step. for. the students who. don't stand a chance. truman successfully. i took me. starts in terms of. a corporate state tug of war over a covert 1000 treatment could spark an international route between the us and in. the hands of the drug. the irish have come under fire before for their lax corporate tax laws now an irishman will be in charge of the euro zone's economic efficiency. and you hygiene rules for the cruise industry to get the massive line

is out of dock and back onto the high seas. and lots of business are all waiting for that queue up and there's a v.a. is the 1st drug shown to work against the corona virus but its success could cause an international round the us has bought up most of the world stock europe is considering issuing compulsory licensing of the antiviral drug. deaths of years no wonder drug but it has shown promising effects in the treatment of people who fall in severely ill with covert 19th originally developed to treat a bola it's attracted interest from countries around the world. last week the european commission gave conditional approval for deaths of your to be used to treat seriously ill covert 900 patients it follows similar moves in india in the united states. the company that makes the drug is an american firm that has faced criticism for agreeing to sell the vast majority of its output to the united states

get told e.w. that it's space difficulty meeting demand and that it's planning to increase the production of ramdass appear from the current 190000 batches per month to $2000000.00. future supplies the company says will be allocated on the basis of the number of new infections in a country. european policy makers have also been threatening to impose compulsory licensing on ram disappear this would allow other manufacturers to produce the drug under world trade organization rules such a move would be possible in the case of a national emergency because european parliamentarians pay to these why such a move when gilly ed insists it will deliver the drug they would but i'm not sure if it is enough you know for the moment in the united in the european union the figures are quite low but we don't know what's going to happen and we're we

have really a lot of hospitals where our rates are huge and that's why i am not sure what this is going to deliver will be enough and we just adopted a resolution in the european parliament where we say that we corporation and die in iraq so i was perfectly odds words cooperate with. us. but the international law. relicensing so it's not something that bends it is for you to. think we are in a. irish finance minister pascal don't know who has won a vote to lead the blocs financial policy on the making on the euro group or whose style himself as a consensus candidate for both northern and southern yours are members and had the

backing of european conservative party's base the spanish deputy prime minister that you have a new who is favored by the likes of france and italy or who will help oversee the euro e.u. used 750000000000 euro corona recovery plan. let's talk about her daughter who with our own irishman. the e.u. is under pressure to close those notorious corporate tax loopholes is an irishman the right guy to do that well it certainly puts him in an instant position then so that pressure that you spoke of a lot of the pressure is internal pressure within the e.u. says a lot of different opinion among the member states as to what exactly they should do in terms of corporate tax and a digital tax so the large tech giants like facebook and google and what possible don't know who has said and what the government often says is that it's one view among many divergent views so for example while france and germany would have traditionally been opposed to the irish lower corporate tax rate ireland says it needs that tax rate to be internationally competitive and that would be

a view that would be generally supported by countries like the netherlands looks and works some of the nordic countries hungary so it's not simply a case of ireland against the rest and there is a divergence of opinion there and that would certainly put possible in a potentially tricky situation on some issues come up such as next week when there's a ruling regarding apple bush one of the things with the e.u. is that it's supposed to give every country all member states a fair crack of the whip and just give you one very quick example the last head of the commission was you on top younker from looks and work which will be in a similar position to are and we regard questions of tax and that didn't seem to seem to cause any major specific issues on the well what about islands turn around from being the blokes problem child to now leading the euro well that's probably one of the main reasons why house goes on who won this election because as you said 10 years ago ireland was a problem child it needed a new back bailout in order to be able to have money to run its country it was no longer able to borrow money on the international markets and it recovered from the us came through a very very stringent austerity program to become the fastest growing economy in

the e.u. so on one level art and has this sort of success story on how it can through a new program but the same time it doesn't necessarily fit easily into one sort of group or the other when it comes to e.u. policy debate on money it's not necessarily aligned to the northern countries or the southern it's a little bit of both so it's a ports some things that the spaniards in the times would agree to but likewise it also has the ear of. the door chair the so-called fruit of 4 so he had style themselves a compromise candidate and dot sort of story of art is part of the reason why i think he he got this job done who is such a nice guy how's he going to know heads together and achieve anything he certainly is a nice guy and that's one thing about him the people should be prepared for i've heard so many stories about his personal kindness perhaps unusual for a politician and he does seem to be a genuine public servant the thing about him is that he doesn't necessarily have to knock heads together he has to sort of be a bridge builder a consensus on someone who chairs meetings but not necessarily sort of forcing people to agree on the same issue and i think that his personality will definitely help in that regard that he is just a nice guy who people would at least listen to but whether or not he has the ability to bring change in policy changes in some of these huge issues that remains

to be seen but it's not only his job requires unanimity amongst all the member states. thank you. well the cruise industry has agreed on a new hygiene plan to get the giant lighted sailing again poster in dark some of those stranded at sea with crew aboard ports refusing them entry over outbreaks of coronavirus and many vessels not the holiday of a lifetime well i went to hamburg to find out if anyone will ever want to cruise again. most of these big boats aren't going anywhere i was never a fan 2016 was my 1st and last cruise i caught the norovirus i was sick as a dog ever since then i've kept my distance this is as close as i'll get to the giants of the sea hamburg germany main port but i am one of the few despite health scares and the sick to its huge carbon footprint business has been booming until

the coronavirus. now operators face billions in losses and lawsuits health experts say the ships helped spread the virus the industry says it took extraordinary measures to limit outbreaks germany's attorney i had to call on australia for help when the virus broke out in. this cruise entertain it was trapped aboard and is critical about one thing she should have been kind of the ships don't have a party to carry out corona tests of the like you have been caught has to be done on land and takes time outside vending passengers want to take a cruise again one of union 5 definitely and grounds were booked out passengers all want to come back. for the next 2 years and i'm certain many many people will want to do the trick and you know it isn't much and it'll take a lot to convince me to set sail again but i've got nothing against this little guy and a provider combo to hold my hand he's an expert in the field. of cruise ships more susceptible to something like the coronavirus than other places that certainly are

because wherever you have big crowds of people $4000.00 up to $6000.00 plus the crew on the narrow area program makes the go over the risk because there are basically these giants of the sea. and some of which have only just been finished what are they going to ever run at full capacity there was a very big there money and this was the reason why more and more trips of this being built they really thought 'd everybody thought of good business. thank you for the continual in continuously and cohen are made to stop before. some smaller expedition boats are now allowed back to sea but with only half the passengers and no stops along the way the big ones are still in don't. they look so alone completely empty bookings are already surging operators are offering big discounts and promises of a gold standard in public health some analysts expect another boom even bigger than

before the crisis just don't count on me. let's bring in heavy commas told he's german director of the cruise lines international association and joins us from habit 1st of all what about all these crews still stuck on board. a mother who has been evacuated to their home countries. that's a very limited number of troops ships who want to be heard still by the way the reason was was lost was impossible to return to send them back from the states where the obvious especially jeremy was this very cooperative problem was that the whole countries of those people did not allow the entry so they couldn't be entry into their own country was not the problem of 'd the rest of the organization so people have to be kind of boy 'd that. they happen to pay for the

time they stayed. out. they want to do all. ships still we have a crew of ships that have to go to 'd a resort that's of it was a question of mystic comes up a lot of the bookings right now too to look at the customer side of things or a rebooked trips cancelled during the crisis or other people going to want to take a cruise again after what happened. people who wanted to go the cruise during the year. we have the last. year of the crisis have either been refunded or rebooked their cruise to something next year or something so people still want to go on the on the ship british tour that's why we have a very careful restart of the weeks we will have

a lot of interest of people to go on the ship and what about these prisoners going green and i know some have planned stupid is that ever going to happen. yes we have we have invested a lot of your last years. excess of $20000000000.00 u.s. dollars. all the chips that you all sorts as the usuals as those there's a lot of investments. to make girls a greater by the means as well so there are a lot of measures for it and it will. reside. well clearly so that it's promised all thank you very much for joining us here on t w and i stay in business with you by. combating

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