essential i fear that they might fizzle out you know but at the same time i agree with john laughlin there but at the same time the establishment the status quo we've seen it's vulnerabilities here and john's right. or not organized. if they do get organized would be be interested in what kind of ideology that they would be pitching ok because this is exactly what the liberals want they want to some kind of artificial opposition are they going to get it well i think it will be unwise for their yellow vests right now to come up with a certain ideology i think. it will it will need a lot of work to form some kind of at the alternative ideology i think. if he decides not to imitate the west but rather to lead the way may help you know and develop these kind of ideology but since i don't want it to be all doom and gloom there was. a i would go in year you know president also that was invited to a segment meeting of the arab league by none other than the tunisian president and the tunisian president could not do it without the approval from the european union and most likely also from the

in accepting an agreement in the left never knows when it's gone too far here to bring in john john laughlin in paris john is a good friend in the long standing guest on cross talk you. you've heard a lot of optimistic words from idema and mark here and i think you're going to continue the trend john what's the what's the state of the e.u. going into two thousand and nineteen we still have the yellow vests in france and brags it isn't is looming. but i very much agree with what dmitri has just said how far can the liberals go because for years now i've been saying that the european union and its member states are on a drift towards totalitarianism and the permitted margin of debate is narrow in every day particular of course where anything to do with russia is concerned but you know when people ask me about the future of the european union i'm reminded peter as perhaps you are from your your student days as a political scientist at the debate that took place between the right wing and left wing americans on whether or not the soviet system could be reformed and the right wingers said that it

think it's an important event of the year ok i mean the finish off in a small block here with john laughlin john any other how is the how is it hard brags that affects the european union the. european union we had about one minute left go ahead. well like dimitri i'm optimistic i think that next week is the excellent news it's very bad news for the european union if there's no deal it means there will be a gaping hole in the european union's budget immediately and even if there is a deal the uncertainty will continue until such time as britain stops paying its budget contributions and when it does then either the german taxpayer has to cough up more all the polish subsidy receiver has to receive yes it has received less i think breaks it will go ahead whether it's hard or soft ultimately doesn't make a difference to the to the eventual outcome which i repeat is that the european union will follow the fate of the soviet union britain is bigger than the baltic states but it's the same principle ok here i don't have john's optimist i'm about brakes ok but one thing john laughlin is writing if

it's great to have an expert like science professor political science professor john laughlin on the program to delve into issues like this hi john it's estimated i'm just looking at some of the figures here ten billion euro these reforms are going to cost let's take a listen in fact just to what was said i will will go in depth into it later the total cost of all the measures is likely to be between eight billion and ten billion euros we are in the process of fine tuning to see how to finance it i think the obvious question is where does he find this money will he be able to do it. no . france is broke france is not only broke but france is chronically in debt other european countries are in debt as well but france's situation is particularly severe. france spends forty billion euros a year on interest rates alone on interest repayments not capital repayment interest payments it's the second largest item on the french budget and under previous sesar the overall state debt in france rose to one hundred percent of gross domestic product mcconnell came in promising to reduce public spen

john laughlin the professor of political science at the catholic university of one day says the protest movement could very. well spell the end of the dream for emanuel backgrounds presidency. it's certainly the end of the dream that he liked to cultivate he made people dream or think made people think and dream that change could take place without difficulty and that because he was new and a new person and a new party that everything would suddenly get better emmanuelle mccomb like his two predecessors has absolutely no new ideas he remains where did the policies that have failed now for many decades in france high tax high spending. european policy relaxed policy on immigration all the costs of these things add up and spending is out of control and so taxes keep going up higher and higher and people have had enough. julian a lawyer has rejected a deal struck by the u.k. and ecuador which ecuador's president claims will enable the wiki leaks co-founder to leave his country's embassy in london then says that britain has given assurances it will not extradite assange to any country where