you have been invited for talks with the european commission. the proposals, watered down? what is going to happen? yes, we engage win a dialogue with commission. —— we engaged in a dialogue. we are patient, and patiently, we are trying to discuss and inform the commission about the process. the process is going on, as you mentioned, even with some legal action of the parliament having been stopped by the president. so there isa stopped by the president. so there is a cellino time for the commission to interfere in this situation. —— so there is absolutely. i don't see any legal excuse for the commission to be engaged right now. we will exchange letters and opinions with people like mr tillmans, but i don't see reason for the commission to interfere in reforms and transformation of the system in poland. —— tillerman. transformation of the system in poland. -- tillerman. so the polish government will have talks with the european commission, but you say you will not listen to opinions or take advice at all. you will listen, but won't —— you will t

because you've been invited for talks with the european commission. discuss and amend the proposals, water them down? what is going to happen? yes, we engaged in a dialogue with the commission. we are patient, and patiently, we are trying to discuss and inform the commission about the process. the process is going on, as you mentioned, even some legal action of the parliament was stopped by the president. so this is absolutely no time for the commission to interfere in this process. because there is no final solution to this proposed judiciary reform. i don't see any legal excuse for the commission to be engaged right now. we will of course exchange letters and opinions with people like mr timmermans and others who raised concerns, but i don't see the reason, right now, for the commission to act and interfere in reforms and transformation of the system in poland. 0k. but could you clarify, then, foreign minister, so the polish government will have talks with the european commission, but you say "we're not going to listen to any suggestions, or any adv

the european commission was asked why they haven't issued a warning to other european countries are earlier commission said they had warned people as soon as they had been told by the belgian authorities and initially it had been about natural thing between belgium and the netherlands, so that is why they didn't alert people earlier. the european commissioner for food and safety has given an interview today saying that he wants the blame and shame to end and he will call for a meeting of politicians from across the eu and nationalfood meeting of politicians from across the eu and national food safety regulators here in brussels before the end of september. he said he wa nts to the end of september. he said he wants to call that meeting once the fa cts wants to call that meeting once the facts have been established about all of —— about all of this actually happened. what can eu officials do to try to knock heads together on this and resolve this crisis? it is not clear at the moment what more they could do. i don't think there was much appetite for more legislation on food safety across the

denmark wanted to limit the use of nitrites the european commission was against it and in two thousand and three in court the danes won in the name of the protection of public health. i am very happy about european court decisions than european. public but i want to do it to me that santa and the commissioner to sponsor a problem is in better conditions and yet since this court ruling e.u. regulations are just as lax as ever. from my point of view we must be more and not just asking to change the. need for follow ups to keep. on board popular accounts just not to profit absolutely but it's but it's of course it's. time perfect that's just what the food industry wants and what it is built its strategy on for years. because when it comes to nitrite industrialists have been waiting out the clock for forty eight. years of scientific manipulation blackmail and intense lobbying so the meat business can carry on bringing home the bacon. and it all began on the other side of the atlantic. if you think we're exaggerating listen to this. in the late one nine hundred seventy s. nitrite was almost

reporter: the president of the european commission has already threatened counter sanctions. i want to bring in our new york financial correspondent on this. are any u.s. companies likely to be hit by the sanctions move? jens: at least what we are seeing is that there are quite some lobbying efforts underway and a lot of the big companies here in the u.s. warn of potential unintended consequences we could see. some of the banks, some credit card companies, oil and energy corporations, some of the big manufacturers in the industry of corporations. aerospace companes -- yes, there could because sequences even if we can't put a number behind them. there is also some talk about the possible and future of companies like boeing in regards to russian titanium. yes, there is a fear in corporate america that there could be a negative impact. daniel: trump has talked about increasing natural death sales to europe -- natural gas sales to europe. does anyone stand to benefit? jens: certainly. the key is basically liquefied, natural gas. the trump administration is hoping in general to be

european firms. we ask the commission to promptly addressed the issue of state lead strategic direct investment by non eu investors and european key enabling technology companies. the letter was a thinly veiled reference to china which has seen investments abroad triple in the past five years to now total ten percent of global foreign investment. the aggressive acquisition of key european industries by chinese firms is largely understood as part of a broader strategy. to eliminate the country's dependence on foreign technology. beijing mean while largely restricts foreign investment on its own soil raising european concerns about a lack of reciprocity. an unlevel playing field. the policy paper once the commission to put in place a vetting process to determine whether bids from foreign companies are sponsored or influenced by their government. an idea that still poses several problems in practice. even if the commission could precisely assess whether an investment is politically motivated. the ultimate power to block an acquisition would still reside. with national governments. crossing over to india

the the european commission we and unlike the national government don't own any airplanes and do not have the flexibility to therefore it's just our own plane that's why we have to guard. against whenever there is no civility you know that in a commercial flight would not be viable because of then the countering the kitchen or because of security reasons often really people go on these expensive trips and then they just come out with fairly innocuous and statements at the end of them that they really achieve much less the company benefits from face to face meetings are so you know it's good that there is a focus on those problems in armenia and azerbaijan but really the hasn't been much progress for a long time now given they are spending taxpayers' money they ought to try and get those places as cheaply as possible within reason and if you look at for example it's a mr young because trips abroad there are several direct flights from brussels to rome every single day on a normal sehgal the airline so why couldn't they have called on those normal slice instead of booking this private

a figure that the eu was coming outwith, even the european commission has com pletely even the europeaned, they are no longer asking for that amount. if you are so short that everything in the best possible world can be achieved with goodwill and good temper, do you accept that the european position, which is that they can be no meaningful debate about long—term issues in terms of future trading in an economic relationships between britain and the eu, none of that can happen until the three divorce issues have been sorted out, that is, the money, the compensation package, the status of the land border between northern ireland and ireland, and the third one, which is the status of eu citizens in the uk and vice—versa. do you accept that? we have just spoken about the first, i think there will be arbitration on money. ireland is a british priority as well. they are our closest neighbour and we all have an interest in wanting peace and prosperity in northern ireland. we don't want to stabilisation. that is notjust an eu priority. the point is... we are talking about... the irish prime mini

of european commission presiding over is not a group of technocrats but it's composed of politicians this is not a commission that would promote the virtues of a foolish and blowing policy. but it's not only about money. even if he doesn't it's. it doesn't play a minor role. the luxury is lifestyles of officials who are only exposed after campaigners waged a three year battle for the release of travel expense records we spoke to the spanish transparency and geo access info which person obtained the documents they say they've only scratched the surface. hundred twenty request is made freedom of information access to documents requests was actually for the whole year of twenty sixteen however the commission decided unilaterally to only release information at this point for january and february twenty sixth they felt that it was an advantage to bed and it was disproportionate to release information for the whole year now that doesn't seem to make sense given that they also have this information passed on to the auditor's and to the parliament so if the data is already collected and is m

but the president of the european commission, jean claude juncker, isn't exactly in a conciliatory moodation team is in brussels and they are in the process of talking with my friend rachelle barney and i would like to be clear —— michel barnier. i will give the papers the necessary attention, but none of them are satisfactory, so there are issues which need to be settled. some have taken issue with mrjuncker‘s statement — this is the birmingham post's political editor. damian grammaticas is in brussels for us. here's his take on what mrjuncker said. his comments, very critical of the uk approach so far, they have irked the uk government which has said it has put out a lot of papers in the last few weeks and a lot of positions, more than the european commission, and it feels you need to move on to discussing the future relationship pretty quickly because many of the issues cannot be addressed without that, but this is addressed without that, but this is a high—stakes approach, engaging in a high—stakes approach, engaging in a confrontation with the commission and jean—claude juncker, be

the european commission say little seventeen countries have received eggs contaminated with a pesticide we put out. which if consumed in large enough quantities cannot be harmful to humans alison sergeant has details. windy two tons of contaminated eggs in denmark over seven hundred thousand eggs in the uk and millions more in germany. more than half of the countries in europe as well as switzerland in hong kong received eggs that were exposed to the insecticide fit burnell. in france nearly two hundred and fifty thousand of them have been sold since april. some by this supermarket. where shoppers reacted to the news and all the ways one i'd expect he's i sure don't want to buy any hags were found of eating one? kill me. it makes me think we contrast anything. the world health organization says phifer now would have to be consumed in large quantities to cause organ damage. but it's still considered moderately dangerous insecticide banned from use around animals the produce food. uk's food standards agency says for bernal's presence on european chicken farms is more a question of public

to be implemented is it the first of its kind not exactly so as i just said in november the european commission proposed a similar one but it protected insured deposit or as who had under a certain amount in the bank this one does not protect insured deposits no matter how much they're holding and more importantly some other states like germany have policies like this already in place so those companies that already have this type of rule support and e.u. wide rule because they already have then for what you know it's work for them but also when you consider the debt crises in italy and greece and portugal you know they say that it's more important now than it's ever been to have this sort of rule in the e.u. considering the crisis that are really slowly imploding all that i'm thinking of right now is the images back in greece where the long lines out for an a.t.m. where they were limited in how much they could withdraw bad news for people if it comes to that but some analysts say could be good news for bitcoin is that so the cryptocurrency community is probably the only group that's excited ab

presidents juncker, the boss of the european commission, the organisation running these talks on thevernment's homework saying its position papers were not satisfactory which will rangle with the civil servants who spent a year writing them. he said things will stick to the eu timetable of settling brexit—related issues first before talking about trade and the future relationship which will annoy david davis who wants to do both at the same time. there are disagreements about things on the table. 0n the rights of eu citizens in the uk after brexit, the eu wants them overseen by the british court ofjustice. 0n the issue how much money the eu is owed by the uk, the eu wants to talk about numbers and commitments, the uk will call into question whether they are even allowed to be asked to pay any money at all. that is where we are. adam fleming, thank you in brussels. a four—year—old boy has died after being found in a swimming pool at an activity centre in bideford, in north devon. 0ur correspondentjon kay is there. what can you tell us? police were called here yesterday afternoon, bank

as a whole well the european commission president sean claude younker also issued a tweet saying this cowardly attack has deliberately targeted those enjoying life and sharing time with family and friends will never be cowed by such barbarism meanwhile the euro poll which is the law enforcement agency tweeted saying condemning the terrible attack in barcelona our thoughts are with those affected we stand united in the fight. against terrorism and outside of the e.u. world leaders have been commenting on this attack as well in russia the russian president vladimir putin he said that this terrorist incident in barcelona shows the need for a united international front to fight terrorism the prime minister dmitri medvedev echoed his sentiment saying that terrorism could only be defeated by joint efforts of the international community over in the u.s. president donald trump who was one of the first world leaders to come out and condemn this attack he said the united states condemns a terror attack in barcelona and will do whatever is necessary to help be tough and strong we love you and pe

european commission presidentjean claude juncker spent more than £22,000 on a private plane to take nines within the eu's rules. the family of an 83—year—old dog walker, stabbed to death in norfolk, have described him as a "lovely, gentle man, who was immensely kind." peter wrighton‘s body was found on saturday, three miles south of east harling. police say they've received over 100 calls in connection with the attack in the last three days. two months after the grenfell tower fire in west london, officials say hundreds of people, including large numbers children, are in need of mental health support to deal with the trauma of the disaster. an estimated 80 people were killed in the fire injune and the metropolitan police believe that there were around 255 survivors. our special correspondent, lucy manning, has been talking to one woman who lost five members of her family in the blaze. # you've got the words to change a nation # but you're biting your tongue # you've spent a lifetime stuck in silence # afraid you'll say something wrong #. she could certainly sing, 12—year—old firdaws hash

a lot of positions, more than the european commission in some cases.onship pretty quickly because many of the issues can't be addressed without that. this is quite a high stakes approach, i think, that. this is quite a high stakes approach, ithink, engaging in a sort of confrontation with the commissioner, mrjuncker. remember, they are overseeing the negotiations and it is mrjuncker and the commission, particularly the negotiator, who will recommend to eu leaders whether it's time to move on. the crucial issue there, they are being looking for movement from the uk is on money. today the uk didn't deliver what they want, which isa didn't deliver what they want, which is a calculation of what the uk might be prepared to pay. damian, thank you very much. cricket, and the second test is poised on a knife edge with both england and the west indies hoping to snatch victory on a dramatic final day at headingley. west indies began the day requiring 322 runs to win, while england's bowlers needed 10 wickets to take the test, and the series. here's patrick geare

the eu commission says it will study the proposals, but the european parliament brexit co—ordinator guy says — to be in and out of the customs union and "invisible borders" is a fantasy. this report from our political correspondent laila nathoo, and a warning, her report contains flash photography. keeping goods flowing freely between britain and the eu after brexit — one of the key issues in the negotiations. now, the government has given more detail about how it sees trade working after we leave. at the moment, while in the eu, we are inside what is called the customs union — that means goods imported from abroad are subject to the same tax or tariff and can then move between eu countries without charges or many checks. ministers say brexit means leaving the customs union but are now proposing that temporarily, for a few years, we stick as close as possible to the current arrangements. in italy, i was 290 billion, we are selling them 230 billion a year. it's in their interests. bmw do not want to have a customs border that is going to slow down their sales or add administrative costs.

the president of the european commission has criticised the government for not doing enough work on brexiter. jean—claude juncker says official papers setting out britain's positions aren't satisfactory and an enormous amount of issues still need to be settled. with me now is our brussels correspondent damian grammaticas. jean—claude juncker being critical and you wonder how representative his view is of the other 27 countries and indeed the chief brexit negotiator for the eu countries and indeed the chief brexit negotiatorfor the eu michel barnier in respect of the uk position papers. it is a good question because of course jean—claude juncker is not question because of course jean—claudejuncker is not directly involved in negotiations and not directly going to be involved in the decision to move those forward at some point to discussing trade relationship in future. that will be taken by the 27 other member countries the eu when they are satisfied that the legacy issues of the past of separating the uk from the past of separating the uk from the eu are dealt with. but i would say his opi

lauren: when do we expect the european commission?to be optimistic this can close by the end of the year. we are likely to hear from the european commission by the first week of january is the time i barely cannot. lauren: how long have they been dealing with this? >> this has been going on break through the onset when you have a merger of this size regulatory scrutiny, not just in the u., that the u.s. on 30 different regulators takes the forefront immediately for investors and companies. traded to the point is that the doj will make the same point of this country because they are also looking at the deal because of low commodity prices, crops, soybeans actually hurting farmers on both sides of the pond if you will. riva, good to have you on the show. >> thanks for having me. cheryl: thanks for the update. lauren: thanks for joining us on "fbn:am" this morning. we will say good morning today can foul on "mornings with maria." dagen: good morning, everybody. i'm dagen mcdowell and for maria bartiromo. your top stories 6:00 a.m. easter

just looking at a couple of months and you can see thatjean—claude juncker the head of the european commissioner to rome in a private jet for 25,000 euros for a night in rome. well, that's quite a lot of money to be spending when it's taxpayers money. you can imagine that the daily telegraph we re imagine that the daily telegraph were rubbing their hands with glee. all their christmas is at once because it is proof of the massive gravy train. exactly what they've been warning about. for a lot of people it was the reason for brexit. now that proof is here that the money we've been paying in is squandered on these over the top expenses. showing the bloated inflated european union. that's the story they have got. it's worth noting that the daily telegraph were also the paper that broke the expenses scandal in the uk. that changed a lot of the culture in this country. this is about very senior commission officials. mep expenses are clouded in secrecy. there is not the trans transparency we have now in the uk. we didn't know about the expenses of mps and gifts and travel and hospitality. since that

works three days a week, it could be that he knows what he is doing. 26 countries placating the european commissionparliament, that is before you get to the tory party. he will need to lie down for the other four days! the telegraph now. this isa four days! the telegraph now. this is a disturbing one about brain injuries in newly born children. is a disturbing one about brain injuries in newly born childrenm is. this is a story that the telegraph seem to be running exclusively, and they have looked into a rather alarming increase in the number of babies being born with brain damage. it has gone up from, 01’ brain damage. it has gone up from, or medical claims for damages have in the last year gone up from something like 180 up two 230. what is called here normal birth, or what might have been referred to as natural birth. that seems to be the suggestion that thatis that seems to be the suggestion that that is partly behind this obviously rather disturbing trend. it's a hugely disturbing trend. it is a horrendous story for those of us who have seen the fantastic pressures on medical staff, be they d

the president of the european commission, jean—claude juncker, has fresh criticism for the uk governmentegotiations. he says the latest official papers setting out britain's position are not satisfactory. but our correspondent in brussels, damian grammaticas, told me it's important to remember that mrjuncker himself is not directly involved in the negotiations. i think it is important to listen to him because his negotiators in that building are the ones who are sitting today and tomorrow with the uk side. he is the one who appointed michelle barnier to conduct the negotiations. they will make the recommendation as to whether the uk has done enough to unravel all of thoseissues has done enough to unravel all of those issues to do with the past and what we are hearing very clear from the chief negotiator, mr barnier, from jean—claude juncker and from the president of the p in parliament, a whole spread of opinion, is that the uk really needs to do more. they aren't satisfied the uk has delivered enough detail are enough progress. there's a deadline coming up month for sorting, or at least

the financial times says the head of the european commission, jean claudejunker, is seeking tighter controlsn takeovers of eu companies, amid fears of surging chinese investment. the metro leads with the violence in cha rlottesville — it has a picture of the alleged killer with a neo—nazi group at the rally. the guardian says that president trump is facing criticism from all sides, for failing to explicitly condemn the violence from the far right. and the daily mail reports on the nhs drive to reduce the number of early deaths caused by heart disease. we begin with the guardian. that woman has died at a far right rally. she was at the counter rally. his republicans as well as democrats who are waiting in to tell donald trump he is not done enough. yes. i think these images of white supremacist protesters are so offensive to many across the political spectrum in america, so it is no surprise that marco rubio, who ran against donald trump, and chris christie, they have come out saying they need a stronger message from the white house and donald trump. why is there not a strong message? is one

the financial times says that the head of the european commission, jean claudejunker, is seeking for takeovers of eu companies, following fears of chinese dominance. the metro leads with charlottesville and highlights a picture of the alleged killer with a neo—nazi group at the rally. and the daily mail reports on an nhs battle to tackle early deaths caused by heart disease. we will begin with the metro and what has been happening in charlottesville. what has been happening in cha rlottesville. tru m p what has been happening in charlottesville. trump swamped by neo—nazi row. the lincoln to condemn the bigots specifically, the groups like the kkk. it isjust scary because it is almost deja vu. when trump was complaining people said this was going to happen because when he was questioned about the kkk and white supremacists he dodged that and almost said, who are they? but they still around ? that and almost said, who are they? but they still around? then what happened in charlottesville he said, it is terrible, bylines on all sides instead of coming straight out like the governor has

together we can do more which is why the european parliament is working with a commission from september to make proposals for more e.u. called gratian against terrorism i believe we need a corporation along the lines of the f.b.i. european f.b.i. important to do that because we have europe all and the commission change their rules the secret services should work together to create european unity to contribute more in the fight against terrorists. to former british intelligence officer on joins on the line. sounds impressive doesn't it f.b.i. is it really needed in your. it sounds like another step towards federalized europe in my view we have a situation where the president of the european commission john called yoker only at the beginning of this year said that he wanted to create an army which would be a sort of parallel organization to nato from what i can understand but to create and a european wide f.b.i. would actually have immense problems to get the intelligence agencies of every one of the twenty eight countries in the e.u. to cooperate to share fully to work together who be in

the european commission wants the court in luxembourg to guarantee the rights of eu citizens in the uk brexit and to oversee the withdrawal agreement. but theresa may has said ending european control over british courts is a red line. ministers say they want a "special partnership" with the eu, but it is "neither necessary nor appropriate" for the ecj to police it. thejustice minister dominic raab said that both the uk and it's partners in europe would be keeping a close eye on what the other is doing. britain is leaving the eu, we are taking back control of our laws, that means ending the jurisdiction of the european court ofjustice, we have been crystal clear about that. at the same time, we do want to forge a positive, new partnership with our eu friends. one of the ways you protect and nurture that friendship is making sure you have a sensible mechanism to resolve international disputes, most likely some form of arbitration, and that is the way we can make sure our trade, security and other areas of cooperation with european partners will go from strength to strength. this resoluti

nationalist sentiment rising in many countries, and fran5 timmermans, the first vice president of the european commissionalcoholism. we have a short period of exhortation and then a hangover period in the united kingdom, although he denied he was talking about brexit. again it is connected to the economy. what we are seeing in many countries, and france is a very good example, where although macron won the election and defeated the national front, a significant proportion of the population voted for a nationalist party, because they feel the economic opportunities are eluding them. is it not people looking for scapegoat5? people feeling dissatisfied and unhappy about their lot, and looking for people to blame? they are looking for people to blame, and they are looking for comfort. i think there i5 looking for comfort. i think there is some comfort in putting up the drawbridge, building a wall around your country and saying it is easy for us to fix our own problems, rather than other countries. and identity politics. and there is a belief that the only way to get rid of the problem is to deal with it on a