than europe is producing in a month. it's a remarkable statistic. and the estonian prime minister college has said that you're have to call it resources in the same way that it did, for example, with vaccines during coal. but it has to do the same with ammunition production. but, but there's no way to respond to discretion. but by, by essentially making your, of more secure by, by enhancements, defense production of the state. but they're not when the united states also says that the u. s. would have a permanent army base near poland. i mean, this is not going to be well, come by russia. how does this help security in the continence while it helps security by helping the poles and, and those other countries in the neighborhood feel more secure. this isn't about just pandering to russia's security concerns that we have to ask ourselves what rights to the countries have bordering russia. they are not simply buffer states are proxies or palm beach or sovereign democracies who have elected governments who have a right to cho

than in europe. that's why i'm here. it's interesting you say that because i, i also love liberal. i used to go there when i was reporting on the war in syria and it was such her respite. and one thing that the suck with me is you describing lebanon a as a place where you found a freedom of mind that this is a very interesting type of freed them. what do you mean by that? well, it's not the freedom that is stipulated in across attrition, in a paper. it's not the oldest freedom commitments that you hear all the time. i in such a european union. no, it's a freedom that is lift in the sense of live and let live, you know, people live next to each other. they don't live with each other. this is also effect on lebanon, was, is 18 different ethnic groups. every traveler station that we have seen throughout the many chapters of protracted war. ah, but there's consensus, does the magnus consanzo isn't as what europe is missing, where we only see black and white now in lebanon? you have grey. this isn't a ver

in europe. that's why i'm here. it's interesting you say that because i also love lebanon. i used to go there when i was reporting on the war in syria, it was such her respite. and one thing that the suck with me is you describing lebanon a as a place where you found a freedom of mind. and this is a very interesting type of freed them. what do you mean by that? well, it's not the freedom that is stipulated in a constitution and a paper. it's not the oldest freedom commitments that to hear all the time. i answer to european union. no, it's a freedom that is lived in the sense of live and let live, you know, people live next to each other. they don't live with each other. this is also affect lebanon was, is 18 different ethnic groups. every traveler station that we have seen throughout the many chapters of protracted war. ah, but there's consensus, does the minus consanzo isn't as what europe is missing, where we only see black and white now in lebanon. you have grey. this isn't a very interesting

, europe would be much more risky. and the sure that the russians would have much less expedite for military aggression against made and decently. she could be also used to be some more thrust again, by having some inspections on both sides of the border and by having some common activities. so yes, the russians are the ones who are the rest of us. there is no doubt about it, but it's all about the sections and it will be necessary also to take into account the concerns mr. then i can type a, would you like to comment on what we just heard from vienna? yeah, i mean, i think there's a consensus in, in europe at the moment it's, it's not foreseeable that you could make a deal with the current russian administration. that would be ensuring you have to remember that deals have been struck in the past with this administration. and indeed, with russia, i mean, we go back even to 1994 when the russian federation guaranteed the territorial integrity, the sovereignty, independence of ukraine in a binding agreement. and, and of

europe and the u.s.'s partnership has shown value and efficiency in the joint reaction to the war in ukraine and our -- since day one and so arms transfer. of course, the european continent has been a wake-up call for all of us. all of our member states realize the need to invest more and better in our common defense and to take more responsibility in meeting europe's security needs. and our strategy compass -- our, let's say, new e.u. defense doctrine. what we do at the european level to ship out ukraine i think deserves probably more attention. i should say definitely unprecedented. the total of more than $50 billion of aid already sent out of which $11 billion are weapons. an additional now $19 billion approved for this year 2023. europe is definitely a key player for ukraine and we'll continue to do this, of course. but let me reassure you. a stronger defense means a stronger nato which will remain, as you heard, of europe's security. so moving forward and becoming a security provider for the continen

, we have to have security in europe. it's that basic, that simple, that consequential. and so, it's the single-most consequential alliance, and i would argue maybe the most consequential alliance in history, that - not just modern history, but in history. and - and so, i made it clear that the comments of the united states and our allies as partner - the commitment is real and that, a year later, i would argue nato is stronger than it's ever been. i - as i told president zelenskyy when we spoke in kyiv yesterday, i can proudly say that our support for ukraine remains unwavering. and as i told my russian counterpart not - well, it was a while now - i said, "you're seeking the - the finlandization of nato. you're going to get the natoization of finland." and it turns out i didn't know sweden was coming along as well. but all kidding aside, i think we're in - if we keep our head and we are focused, i think we're in a better position than we've ever been. and i want to thank you, president, for how poland is supporting ukrai

so strength in europe against not just against russia, but mainly to keep europe apart from russia. because it h a soon saw that there is a potential of cooperation because they're in the same continent after all, economic corporation, political corporation, between germany, france, and russia. and once this continent unites economically, politically, that's the end of the u. s. supremacy in the new world order built after the 2nd will work through the united states has, has had its troops and military bases in europe to can russia in europe far away from each other. although there has been some beneficial corporation energy trade out with germany. there was some corporation and trade with france and many other european nations, but even with the american troops present here in europe, there were certain limits to how far in the united states with push. and one could argue that it all changed in ukraine because for some reason, when it came to ukraine, somewhere around 20132014. and definitely a, around the early 2000 twenties, the united states decided that, you know, those red lin

ford has announced plans to slash 3800 jobs in europe over the next 3 years. the cuts are to be focused in the areas of product development administration. the automaker sites rising costs and the need for a leaner structure as a pivots to electric vehicles. most of those cuts will be in germany and the u. k. meanwhile, europe has set a deadline for saying good bye to cars power powered by fossil fuels. the european parliament setting a new law banning their cell from 2035. well, makers in strasbourg approved the bill, which now goes to european legislators to pass in law. they say the deadline was for investment in europe and help the continent meet its goals are becoming climate neutral by 2050. but so far that you has not been able to agree on a time table to face out fossil fuel, power, buses, and trucks. or course wanted better ego joins us now from strossberg burnt. why has europe focused on a hard deadline for phasing an electric? other countries like the u. s. don't even have one where the goal for the european union is said to protect the climate and

following europe's example means living with europe's results. europe's energy policy is a warning, not a model. what is not working in europe will not work here. europe's experience should also teach us the folly of depending on tyrannical regimes for energy. thanks to the shale revolution the u.s. no longer needs to depend on cartels and rogue nations for our energy. it took us decades to achieve that. the presidents assault on american energy production will surrender this vital economic and geopolitical advantage. his unrealistic renewable electric vehicle goals will make us more dependent on our adversaries like china and russia for critical minerals and materials. the -- lithium the graphite, and other materials. china and russia controlled the supply chains. we need more american production. it is almost impossible to get a permit for a new mine in the u.s. in fact, the administration recently killed two u.s. copper mines. president biden would prefer we import these minerals, even sending money to our enemies. it is a disgrace and we we d

if we want to pay the way for his throne, go to europe among nato, and in europe, a more present in africa. look at african to look at africa is crucial for the future. to leave africa in chinese and is a big mistake for everybody here. europe has been looking at africa as he says in the same way that really desperate guys look at girls and nightclubs. europe has been in africa forever. usually under the guise of counterterrorism missions are humanitarianism. apparently, europe is mostly interested in coming to the rescue of countries that just happened to have natural resources to exploit. and just like some girls night club do africa . busy to that guy, europe, to go take a hike. molly kicked france out last year after paris is resoundingly successful mission to stabilize the country resulted in a couple of qu, day ties in as many years french president, him under, in that cold, tried to dress up the dis as at strategic shift, which is like saying oh, you know, i really wasn't interested in her anyway, after camping out on her doorstep for years. and it's not like africa so desperate tha

following europe's example means living with europe's results. europe's energy policy is a warning, not a model. what is not working in europe will not work here. europe's experience should also teach us the folly of depending on tyrannical regimes for energy. thanks to the shale revolution the u.s. no longer needs to depend on cartels and rogue nations for our energy. it took us decades to achieve that. the presidents assault on american energy production will surrender this vital economic and geopolitical advantage. his unrealistic renewable electric vehicle goals will make us more dependent on our adversaries like china and russia for critical minerals and materials. the president's goals would require massive amounts of copper, cobalt, nickel, lithium the graphite, and other materials. china and russia controlled the supply chains. we need more american production. it is almost impossible to get a permit for a new mine in the u.s. in fact, the administration recently killed two u.s. copper mines. president biden would prefer we import these m

by the way. deacon, europe has ever be, and what the non european idealized there's of europe. have. i imagine it to be in europe and russia, philosophy and the european light, and have very many, very many things in commerce. actually, russia is part of europe or intellectually, politically, politically, with a what, even in being to war period. when styling was accused of isolating. russia with his 5 year plans and so on. and that is a very good book actually never recently would called a red globalization. styling never wanted to exclude to exclude russia from western, played from western economist. but because of the, of the internal, the problems of crime, problems of the west, with a collapse of, of, of the credit system in $191929.00 cross and so on. the west itself became isolationist and protectionist. their eyes were faces managing so therefore russia was excluded by the phoenician there from the european her into war, or settlements, whatever. and then we had the 2nd world war. and so what i'm trying to explain is to point, and we'll come to your question is about 19

there are some scholars in europe. we think that they can somehow drive a wedge between china and russia and by trying to kind of china in as a mediator as possible mediator. but i think that this is really misplaced, and i think that china and russia clearly are aligned, and they have strategic interest. so they are cooperating with each other. and it's in beijing's interests. it's nice to have a weak russia, but they don't want to weak of a russia because it's better to have put in as a useful vassal than have some maybe new reformer come in. if putin is taken out and have someone who might be more friendly towards transatlantic relations or to the west. so i think beijing is maybe even more concerned that putin is so weak that maybe they need to help him because they don't want to see him leave power. that will let me actually will under my care. before we run out of time, this balancing act, that china is trying to master right now. i mean, their economy completely interdependent with the united states. they can't

than in europe. that's why i'm here. it's interesting. you say that because i, i also love lebanon. i used to go there when i was reporting on the war in syria. it was such her respite. and one thing that stuck with me is you describing lebanon a as a place where you found a freedom of mind that this is a very interesting type of freed them. what do you mean by that? well, it's not freedom that is stipulated in a constitution in a paper. it's not all this freedom commitments that are here all the time. i in such a european union. no, it's a freedom that is lived in the sands of live and let live, you know, people live next to each other. they don't live with each other. this is also affecting lebanon, which is 8 in different ethnic groups. every traveler station that we have seen throughout the many chapters of protracted war, ah, but there's consensus, that's the menace consanzo and as what europe is missing, where we only see black and white now in lebanon, you have grey. this is a very interesting

, europe would be much more risky. and i'm sure that the russians would have much less expedite for military aggression against made and decently. she could be also used to be some more trust, again, by having some inspections on both sides of the border and by having some common activities. so yes, the russians are the ones who are the rest of us. there is no doubt about it. but it's all about the sections and it will be necessary also to take into account the concerns mr. then i can type a, would you like to comment on what we just heard from vienna? yeah, i mean, i think there's a consensus in, in europe at the moment it's, it's not foreseeable that you could make a deal with the current russian administration. that would be ensuring you have to remember that deals have been struck in the past with this administration. and indeed, with russia, i mean, we go back even to 1994 when the russian federation guaranteed the territorial integrity, the sovereignty, independence of ukraine in a binding agreement. and, and of

ford has announced plans to slash 3800 jobs in europe over the next 3 years. the cuts are to be focused in the areas of product development administration. the automaker sites rising costs and the need for a leaner structure as a pivots to electric vehicles. most of those cuts will be in germany and the u. k. meanwhile, europe has set a deadline for saying good bye to cars power powered by fossil fuels. the european parliament setting a new law banning their cell from 2035. well, makers in strasbourg approved the bill, which now goes to european legislators to pass in law. they say the deadline was for investment in europe and help the continent meet its goals are becoming climate neutral by 2050. but so far that you has not been able to agree on a time table to face out fossil fuel, power, buses, and trucks. or course wanted better ego joins us now from strossberg burnt. why has europe focused on a hard deadline for phasing an electric other countries like the u. s. don't even have one was the goal for the european union is said to protect the climate and to

all across europe they do what they can help and continue to do so. cultural leaders, including the first lead -- lady of poland who is here tonight have lead with heart and determination showcasing all that is good about the human spirit. madame first lady, we love you. thank you all. [applause] i will never forget last year, visiting with refugees from ukraine who just arrived to warsaw. seeing their faces exhausted and afraid, holding children so close. worried they may never see their fathers, husbands, brothers, sisters again. in the darkest moments of their lives, you the people of poland offer them safety and liked. -- light. you literally embraced them. i watched the looks on their faces. meanwhile, together we make sure , russia is praying -- paying the price for its abuses. continuing to maintain the largest sanction regime ever posed -- imposed on any country in history. we will announce more together. this week without partners. the hold accountable those just possible for this war and seek justice for war crimes and crimes against humanit

i do believe europe needs to consolidate. if you think about the u.s., it is three operators india, two or three operators. china, three you see many countries having consolidated europe with 200 operators. four plus in almost every country. it is an industry structure that is probably unsustainable. that needs to be addressed >> and you mentioned the geopolitics for a long time with questions of huawei. chun the chinese are back at the event. how is china playing in the telecom and also tech? >> i often say why are we interested in this we talk about one global standard we as a mobile ecosystem have done something that is pretty unique we have a true global scale. we have 8.5 billion subscriptions around the world if you think about that, that gives access to almost anyone to communicate wherever you are in the world you can communicate on a cell phone network that is critical for our industry to maintain the value for society is so big and we don't talk about the advanced applications. somebody called their grandchildren fr

i'm glad that the focus today is on europe. ukraine belongs to europe. we are looking ahead to the path. for sweden, this is the backdrop. it permeates everything we do. i totally agree with the ambassadors. this is existential for not only ukraine, but also for europe as a whole and for our european identity. what kind of union we want to be, how we see our future, how we are handling it. our role, is to contribute to that unity among member states. i think it has been extraordinary, the unity we have shown, imposing sanctions. we probably surprised president putin. we might've surprised even our american colleagues. in such conference of ways. but, i also want to bring up, this is about our own identity. this is an important task to mitigate the global repercussions of this when it comes to food security and energy. ryan: you have to have two parallels, two arguments? >> true. ryan: how does that feel in ukraine? you're closer than ever to the eu, but still a long way from membership. can you talk about the tension? great success over the past year, bu

so strength in europe against not just against russia, but mainly to keep europe apart from russia. because it h a soon saw that there is a potential of cooperation because they're in the same continent after all, economic corporation, political corporation, between germany, france, and russia. and once this continent unites economically, politically, that's the end of the u. s. supremacy in the new world order built after the 2nd will work through the united states has, has had its troops and military bases in europe to can russia in europe far away from each other. although there has been some beneficial cooperation energy trade out with germany. there was some cooperation and trade with friends and many other european nations. but even when the american troops present here in europe, there were certain limits to how far in the united states with push. and one could argue that it all changed in ukraine because for some reason, when it came to ukraine, somewhere around 20132014. and definitely a around the early 2020, the united states decided that, you know, those red lines. no lo

so strength in europe against not just against russia, but mainly to keep europe apart from russia. because it h, as soon saw that there is a potential of cooperation because they're the same continent after all, economic corporation, political corporation, between germany, france, and russia. and once this continent unites economically, politically, that's the end of the u. s. supremacy in the new world order built after the 2nd will work through the united states has, has had its troops and military bases in europe to can russia europe far away from each other. although there has been some beneficial corporation energy trade out with germany. there was some corporation and trade with france and many other european nations. but even when the american troops present here in europe, there were certain limits to how far in the united states with push. and one could argue that it all changed in ukraine because for some reason, when it came to ukraine, somewhere around 20132014. and definitely a around the early 2020, the united states decided that, you know, those red lines. no longer

s. against the people in europe, it's against the economy in europe. because america now wants to psycho europe for its own benefit. and they want to make sure that germany, especially, but europe, economy is under the some of the us and they cannot survive on their own. so europeans are now, or some, or europeans are now recognizing that this is the case. and they did really bad behavior against the european economies. you don't do this because of the environment you do this because of he can nomic dependence is this is the war of the us. again, europe against germany, especially according to say, my hearse. it's the us who are behind the blow up of the north stream to pipeline to make it exclusively, but only the u. s. and norway can deliver, get us is getting rid of a competitor with the help of their puppets. in the european commission to news ian has described us quote, a blatant interference in a sovereign nations of furs and address made to protesters by a senior e. u official who has now been expelled from the north african country. your side,

that's often due to the natural gas benchmark for europe. you see a said here in march, another spike in august, but prices after that also fell back to pre war levels helped by unusually warm weather and therefore lower consumer demand. but even various pre war prices abnormally high more than 3 times what they were just 2 years ago. the european commissions has covered 19 supply them on disruptions exacerbated by the war. and ukraine is making these high energy prices the new norm. while, while europe's reduced its reliance on russian gas imports, moscow is still a major supply and a significant chunk of it goes by ukraine. i sent adrian finnegan, now in case i sent those deliveries to europe via nest natasha. those deliveries to europe by ukraine of continue despite the war you create hasn't been ported cast directly from russia since 2015. which means that moscow can't wield it as an economic weapon, instead, wash and air attacks of targeted ukraine's electrical infrastructure. let's go to charles traffic is near the palm headquarters of

probably the largest deposits from metals and rare earth in europe. these are building blocks that are important for the green transition of industry, also via hilt, aven ya. of either get on the shifter. currently, china is dominating the market for rare earth. europe does not want to be reliant on china any more, and has been ramping up its search for domestic resources. titanium, you dinner, hollywood in motive. it's dangerous that china has a quasi monopoly on the production of some raw materials, and it has used these to monopolize entire supply chains, shita. but if norway wants to mind more raw materials at home, this will lead to conflict with locals. for years, residents of no stall had been fighting a major mining project on fed a fjord. all you will die. good. are you project that we oppose this project? because they want to cut off the top of angular mountain and plan to dump 250000000 tons of mining, sludge, chemicals, heavy metals and micro plastics, straight into one of the regions most fish, rich fjords. if you would have nordic mining

they need, especially europe because the u. s. has a lot of sanctions against exporting high tech to china, so they need to kind of clawback influence in europe. have a charm offensive make the europeans think that they're on their side and that that's why they're trying to sell the idea of being a mediator. because they need to buy high tech from the high tech that the u. s. won't sell them. in addition to that, they need access to european markets and they want for direct an investment from europeans. and there's also the issue of captured elite we seen in europe. certain industries like perhaps the car industry will benefit by having investments go to china. we saw immediately after the i have concerns. we are saying china has concerns of a c o meeting. chancellor shields got on a plane brought leaders of rush of german industry with them to beijing to make deals. and so i think that there are a lot of moving pieces to all of this. and let's remember russia is a storm by china is really climate changes as one way to put it. yea

but speaking about europe, i can really only repeat best that it's still very difficult. many often projects thought because of missing is leah reliable, practically working regulation. several countries are beginning to introduce winful taxes to prevent oil and gas firms from profiting excessively from the energy crisis. if some of those billions where to be we invested into renewables, it could help fuel the push for climate protection. and a reminder of the top story, we're following for you this hour on the anniversary of the invasion of ukraine, the united states, as a fresh wave of sanctions on russia, as well as a new rent of 8 breed crane, worth $2000000000.00. and that's it. from me for more you can always check i d, w dot com slash business. we're on the d w news, youtube channel, as well from me and the business team here in berlin. 8th, bye bye. take 3. making the headlines and what's behind them? dw news africa, the show that faculty issues in the continent life is slowly getting back to normal you way on the street to give you enough reports on the inside. o

types infrastructure across europe to provide itself multiple options. and of course, that really relies on unity with the exception of hungry. the e. u has been relatively united in its efforts to reduce russian energy imports. but there are questions about whether that result will hold. what is your take on not like i'm optimistic because it after 99 rounds of sanctions that have passed, it is unbelievable to see 27 nations coming together and agreeing on this. even if there had to be some concessions. me or countries like 100 in the end of the day, that is an incredible success story. and right now they're working on the 10th wave of sanctions. and of course we're waiting to see what the final rollout will look like. but as of right now, there is still tremendously some strong support for your brain. 5 and this support is not just for ukraine, it is for europe, independence for energy sovereignty, because strong independent ukraine is also a strong and economically robust europe because it opens up more economic opportunities. it decreases risks and a

than in europe. that's why i'm here. it's interesting you say that because i also love lebanon. i used to go there when i was reporting on the war in syria, and it was such a respite. and one thing that stuck with me is you describing lebanon as a place where you found a freedom of mind that this is a very interesting type of freedom. what do you mean by that? well, it's not the freedom that is stipulated in a constitutional paper. it's not all this freedom commitments that are here all the time. i insert to european union. no, it's a freedom that is lived in the sense of live and let live you know, people live next to each other. they don't live with each other. this is also affect lebanon, was his 8 in different ethnic groups. every traveler station that we have seen throughout the many chapters of protected war. ah, but there's consensus, does the minus consanzo isn't as what europe is missing, where we only see black and white now in lebanon? you have grey. this isn't a very interesting question,

among nato ed in europe, a more present in africa. look up african to look at africa is crucial for the future. to leave africa in chinese bend is a big mistake for everybody here. africa chose china as its largest trading partner in foreign direct investor. why is europe trying to drag africa into its fat with china as well? they sound upset that the girl thereafter doesn't want to eat at their table in the school cafeteria. maybe she just likes to hang with different groups of people. okay. and what about american bases in 5 african countries? does the italian. ringback foreign minister, mind the uncle sam's hands are all over africa, or is that no problem? because that's his body. how many times have we heard the west concern trolling africa as in lookout? don't let china just because it's a deck. trop. turns out that africa owes 3 times more debt to western private lenders than it does to china. that's according to world bank data. and someone else was back on the scene evoking his neo colonialist fantasies regarding africa. again

and that is something that we in europe do not have yes. and what we need to address in the future, so that there are clear incentives, invest the light technologies that are still more expensive. a funny, how do you see consumers benefiting from all this, from the subsidy race and the investments going on around the world in the green energy front. and then ultimately over the long term. as we have seen already with renewable such as busy or on shore. and offshore wind, if you increase the scale of production in a certain technology, in a certain product, them costs down to come down. it's not as a rule that will always have one, but in most cases, if you can increase the skill then since will become more affordable. and that is a good thing for consumers around the world. milan really interesting to talk to you about the subject, milan elk, about from the center for european policy studies in brussels. thank you. and iraq has re valued its currency as part of an effort to stabilize the foreign exchange market. the cabinet has approved a d

. >> the countdown is on in europe. this is bloomberg markets, european close with guy johnson and alix steel. dani: some serious whiplash and markets right now. 10 minutes ago i said european equities were changing. up 2/10 of 1%. telecoms and consumer goods beating gains. able to put in some strengthening versus the dollar. your cable rate so far today. we had a hot jobs wage growth number coming into the u.k. surpassing expectations the hyacinths data started to be collected in 2001 setting aside the covid era weirdness of that data. that has increased rate height expectations from the boe. the peak about 10 basis points higher. could see your reaction in the two year yield. of course it's not just the u.k. story this is moving off of. it's also off of sympathy in the u.s. market right now. alix: a pretty chunky move for the front end of the two-year. it raises the question what's priced in. i've no idea what to make of market action. you know the equity market has been with flashed all over the place. we were down b

go to europe among nato ed in europe. a more present in africa. look at african to look at africa is gruesome for the future. to leave africa in janice and is a big mistake for everybody here. africa shows china as its largest trading partner in foreign direct investor. why is europe trying to drag africa into it's fat with china as well? they sound upset that the girl thereafter doesn't want to eat at their table in the school cafeteria. maybe she just likes to hang with different groups of people. okay. and what about american bases in 5 african countries? does the italian foreign minister mind that uncle sam's hands are all over africa? or is that no problem? because that's his body. how many times have we heard the west concern trolling africa as in lookout? don't let china and ask because it's a deck trop. turns out that africa owes 3 times more debt to western private lenders than it does to china. that's according to world bank data. and someone else was back on the sea in evoking his neo colonialist fantasies regarding africa . again, chie

s. against the people in europe, it's against the economy in europe. because america now wants to suck out europe for its own benefit, and they want to take, make sure that germany, especially, but europe, economies is under the thumb of the us and they cannot survive on their own. so the europeans are now, or some, or europeans are now recognizing that this is the case and that they did really bad behavior against the european economies. something else that i think doesn't get enough critical response, because maybe it's just not knowing about the issue. i q of net 0, not, it's been called a quasi religious drive to get fossil fuel emissions done to nothing. know, people support again thing it's going to be wonderful. it's going to harold, a new world. but other say it's going to be expensive. it's going to kill industries, it's going to hit the purse of the pur and other negative fissures. and the thing here is that europe is all for it. the they're going for, they're pushing other countries as well, in africa cetera. but the u. s. hasn't signed onto

they need especially europe because the u. s. has a lot of sanctions against exporting high tech to china, so they need to kind of clawback influence in europe. have a charm offensive make the europeans think that they're on their side and that that's why they're trying to sell the idea of being a mediator. because they need to buy high tech from the high tech that the u. s. won't sell them. in addition to that, they need access to european markets and they want for direct an investment from europeans. and there's also the issue of captured elite we see in europe. certain industries like perhaps the car industry will benefit by having investments go to china. we saw immediately after the i have concerns. we are saying china has concerns at a c o meeting. chancellor shields got on a plane brought leaders of rush of german industry with them to beijing to make deals. and so i think that there are a lot of moving pieces to all of this. and let's remember russia is a storm by china is really climate changes as one way to put it. yeah

this is the mainstream on the north east of europe. and now we're told that that the center piece, you know, the central european union is moving now it's full and the bullet, you know, if you're in europe was playing the words that's ideologically ok. it and no, no other sense. ok, or it's chose the relative weakness of the most western part of the continent, which is really kind of pathetic, but probably expected. george, you know, russia expansion is russia. i mean, in, in the last 3 years, it only makes that has been expanding, not russia, whether you learn later, the defensive alliance, i mean, everything like very defensive. as i said, that's right. there was a problem with the euro, and i say is that it has very weak leadership at the moment what you would need somebody in the west. so could just take the situation by the scruff of the neck, so to speak, and just bring it to an end. you know, you need somebody was just going to say this policy is not. we have to bring this to an end. it makes no sense. it's not advancing, are in

i am team europe. europe has a lot of appeal right now. if you look at every sector in europe, there is a discount. it is very effective for investors, and the negativity that was priced in last year, going into a recession with all the troubles from the energy sector is being priced out, and it is hard to look through those upcoming tightening from the central bank. then you have to link to china on top of that. europe is looking strong at the moment. dani: i am worried we are all biased. everyone here is voting for europe. alix: i will fight it. i'll think about that for a second. dani: someone needs to hold down the fort. wes going to that story further. write down why europe is a bigger beneficiary of china reopening than the united states? jan-patrick: the connection has been stronger in the past and probably will be stronger moving forward. you have imports and exports linked to the country. you have, as you mentioned, a strong luxury consumer link that is going into the chinese as well as domestic consumption. they are consuming eur

so strength in europe against not just against russia, but mainly to keep europe apart from russia. because it h a soon saw that there is a potential of cooperation because they're in the same continent after all, economic corporation, political corporation, between germany, france, and russia. and once this continent unites economically, politically, that's the end of the u. s. supremacy in the new world order built after the 2nd will work through the united states has, has had its troops and military bases in europe to can russia in europe far away from each other. although there has been some beneficial corporation energy trade out with joe many, there was some corporation and trades with friends and many other european nations . but even when the american troops present here in europe, there were certain limits to how far in the united states with push. and one could argue that it all changed in ukraine because for some reason, when it came to ukraine, somewhere around 20132014. and definitely a, around the early 2000 twenties, the united states decided that, you know, those red

what is happening will shape the future of europe for decades. we cannot pretend that this is a normal conflict, as many of them were before in europe. this is why i was first saying in march, let's give candidate status for ukraine which several countries said definitely not, over my dead body, but hopefully it happens quite soon because in june 2022, we accepted candidate status. today, we need to have a very accelerated path. >> mitch mcconnell, what about ukraine joining nato? should that be an accelerated path now? >> the job is to win the war. us go back to the path you made. this has implications far beyond the process. huge implications in asia. we all know that the prc covets taiwan. just for a moment, let's take a look at asia. our secretary of defense was recently in the philippines, negotiating new arrangements with them. japanese, much like the germans, have completely changed their post-world war ii view of the role they ought to play in the world, in a positive direction. almost like an unofficial member of nato in asia. the stakes

, europe depended 40% for imports from russia. by summer, that disappeared. so europe, if you look at the chart for gas prices last year you see prices spiking and, you know, as you say it's multiples of where they were today. in fact, the price has come down since then but that was a scramble. there was a scramble for international supply now that supply has been partly filled by l&g exports from united states and from norway. so incredible job in europe to diversify supply also to build up storage if you look at the winter price you see a mild winter characteristic of what happened in europe. we got through a mild winter, with european commission requiring the european storage system which has not been big -- caught off guard at the beginning of last year, to fill up so by november the european markets were at about 90% storage levels they've done it. but the reason why prices are sitting where they are, is storage levels are expected to be pretty much full again by september of this year. >> jonathan, let me ask you, you delive

probably the largest deposits from metals and rare earth in europe. these are building blocks that are important for the green transition of industry, also via hilt, orvin ya, of either get on the shifter. currently, china is dominating the market for rare earth. europe does not want to be reliant on china any more, and has been ramping up its search for domestic resources. titanium you dinner folly. but in motive, it's dangerous that china has a quasi monopoly on the production of some raw materials. and it has used these to monopolize entire supply chains, shita. but if norway wants to mind more raw materials at home, this will lead to conflicts with locals. for years, residents of no stall had been fighting a major mining project on fed a fjord all the time group project that we oppose this project because they want to cut off the top of angular mountain and plan to dump 250000000 tons of mining, sludge, chemicals, heavy metals and micro plastics, straight into one of the regions most fish, rich fjords. if you would have nordic mining has now recei

busy life blood and europe's economic engine. so before even the conflict in ukraine popped off, that was an issue. and jeffrey sachs, a prominent american economist now a professor at colombian iep columbia university. sax is, again speaking out, calling hirsch's account of the nordstrom explosions, pretty much a no brainer. frankly, it's been obvious from the start. this was not an easy operation to carry out of the kind of operation that day, the cia and other a covert parts of the u. s. government do carry out rather routinely by the way, yet they blow up lots of infrastructure over time. i try to keep it to him, but it was hard to keep this one hidden because the united states was basically the only country with the motive. that means and rather remarkably having announced beforehand that the intention was to end nord stream. yeah. and also go figure that the 2 nations accused of the nord stream, sabotaged in hurst, his report, the u. s. and norway also just happened to be the 2 countries that have now replaced russian gas s

and europe. and we did it wonderfully, well courtney did i mention very smooth transition we have with our service and it's working well. we need to do this thing for cleantech. so u.s. dollars with the ira, that's what we need to have also. our new chip act like we did for the one, and i'm convinced it will work. but we had to work and cooperation, not in competition. >> just onn that, one of the things that strikes me is the challenges of u.s.-eu operation is with two very complex unions, two complex democracies as he outlined for t the united state, the passage of the ira was incredibly complicated, negotiations behind closed doors.cr and then when the eu or the u.s. comes up with a new law or new regulation, it'sry been very had for us to change it comparably to adapt to the concerns of the united states or the european union. and i'm curious, the training technology council that is been set up between the u.s. and the eu has been highlighted by this administration as an example of transatlan

it adara that the whole europe was against the soviet union during the 2nd world war. so essentially we have action replay of saudi propaganda. bach with use of, you know, more than television techniques, social media, and relentless, 247 propaganda. and that makes it auth warren, dangerous d. w. consenting again in vilnius. thank you so much. thank you. appleton, he is german support for a ukraine to draw a parallel with nazi germany. i asked italy and political correspondence. simon young at berlin as prepared for this kind of frederick. yeah, i think so. i think vladimir putin has done this again and again, he's got his own version of how the world works. he says that he's in ukraine fighting what he calls ukrainian nazi isn't now here is doubling down with frankly offensive suggestion that the modern federal republic of germany is somehow in league with nazis. but of course, german leaders know very well that it's, it's easy to misrepresent your support, giving now to ukraine as it, as it battles against the invader. as by making these comparisons that putin makes

so part of the american money is also for catching up to europe. then another 6070000000000 will really be about industry. and this is where most of the discussion is euro in europe is a box because the industrial sectors are about traded goods. and this is where the competition can really play a role in europe has also supported industrial innovation quite a bit over the last decade. but it has really focused on the early stage innovation, basically research and development. what the u. s. is doing now is providing direct funding for, for production and for investment. and that is something that we in europe do not have yes. and what we need to address in the future. so that the, our yeah, clear incentives. invest the technologies that are still a bit more expensive. a funny, how do you see consumers benefiting from all this, from the subsidy race and the investments going on around the world in the green energy front. and then ultimately over the long term. as we have seen already with renewable such as maybe or on shore, and also wind. if you in

ford has announced plans to slash 3800 jobs in europe over the next 3 years. the cuts are to be focused in the areas of product development administration. the automaker sites rising costs and the need for a leaner structure as a pivots to electric vehicles. most of those cuts will be in germany and the u. k. meanwhile, europe has set a deadline for saying good bye to cars power powered by fossil fuels. the european parliament setting a new law banning their cell from 2035 while makers in strasbourg approved the bill, which now goes to european legislators to pass in law. they say the deadline was for investment in europe and help the continent meet its goals of becoming climate neutral by 2050. but so far the has not been able to agree on a time table to face out fossil fuel, power, buses, and trucks. or course what it better. he joins us now from strossberg burnt. why has europe focused on a hard deadline for phasing an electric? other countries like the u. s. don't even have one where the goal for the european union is said to protect the climate and to mak

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