>> hello, thanks for joining us on "france 2 24." it took more than 90 hours of talks, but eu leaders finally struck a deal on the budget and how much to spend on helping member states recover from the coronavirus pandemic. the agreement includes 750 billion euros in grants and loans, all that borrowed by the european commission. the main contention is how much to spend on grants. the deal now needs to be approveded by the european parliament. >> [speaking foreign language]

>> we are satisfied. we have approved an ambitious plan appropriate for what we need right now. it will allow us to confront this crisis with strength and effectiveness. it is an historic moment for europe and italy. the vision we have been developing for months, and our determination to pursue it has been rewarded. joined d in the ststudio byy our european affairs ededitor. wewe keep hearining the e word historic about this deal. it is his stork in the fact

that there has never been joint eu borrowing on this scale. members of money to states. you know angela merkel is not one for exaggeration, and she is calling it historic. expressing traders their confidence in terms of the bond markets. the size of the fund is the norm us, but also this demonstration of solidarity and debt sharing. he was asked if he wanted to use the word historic. he said that is a term i would not use. he was very much isolated throughout the entire summit, standing firm against it, but obviously worn down at some point. in thedutch parliament spring, calling on the dutch

government never to accept responsibility for another effectively, which that is what this is. saying perhaps this is going to set the european union down the path of perhaps doing more of this in the future. >> the leader of france and germany key players in all of this. is it a good deal for them and their countries? >> in many senses, yes, it is. you will remember emmanuel macron came into office hyper pro-european. election against a skeptic, marine le pen. he very quickly made a speech setting out some ambitions for more union in europe in different ways. this deal representing that closer union that emmanuel

macron once. he talked about wanting france and germany to become the motor for europe. this summer, france and germany stuck together 100%. they went to every single meeting side-by-side. they walked out of meetings together as well. the germans themselves used to be frugagal so to speak, but thy came together with france to put together the bare bones of what ended up being this deal. back onacron looking the heady days of the euro crisis. we were talking about grex it, italexit. they have gotten all 27 states on board with a plan broadly that they propose together two months ago. both countries wanted to get rid

of budget rebates entirely. the four frugal's got bigger rebates out of this. austria 138% bigger than they had before. as we know, farming is extremely important in france. there are real issues with rural poverty. whether contention on french farmers are going to lose out in terms of agricultural funding from the eu. put are saying, we need to fine funding on that. there has been vocal criticism from marine le pen and far-left leader jean-luc melenchon. ,n terms of green issues leading european greens say the

budget that is intended to help fund the move away from carbon emissions has been substantially diminished. au funding is not going to be tied to member states respecting rule of law commitments. that was a big deal. that has been watered down. even the french president's office is admitting it did not manage to achieve everything it went into this looking for. they see this as a win. >> thank you for your analysis. moving on to the release of a report on russian interference into u u.k. politics. itit has been ready for more thn a year, but the publication was held up by downing street. there was no reason for that delays of the intelligence and security committee earlilier and criticized ministers for ignoring russian interference in the brexit referendum, calling russian interference in the country the new normal. >> the report reveals that no

one in government knew if russia interfered in the referendum because they did not want to know. the committee found it astonishing that no one in protectnt had sought to the referendum from such attempts or investigate afterwards what attempts to influence it there may have been. the u.k. government should have inognized the threat 2014 in relation to the scottish referendum, but it did not get >. news, the french senate is voting this tuesday on a bill designed to protect victims of domestic abuse. or bill authorizes a doctor other health worker to lift medical confidentiality when the life of a woman is in danger.

is a representative from there to be feminist. women last year killed by their partner. that is what the new gender equality minister was saying. what do you make of this bill? do you think it will help bring that number down? >> t thank you for having me. we don't think that the b bl is enough.. it is a good initiative, but we don't ththink it is enonough by itself to ining those nunumbers down. we have a lot of questions about the funding. we are amending a suffificient budget becausesehe justice is underfunded, the police as well.

their complaint i is not well received. need the money, the budget for structurally changing the police and justice and even medical professionals. also having more m money for facilitatingalso and improving the police because police are not well trained. there are not enough police to field d all complaints. >> originally when frarance wasn lockdown, domestic violence was thought to have gone up significantly, up 30% according to some reports. what would you say the situation is like now? has it improved at the end of lockdown? time don't have enough from the lockdown to have a precise idea, but nothing has

been made structurally to help change. we have a very specific demand on training, b budget, and more stafaff. it is a good initiative, but it is not sufficient, and we don't think it will help bring these numbers down. > when you talk about a lackf staff, lack of funds, where is the resistance coming from in your opinion, the frenench government? >> yes, the french government. they do a lot of marketing. they say we are e going to do this. they are good in announcing laws, but less inputting the budget necessary in the areas that is needed. >> in e english, there is the

expression, putting your money where your mouth is. perhaps it does not help that recently there were a couple of controversial ministerial appointments. france has a new interior justice, new minister. one has been accused of rape. do you think the french president emmananuel macron is t so into feminist causes as he claims? >> exactly. i think the e last governmenent last government is sexist. rape.e.a man accused of you put a serious misogynist too statemente as justice minister.

and the justice system as well. sysystemse head of both as people who are clearlyly not feminists, this causes a lot of problelems. think theernationally french government and macron are feminists. the proof we are seeing proves they are not. >> we will have to leave it there. thank you for joining us. now whereo g germany the trial for the men accused of guard is a city beginning. ththe attack wasas on the holiet day of the jewish year, yom kippur. court is set to dig into the worst ananti-semitic attackf

postwar germany. the target was a synagogue in the eastern town of halle. [speaking german] >> dozens of people were praying inside on yom kippur. although he used bullets and explosives, the killer failed to break into the synagogue. the heavy door kept the people safe inside. after shooting the woman dead,

the killer targeted a kebab shop , killing a woman inside, all the whihile live streaming the attack. the film will be shown in court. prosecutors said they got anfessions from the suspect, man so deeply radicalized he had called to kill all jews bebefore ththe attack. three months earlier, a pro-migrant politician had been murdered. in february of this year, another alleged far-r-right gunn killed nine people at a she should bar near frankfurt. >> that is it for me. thanks for watching. stay tuned to "france 24." ♪ hello and welcome to the "france 24" interview. our guest t today is s the foren

minister of armenia. he joins us from the capital of armenia. thank you for being with us. much foryou very hosting me. >> mr. foreign minister, for the haveweek, violent clashes occurred between azerbaijan and your country. the countries have been at loggerheads over the fate of a nearby region. the latest round of violence has occurred far from this disputed region at the north of the border between the two countries . at least 16 people have lost their lives, the worst death toll since 2016. we have seen a lull in the fighting in the past few days. are you optptimistic that the fifighting is now over?

do you w worry it could resume soon? > we have a situation over te past week. on 12 july, we had attempted aggression of the armenian positions by the azerbaijan army to the norortheast of armenia. they were forded. it was followed subsequentntly y missile attacks as armemenian positionons and civilian infrastructurere and populatn.n. we have been decisive in ourur defense and have beeeen workinig hard with our partners.s. comprising france, the u.s., a d russia in order to halt hostilities. what happened is a material

manifestation of the ongoing that wasing strategy very intense over the past weeks and months in azerbaijan. they havave been testing the resolve of armenia.. this was a very dangerous development. calm the managed to situation so far. in strong coronation with the united states. .e have mananaged t to restore this is a shaky situation. so far it is holding. furtherer spepecific to deny any fururther

across the border. is the very big priority we have before us. >> azerbaijan says you started the fighting. it has also threatened to strike the nuclear plants if you continue what they call your provocations. what is your response to that? >> on the first question, we have been quite insistent on establishing measures to reduce escalation. we are very insistent on this. insistent on further measures, i including thehe expansion ofof monitororing, the establishment of direct lines on

the ground. those are the measures that will help us to control the cease-fire. azerbaijan h n not beenn forthcoming to accept those prproposals and toto establish h measasures which would deneny furtrther opportunities for cease-fire violations. i'm calling on them to accepept usse proroposalsls and work wih towards strengthening the ceasase-fire regimime. this is irresponsible to the broader region. threat to their own people, and i think this is very .isturbing

>> who is responsible? the leader of azerbaijan, who publicly said the efforts to bring a peaceful solution is leading nowhere, or are you imagining that turkey's erdogandent but again -- might be the reason for what is happening at the border? >> i will reiterate the strictly peaceful resolution of the conflict. war is nonot an option. catastrophe for the entire region. war should be totally rolled out in this. we are comommitted to the peacel

resolution of the conflict. this is the compromise best solution we are e working for. ththis is particulularly concer. what we are observing is an attempt to export this instabilility into our region. been linked has with a notion of turkey. such aerstand that

mission brings memories of the armenian genocide of the last century. we received this with serious concerns. against they armenians is the reason that the southims caucasus. you have mentioned the example of turkey's role in syria and libya. that turkeyerned could play a more direct role in this dispute with azerbaijan? is this a concern? do you believe they are just declaring their support? >> we will continue to work

closely and a very constructive manner, finding a solution. strengtheningk on the very planned cease-fire regime. announceo the -- denounce the threat or use of force. we need to work on an envivironment whihich helps theress, favors progress in negotiations. we have to work on the balance of commitments that have achieved a measure of compromise. azerbaijan -- we will continue e to work for cease-fire. within the internationally agreed format, we value very

highly france, russia, and the united states. their contribution is solid. their commitment and engagement is solid. within this arrangement, we will continue to work for peace. >> i'm going to repeat my question. are you concerned about potential turkish intervention, more direct intervention? >> obviously, we cannot be indifferent. this world is a world of instability.y. thisnnot perceive indifferently. >> all those negotiations have led to nowhere. why not rejuvenate this negotiation format and do something else? why continue something that has not worked so far? >> i cannot agree that it has not been working. it hasas been working very

effectively. platform ona sololid which allll the three c countri, russia, franance, and the u.s. have been working in n very engaging manner. they have been working in good action on the part of the three countries. i do consider this as a positive role. i do not see any reason this should change. >> do you think in order to break the impasse a meeting between the leaders of both countries is something that would play a decisive role in calmingtensions -- tensions? >> w we are committed to using every measure for the peace procesess. it has happened before. it will happen again. these meetings have to be

dopared carefully so o that we arive a and a a at establishing good foundation forr progress. the foreign ministers prepare the w work for the leaders. we will continue to work in the most serious way towards achieving progrgress in negogotiations. the leadership meeting will happen when we prepare the good grounds for these meetings to happen so that we establish progress in negotiations. >> that is all we have time for. thank you very much for appearing on "france 24." thank you for watching this interview. ♪ >> french genius harborsrs many

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