the second is physical reconstruction of europe and the third is cultural reconstruction of europe. the outpouring of u.s. relief and development helped provide a measure of stability. it created a precedent what happened after world war ii. i can talk about this afterwards. the personnel involved in world war i go want to be heavily involved in post-world war ii u.s. and united nations development aid. culturalorged a connection between europe and the united states that continues today. spring of 1919 was a busy time in europe's capital cities. while woodrow wilson and his advisers met in paris with other world leaders to determine the postwar political future of europe, the populations of several european countries faced crippling food shortages. concern over the possibility of revolution eight activity -- a post revolutionary activity, wilson appointed kind of aover to be food are for europe -- a for europe and part of the reason he was chosen is that he had been running a program in belgium from 1914-1918, feeding roughly 19 million belgians and some inhabitants of northern fran

europe and the greeks they will start to react. the greek train company ois he told us they couldn't move goods for $75.00 days costing them $1000000.00 he lost shipping. i think you domine is the best metaphor for what's happening in europe today in the sense that people are refugees who are fleeing from war and from war zones such as syria but also going to stand in iraq became a problem why because we're at the train track and they were blocking the train trip. so it became a problem for for the for peroration for also other countries not only greece because this way was blocked so on the one can what you can see is. refugees don't have the right to move freely on the other goods can move freely as far and as much as they want. but greece is subject to forces beyond its control. to global financial crash reveals that greece has taken out a mountain of loans from european banks. at the urging of european leaders europe's financial institutions gave greece the biggest loan in history. and most of that money flowed straight back to

europe could dare to be so much more a united states of europe with a common fiscal policy and wage equality. but many want the opposite and are happy to see paul europa carried away. a normal t. shirt can easily travel 20000 kilometers before ending up in a shop but it doesn't have to be their way from start to finish my home grown homemade fully european t. shirt on the travel a fraction of that my 1st stop was a new back germany. sandys to law runs a chain of clothing shops but he rejects the basic principles of the fast fashion industry. faster cheaper ever greater volumes that is not what he is interested in . the most important thing for me is that nobody gets exploited and that we protect the environment we only have this one world who they are going to the end of the. in order to reach isn't bush's goals he follows a strict policy. there are many sustainable fashion brands but we differ from most of them in that we try to do things entirely within europe from the raw materials to the finished article we aim to do it all within our region and by value i mean the european union. to. fa

it's very hard to tell intrapreneur from any african continent that europe is bad yeah europe has its pros and cons as every other continent but still these entrepreneurs they want to grow they want to access bigger markers they want also to have a better social life and to gain. international experience. talking about international experience certainly has plenty of it he's only 33 years old but his c.v. is longer than many twice his age as a child he traveled a lot with his parents and that left its mark on him to begin with he became a jet pilot for the american army. then he moved to south korea to work in space research. he later headed up large construction projects in japan indonesia qatar and canada before managing business in the middle east for a german company. it's a matter of if you want something badly you. just have to educate yourself right now like knowledge is everybody has access to the internet even in african countries so you have to have to educate yourself and you have to go after opportunities that kind of spirit certainly fits well with portugal a country that

voice in europe we think we can deal better with our problems if that's the case and that europe will listen better to our own circumstances. also to a certain extent it's difficult to work with somebody in madrid like mr were a again minister of foreign affairs pain who's trying to block our action who is somebody undiplomatic as to say something like russia is our old enemy things like that i think that is out there we don't wonder if the iraqi minister is coming to go you can always encounter difficult personalities whether they come from your country or from somebody else might become the representative of foreign affairs in europe exactly what we're talking about that now that i mean that even if you were independent he would still be in that position if he gets his way. who would want to be represented by somebody like that who would want to live in a place where your leaders are put in jail because they organized the vote so we're saying is we want a catalan republic because we think it would be fair to our people we think that we would be free to take our own decisions we thin

philip lambert skews to him of being drunk on power and said you don't shape europe by bullying europe. shoot europe by building alliances this is what we saw in in previous decades but a very lively you rock well listen to on the your world stage it was so obvious that we were when en that we were united an official come on you all know united on russia policy on russia well for instance our policy and russia look at the normandy form and summit that we had in paris a few weeks ago what did we get to we defended ukraine's rights we favored an exchange of prisoners which had not taken place for months and needs and we are fully in line with the your property and position on ukraine crimea i don't buy that on the rest just the council on foreign relations as a lot of people claims the sumac and didn't even inform them ahead of time when he sent his foreign and defense ministers to moscow last september seem to be part of an emerging pattern of unilateral actions you say the same one angle america all good to moscow to meet with a blood in your putin no they are playing their role france

europe doesn't pay for its defense so don't trump is right about that and has other priorities than europe understandable to so and so the the warsaw pact to be at it is this appeared in the ninety's i mean why still keep nato so of course hold the military in the national armies composing nato in europe there are salivating at the idea of the shopping list that they're going to give to work in germany for example to a k k 2 on the minister of defense new minister of defense germany is accepted again in poland and presence of the of my can pay off for example that is accepted again to pay 2 percent and it will be in a few years that they have reached up level so there will be a huge improvement of european defense potentially wherever it is as you say africa is very important for the moment i mean the french are fighting nearly alone there in mali for the moment with some help but the trickle from the u.k. from belgium from all the armies so the hope is that if europe wants to improve its defense it will not be by looking at russia as an enemy and the letter sent by president putin could w

our french army to the german that has been agenda since the beginning their big idea is to think europe and to kind of congregate everyone in this type of imperial europe they have as an idea a kind of napoleon type of and and this is a very big challenge for us french because that would mean obviously losing our army losing our sovereignty so he is using this nato this nato thing which is right to have he has a hidden agenda if i could say which is to bind our army with the german army and this is something us the french have to look after because losing our army means losing our sovereignty means losing our identity so i think we're probably going to come back in the 2nd part on what is the real combat today it's not communism any more we'll know what the civilization issue is and obviously nato is not the one up for it so that's my point of view on that i would say with a lot of market in oxford but i would make the argument that all 27 from united states being the 28 member of nato their sovereignty is compromised as well and if you look at public opinion polls it's been pretty. tre

is europe prepared to contemplate that?f going back to wto, that's an old machine, the wto. it was invented before the internet was invented. so i don't think the simple wto rules are sufficient to organise the trade relations between britain and the european countries. with respect, mrjunker, your successor as the president of the commission, ursula von der leyen, she says it's going to be very difficult, highly unlikely, that a deal will be done by the end of 2020. so what's going to happen? knowing the technical difficulties we're facing, i think she's right. it's not for sure we will be able, both the british and the european union, to conclude a full—fledged deal before the end of the deal and borisjohnson has the choice before the end of the year and borisjohnson has the choice from now untiljune to either ask for a longer period or to try to assist in his wish to conclude a deal before the end of the year. if it is possible, it is fine, but if it is not possible, if we are left with unclear rules that people don't un

you clearly wanted more europe.|j the collect of european libido. you clearly wanted more europe.t you are not going to get it, and that's my point and this may be that watershed moment and beyond the watershed is an eu that is slowly drifts and falls apart. i don't think that the european union is on the way to fall apart. what i've noted after brexit was this determination of so many europeans to stand together. the approval of the european union is such that increasingly... mr juncker, you can quote me all the polls you like. look at the reality of the politicians. dot. i'm not a fan of opinion polls. look at the politicians in poland, in hungary, mr0rban, for example, politicians in poland, in hungary, mr 0rban, for example, who says i am ina mr 0rban, for example, who says i am in a liberal democrat and i will not allow brussels to dictate what i do. this is the reality, these other successful politicians. it depends on the point of view. what i don't understand your explanation on the ones i must give, it's not seen that the european union has changed, we have less regulatio

and also inside europe. they are linked because our citizens need to be convinced that we are up to the task. our nation, but the european union. we have built the most important regional market, which is something of an incredible value for our economy, but also for businesses. we have succeeded to have a common european currency. we have started a new monetary union. to -- toucceeded extend the european union to countries which had suffered from soviet domination. those are incredible successes. we have resisted the financial crisis. some extremely powerful mechanisms of financial solidarity to face this financial crisis. we succeeded in getting breakthroughs in the building up of the economy. now we have these tests. we are in this new world. there is a number of global giveenges which we have to answers to. course if the technological revolution. migration, security, foreign policy, and the economic union. say a word on at least one of them. the relation with the united states. france and germany in diff

the europe that emerged from the european commission was a completely different europe then the europe of lisbon. everything has changed over time, including the narrative or the sense of purpose. the european commission was designed to reconstruct europe and contain and constrain the potential for german power. if you compare that to, shall we say the mission statement of today, would be completely different than the mission statement the mission statement of today would be the world has altered the balance. we need all our collective strengths in order to stand our ground on our interests and values. if you look at that, it is also true that the past 11 years have been much impacted by first the your crisis and then the migration crisis, and exit, all of which has made and brexit, which has made europe introspective. the euro crisis and the migration crisis is evident in the populist movement, but also the paradox that both crises have led to loss of confidence, but at the same time, they have strengthened the governance structures which existed and which have been shored up as a con

trending is there do you know more and more people in western europe in the united states have doubts about you know having a collective security treaty organization for a countries that are so far away and that what you always france in the u.k. in the united states want to get into a military conflict over you know a country like. stonier i mean is that something people are interested in poll say people aren't go ahead mark well i think this is always the problem with a large alliance that you find that the fringe areas the border areas are remote from centers of population centers of contribution by the british the french are so it's true not just for eastern europe but also for the south if we think about france italy and spain in nato the immediate security threat comes from islamist terrorist groups operating in north africa and perhaps potentially threatening them russia is a long way away we've heard mention of the procurement complex we have to remember that moscow is much. well the from the western border russia an $812.00 than it is today and one of president macros controv

and northeast europe. how do you think china in the context of the european union and the transatlantic relationship where there are great opportunities on the economic and trade front where the chinese have talked greece as a door to the rest of europe and yet at the same time, issues of how to manage solidarity across the atlantic in dealing with china and how to mitigate risks to the critical infrastructure investments, how has this played out for you? how are you managing the opportunity and risks of china in europe? >> with flexibility and dexterity. >> what i mean by that. we have an important economic relationship. they are big investors in our port and we have done a good job in taking over a port that was essentially a nonplayer in the mediterranean and transforming it into the biggest port and cre it lots of jobs and why not become the biggest port in europe. you can't argue with gee oggra if i. it is the natural point for goods coming from eastern asian africa. that's not going to change. it wou

germany is made in europe. when the bad weather and berlin becomes unbearable remember southern europe is not far away you can take a cheap flight anyway so. it's the e.u.i. though. he's. a few hours later and i'm on the beach in follow in the south of portugal i could just stay here for wanted to get a job or start a business but for people who are not you citizens it's much harder the union may be softening internal borders but one is still quite difficult to cross the external border. gazing across the atlantic towards home towards morocco. every child heard from his dad one day that my thoughts on the other side of the see the . pain if you should work really hard in order to conserve it and get to go there. so honestly lara's has made it at least in the eyes of american fathers. he's founded a company here in portugal one which helps other non europeans to do the same. i imagine that's incredibly difficult to move to the e.u. and set up a company all the paperwork must be very confusing if you aren't from

europe, the europe of lisbon. changed overs time, including the narrative, or the sense of purpose. imagine the european commission for steel and coal was designed to reconstruct europe, and contain and constrain the potential for german power. if you compare that to the mission statement of today, it would be completely different. the mission statement for today would be the world has altered, the balance of the world has tilted, and not in favor of the west, and we need all of our collective strength to stand around and to defend our interests and values. that, it isook at also true that the past 11 years have been much impacted. crisis, andfour then the my -- with the euro crisis, and then the migration crisis, and then brexit, all of which has made europe introspective. euro andt the curo -- migration crisis has led to a lot of confidence, but it is a paradox. -- both crisis is have led to the loss of confidence, but at the same time, they have strengthened the government structures that existed and have been

will probably gain points in europe everywhere and he will probably come to a result because this is early 001 proposal of common european defense failed like most of his proposals actually over the last few years they failed miserably and so this one marks exceed one he said that nato was brain dead he had no no substance in the speech really about this but president putin gave him substance that by proposing to discuss by by hand by giving a hand to nato nato had said no we're not interested we can believe in it you can believe in it why don't you discuss it 1st so that's probably what michael is saying this week to worm to the nato general secretary general's stoltenberg who's in paris for that precisely so nato would probably change this this course it's speech about. the russia and about the threats that russia could represent ok many many you know that's an interesting point but i mean without you know the russian bogeyman then there's even more doubts about what nato is purposes because the in my mind nato is primary mission is to exist ok that's what they want they have by 10

so what has cause he's saying you're against europe. one question yes how do explain the rise of he'll keep on trying less or nolen your book in europe and i don't i don't know how do you think smart how do you explain the rise of i must mean how do you explain the rise of some reason you know how do you explain that it's a failing over opinion i want to turn yes i'm here. because you are getting the growth of houses across the political spectrum. growth of rejectionism of this model because the model doesn't apply just not me so what do we have then i mean if you have nation states because of nation states borders walls and there isn't this dangerous oh and democracy here but where is the moccasin what is not here. so i'm going on a journey to understand how come the far right claim to be the savior democracy europe. net result one we saw how europe is facilitating gets on colonization privatization the extraction of resources in secret trade deals like the t.t.p. . the nature of the remains is a construction of ultra neo liberal syste

hello and welcome to focus on europe with me lara biloela a single case could bring the pork industry to a grinding halt and cost billions of euros in losses health authorities in eastern europe are trying to fight the spread of african swine fever and are taking drastic measures to do so sometimes even against the will of the farmers if just one animal is infected the whole herd will be culled. well the virus has yet to reach germany but farmers here are very nervous and that's because infected animals have been confirmed just a few kilometers away from the border in poland and so the hunt for wild boars in that region is on a warning for our viewers this report contains graphic images of dead animals. court pluck and bag near is hunting wild boar in germany's east. these hunters in the door some 80 kilometers from the polish border are calling the boar they're seen as a danger potential carriers of african swine fever which is harmless to humans but an existential threat to pig farming. that even these hunters know that alone probably won't be enough to prevent the spread of the dis

of the core of her policy for her europe needs to bring a voyage its voice to wealth and a strong europe so means a strong germany and she wants germany to be instrumental in tackling climate change for example whether germany itself will talk about as home that is to a very most debatable but she also wants germany to have its place on the world stage when it comes to trade for example later on they said it would be the e.u. china us i mean in that i've ceased so america's objective now is to keep germany very much in the game in terms of geopolitics and money well thank you so very much for coming in on this today thank you for staying here in germany media reports indicate a number of suspects have come forward in the case of a zoo fire dozens of animals including some endangered species were killed in the new year's eve blaze in the city of crefeld. people laid flowers and candles for the more than 30 animals that burned to death in the crate over night. in the dead animals are highly endangered apes like around the tans from borneo lowland gorillas from central africa and chimpanzee

to europe that would provoke arrest but most not all want to. joshua made that crossing and spent 6 years in europe before being deported from austria last year his dream was to become a rap artist but he found only hardship and difficulty in europe i can midmorning evil better than the people i live in abroad so i decided to work my morning. go back to my country and establish my talent because i'm a good musician. but you can tell from the drain faces that optimism among many african migrants is in short supply these africa workers do the jobs that they don't want to do they earn just a few dollars a day but it's still more than they can earn in their own countries they often live in basic deprived conditions but even so in some respects they are the lucky ones these migrants are some of the estimated 40000 detained in libya most were arrested trying to cross the mediterranean sea to europe at this center in zawiya west of tripoli there are almost 500 detainees some of whom have been held for 4 years many of applied for political asylum or set

in europe because young leader goblet will not staring. at it when a woman a woman accruals going door to put your arm on them across people showed up early because she has little to look was actually cause why don't you go to shag she got a. you got the t. get over your mouth but i'm going to be nice to get some outta my door so i was it was beyond skin to short to move. how do you explain this success or feel big in 100 year we get up to them on your side when are we going to show up political battle or my good ridiculing 30 some of you young not as i'd year. normally. i'm a big. sure to go when there are side going to live in what your apartment at the wall of the rebound will become about of. course is that you will be actually fellow she just the way you'll be going to you because i would have been long with your mother or so i'm going to. do more your field all automatic assault on us to see that the opposition us thought i mean i don't shock a shochet when i look john i was shocked. i mean mr cheek does any good from benetta mean he

hello and welcome to focus on europe with me. a single case could bring the pork industry to a grinding halt and cost billions of euros in losses health authorities in eastern europe are trying to fight the spread of african swine fever and are taking drastic measures to do so sometimes even against the will of the farmers it's just.

others infected in china malaysia is the latest country to report the virus infections of also reached europe with 3 patients confirmed in france in an effort to contain that spread the chinese government has expanded its travel restrictions they now affect more than 40000000 people scott hylas in beijing he explains the latest steps being taken by china to stop the spreading of the virus. and there were a detail in part this is right in central beijing now this would be normally the 1st day of lunar new year this would normally be very crowded behind me actually there was a fair lunar new year's fair that was planned here and obviously that has been canceled now this is something we're seeing right across china movie theaters shot disinfecting of subway trains on an hourly basis here in the capital beijing we know in shanghai they've closed the movie theaters and festivities that would normally really be crowded this time of year that's the big big celebration here in china those have all been shut down obviously worried about some people that might be infected by this corner virus but have

hugh: it is tricky in europe.g about the completion of the banking uni on, and there seems to be so many hurdles to getting that through. for european companies, the merge is proving to be really hard. for european value to outperform, you need to see a cyclical upswing in global growth, and pushing back into 2017 type of scenario where inflation takes hold. matt: what do you make of blackrock's commitment to sustainable investment, and esd general?l -- esg in is this a move that will help? hugh: it absolutely has to be. the esg investment focus will be at the forefront of 2020. there has been a shift over the last 12 to 18 months, where a couple of years ago it felt like my client whereas now conversations are about the need to focus on esg aggressively. that is the case of the underlying investment preferences. their clients are demanding more options, but also the changes we are seeing in consumer demand. take a single use plastic producer as an example. five years ago that could have been profitable, but when

well they remind us of visits that we have made to europe.and what will be different we are not we're not only interested in english things i imagine things will close down and it will be you know it'll be a smaller. less interesting dynamic environment which recognize the coffee. kind of all know a course of honor calls upon. the coffee house was established by christiane nic he's been living in britain for 24 years he was deeply disappointed by the brics it felt london after all is his home he's certain breaks it will make it harder to run his business and to import products from mainland europe. until now that wasn't a problem often products ordered from austria would get here faster than english products here in the harp but all the extra paperwork all the extra forms that are no need to be filled all would cost crunch boughten customs delays if it's are glad that will break up costs or of course the forwards are. scum of the pound has a ready for lnh against the euro and it's becoming increasingly difficult to highest skilled stuff from

this is "bloomberg daybreak: europe," and these are today -- this is "bloomberg daybreak: europe," and these are today's top stories. industrial output did estimates after stateside data pointed to a solid consumer. strong words, the e.u.'s new trade chief warns against protectionism and questions donald trump over short-term thinking. we spoke with him exclusively on resetting relations. >> this is the objective of the visit is to try to reset the relationship, try to understand each other in relation to trade irritants and find common ground with the united states. we start within a positive note. nejra: funding the deficit, the u.s. will start issuing twenty-year bonds in the first half of 2020. it comes as steve mnuchin continues to review bonds. welcome to "bloomberg daybreak: europe." the data out of china and the u.s. putting risk on across markets today, taking a look at asia, green on the screen for the msci asia pacific index. he saw all three u.s. benchmarks hit records again and tech stocks were leading that rally. alphabet above a $1 trillion valuation for the first time.

have a they do not have a deal yet with europe, is europe the next china?nka: thomas buberl you for your insights. thomas buberl, ceo, axa. no confirmation on what they are doing in the middle east. anna: thank you very much haslinda amin in davos. up next, another interview from davos. we are joined by the german health minister. what preparations are being made? jens spahn joins us from davos. this is bloomberg. ♪ matt: welcome back to "bloomberg markets: european open." we are 20 minutes and expect to see equity indexes rise as we see futures rising as well, up by 0.8%. let's get the bloomberg first word news. to putrals are coming limits on u.s. companies supplying huawei. the company was blacklisted last year because of security threats. it prevented many companies from selling its components. the role is not to cut huawei office supplies but to protect national security. >> huawei has been encouraging american companies to flaunt the u.s. laws, to flaunt the regulations that we have. that is a dangerous practice, and not a good practice. in the longer

and now europe. and search and rescue efforts are underway in turkey after a powerful earthquake struck in the east of the country late on friday at least 20 people have been killed and more than 1000 are injured buildings collapse near the epicenter of the magnitude 6.8 quake in allows that province emergency crews are searching for people feared trapped in the rubble. of the epicenter was in a town of about 4000 people in the sparsely populated province of. that's about 700 kilometers east of the capital ankara. and this was the moment the quest quake struck interrupting live broadcasts many people rather outdoors for safety those with damaged homes are still afraid to return ballot is the u.n. called or later for the i could search and rescue association the largest turkish aid group assisting in the earthquake rescue effort he joins us now on skype from bath in the united kingdom good to have you with us let's start with the the casualty situation the health minister says 30 people are trapped re

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