u. k and b, e u. both sides agree. customs checks in northern islands simply aren't working, but they don't agree on the solution. is this a dispute about trade or politics and could it risk the peace in northern ireland? this is inside story. ah hello and welcome to the program today with me, pete adobe. now when the u. k, left the european union, both sides agreed to a set of trade rules known as the northern island protocol. goods from britain, a checked at ports in northern island. the province remains in the e u single market. so trade can move freely across its land border with the republic of ireland. but nearly 2 years after breakfast, the u. k says that arrangement is not working. the government wants a new deal and it doesn't want the european court of justice as agreed on the bricks. it to have oversight of the protocol. the e you is offering to remove some customs checks, but is calling for compromise to will bring in our guests in just a moment. first, this report from andrew simmons in b

that's getting worse, not better, rory, talents, how to 0, also or other e u. member states are resisting some of the blocks so called shared values. hungary has backed poland, controversial court ruling prime minister. victor, all ban has been at odds with the e. u. about judicial independence. the european commission is worried about political interference and the legal system of some of its members states. it's also concerned about attacks on journalists and hostility towards activists defending women's and l g b t q writes 11 member states, including austria and islands, say the e. you should respect their authority to set their own policies on education, child care, and labor laws. ah. so let's bring in our guests for today's discussion from warsaw, we're joined by me. how vacovich a lawyer and co founder of the hash tag free courts initiative for dresden, rick brooklyn, up political analyst and professor of political science at stanford university in berlin and from brussels. peter, clap up, a lawyer, an editor of brussels report. you gentlemen, welcome to

u. k. used to be part of the e. u is common fisheries policy that gave all european fishing boats equal access. after briggs, it e u and u. k. vessels needed licenses to fish in each other's territorial waters. the boats have to prove that they had fish there in the past. to make things more complicated, the self governing british territories of jersey in guernsey and the channel islands issue their own licenses. france accused the u. k. of only granting at a small number of the licenses it's entitled to britain denies this, saying those boats at rejected couldn't prove a track record of fishing in the area. the dispute escalated on thursday when france detained a british trawler accused of fishing without a license. another boat was fined for not complying with maritime checks. frances, threatening to block british boats from ports. if the issue isn't resolved by tuesday, alexey o'brien has more from the port of love, frances laid down an ultimatum. if its fishermen did not get the licenses that they say they deserv

peter clippy, editor of brussels report, e u. a news website covering politics in the e u and in paris is jean christophe, gillian, founder and ceo of xin on 7, a european public affairs company. john christophe was closely linked to the former . you briggs at negotiator michelle. barney? a warm welcome to you all, and thanks so much for joining us today on inside story. fits are. let me start with you today. france claims that britain has denied fishing licenses to dozens of french boats. britain is saying that most licenses have actually been issued, but that some french vessels don't meet the criteria for british waters. who exactly is more to blame here? oh, it's hard to say, i mean, this has been going going on for a while, a basically the u. k is saying, well, you need to be able to prove that you have been fishing before. and the franchise disclaiming that this is all just an excuse to allow the u. k to, to prevents certain french fishermen to fish in its waters. graham at its core, is this dispute essentially about how man

u. s. or, oh, e u relations. why? because or for example, of france as he's no own or m i t m bomb other own nuclear weapons, but germany does not have nuclear weapons where it behaves, but it cannot produce them each se, the share originally the u. s. and they depend on the american gra, umbrella, a. so they, they added a double truck position. they are a steel stick to nate, off of our security, and or to keep leadership. we've sat on undisturbed european countries war a suspicious of russia. at the same time, germany as an economic power. no perfectly that if you you were on germany wants to be strong economic, you know, the need russian on a cas a. so there is a defacto audience between germany and russia dumps of energy. so there's a very complicated world where you can have different audience. he's on a jo, strategic, or g o economic or a traumatic and oh, so you are a member states for a long time. you don't have any responsibility for a security will very few of in a where dependent of the u. s. and know it's

and there's plenty of e u money already involved. warsaw is the largest beneficiary of the e u. cohesion fund. and it's set to receive 75000000000 euro over the next 6 years . add to that tens of billions in subsidies and cheap loans. and the idea of warsaw quitting the e u club looks less and less likely. all of that is at risk. if poland continues to fight the european union on the rule of law case, warsaw hasn't received its covered aid money yet, while some other member states are already spending there's. that may be why the prime minister is putting himself over in a far more diplomatic fashion than some of his m p's on this issue. i think we will be able to clear all doubts without create an unnecessary tash and here, of course, there is no talk of pol exit while. glancing over to the united kingdom, the only country to leave the e u club may provide more of a cautionary tale and been careful what you wish for than any shining example of sunlit uplands. upon leaving the european union, peter oliver r. t. berlin. afghanistan's banks are running out of cash and people are running ou

u. k. making some very big demands of the e. u. was the response likely to be them from brussels? well it's like as a bait, in fact is almost certain to be very generous when it comes to the whole issue of border checks. of the customs areas are all on the ports here and also regulations on goods. and it's set to be something like half of the half of the customs checks will be lifted on on all of food products. not, not all food products, but most of them, and also apply products as well. and medicines will be free flowing, so that making major concessions, but the issue of the european judges, the european court of justice being, having the overarching role in this treaty. they say that's an immovable, immovable situation. it's a red line, whereas the u. k is pushing hard on it, but what's going on with the people on the ground business? people seem to be thinking, well, this is good news where we can look forward to this. but on the other hand, if that's now going to be the big stand off with your what, what, what's gonna happen with the e u and the u. k. relations, could it get

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instead they support a faster renewable rollout and integration of e u electricity markets. and that's not the only hurdle facing the block members today. a several e u countries including france and slovenia, who is infrastructure ministered, tread, today's emergency energy meeting, express support for the use of nuclear power. however, that very issue has previously led to infighting among certain states. as a chart to do was, you know, reports the energy crisis combined with you countries trying to meet colbin neutrality targets. bodes well the frank sees favorite form of power nuclear in brussels. the commission president hit the red button, we need a stable source, nuclear and during the transition of course, natural gas. and this is why, as we've already stated as a commission in april, we will come forward with our taxonomy proposal. member states have been bitterly divided over nuclear power. the commission chief herself previously branded it as dangerous and the likes of austria, germany in spain, all vocal opponents. who were disconcerted to learn that in the opinio

it was the venezuelan opposition at a time when the e. u was sanctioning president madura of venezuela and in fact it was that year that emmy peas really hate out really started to get angry about this award at saying that the e u had undermined dialogue in venezuela. their words not mine, and as a result were boycotting the ceremony that year. they also accused the e. u. of instrumental lazing. human rights is the use of this award that the price is also been awarded to political leaders in the past. but some of since fallen foul of the you including anson suki in my, and man as a result, she's been stripped of her rights to be part of this exclusive community. the addition now of alexi, nevada, in the will, it increased those thoughts from many that really this is an award that is being used as a political tool by the european union, against those government sit dislikes or disagrees with well as the european parliament award bert one german m b p is far from happy at the decision at camellia and cross as the west applying double standard

i mean, i apologize for jumping in, but we now have the e u parliament suing b e u commission for failing to trigger mechanisms or punish naughty member states . i mean is the block at wall with itself? well, the temple as well, which part of it says yes, there is a majority as well with the minority, but of course the majority could change tomorrow. if i doing is people lazy, more of the national fun come to power in france, which i don't think is going to happen soon. but if they can then shift and then they'll be a war between those states and other states aren't on the what. and my point is that given that these know you have be and people and the new, are you hoping people not even information the same way? they still version people. there are 2 people in belgium and then there are constant quarters. and of course, in europe, the girls are going to be far greater and firm over in and then they are in belgium because belgium is a common history. moreover, belgium used to be due to the united county with all the parties being both french and dutch speaking. and again phoebe united now

members, that the problem here is to do the e u, and it's policies of moving towards a green energy agenda. they see that e use trying to do this too fast, and it hasn't been able to move quick enough to it, but at the same time as being stopping the use of things such as fossil fuel. so natural gas and cold being used in its energy stations, energy price is currently soaring across the e u and putting unprecedented pressure on both energy companies and all our citizens when designing energy and climate policies, we have to ensure their social acceptability. otherwise we risk their failure. ah, but the e u flatly denies that. this is the case. in fact, it's gone on the, the fight saying that actually the result is that it hasn't moved fast enough to green energy policies. and it says that the block is over dependent on fossil fuels . it says it now must go harder and faster on the green agenda instead of being paralyzed or slowing things down because of the price hike. now, in the energy sector, we should speed things up in the transition to renewable energy. so the affordable renew

the u. e. u. labor commissioner is warning of horizon in so named energy poverty. high rail is our threat in your view. well, the threat is real because energy prices climb, even though they should do not need to climb because they are normal suppliers in germany have nominee long lasting contracts, especially with these renewable any g suppliers, but also with russia from get from get so. busy the price climb at the market is not necessarily has not necessarily to be passed on to the normal person on the, on the street. but i guess they want this. so i'm not thinking very much only at incompetence from the european union in this matter, but also from geo strategic purposes because they are so obvious. nicholas schmidt also said that it was primarily up to national governments to do something about the unraveling situation. quite interesting, isn't it? not coming from a key figure of the block? this is very interesting and it is not only the national government to do something . if you look at the rhetoric interest and the very severe metrics networks in behind who

the u. e. along with some other out of nations began normalizing ties with israel last year after signing the so called abraham accords. yes, president joe biden says he supports the deals which were initiated during the trump administration, osland jordan's life for us in washington dc. what can we expect from tomorrow's meetings, ross? while they're going to be a couple of our bilateral meetings as the secretary of state antony blank, and we'll meet with his as really counterpart mr. lockheed. and then he will also have a separate meeting with thought his a morality counterpart, mr. zion, then they'll have a trilateral meeting, all 3 men in the same room. they're going to be discussing of the raft of issues, confronting middle eastern countries. everything from the political and economic instability in lebanon to the ongoing, a civil war inside yemen. the ongoing, a situation with libya, the ongoing, a civil war in syria, as well as looking at the ongoing efforts to broker peace between the i

the u. e. along with a few other nations began normalizing ties with israel last year was in jordan has moved from washington. well they're going to be a couple of a bilateral meetings as the secretary of state, antony blinkin will meet with his israeli counterpart. mr. lockheed. and then he will also have a separate meeting with his i am radi counterpart, then they'll have a trilateral meeting, all 3 men in the same room. they're going to be discussing of the raft of issues confronting middle eastern countries. everything from the political and economic instability in lebanon to the ongoing, a civil war inside yemen. the ongoing situation with libya, the ongoing, a civil war in syria, as well as looking at the ongoing efforts to broker peace between the israelis and the palestinians. but a senior state department official did indicate and a background briefing worth reporters on tuesday afternoon. that the binder ministration is interested in seeing whether more countries in the middle east wo

and the e. u. appears to have come to an end. the west is hell bent on lecturing. moscow negotiating and dialoguing among equals has have been part of the equation for a very long time. the west is making a serious strategic error. i cross sucking rushes relate.

u. k. global credibility buquet, of course, is also involved in a dispute with the e. you about the trade agreement. regarding northern ireland, how much is the u. kay's credibility at risk right now? well, not much, i think, i mean, i think we've got a series of somewhat outlandish threats from emanating from ministers in, in paris. and we know we know what are the lies. this is the am, is the fact all rex with yourself, the friend friendly as a 2nd letter to lee, the president of the commission this week. saying that the, that the british congress seemed to be gaining from rex. it. you know, it's absurd thing to say this is, this is one of francis biggest export markets from the french government to cervical, british economy congress seemed to be doing well. i mean, it's ridiculous. you're quite right. this is being tight and the other context are quite right as being linked to the more value protocol, which i think is a much bigger and more difficult issue with a trustworthy possibility of blowing up. surely these things are best taken separately. the fishing issue i

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the pro e u. crowds are worried that they are nationalistic government is pushing colon towards an exit from the block or challenge reports. now from the demonstrations in the capital. not large crowds in the e. u. flags are plenty in central war. so and real fears for the countries future we would like to stay in the european union and we are very afraid that, that we are going to, to the pol exit together with the government of mr. kuchinski. and the other is like, you know, a magician who is playing a young magician who is playing with fire and he doesn't know how to know how to stop so it can explode. so i think he's the same here. they don't really know what they did since the constitutional tribunal ruled on thursday. that foundational parts of new law don't apply in poland, damage or position politicians on you. supporters will be in mobilizing the turn out here reinforces a central points support for the european union in poland is overwhelming, some 75 to 80 percent of the population, not even the ruling. lauren justice party ready questions ponens membership of the european un

by some book and leaders that they're frustrated by the slow progress, what are the risks of, of the e u. dragging its feet when there is a sense that if the e u is are seen by the western vulcans as perhaps not doing enough to push along progress on its future membership that the west of balkan nations might look elsewhere if you like. and certainly clear that the influence of russia and china is being felt much more as strongly in the region than it was before. for example, serbia has become the 1st european country to produce chinese coven 19 vaccine. so that is a real risk. and some say that that you simply cannot afford to let the western balkans perhaps drift away if you like, because they all are on the european continent. and that could be a security risk, or what the e u is expected, at least to pledge at the end of this summit is more than $30000000.00 of investment investment in the could be used for infrastructure projects. also, coven, 19 recovery. assign, say you leaders of that commitment to the region, or we talked about on the partial on the report. him or like you an in

in the beginning is scary, but in the end it's that ah, a bit of splits exposed at an e u summit as leaders demand poland obeys european rulings, but warsaw insists that pluralism, respected. oscar says it's not surprised by aggressive rhetoric from nato state south to germany. calls for nuclear weapons to be deployed near russia's borders. people try bernoulli in london, tries alleged to us crimes and an act of support for we can mix whistleblower julian assange to washington once extradited from the u. k, which he likes editor in chief says allegations of a cia plot to kill a song proves his case, has been politicized. the recent revelation shows without any doubt to the political elements of the case. because studios on small, we have all human rights and civil liberties organization of any married to team up together and highly vulnerable patients are at risk in the you. k is doctors. confusion grows over the difference between a 3rd dose of a coven vaccine. and the booster as well as which is the correct order to administer them to people that's giving the function. dr. sacred? no, no.

something that the e u has been grappling now with for many years. you leaders saying once again, the issue right now is coming from bella roofs and saying that the government of president lucas shanker is using migration as an instrumental tool for his politics . the you saying though, that it will have a new way of potentially dealing with this autumn. bluetooth, we're focused on external migration, especially from belarus to e member status. this constitutes a hybrid threat. one has to be frank about that guns. mr. hooker shanker was using people for his policy and cussing car we are very concerned about the situation at the borders in with fellows. we consider the behavior of the bellows government as a hybrid attack. we will keep up the pressure on the location co regime and we are ready to explore options for further sanctions, not only for individuals but also for entities or companies. so possibly new sanctions against the bell or a roof. however, there are some that say that sanctions are not the way food, and in fact, all they're doing is a

u. k and the e u. physically eat along a 500 kilometer border. keep in that border open is a crucial part of the 1998 good friday agreement. which ended the long wanting conflict in northern ireland and killed more than 3000 people. to avoid any physical border checkpoints, the protocol created accustomed divide in the irish c instead, which is inside the u. k. and to add to the complicated process, northern ireland must follow e. you rules as a condition of briggs. it overseen by the european court of justice. the u. k. is adamant that must change, adams and andrew simmons reports from belfast. as the case, breakfast minister prepared to speak in portugal, karen sloane was taking a delivery from the irish republic. it says main supply line now and without it, his delicatessen in northern ireland will be out of business. his main supplies used to be in the u. k. but the trade board in the r c means he can't rely on them any more. karen had been hoping that you was about to smooth things out with concessions over regulations on food exports from t

i think that speaks for itself, they were saudi arabia, the u. e, and states like that, involved states that states that have no regard. all right, and what date should we be looking to work as this case proceeds in the latest case? what should people be looking at? well, i think in a case such as this is very complex. there's a lot of material that lease will have to consider. what the approach which is generally taken is that they go through what's called a scoping exercise. so a preliminary investigation to see whether the evidence is strong enough to take it to the next stage. they will have to seeking buyers and prosecutor as to what they're sufficient information to charge individuals. so i don't think anybody should expect this to be decided overnight. boris johnson won't be charged just to be clear. i know list trust was condemned for breaking a court order in terms of weapons export to saudi arabia, which was only temporary bathrooms. we were not speaking of ourselves, we charge in this particular filing. no poorly thrust all 9 deciding no

the tournament is happening in the u. e. and there were also some qualifiers in oman. it was moved to the mail least from india due to the corona virus pandemic. we been speaking to a former english one day captain, adam holly. oh, he thinks the plane conditions in the way we'll have a massive impact on the tournaments if we were playing the tournament in the u. k or a strain year or some of the favorites would be very different. the conditions are going to see the in the inside, who i think, in my opinion, join favorites with, with england on out spin balling, proper batsmen, rather than big kid is president teams very much coming to west and they always can come from anywhere, very towns, it's very powerful as they could, they could win it or they could come last one, hold and get a hold of their the sort of horses such i think the 2 favorites. if you are asking bedding man, you'd probably, you probably don't for in the or, or england i think now, but that's, that's the beauty about t 20. that's why we love anyone. anyone. when the houston astros have reached the wor

i'm thinking about the u. e. israel india, china. they're thinking about putting somebody, putting something on the moon. nasa is going way, way out there. they're thinking about mazda thinking about jupiter. is this nasa proudly kind of signaling to everyone else down here on terra firma? look, we're still the big boys of interplanetary exploration. i'm not sure that's an intentional effort on their part. nasa has been doing d space exploration, which in terms of space generally means anything beyond the moon for decades at this point. and i think it's more a matter of this is something that nasa is still uniquely suited to do in terms of the budget and the resources that they have available compared to other space agencies. but we're seeing a lot of international activity happening at mars now, which we hadn't seen before this year even. and so i don't think it'll be long before we see countries like china and the u. e. expanding into deeper space mission sued jupiter and beyond. ok, tanya, always an informative pleasure having you

judging by the session on tuesday, it seems that those divisions between poland damn the rest of the e. u. even deeper and wider. as for the curious, considering potent is the one country that gets more money and subsidies from brussels than anybody else in the e. u, so want to see how this all turns out or the charlotte human ski. thank you. all right, in other news here, when are you into national british families who lost loved ones to cope at 19 in last year's care home crisis or taking legal action against the government sees shot. here it was, dashti breaks down the case, 2 daughters who lost their fathers in cave. it had ca, homes at the start of the pandemic, are now suing the government. it's a landmark action, not just in terms of a failure to protect the vulnerable responsibility for aggravating the risk while victory won't do their loss. they hope it may help to protect others. i do not want anyone else to go through what we have been through as a family. i feel terrible guilt. i feel as though she was locked in to die. met hancock's protective freeing statement was a lie. the

and warsaw took a lot of a flat from e u. leaders for challenging the blocks core value or the rule of law. now in the, if the riff that is, goes further, the e, you may punish warsaw by pulling billions of euros in so called covert recovery funds. while the reason tensions have added more fuel to the idea of poland, maybe even leaving the european union. although as we heard, there are a strong support to stay in the u. of the government are very simply chosen and other way away of confrontation with you. and now it looks like it's a very strong recording, very strong foot. no, very strong. swa goes for the struggle between the commission on the les and, and the polish government is very busy, but the struggle is growing. on the other hand, government knows that they need money from that you've florida, even on the recovery. i think the people in poland, in majority support being in the use of the younger generation is very skeptical about living. i think that young people are not, as we imagine living in and other words without you, without those possibilities, like working abroad st