all around europe people have been attending true europe rallies in berlin they are held here at the marked the cellist album get a hot plate at one of the rallies and decided on the spot that he had to do more. than. hi and welcome back to sara's music europe is experiencing some turbulent times right now and we're often being confronted by the possibility of a divided europe a group of classical musicians a so appalled by this idea that they have joined together to show their support for a united europe in the best way they know how with music i'm very proud to be part of this group. today at the ready to stay member lin the newly formed musicians for united europe group are playing their first concert to raise funds. the pulse of europe initiative. is. that. it's fantastic that everyone's made it here today it's really important i mean you just told me you come from yugoslavia so well i'm a real x. he was so my mom is question that is serbian and i was changing usa in germany so i really know what it is to have a country and to lose it and to not be able to do anything about it i

i have always fought for europe. i have sometimes suffered with europe and agonized over europe. sinve been through sick and with the european union's. thin with the european union. never have i lost my love for the european union. as we all know, there is no love without disappointment. europe, i mean what i say, because the european union has achieved so much in this divided world. inward and outward peace, prosperity, not for all, but still for many. in 2018, we should consider what it means to have a european union of cultural heritage and celebrate our diversity. these three principles, freedom, equality of opportunity, and rule of law have to remain the foundation of our ever stronger and ever more united and more democratic union. for the people of europe, but they are looking for is not new treaties or institutions. they are a means to an end. stitch is, treaties are perhaps of interest to us -- new institutions and treaties are perhaps of interest to us here in strasburg. one day, there will be treaty change, but the busy ourselves means first and foremost that we have t

at the time of the bill it was clear to everybody that we had to protect europe from the rest of europe because security was not a topic and they going to going to feel economy might have been already knew where to go and wanted to catch up with the united states what you would be on the european project. if you want to get online and was the mission of. the who wanted to bring back the threads only of a continent that had been a split by two world wars that it's a vital stakes are still very rare look up everything but. the protection behind which europe could cross by i have to spit in what appeared to get a. globalization has come over it like a storm. and the ideas that seem to be preferred solution unless you don't have a reson nationalisms protection as the sovereign. fifty dollars idea yet have would be if you were. in the start a disastrous wars and crises that could have what have destroyed europe will have risen again because of the fear of the citizens you know that we have ignored for too long a mic who we thought for too long with you know past would never come back to us a

i don't want it to be the united states of europe. will it be a multispeed europe? it is already. it could go to all sorts of different levels, on all sorts of different issues, whether it be freedom of movement or whether it be schengen, whether it be, um, fiscal consolidation. to a larger sense it is already. you could have sorts of different groupings and different platforms — what a confusing mess it would be. well, with all respect, i hope we will be able to call this country, in the future forever and ever, the united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland. but i see here, too, very vigorous signals of fragmentation and of profound differences of opinion as to the identity, as to be idea of what the uk should be relative to europe. so this is a much wider problem which does not simply concern the european union. look, president trump, when he was elected, he almost explicitly set out to destroy european integration. you think? you think that was a motive for his? he largely said so he invited 0rban, farage. and his advisers said, well, one predecessor of ours, preside

will it be a multispeed europe? of europe. i don't want it to be.lready. i mean, it got several speeds but it could go to all sorts of different levels, on all sorts of different issues, without freedom of movement or the schengen zone or fiscal consolidation. in a larger senseit fiscal consolidation. in a larger sense it is already. you could have four different sorts of grouping that platforms and what a confusing mess it would be. with all respect, i hope it will be able to call this country in the future forever and ever the united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland. but i see here, also, very vigorous signals fragmentation and off profound differences of opinion as to the identity, as to be idea of what the uk should be relative to europe. so this is a much wider problem which does not simply concern the european union. look, president trump, when he was a late did, he almost explicitly set out to destroy european integration. do you think? do you think it was a motive for this? he actually said so and he invited nigel farage and his

the europe we know is too weak to slow and too inefficient but only europe and europe alone can give us the capacity to act against the big challenges we face now. flanked by french and european flags he said europe needed to relaunch itself with greater cooperation on issues including asylum seekers border protection and intelligence. what's missing in europe today particularly with regard to defense it is a common strategic culture in our incapacity to act together in a convincing manner puts our credibility in question. as well as strategic issues he also called for the creation of a transnational agency to foster european innovation financial stability and corporate tax were also in areas where he said much deeper cooperation was needed. for you to. instead of concentrating all our energy on our internal divisions as we've been doing now for far too long instead of losing our way in arguments in a european civil war arguing about budgets finances politics or whatever we need to consider how to build a europe that strong. but at a time when tensions between eastern and western eur

the europe we know is too weak to slow and too inefficient but only europe and europe alone can give us the capacity to act against the big challenges we face now. flanked by french and european flags he said europe needed to relaunch itself with greater cooperation on issues including asylum seekers border protection and intelligence. what's missing in europe today with regard to defense it is a common strategic culture in our incapacity to act together in a convincing manner puts our credibility in question. as well as to teach it issues he also called for the creation of a transnational agency to foster european innovation financial stability and corporate tax were also in areas where he said much deeper cooperation was needed. for you. instead of concentrating all our energy on our internal divisions as we've been doing now for far too long instead of losing our way in arguments in a european civil war arguing about budgets finances politics or whatever we need to consider how to build a europe that strong. but at a time when tensions between eastern and western europe are stress

and europe. we had pushed for that as you know but for a variety of reasons it didn't come together and that just allowed space for those who didn't want to deal to get out of the way. i think the biggest, the thing that my heart still believes -- believed about was -- my heart still bleeds about syria. as you know i was spokesperson of the state department in the first obama term under secretary clinton and i had to from the state department podium every day in 11 and 12 get up and justify what was going on, and i am certainly on the team that thinks that we should have done more in 2011 to we should have 2014. done more together with your and -- with europe and we might have prevented the refugee crisis. a whole bunch of dominoes fell but most importantly it matters to us in the transatlantic community that the middle east has a chance to organize itself liberally. and its citizens in the middle east have right to have a say in how they are governed and have opportunities that we have. it is no

i have always fought for europe. i have sometimes suffered with europe and agonized over europe. i have been through thick and thin with the european union and never have i lost my love for the european union. as we all know, there is no love without disappointment, or very rarely. love for europe, i mean what i say, because the european union has achieved so much in this divided world. inward and outward peace, prosperity. not for all but still for many. in 2018 we should consider what it means to have the european year of cultural heritage and celebrate our cultural diversity. these three principles, freedom, equality of opportunity and rule of law have to remain the foundation of our ever stronger and ever more united and more democratic union. for the people of europe, what they are looking for is not new treaties, new institutions. there are means to an end. new institutions, new treaties are perhaps of interest to us in brussels. elsewhere people don't care to whom. i'm only interested in institutional reform if it gives us a more efficient union. one day there will be trea

of europe. i'm not sure exactly what macron thanks of poland, but i can see that he seems to want to replicate his message for confronting french populace on the national stage. what he did was really confronting the national front and by pushing against her in the second round which had never happened before and by really demonstrating that she was mistaken, going .5. and by also putting forward a very positive pro- european message, once again of european price that nobody had done before and that seems to have worked.. he wants to replicate that so he seems to be doing that on the moment at the european stage.astic, it's fantastic, it's very impressive, he is very charismatic but i think there is a risk there and it's a risk that i call the obama trap. that is believing that because your election was sot symbolic, because it was so strong and so powerful that your words will really be meaningful to other people and that you will, by your own charisma have people follow you in the direction yo

what did they say europe was like? you have only ever heard good things about libya and europe?etely good. towards the end of our conversation, the mood changed. it's pretty obvious that everyone‘s confused about what's going on. they seem to have been briefed by the people who run this place, so we have to be careful what we say, because he is standing just behind us. they all seem to be in a bad way and they have no idea what will happen next. shall we leave our water? very weird situation. the most amazing thing about it is how little they seem to know about the journey ahead of them. none of them seemed to have any idea about libya and the horrors await them. they all have this idea that europe is an unbelievably welcoming place where everyone will accept them and they will be given a beautiful life. sadly, none of those are entirely true. later that day, we hear that the migrants we just met are leaving for libya across the desert. to avoid detection, the smuggler sends them out of town alone. he will meet them at nightfall. we arrange to be there too. crossing the sahara w

so, i think she is quite weakened and that means something for europe, more than just germany.nd a loss of their culture is notjust about immigration and foreigners coming in, it is also about the decline of the old communities, the industrialisation, it is about what has happened all over europe for economic and political reasons and notjust because of foreigners coming in. germany had been thought to be a country that had kind of got the balance right. that it had had a sense of confidence about its social system, that people felt there was a german identity and leaving aside the nationalism question, they were comfortable with the way germany functioned, has that changed? in general, that is true but as we see with the result of afd, this is very much a western german phenomenon. they do not see this in the east. cultural and economic reasons, but in germany it's the historic reasons as well, the fall of communism. people in the east who are like the left behinds of the north of england are the equivalent of east germans. people who could not manage the transition to the cap

europe has a lot to lose and to gain in. only a need to balance between literati security and independence is an important point and when you're in a minute. by one digital transformation the sacredness of it and yet this one all evolution needs a radical innovation in america we need to have digital chairman islands and with industry and research money this is what i can also like to apply and friend. it was because our economies cannot continue to build themselves as if they were protected and in any cut from the rest of the world every new that's the way it is and the digital revolution is a revolution of talents you have to attract more of. and this is also the sense of our action no. prime minister and arm of minister of innovation in. and education and are fighting this fight in the government. also needs this kind of a. i don't want to enter and do this only revolution and to create a national coming to twenty european. united states. and for that. with a human you know little of opportunity to. benefit from no. divis

he says europe is currently being prepared to hand its territory over to a new mixed islamised europeristianisation of europe. this is really about keeping muslims out. no, we are christian country. a christian democratic government. if you are a christian and christian democratic you must not be anti—anything, so we are not against anyone. but you are anti—muslim, really. no, no, no, we are not anti anything. we have a muslim community in hungary. not big because of historic reasons, but they are very successful and very respected members of our society. but if you look back at the last two to three years, the challenges ahead of the european union, you see that illegal migration posed an enormous security threat on europe and you see the consequences. the terrorist attacks and the threat of terror and the serious security situation there in europe. and we are responsible for our own countries, the security of our own country, and we would not like to see again those scenes that happened in 2015, when hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants occupied our public areas and i think tha

is europe the only place to go in a way >> europe seems the value place it has not performed, the valuations are attractive. the problem is the strong currency if the dollar starts to stabilize, emerging markets, which have had an amazing run, we would expect them to start to pull back and people may look at europe rather than emerging markets. that's the pivot, should you be in emerging markets or europe when you look outside of the u.s. >> nick, thank you very much for those thoughts nick nelson who likes banks in europe and downgrades pharma to neutral. nick nelson from ubs. >>> coming up on the show, insurance company prepared for irma's impact. we have the latest on the deadly disaster hitting the caribbean coming up on "street signs." thankfully, the breakthrough in prevagen helps your brain and actually improves memory. the secret is an ingredient originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. the name to remember. chances are, the last time yoyou got robbed.an, i know-- i got a loan 20 years ago, and i got ro

i am a strong believer in europe.ction campaign, a lot of people told me "you're crazy. you are pro-european and you think you can win in france defending europe?" i did believe it was feasible, and it is feasible, because people understand we need europe in this current environment, because we have european values, and now, the challenge is how with the united states and china. that is not the case today. the weakness of europe is the lack of ambition. of -- during the past decade, trying to fix crisis at the very last minute without any perspective. is the relevant scale in order to deal with energy, and european single emerging markets. it is critical. we have french leaders and european leaders and europe has to be stronger in the sector. ,t is the same for digital security, defense, and investment and economy. what does it mean? fix the objectives for europe, and we have to decisionse investment in order to reach this objective. change have to treatment, but we need these new ambitions because for my eight genera

we want to help central europe.ation between the european union and russia, the us and russia. we see this is not the case now. we see that the direction we are going is not bat direction. so we have to understand that currently the situation is very bad. there is a lack of trust. you wouldn't use the word antagonistic to describe russia? i don't want to comment on the words of boris. it is a totally different situation to be a foreign minister of the uk and being the foreign minister of a small central european country. what i can tell you is that we are pretty much concerned about the situation and concerned about the situation and concerned about the relationship between the east and west and we hope it will improve in the future stock white in 2014, viktor 0rban said, i don't think our eu membership precludes us from building and a liberal new state based on national foundations building and a liberal new state based on nationalfoundations —— illiberal. are these actions putting forward a position where you may

and she tells them that much of what they've been told about life in europe is misleading. i was young voters are here. you have hear of this. i mean you know if you already have brought the census i feel. the assembled girls then get a first hand example of the dangers that potentially await them courtesy of camilla . the story she tells is not sanitizing it's one of beatings and a brutal exploitation. must live with. every night live. to save. fifty think it's only. because she tells us how hard it was to begin talking to school girls about her experience. says. the first times were especially difficult things like that old like taking things like that but it's a time goes on when i want to hear them i would like to find the summary of those three four month old us. sister bianna has more than ten years experience working with victims of forced prostitution. she's grateful for women like camilla who has overcome her own fears to help other young women avoid a similar fate. pattern admire her cordons help goodness. and. sorry. but you don't know what's in the world as to w

the french president paints a sweeping vision of europe he wants member states to share more or less depends if they do campbell. another politically tricky project a new european rail champion in the works across the border merger worth billions and what do dying bees in romania have to do with europe's mass recovery they want us to go. to school and let's do business. cause europe speech has drawn mixed reaction from germany the french president says the eurozone needs a joint budget and harmonize taxes to stay globally relevant he argues that would also reduce inequalities across the block but one has laid out his proposals for european reform just as the german political elite attempts the daunting and drawn out task of building a coalition government he's hoping his ideas will have more influence that way one of the potential coalition linchpins other pro business free democrats they've rejected macaws call to create a joint eurozone budget and f.t.p. official says the problem is in europe is not a lack of public funds but the lack of reform in the euro zone budget would set exa

that would be an issue in europe.t like markets over concerned with populism last year, markets might be getting overly optimistic given the french election. europe, there are issues that sovereigntymuch countries it should have versus how much commonality they should have. robert: it is a little complicated but if you look at it between the u.s. and europe, when they created the euro out of nothing, they created the tremendous fiscal process that they immediately violated. what has happened with the financial crisis and euro crisis is they have really regrouped. and so, at first they wanted to drive the private sector involvement, and that was obviously a disaster. instead they tightened the fiscal restraints and the processes for approval of budgets. they began to make examples out of individual countries when the eurozone was acting in a position of strength. an example of that is cyprus where basically, they restructured the banking sector and took money out of deposits to right the situation. how does this matter

talking about integration in europe. >> this is what europe needs.genda out there. italy is working hard with other countries, france, germany, spain, to develop an agenda and push it forward. president macron will be speaking later today. susan collins punctured any remaining gop hopes of repealing obamacare anytime soon. dealing a fatal blow by rejecting the last republican health care bill. the main senator became the third two oppose the measure. hillary clinton is on her media tour promoting her book, what happened. there is one huge problem that is a combination of a reality tv campaign, the role that the russians played. things that have never happened before. we weren't prepared. now we have to be prepared. losing, helped prepare, the dutch, french, the germans, to defend themselves against some of the same forces. taylor: you can see the entire interview with charlie rose tonight. 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. eastern in the u.s. the top. in front of congress today following the agency's disclosure that it was the victim of a cyber hack. government cyb

let's talk about what he said so far he's talking about europe with greater cooperation at all sorts of levels how's the housing talking about getting that well we just heard the french president and i really remembered how he got there to be the french president because he really sad he wants to get back to the roots he wants to get europe back to the roots and in his understanding he means he has to europe has to get back to the european citizens and that there is no more europe policy is behind closed doors so he was really underlining that there is a strong need for the european union if that is the european union wants to move forward then they have to keep the citizens and not to lose them on their way so he wants a public debate he wants to trigger really a sort of democratic conventions a public debate open for european citizens to discuss because he underlined today we have a europe it's not a post war scenario we are and europe are citizens they are used to have their say and he wants to give the the set more say to the european citizens in order to rebuild europe with them

europe's biggest budget airline cancels two thousand flights it's affecting hundreds of thousands of passengers ryanair says it doesn't have enough highlights to cover holiday leave but what are your rights as a traveler this is inside story. hello again welcome to the program with me peter dopy the cost of purchasing cheap tickets on low cost carriers has proven costly for hundreds of thousands of passengers ryanair europe's biggest budget airline recently canceled some two thousand flights the company says the decision was because of a shuttling blunder among its pilots and cabin crew well as you can imagine that decision spot immediate outrage from frustrated passengers the c.e.o. michael o'leary was forced to apologize saying ryanair quote messed up to make matters worse travel insurance companies have told many of the travelers that hotel and car rental cancellations will not be covered is some of what ryanair passengers had to say. every year i'm not going to five the mechanics of the right i change the style and the conditions the paying conditions and i relate but then of cou

few weeks, after it was found in eggs being sold across europe.ow the pesticide has destroyed not only costel's bees, but also his livelihood. >> millions of bees used to collect pollen here. but two years ago, all the buzzing activity around beekeeper costel gresala fell silent. >> take a look. all the bees are dead. all because of this chemical they sprayed on the fields. my entire busine is destroyed. at some point i'll have to burn everything down. >> in spring 2015, wheat fields here were sprayed with the insecticide fiprocid to kill ticks. its use near domestic animals was already banned at that time. people in e viage of iest in e ofastern romania's poorest regions, were not even informed, says greschala. >> it waa disaster for us beekeers. we were robbed of our livelihood. a beekeeper can't exist without bees. these gentlemen caused an ecological disaster here. they didn't think about the people, nor the animals, nor us. all they're inrested in is money. and they can't get enough of it! >> costel greschala lost 24 beehives and with them hi

we toughened our sanctions to equal europe. i still tell you that you're going to hear accounts, we can't do this, we can't do this. then after we all do it, they take credit for saying we finally got unity and we are making a difference. it takes leadership. it takes leadership to make this work. the stakes could never be higher in what russia is doing today. you're going to be the key person because you're going to get -- you're going to be the conduit to all of the different embassies in europe. and you're going to have ambassadors who are not going to want to be bothered with another thing on their plate, and yet i don't know of a higher priority than what russia is doing against our interests in getting an effective way for our sanctions to work. my last point would be, we expect you to work very closely with this committee on this issue. this is not a partisan issue, as you know. this is clearly an overwhelming support. we need your commitment that you'll work with us and keep us informed as to the progress we're making w

few weeks, after it was found in eggs being sold across europe.ow the pesticide has destroyed not only costel's bees, but also his livelihood. >> millions of bees used to collect pollen here. but two years ago, all the buzzing activity around beekeeper costel gresala fell silent. >> take a look. all the bees are dead. all because of this chemical they sprayed on the fields. my entire business is destroyed. at some point i'll have to burn everything down. >> in springng 2015, w wheat fs here were sprayed withth the insecticide fiprocid to kill ticks. its use near domestic animals was already banned at that time. people in the village of puiesti, in one of eastern romania's poorest regions, were not even informed, says greschala. >> it was a disaster for us beekeepers. we were robbed of our livelihood. a beekeeper can't exist without bees. these gentlemen caused an ecologicalal disaster here. they didn't think about the people, nor the animals, nor us. all they're interested in is money. and they can't get enough of it! >> costel grgreschala lolost

you know that would help europe.that would be a big win for those who want to europe to fall apart. the ideas the u.s. will not do a deal with the eu and instead will pursue deals with the country that would draw from the eu. what is our current position? are you going to be asked to negotiate a bilateral trade agreement with great britain? should they withdraw or are you going to be asked to negotiate a bilateral trade agreement with european union? >> this is a very important issue and i've been on the record in the past strongly in support of robust transatlantic trade agenda. the relationship we have with united kingdom is a very old and special relationship. this is a relationship that is strategic terms is economically our largest single source of foreign direct investment a conduit for a major swath of our trade with europe and i think our priority is to ensure an amicable divorce. arab goal is to see that we in the process of wrecks it with a strong strategic and economic relationship with eu and the uk. pres

or china none are from europe. tiny a stone you know is trying to change that its capital city tommy might have a medieval face but it's got a digital heart and. this is how it's don't you know worse everybody has a card to access public services online but credit history real estate ownership child benefits it's all there declaring taxes takes three minutes on the company takes twenty thanks to the digital society there's very little red tape. when you don't have to do the mission things you actually have more time for some added value things like believe the government should change and use more technology so they can be more efficient. this way the government also knows more about its citizens to many in europe this idea of an all. knowing state is a big worry they're concerned here though is that the rest of the e.u. is lagging so far behind when it comes to digital. i think the case is certainly not lost for europe but if you see the big numbers the big numbers of who is good who is investing in the latest tec

the future of europe? abe's advantage. he holds a commanding lead in the polls as investors await confirmation of a snap election. he speaks at 10:00 a.m. london time this morning. buy ge industry solutions, $2.6 billion. abb shares open around 30 minutes. matt: we are 30 minutes away from the european open. let's take a look at futures. equity index futures a little bit weaker this morning, this could be concerned about green policy in the german government, probably unlikely or if it is, will have a very small effect on the german and french automakers . we do see a little bit of weakness this morning and equity index futures. what are you seeing on the gmm? guy: we are seeing the euro a bit weaker. the coverage continues post the closing of the polls. it is interesting to see that coming out. we got another election we should talk about. the markets thing attention, the new zealand markets trading higher. the new zealand dollars trading down. the nikkei is trading higher as confirmation of this snap poll. we have got th

work out that way. >> host: did they basically divide europe amongst themselves? >> guest: i think it's probably -- >> host: like churchill did the middle east. >> guest: it's a little but of an oversimplification, but there is a way of talking bit it in those ways. at the same time, what fdr and churchill said to stalin, look, with regard to eastern and central europe, we want free and open elections so the people can decide which way they're going to go. so we'll do that. >> host: so you say that began the cold war. >> guest: right. >> host: how did it develop. >> guest: developed because in a short order, within a year, truman realized that stalin was not going to keep his word, that the red army had invaded and was now setting in poland, hung hungary, check check, and the rest of the countries and he said almost publicly, i'm tired of babying the soviets. what was needed was position taken from strength, position taken from a commitment for freedom and the opportunity for the people of central and eastern europe to pick their own futures. they entailed definit

europe iseakness in the lack of ambition.e had a daily business approach, trying to fix crises at the last minute without perspective on any project. scale.is the relevant energy, to deal with and i do promote european single energy market -- we have french leaders, european leaders, and europe has to be stronger. a simple digital security defense. investment and economy. what does it mean? we have to fix the 10-year objective for europe. we have to decide some convergences and investment decisions in order to reach this objectives. we need new ambitions. from my generation there is one alternative. do we want the dismantling of europe, and it is an ongoing process. now it is all about brexit and border tension regarding flow in europe. in a few months or years you will have all of the countries suddenly raising and say i'm not comfortable with this bureaucracy and europe without vision, just constraints. we need more vision, less bureaucracy, tenure objectives, and a natural process. that next week. we need to see ambition.

they want an end to austerity in europe.omething more along the lines ideologically of emmanuel and to say that without the eu reforms, we could see the rise of the extremes. had to face marine le pen and france and now angela merkel has to deal with the far right-wing in germany. what kind of proposals are we expecting from macron? merkel going to have to take back to her coalition partners after this speech? caroline: you remember yesterday, merkel said it was too early to say what will work and what will not work, so macron in his speech today will have to tone it down and focus on the vision rather than specific proposals and focus on other subjects like immigration, defense, invasion. we expect about 10 proposals in the speech today, including european agency for innovation, exchange program, more cooperation on terrorism and finally, one idea macron is attached to, this new tax on internet giants such as apple or google. one thing he could put forward is this idea of europe at two differentspeeds, two formats, those wh