on a visa free regime but is there anything that still remains and so here's the head of the european union delegation to russia to talk about don't. ask those ban on back to the european benadryl stole the headlines of the russian e.u. summit. some other topics moscow wanted to discuss like become disappointed because of the regime's talks on that started almost a decade ago but progress has been slow russia are still going through consultations and experts say they will take at least a month but the fact that words have become actions they say should be seen as a sign of optimism. thank you very much for coming thank you to you well first of all i want to start with this main question this may news that came after the summit in the rush to the summit diplomats reporters experts started questioning the frequency of the sun and the efficiency of the summits that really are costly so is it true and do you think that it really may become a case that the. frequency of the summit will be reduced. no i mean everything is possible but it's not something that is on the agenda right now this has ne

vegetables at the beginning of june that soured the country's ruination with the european union which called the russian move disproportionate the burn came as a serious blow to the european economy is russia buys a quarter of all fresh vegetables exported by the e.u. meanwhile this search for the infections led to bin sprouts from northern germany and later it was reported that it was water which contaminated they took the bulls the vegetable we should talk they gender at the russian e.u. summit in may june both sides. eventually greed and conditions for the removal of the embargo while the danger to both problem seems to have been resolved russia's agricultural watchdog has banned inputs from thirteen milk and meat factories in germany check show factories failed to comply with russian how safe it is standards . who are so far only netherlands and belgium other countries cucumbers are free to travel to russia without the. what's the problem of the others i mean the day the other european countries they didn't give didn't provide the necessary documents so why would i think our first

for the european union and now the kind of. blasts that the serbian people are split as many see it. as a national hero and a mark will this cost the country more than it may bring our guest is a journalist based in belgrade during the civil war he met. personally and is ready to share his memories right now. so been present very started says europe is ready to support the countries did he join the european union this became possible after belgrade sent general rascal managed to the hague where he's going to be tried by the general who's accused of genocide in ordering the massacre insecure and. he's threatening to start a hunger strike but he finds it leadership remain firmly focused on the european union. thank you very much for coming. under which circumstances when did you did you meet. well. when i was working in the former yugoslavia during the war met the general mood each more than once also met his political leader the former president of republicans sort of another one cartridge it you know he has been on trial in the

the european union but in the case of former soviet union it was a small number of victims but in yugoslavia there were thousands of people killed because of nationalism nationalism is on the first place last time you met a bloody it was in montenegro really yes it was. i didn't expect. rumors about i'm a journalist i was looking for this rumors while. i was in montenegro. and i find some cafe on the mountains and uninspected i saw one guy. it was rocking luggage he was already hiding was he yes yes did you have a chance to talk to him to communicate with just. his head let's just hello and disappear. can we see that. each was characterized. as particularly cruel person compared to the prettiest symptoms of the war was the special or more lots of people like it was a prophet in the hands of slobodan milosevic yes because milosevic gave him orders milosevic paid him money and send weapon to boston syrups. it doesn't mean that he's not. guilty he is but. his political leader was slobodan milosevic. and i believe that now in cake. will show two. trials first time secret documents captured toget

and the european union have actually stalled the. relationship for such a long time now that the turkish public is tired of it the main reason turks think the europeans don't want them immigration. first well they come and steal our jobs like the polish plumber did. and second well they threaten us culturally but others see the real fair in paris and berlin as a loss of political power and this sort of. german condominium is already on the challenge but with the inclusion of turkey in the european union it would be totally impossible to sustain now embroiled in economic crisis the e.u. isn't as strong as it once seemed turks are starting to view the delays in joining us with frustration and more with relief frankly given. the state of the european union right now is the inability of taking decisions the euro's fragile situation the rising racism and islamophobia in many countries. it's it's becoming less and less attractive turkey is no longer waiting for europe to change its mind instead many speak of the axis of turkish interest shi

european union wants us to sell it for. about four hundred million euros which is a really good news you see our corporate power. at least fifteen plants each of the costs more than one point five billion euros so i would say that this is a post sort of it by what they have you know better than me what this means for the people. you mention of the prime minister you think is a dead man walking what do you see greece is fine at the solution to greece's financial woes and of course the future of the euro itself. i personally would do a solution proposed by mark weisbrot i mentioned before in a new york times. for a memorandum on their payments of the greek interest. the greek in there is so that we will be able to negotiate with our european partners haircut of our loan even economists with a well known but i love british magazine proposed the haricot of the order of magnitude of fifty percent then we could use a money in order to finance their recovery or far economy because you see the memorandums and there was barely the p

with guarantees of competent european union services to review supplies for that in the near future. acts but we are well familiar with popular figures in this country from reserve and european colleagues will finalize the details of certificate that guarantees safety of products to glide russian market so well do exactly this i think it's a good result. i can visit confirm a few of those votes. and. i can just confirm what was in my view there just standing for our teams agreed that the ban of vegetables from you can you know be lifted as system of certification of vegetable safety but you can commission we put in place without any delay and because of the certification will be finalized business possible between the roof for additional rocher and you've been commissioned services which in fact if you stand beside if it's today or tomorrow if you want to be more precise today or tomorrow we intend to stand this certification so the tickets to come to our russian. thank you but you know there are other problems in the world in the visuals so. i think there is a question as to you. i t

the state of the european union right now is the inability of taking decisions. fragile situation and the rising racism and islamophobia in many countries. it's it's becoming less and less attractive turkey is no longer waiting for europe to change its mind instead many speak of the axis of turkish interest shifting from west to east it's pursued a no problems policy its neighbors in recent years that sealed impressive results boosting trade and making turkey a leader in regional diplomacy if we want to. combine our. power with others i think we should look at. the bosphorus behind me has long been seen as a bridge between east and west but with turkey increasingly pushed away by europe over here and pull towards the middle eastern asia over here turks no longer see all their hopes but looking west tamasin r.t. istanbul turkey. coming to you live from the russian capital you're watching r t and we've got more news stories coming up this hour. no one person in this country have authority to pray in the united states for it who is taking democracy away from us citi

now, i think we're moving in the directions of the european union which might be capable of coordinating economic policy more than in the past. they are stabilized in the cells are trying to export this to other parts of the world. >> the european community flourished and even britain decided to put itself into this new creation. the self-interest was beginning to take over. >> for the british, the appeal was in growing a single economic space and pushing forward ever greater european integration. >> the president said that he wanted the european parliament to be the democratic party of the community. he wanted the commission to be the executive. he wanted the council of executives to be the senate, no, no, no. >> the collapse of the soviet bloc has created a united germany much bigger than france or britain and offered the possibility for many new countries to join. elites saw the chance to push for further integration to bind his growing family together. >> this is created by. people have something like that. that does not mean that this is some delete idea which is shut down the throa

maybe some but on the european union it is working there are a lot of people around there who want to it always see there to european union should change some of its ways and in specific cases such as this one could help to drive the point at the same time it can help to drive spain towards a growing financial economic crisis which is already moving very close to it i would surprise you saying also that the media is quick to respond to this and also push that agenda that you're talking about but behind the scenes as you say in the european union what do you think it's just another story that the media really would want to hire part it said just another story for scaremongering and that the media is mainly to do to be responsible for this well god or i will be unfair to say the media are directly only responsible for this however the media do respond to specific powers whether it be the sheer all those advertisers or people who actually control the media there is a tendency to push specific stories only one for the entire planet was just watching a royal wedding bill two days l

between the russian side and the rippin side a loose member state so the european union is conspicuous in the context of the economic ties of all was i'd like to state. that they will turn over of last year's turned to be one of the highest in the country story surpassing three hundred billion dollars which means our countries. of whom. are recovering from listener change now it's a thousand and eight and nine from the global downturn they cood that's the beauty of believe the us was to develop the idea we had last c.m. referring to the partnership for modernization initiative that was really yoko to do not as the coordinators have reported there is a number of specific proposals projects in high tech fields including. when you know the technology clusters developed in our country including skolkovo as well we are interested in having more intrapreneur as for dissipating in these projects and i hope will have some competitive. disarm it's. just. a mild it's really that each video for road maps views on trade train our common space has a lot of work on the hands of work on this new basi

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from eu countries to russia but also to seize any vegetables that have been imported from the european union into russia so far. >> matthew, how much of goods -- i guess, fresh vegetables from the eu is actually consumed by russian or imported by russia? >> reporter: well, quite a lot, particularly in the european part of russia. though, i have to say countrywide, russia gets the majority of fresh vegetables from countries like china, from countries like turkey as well. it's much more significant, though, in terms of what the european do because some 25% of all the fresh produce exported from the european union goes to the russian markets. so, it's a major economic blow for european farmers who depend very much for at least a quarter of their exports on russia where their fruit and vegetables are now banned. >> matthew chance, thank you, reporting from moscow. >>> you're watching "world one" live from london. >>> coming up, a string of deadly tornadoes strike the u.s. state of massachusetts. we're going to bring you the very latest on the rescue operation. [ male announcer ] the inspiration

but this is just so not just for the european union to solve there are other partners that involve bekah trading partners with russia and of course in this very room solutions have to be found we're very confident that this will be achieved very soon because on bilateral bilateral. basically all the countries have closed their stop those so we are really very close we are as close as we can be from the government which i think would be very good news is the mentioned salutary standers another apple of discord what about this recent russian ban on the table food imports from the european union shortly before our life you mentioned something about a breakthrough during yesterday's informal dinner what was that well breakthrough is probably not the words that they used. but i would hope for we still have legal issues right now we hope that these negotiations will confer. the excellent article sphere that prevailed during yesterday's dinner informal dinner where we had the impression that there is a good will for both sides russians there is russia ready to partially leave the band embargo o

guarantees which russia needs to fully leave to the ban on vegetable and fruit imported from the european union. we are ready to live on european vegetables after we are provided with sufficient guarantees my ear that much is certain russian and the european health officials are going to widen this if it was proved to safety of the supply projects this is a great result so you. can through obviously wasn't all about the vast revolt was it what about the broader agenda there are so many issues besides haven't been able to see eye to eye on how they come to any kind of consensus. obviously the halters store pick the hottest issue of the international agenda at the summit was leave here we are appalled uprising and considering the latest by the heaviest nato air strike in libya of course russia now sees its task as being a made between the two sides on which libyan state libyan society now stands gadhafi controlled tripoli rebel stronghold of benghazi and of course. today president did it again reiterated russia's position on and that is an immediate unconditional cease fire should take place russ

can dictate policy with the european with the sabean and the european union and the i.m.f. the so-called troika can come and say listen these are these are the measures you're going to implement you are going to implement them whether you like it or not we can see you know we were facing a very peculiar form of dictatorship by the european union the european central bank and the i.m.f. here a finance chiefs a desperate not to see the first year raising suffering default and they're rising concerns about the crisis that could trigger throughout europe i think very chance of a domino effect. if greece or. are nouns or default and this is their problem and reason why are europeans or are helping greece but in fact we are hearing bitters because they don't want this domino effect and because they want to take all very short of greece. sixteen percent to the quick what full sun employees western economic conditions here increased the euro is a dream it seems is a. people want to listen to the people words reoffends would be full of. people out there were uprising or there would

there exempting it from the european union rules requiring it to share its infrastructure with third parties. well there is an ongoing discussion between the european commission and the russian government about an overall agreement with regard to how gas infrastructure could be treated and i think we should wait and see how that agreement works out and what exactly that means for the status of the project at. the same time it is clear that the participants in the project and they represent about one third of all e.u. member states. feel very strongly along with russia that this project these are clear priority status so we're working on the or discussing it domestic about. russia's energy minister mr coe expects to sign an agreement with the e.u. this autumn what kind of agreement could be does russia want to have the same preferences as nabucco for example or are you ready for a compromise. while i think we see this quite separately from whatever partners may have a arranged among themselves or way to e.u. . countries what we really want to make sure of is that whilst we of course re

which, of the eu leaders will not offer any money. >> talk to me about the power dynamics in the european union. the greek crisis is testing averell -- every level right now. what is germany's standing? >> it is difficult. they are the european powerhouse. there came a point at the start of this when angela merkel said quite politely that you cannot just look to germany as the great money box and just come and raid every time. the german reluctance to get involved which slowed down the pace of aid for greece initially and ireland. germany has always been the paymaster and she has problems as a nation are fed up of being treated as the money bags. that is where you go when you want to cash in europe. there is a changing perception in germany. even germany looks to its own. >> thank you very much. >> that has been our report on the future of the european union. we will see you next time.

also this hour of rising prices and an energy deficit cast a shadow over the european union of germany takes its first steps to get rid of nuclear power. for health most pro abortion as a global financial center is r t talks to russia calling investment form participants in london some twenty minutes. it's three pm in moscow this is r g coming to you live with me and use the now way our top story seven polish soldiers have escaped punishment overnight attack on an afghan village four years ago which killed a group of civilians including children according warsong ruled there was not enough proof to support the charges of war crimes and while the nato soldiers blamed faulty arms critics say errors costing people's lives are on forgivable. civilians killed and nato soldiers go free the same old story in afghanistan the threats and for a moment to be different polish soldiers put on trial for deaths including a pregnant woman and a child. on the sixteenth of august two thousand and seven mortar shells that were fired by polish troops in the afghan village of nine as a result six people we

rising prices and an energy deficit cast a shadow of the european union as germany takes its first steps to get rid of nuclear. and russian markets open session in the red losing more than one percent trade global losses will bring you more about twenty minutes. and online twenty four hours a day you're watching r.t. well our top story now our second polish soldiers have escaped punishment and attack on an afghan village four years ago which killed a group of civilians including children a call to in warsaw there was no enough proof to support the charges of war crimes nato soldiers blamed faulty arms critics say errors costing people's lives on forgivable. civilians killed and nato soldiers go free the same old story in afghanistan the threats and for a moment to be different polish soldiers were put on trial for deaths including a pregnant woman and a child. on the sixteenth of august two thousand and seven mortar shells that were fired by polish troops at the afghan village of. as a result six people were killed three were severely wounded but the soldiers were cleared of all charges

rising prices and an energy deficit cost of the european union as germany takes its first steps to get rid of nuclear power. plant tax burden on the russian gas by more than seventeen billion dollars that's according to deputy prime minister alexey quarter and more in business in about twenty minutes. around the world and around the clock this is r t a welcome to the program but our top story hour seven polish soldiers have escaped punishment over an attack on an afghan village four years ago which killed a group of civilians including children of course in warsaw rule there was not enough proof to support charges of war crimes the nato summit was blamed faulty homes critics say errors costing people's lives on forgivable. civilians killed and nato soldiers go free the same old story in afghanistan the threats and for a moment to be different polish soldiers were put on trial for deaths including a pregnant woman and a child. on the sixteenth of august two thousand and seven water shells that were fired by polish troops hit the afghan villages. as a result six people were killed as thr

of the infractions and today president made very big country could leave to disband leave the european union provides certain legal guarantees about the source of the infection and is more transparent on the computer we are ready to live on european vegetables after we are provided with sufficient guarantees. that much of the russian and the european health officials are following the laws in a certificate that proved to safety of the supply products this is a great result. of the water stays here on the international agenda where the two sides so i. russia strongly condemns nato military intervention in libya and again calls for a peaceful resolution of the call flicks and the war which has already resulted in power zones of casualties as also seriously cheney challenge to the e.u.'s foreign policy is to talk more on those challenges today in an exclusive interview with r t we're joined by high representative before it occurs and security policy in the european union catherine ashton and of course the first question was only. one of the big challenges and questions is how to make sure that

rising prices and energy deficit casts a shadow of the european union as germany takes its first steps to getting rid of nuclear power. and largest progs owned company lukoil is expanding operations at home and abroad this is our chief spoke exclusively to the head of its investment apartment that's in about twenty minutes . casting life in the heart of the russian capital you're watching r.t. . seven the polish soldiers have escaped punishment for an attack on an afghan village four years ago and killed a group of civilians including children of course in warsaw rule there was not enough proof to support the charges of war crimes while the nato soldiers forty homes critics say terrorists costing people is not unforgivable. civilians killed and nato soldiers go free the same old story in afghanistan the threats and for a moment to be different polish soldiers were put on trial for deaths including a pregnant woman and a child. on the sixteenth of august two thousand and seven mortar shells that were fired by polish troops hit the afghan villages. as a result six people were killed and

containment of the infections and today president made very big country could leave to leave the european union provides certain legal guarantees about the source of the infection and is more transparent on the. computer we are ready to live on european vegetables after we are provided with sufficient guarantees. in russian and the european health officials and finalize innocence if it proves the safety of the supply products this is a good result. but you considering that it wasn't all about the vegetables obviously was about what is the broader agenda have the two sides been able to see eye to eye on all the sticking issues. well the hottest year on the international agenda where the two sides so i. russia strongly condemns nato military intervention in libya and again calls for a peaceful resolution of the conflict and the war which has already resulted in thousands of casualties as also seriously change challenge to the e.u.'s foreign policy is to talk more on those challenges today in an exclusive interview with our achievable joint quite high representative for foreign affairs and securit

rising prices are going to energy deficit cast a shadow over european union as germany takes its first steps to get rid of nuclear power. are you watching r t i'm carrie johnson let's go straight to our top story now seven polish soldiers have escaped punishment over an attack on an afghan village four years ago which killed a group of civilians including children a court in warsaw ruled there was not enough proof to support the charges of war crimes while the nato soldiers blamed faulty arms critics say areas costing people's lives unforgivable. civilians killed and nato soldiers go free the same old story in afghanistan the threats and for a moment to be different polish soldiers are put on trial for deaths including a pregnant woman and a child. on the sixteenth of august two thousand and seven mortar shells that were fired by polish troops hit the afghan villages. as a result six people were killed and three were severely wounded but the soldiers were cleared of all charges one of the accused told r.t. it's all been a mistake we didn't see people. we were sometimes at the sites aga