without the promise of a e.u. exception we could all too easily see a repeat of the conflicts witnessed here in those years. that promise is central to the policies of serbian president aleksander of which its accession negotiations have been underway since twenty fourteen. praises the progress the country has made he would like to make serbia a role model for the rest of the region. that's why he's brought along a u. commissioner yohannes han he understands the balkans like few others. the show and others include. the sequels a great case here the interesting thing as it was the enthusiasm for the easy upswing should be at least those in this among young people in particular there is a desire for the values the e.u. symbolizes the. small. he says seeing freedom of the opportunity to pursue your goal is. not something we can be proud of and that's something we can bear in mind here in the western balkans. it's a sudden we the i dos in every mon calls. it's another day and another destination. the press officer and

e.u. for the second half of the twenty a teen how can this be. we used to improve years relations with russia would other e.u. states listen to you. we will have the visit of. of president putin in june i guess this certainly will bring intense exchange of views of positions and we will try to use this opportunity already before of presidency in order to find out were. the moments where the fields were austere contact that this is not easy because of cause every side has. relatively clear positions and you only can go step by step try to improve improve the relations and try to find solutions for minor problems in order to go and next step and to have a bigger progress on the whole and i think this way is something the austrian diplomats and lost in politics. well aware of and therefore will try to do so chess or sébastien curds says the country is planning to use its presence in the e.u. to work and securing its borders against new waves of migrants well this finally fixed a spat between the easter and western members over the refugee problem i t

not only tried to make good contributions for the salvation of e.u. problems but also for the relationship to important neighbors and russia is one of them or is the most important neighbor for you and then so far it is was very clear for the austrian government not to take part that any sanctions or regime but try to keep up good relations with russia critics say the n r selectively invokes its traditional neutrality whenever it feels that its interests are jeopardized do you feel that your country's fairly accused of being the e.u. security policy of freeloader i don't think so oster is a neutral country but all neutrality is only military neutrality it's not an ideological but i do not see any ideological problem in this question of course on the one hand as there always will try to be to act solidarity with the other your members but of course it also will go it's. only way fight for its own position when it is convinced that it is necessary and all government was convinced that it was necessary in this case not to react spontaneously too fast but

union look like in the future in a landmark speech french president today pitched his vision for the e.u. of speaking to lawmakers in the european parliament in strasbourg he made an impassioned case against the rise of populism in europe urging europeans to defend their democracy. said the e.u. was failing to address the fears and concerns of its citizens and that changes long overdue. you just don't do that it's doubts in a number of european countries and month after month these doubts seeing school our foundations into question. seems to be a sort of european civil war national selfishness and isn't a taking precedence over what unites us. it was french president emanuel speaking earlier today sports news now and on tuesday night in the first german cup semifinal game by your munich demolished host laver who is in by a score of six to the man of the match thomas miller who scored first in the fifty second minute then in the sixty fourth minute and once again in the seventy eighth a goal fest that stands by into the cup final against the winner of wednesday night's clash between show. fra

take giants the german business daily hundreds blood claims that the united states is accusing the e.u. of violating w t o rules with its digital sales tax now that would apply to companies no matter where they're based at the tax could amount to between one and six percent of sales not profits and that means companies like amazon would not be able to avoid it by reporting no profit so using tax havens on the tax would be due on all of titties that exploit you said data hitting facebook and google the u.s. says that's unfair because the rules are designed specifically to tax huge american corporations it only affects companies with at least seven hundred and fifty million euros in worldwide sales but the facebook scandal has strengthened the e.u.'s hand as it prepares to introduce new data protection laws so it might find itself in a stronger position to face down in washington let's talk a little bit more about that with our brussels correspondent terry shills terry good to see you. picking up from that last sentence i mean how strong is the e.u. is position in the particular matter. that

not only a better understanding of also better cooperation between russia and e.u. and of course every side has to look at its actions and reactions and therefore as far as i see it it probably was a signal signaling the red line that the relationship if elin travel some cases should not go beyond a certain limit this was clear this cannot be as this cannot be. chemical weapons so despite the mutual diplomatic expulsions projects like the north stream to gas pipeline from russia to germany which os to supports are going to hant does this mean that the political gestures like kicking out diplomats are mostly for show. maybe. the question of north the law also is part of well the discussions. in this considerations about sanctions easily could be what i think is that you have to look at it from a reasonable point of view from a reasonable position and the position i see is the for germany this is an important project germany has given up its nuclear capabilities it is highly dependent on energy from all sides and of course they are for an efficient. way of getting ener

chairs and its position when it comes to the us at the moment a lot of a lot of traders are looking to two ways either the e.u. market to continue its supply of pok and other products that the u.s. is employed was in these tears on the other is to actually look and look to his domestic markets and perhaps grow those the message markets as well now the e.u. of course is also under pressure and somehow has to find a way to please both china and the united states if it wants to continue making business with those two sides what are the chinese or asian investors betting on which way will the e.u. go. chinese asian investors at the moment watching this very closely very nervous all around the table days tension abound also their hope there is hope also in that the u.s. will pull back on its terror as a lot of analysts see that these new tariffs not be one all end all solution for the u.s. in making up for street deficits which is very very white as we all know so there's a lot of pressure going around. as this is going on the rest of asia is going to watch is very closely until it finalization its me or until a p

is accusing the e.u. of violating w t o rules with its so-called digital sales tax let's have a closer look at that this tax would apply to companies no matter where they're based the tax could amount to between one and six percent of sales not profits that means companies like amazon would not be able to avoid it by reporting low profits or using tax havens and the tax would be due on all activities that explode use the data that would be heating facebook and google the u.s. says that's unfair because the new taxes are designed specifically to tax huge american corporations it only affects companies with at least seven hundred fifty million euros in worldwide sales of facebook's gondolas strengthen the news hand as it prepares to introduce new data protection laws so it might find itself in a stronger position to face down washington in a possible dispute at the w t o now let's bring in our correspondent in brussels terry scholz terry trump is wants to complain to the g.a.o. says the hundreds blood what are

finance minister he also wants higher taxes for internet companies and accelerate the introduction of e.u. wide intellectual property law. and i phone did in your reform of the economic and monetary union as an indispensable third front before the end of this european parliament's term finding a roadmap for moving forward on the banking union a fiscal capacity to promote stability in convergence in the euro area but as you know. only last year mccollum was given a standing ovation for a similar speech at the soul bone university in paris this time the applause was more modest because the netherlands island on six other northern countries reject his reform plans they don't want their voters hard and taxes to be poured into any new fangled euro zone budget michael knows his plans only have any hope of success with germany's backing in berlin on thursday he repeated his hopes for euro zone reform. you see does it in the city don't need more solidarity in the currency union. no currency union can survive without an element of convergence because it needs instruments of adjustment and alignmen

is not part of the e.u.'s passport free schengen zone and right now there are no separate international boarding areas in amsterdam and rotterdam making passport control in brussels a must for u.k. bound passengers ok thanks for your company right now look at the wall clock. the top of islamism is bangladesh on the brink of civil war. we are scared we are very scared we have to state. libya to hide from this fight against it are. torn by domestic power struggles and the influence of islamist extremists. the country's democratic institutions now face a serious threat. to peace and calm we call for the rule of law of islam of violence dominates the headlines. you just couldn't get in a. couple of the should be. a bit is. enough to show. bangladesh the dawn of islam is on starting april twenty first on t w. one hundred million tons of sand. devastating everything in its place. with deadly consequences. dust storms they've become law and. magnitude and frequency. once they start there's no stopping them. just sta

of money at stake. they were only interested in getting their hands on the e.u. subsidies. barish says organized crime gangs in eastern slovakia are taking over huge areas of arable land to become eligible for millions of euros in e.u. subsidies every year he says he knows of thirty other farmers who contribute away by violence and blackmail so far your a parish is the only one brave enough to come forward and talk about it publicly the police and justice ministry have been informed but slovakian authorities remain unresponsive. lucy those who have so much power and influence they can manipulate the police they exert influence over administrative authorities and also manipulate the agency which distributes you subsidies going to probably not. going to them this is the corrupt swamp that journalist john korczak was investigating before he and his girlfriend were shot dead. a tragic wake up call for slovakians. in the eastern slope at city of caution demonstrators now rally in the streets every friday they're protesting against state corruption and bribery since korczak was mu

joining us so far plenty still to come including well facebook moves its users out of the legal reach of the e.u. just ahead of the block bringing in new prophecy rules will well give you the full description next. level of selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings peace to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battle. to stop spreading tell you to separate gossip the tabloids with ralph. doesn't tell you the not by product. of the hawks that we along. with one. with no make this manufacture consent to stick to the public well. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the famous merry go round lifts and the the one percent. we can all middle of the room sit. in the real news room. twenty foster in moscow it's been revealed that facebook's making changes to move the bulk of its users out of the e.u. is legal reach weeks before the block plans to enforce strict new privacy rules nearly one point five billion accounts will be switched from the platforms international headquarters in ireland to its main offices in california that means they will come under u.s. regulations but

of the who and i work. a deal with the message mexico or the e.u. agree on overall that trade agreement as companies are on of a fast fear us president protectionist policies. and all those wars really justified we speak to the w t o's chief economist who says no world trade is going well bout all that talk about a trade war is dangerous for the global economy. this is the business line from this president trump's threats of tariffs are actually sparking more cooperation from rival economies with mexico and the european union taking a stand for free trade both sides overhauling an old trade deal abolishing almost all tariffs between the german chancellor. mexico's president enrique pena and they have to open the mexican exhibition stand out the industrial tech fair in hanover today said he's optimistic that a renewal of the north american free trade agreement also could be achieved and that would benefit not only mexican companies. for german engineering companies like partial export mexico is a very enticing prospect on the one hand as a market for

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when will to withdraw austria as well of some other e.u. members decided not to do that we don't expel russian diplomats even though it can be done through limits it's into knots in large part since the nineteen fifties. vienna has been the seat of many international organizations for the quarters of many international organizations and we always say that ways. keep the channels of communication open even in the most difficult of situations and our channels remain open. and subsumes. as for last week's airstrikes and the alleged chemical attack in do mark on april the seventh. and i've already said in interview that we base our foreign policy on facts we believe there should be an investigation. walk into. and there are multilateral mechanisms for of. when. you see w. the special id agency to do that. which we did several weeks ago. and the c.w. sea level allows us to. request help from experts and labs. it takes time laughs bartz flights will provide all the opportunities to do that. as for air strikes. on the seventh of april in the ceilin

may be about to leave the european union but until it does leave it remains still a major part of the e.u. triumvirate of leaders so they all said that yes should this exemption not remain in place should these tariffs be imposed upon the e.u. they would have to be a retaliation of some kind now to have a look at what form that retaliation may take we just have to look back to what was said by e.u. commission president jiang claude younker a little while ago this to say. so now we will also pose import tariffs this is basic usages drusus the fact that we have to do shoot hoops but we have to do it. through some motorcycles harley davidson and blue jeans even eyes on bourbon we can also use we also have to be for this use. the word coming out of the united states is that we can almost certainly expect an extension of this exemption but all that does is it kicks this problem for that down the road ultimately the only solution is that well as it stands either the e.u. gives in and says ok we'll accept tyrus which nobody can see happening on this side of the line take all donald trump in the

of your companies. his audience hangs on his every word grateful that the e.u. finally appears to be paying the country the attention it's been yearning for. he understands the complexity of those situations and then clegg i mean is that he is really european. has really put he's has a little bit cautious approach from the europeans doesn't want to new difficulties within the european union but he understands the need of the speed of the europe to be side only within the european union but will his message have the desired effect . a writer in belgrade. in serbia the delegation is met by an icy wind. is a physically strenuous one. really need to make this kind of the end of his career . those people in the need to be made aware that the balkans are on their doorstep for going. to war raged here in the one nine hundred ninety s. . without the promise if. we could all too easily see a repeat of the conflicts witnessed here in those years. that promise is central to the policies of serbian president aleksander of which it's accession negotiations have been underway

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over bricks it might mean ok might really need some kind of super power to make her dream of staying in the e.u. a reality. they just. believe they do what. they say they. are. now moscow generates mountains of urban waste and much of it some three hundred truckloads every day and up in a giant landfill some two hours' drive south of the russian capital in the small town of columb the locals say it's having a devastating impact on their environment and their health and they've decided to fight back in what's being called a trash uprising among the activists is a young mother called rena who's risking a prison sentence in her battle for fresh. from dawn until dusk since last autumn up to three hundred trucks a day arrive at this garbage dump in the city of kabul now about one hundred kilometers southeast of moscow the snow covered piles of refuse contain street tar batteries paint cans and car tires. a lot of local residents say the situation is out of control and they're worried iran issue american a has put together a group that's trying to limit the environmental damage. thank you plus an eye

e.u. and certain other countries exceptions pending the outcome of new trade talks the e.u. has said it will apply counter measures if the u.s. threatens its metal industries and that meeting between angela merkel and donald trump is something that also keeps a rita and my colleague peter craven busy that's right monica thank you very much and credit we want the issues that german chancellor angela merkel will be discussing with donald trump during her visit to washington the two leaders also expected to talk about the iran nuclear deal with germany supports and donald trump has threatened to scrap the saving the iran deal was also high on the agenda of french president in modern the crawl has just completed his own three day visit to washington mcroy used his speech to a joint session of congress to urge the u.s. to stick to the iran nuclear deal even if it did not address all concerns. now with me i'm pleased to welcome our political correspondent and colleague peter cave in to welcome peter lovely to see you in the studio here in richmond you know it when we talk when mcc

check seem to want to get out of the e.u. six it is becoming the new buzz word in business as you are skeptics getting more influence in prague. visited a business i'm going to office and berlin welcome just as we all thought the diesel gate scandal was a thing of the past this german police have raided properties linked to three top executives at the sports car maker porsche it's part of a fraud probe linked to the diesel emissions investigators searched ten sites links to one porsche board member another member of upper management and a third person who no longer works for the company audi properties were also targeted porsche like audi is owned by fox farm which in twenty fifteen admitted to using cheating devices on diesel engines to pass emissions tests now is in the cross has let's get more on this developing story from our financial correspondent. in frankfurt done what can you tell us what are you hearing. well this is still a developing story we're also a closely monitoring from here what we know so far is that aroun

is accusing the e.u. of violating w t o rules with his digital sales tax that's have a close look at this his new tax would apply to companies regardless of the location of the corporate headquarters the tax to the amount to between one and six percent of sales not profits that means companies like amazon would not be able to avoid it by reporting low profits or using tax havens and the tax for that would be do you want all of that to vittie is that exploit use the data hitting facebook and google beyond the classic revenues according to a report the u.s. now says that's unfair because those new rules will be designed specifically to tax big american corporations it only would affect companies with with at least seventy five million euros in worldwide sales but the facebook scandal has strengthened the e.u.'s hand as it prepares to introduce new data protection laws so it might find itself in a strong position to face down washington in a dispute in front of the w.t. old for example so there's more trouble i

tracking free trade in the face of protectionism the e.u. on bale's plans to push for a quick deal with japan. and singapore. and the thousands of medical tourists who come from afar just to get a piece of germany's health system. a big fizzle and let's do business german police have raided properties linked to three top executives at sports car maker porsche it's part of a fraud probe linked to the diesel emissions scandal investigators search ten sites linked to one porsche board member another member of management and a third person who no longer works for the company resigned by fox five which twenty fifteen admitted to using cheating software and diesel engines to possibly sions tests let's go straight over to frankfurt where our financial correspondent dan to cope is standing by daniel did they find what they were looking for but we don't know exactly what they were looking for but this razor was happening this morning at around ten am is different to other raids that we have seen in the past it seems that for the first time management

would give up a little and it would fall behind to how the shorts opposes the swift introduction of an e.u. wide bank deposit guarantee scheme after all that could cost german savers a lot of money if a foreign lender goes bankrupt. and a brief while ago i spoke to a washington correspondent costs and fun nominee outside the i.m.f. where the spring meetings and taking place and i asked him how close the e.u. is to being granted that permanent tariff exemption. we're hearing it's still difficult yes to all of shoulders the german finance minister and vice chancellor said he was optimistic that a solution could be found that there would be a permanent exemption for the europeans from those tariffs today sounded a bit more cautious again saying he didn't know if that would happen. by the time the temporary exceptions run out at the end of april so we don't know simply what's going on talks on the way you mentioned the chance of the she will come to washington next week also french president mccrone will be here next week and what the europeans tried to point out all the time is this is an iss

at the moment a lot of a lot of traders are looking to two ways either the e.u. market to continue its supply of pok and other products that the u.s. is in play it was in the tears on and the other is to actually look and look to its domestic markets and perhaps grow those domestic markets as well now the e.u. of course is also under pressure and somehow has to find a way to please both china and the united states if it wants to continue making business with those two sides what are the chinese or asian investors betting on which way will that you go. chinese asian investors at the moment watching this very closely very nervous all around the table days tension abound also their hope there is hope also in that the u.s. will pull back on its terror was a lot of analysts see that these new tariffs are not the one all end all solution for the u.s. in the making of choice trade deficit which is very very white as we all know so there's a lot of pressure going around. as this is going on the rest of asia is going to watch is very closely until it final decision is me u

sad that the european union is not brussels european union is the capital city of various e.u. member states and by that of course he does underline even though hungary associates himself itself as a as a loyal member of international organizations like the european union like the nato promise viktor orbán made it clear through his campaign and through previous years what he wants is a different vision for the european union that's also influenced by the vicious states a vision that gives more solvent t. and more is saying of each member state also for example when it comes to the e.u. refugee quota system with victor or likely to secure a third term in office work take a closer look at the hungarian prime minister once called the most dangerous man in the e.u. . he's been called a strongman a bully and even a dictator his supporters see him as a defender against waves of invading migrants. and meddling in you he may be divisive but viktor orbán is poised not only to win hungary's elections but to strengthen his power. born and raised in western hungary or of and was one of th

wanted part of the problem with the e.u. and all the organizations you know the g seven the g twenty you name it they make rules for the rest of us but we're not at the table when those rules have been made so whenever there is a need to sort of watching and waiting with bated breath to find out what new world or. what are we going to have after this that we have to comply because there's a lot of fear in going on living with you think the cambridge analytical story was a smear against your government i mean this video footage of a opposition politician apparently being caught in a million dollars sting hurdle trump always says everything came originally because being complained about is based probably is where we have a smear against you i think it is a smear but of course is what we call dirty tricks in politics frankly i don't know if it was cambridge analytical but a similar effort was made in addition to me so the picture of you with i think julian assange is lawyer yes i did time i didn't even know that he represented j

that we can improve upon the money all phone con on the issue of trade machall got no assurances that the trump would continue to exempt the e.u. from steel and aluminum tired of states instead trump bemoaned the u.s. trade deficit with the european union. it's been unfair and i don't blame the chancellor and i don't blame germany i don't even blame the european union i blame the people that preceded me for allowing this to happen. there's no way we should have a trade deficit of one hundred fifty one billion dollars mean on nato spending trump revived an old grievance with europe and we're protecting europe and yet we pay by far more than anybody else and nato is wonderful but it helps europe more than it helps us and why are we paying the vast majority of the costs thank you very much everybody even know macro's meeting with trump lasted only a few hours it followed a three day visit by french president and money will not com neither leader was able to get trump to change course on iran or trade it's a sign transatlantic ties could remain troubled. joining me to discuss this further is d.w. political correspondent simon youn

of boston. hungry uses the e.u. cash to give tax breaks to foreign investors which also boost the economy and creates jobs. for more i'm joined by american car parties a journalist covering eastern european countries and he joins me from warsaw. is prime minister viktor orban right when he claims all the credit for hungary's recent economic development. well absolutely not i mean we have to say that hungary's economy is doing pretty well would be foolish to not admit that but we have to look at the situation as a whole ten years ago as we saw in the film right there. hungary's g.d.p. growth was minus there was a recession. and now they're recovering and they have been recovering for a couple of years now so it's a good development in the sense that there is a healthy g.d.p. growth and kicked off of under this government they really as we just saw also they are managing to get foreign investment into the country while at the same time doing some protectionist policies as well i mean i went to the northern hungary and

as leader of an e.u. country his nationalist views clashed with the blocs liberal ideals but all the band insists that his criticism of the. european union was directed at brussels and not the member countries. go over and if you win this election will you make your peace with the. member of the loyal member of the international organization and you have standing on the basis of the interest of our country because we love our country and we are fighting for the future of our country hungary has been one of the biggest recipients of the e.u.'s development funds and critics accuse or band of biting the hand that feeds him was nationalism on the rise in central europe a clear win for or banned could mean for their losses for the european union. is funny if a char is in budapest and joins us from the venue where the fidesz party is waiting to hear today's results funny hungry allows campaigning to continue even on election day what's that this is message to voters been today that's quite special actually that