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those stories over on our website we will be back with the headlines again in time right now though it is sophia. welcome to. shave or not as bright minds gather here at the european house for about italy's komo. the number of pressing issues trade war with the united states and i go crisis and reform. the current system face up to today's challenges while i ask the former prime minister of italy and. the european union is on the brink of major change plans of reform are being jeopardized by an ever growing which driven between member states over the ongoing refugee crisis how can

a common vision be hammered out in a climate of distrust will the union manage to keep up the momentum of integration while balancing the demands and wishes of the blog and will that be enough to ensure the long. he of the e.u. . medical letter thank you very much for being with us today it's great having as our guest lots to talk about since so many changes are taking place in europe so here absolutely of transatlantic trade may be in jeopardy and trump right now is saying that you know what the u.s. will outlast europe and its straight stand off and was in a negotiate hard to make this on american terms what's going to happen is europe just going to capitulate what does this mean i think trump is becoming the best allies of the utopian union united more united that goes from peace pushing through the peons to understand that we we have to be together because the only way to be

together means reacting to these threats it's i think the trade threats of trump is a mortal threat for europe is a mortal threat because i've been a model of european economy is based on export it's based on producing more than we consumption and but is crucial for the future of european union if we have a word of protectionist if we are obliged to produce only for the internal consumption that is the end of the european economic model this is why trade is becoming the big gap between european union and u.s. subtropics also threatening to pull america out of the w t l if eriksson doesn't go there merican way what would that mean for here a plan for a condition i think for w. two it would be a mortal threat to. buy the same time i don't see possible to have

a trade that multilateral level without an organization a multilateral organizations we can have only bilateral agreements between countries we need to have and that. an international multilateral organization the glue towards these organization it worked in some period of our history even recent history so i think trump attacked. multilateralism and europe at the same time and i think it's a double attack there is for us the big signal we have to react we were always allied of the u.s. and we are still alive of the u.s. trump is another thing trump is really a threat for us so let's talk in more details in terms of what european reaction should be because like completely right now tran threatens to slap emperor taxes on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese goods rate and he then sat and that

european union is almost as bad as china only smaller that's a quote. we make of it what does this mean and do you feel like europe should be prepared for import taxes from washington as well i think reactions can be considered the swing this juror but at the end of the name of the you know trans protectionism is affecting today more european union than china. the decisions that to continue now where the season's first against the prince allies because the friends the allies like european union or like canada or like mexico where countries without any damn perry any customs and the protection is with the u.s. we were really in a very good relationships in terms of trade china already. has

many many barriers with us so the decisions of trump are affecting today more european union canada mexico than china so this is why we are so angry with. and we would this is why our reaction is in terms of counter reactions to the u.s. but also in terms of turning to east what i think could be here a bit of slapping terrorists in retaliation to at hostile action is maybe a strong thing to do but that does not put an end to the trade war itself so is there anything else other than new trade taxes then you can do and turning to the east we can hope. the democrats can defeat trump in the next election system that says no one hears that he would be elected the first time but at the end of the day . i think you know trump is doing what he said in the electoral campaign i'm not

surprised by the direction he took the point is that the direction is a wrong one because is the direction to say by saying american first and american industry first is that the most racially that we can start with with trade wars and trade was among western countries among w.t.r. countries among west and east are the way to waste opportunities to destroy jobs to destroy. the recovery in our part of the word this is why i think the retaliation reaction and a global trade. act from of you did european union that is why i mentioned. the eastern countries but i can mention also for instance mexico we have to. have

a new deal with mexico because it's it's for the most traditional that we want to be proactive and positive towards north america but we can't accept this attitude of the spectrum so you have like you'd see. that in the beginning of the interview that whatever is happening is a mortal threat to you or a but i've also heard gin in to say that trump hostile attitude towards europe is actually going to help you or grow up it's funny because that's what we russians say about the sanctions the sanctions will help them grow up but are you guys actually when i say you the europeans ready to defy america like serious issues for instance iran sanctions i think iran is is. is really next and acceptable what happened on iran so i think we have to think how to avoid the bad consequences of this season so i'm on the run it depends

on the next elections depends whether we'd be reelected or not because one scenario is from a sort of identities one tour and then the sort of nightmare that's come command up and we can start again with this. strong alliance and strong super anti-rational rhetoric is this for the audiences is this for the voters of what is this thing goes once where in russia talking to put in we say one thing and as soon as we go back home we need to pursue the usual rhetoric or else will be seen as what. because it is necessary to understand that this diplomatic situation needs a diplomatic it was a private and very wise approach meaning that we have maybe two separate we have to cooperate on many things and we have to freeze

a little beat the problems that we are having without raising these problems as. the finance say questions. cooperating in other issues on other issues and knowing that the european union is composed by today twenty eight countries among these countries we have to respect the fact that some of them have a different approach than the one we having as italians and the fame a ses the demonstration of the fact that on foreign policy the european union has to. to make steps and to have more steps in terms of unification of the position and saying that maybe we need to have an institutional framework to take decisions that majority do without finding always the consensus rule but you know it's an internal problem of the european union in term of problem

because the difference is that russia is one country with one president and one parliament european union means twenty eight countries one european parliament plus twenty eight and national government national parliament on commission so there's a clear and balanced institutional situation and i think it's necessary for russia it would know also all the difference russia knows where it will president putin knows you will very well and he knows the complexity of the european. institutions are let's stick to them and these differences a big difference take a short break right now our back will continue talking to you and they claim that that italy's former prime minister and we're discussing what's going on inside the european union right now stay with us.

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let's talk about the differences within europe because you're probably one of the best speakers to speak for the european union as a whole for the refugee crisis which is hitting europe really hard right now italy hungary are creating a united front against migration is there actually six support of australia and. vision group. they're saying the european parliament elections of twenty nine thousand it's going to be a referendum of europe without borders that and then ian mccall has proposed against europe that protects itself this is the vision i mean can this be something fail her in europe i think you're right the european elections next year will be maybe the most important european elections ever in the european history european parliament elections were always elections in which it seems a joke but it is reality europe was not the matter was not the core of the

discussion. each country was having european elections to discuss the massacre for years to try to check the popularity of the government and so on and so forth it is the first time. that the european elections will change in any way the european path because you know for twenty years until now the european parliament was formed around two pm political peelers center left center right all the political decisions even on russian sanctions or trade issues are the outcome of an agreement between these two political families so the european parliament political landscape it's an easy seat landscape because you have two groups you have to do you need the agreement between two groups and that's it that will change next year next year you will have fragmentation probably it would be necessary to have

the agreement among four groups to need to have a majority that means i completely different. decision making process for the repeal of i think next year in this very period we will say oh the old good times of twenty seventeen or twenty sixteen because european parliament would be completely different and in this european parliament. the other main point would be are the populists parties running together in a unique group in a unique front or are them divide it. because of course if they are united and if they get not twenty twenty five thirty percent of the votes that change a lot of european life and this is why next year it would be a turning point of the european political life you mentioned migrations

you not migrations is the typical topic where the inter-governmental role. doesn't work because if you have twenty eight head of state and government meeting around the table and the topic is are many migrants you take how many migrants can give you it doesn't work because the answer would be always zero i want zero i as prime minister of my country upon one magnet's i want zero but if you have refugees coming you need to have a supreme national organisation the european commission taking the responsibility to say these syrian refugees we need to welcome them and so we have to redistribute them within the member states and it is not.

good will of one country saying that i can take one thousand i can take one hundred but it's it's a different way with the intergovernmental role it would be impossible to solve the migrant problems in the way it was looking right now i don't know what's going to be in ears to come right now your new government italy's new government doesn't want migrants in italy and is even threatening not to pay its share on the migration issue into the e.u. budget here but you know it's a contradiction this agreement between italy and hungary is a contradiction because italy is the country of first entry in the european union and it is first entry because italy's the mediterranean country like greece so it is almost impossible to block any arrival because of the

coastal georgia with your feet and so the first need to futilely is to have solidarity of the rest of the european union when we have refugees or. arriving we need the other countries showing solidarity towards us and. the euro is there so we have to complete the it should take two or so what the germans and french agreed in mezzeh burke was a first step that was interesting it is in our own interest as italians there are many difficulties and i'm not i'm not sure that all these reforms can be approved because of the differences and also because of the fact that the main problem in the next months will be breaks it if you ask me what is the biggest warrior you have today it is not. all we talk about it is breaks because we are growing towards blacks it towards the cliff edge as we see the worst of disaster

there is no plan a. even no plan b. and there are even no plan c. there's just. approaching march the twenty ninth's with the idea then the day after will be a disaster and this disaster we create a big financial instability and we will suffer a lot this is why i am really worried about what exit and this is why breaks it you have to have brakes it would hold what i said about next year elections and the elections will be in may that would be end of march we will have i think i fear. very sat. spring and we would have. to think about the future to fuel up thinking we have to overcome all these difficulties and next year would be a very complicated year hopefully you overcome the difficulties all the past

a lot of tier thank you very much for this to be quite your image. of its face for the next actual threat like china becoming

a superpower and will get its act together and like we did during the cold war oh after russia put up sputnik the us landed on the moon that's five mission to live and look if we have an existential crisis coming down the path guys like trump and other entrepreneurial. leaders will mobilize the country and i walk on this challenge because right now america doesn't have anybody else out there to play with you know. so the lord god called commander probably into a deep sleep and while he was sleeping he took one of the men's rooms and then closed up with flash. i was born a male i started living as a female when i was nineteen years old had

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