in remember gross future insisted only our respect stop but because it's good 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 our companies offer citizens are

protecting pleasing 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 with a with an outcome if britain leaves without a deal that's an outcome that nobody wants as usually the brain yeah but you didn't want it either though but it's going to cause massive disruption for you too but in my point this you plowboy it's a choice for the breath 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 europe's going to suffer too that's for sure i mean there is no good brighter red is bad whatever form it has but protecting the rights of a company's protecting or priority is protecting the european project is keen they have chosen in britain to get out of the european union fair enough. we have just to destroy the european union all right and we will not that's

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