and central europe. joining us is our reporter in brussels, maria tadeo. she is joined by a guest from the ebrd. maria? maria: yes, anna, good morning. 21 billion euros in loans to help combat the coronavirus. it is also worth putting out that the european bank for reconstruction and development has an explicit mandate. they already hit their target of 40% of refunding. we are joined by its president, the first female president, odile renaud-basso. i know you care a lot about equal access and equality. that is the goal of the institution that you lead. how much do you worry that coronavirus will set everyone back on that quest for equality when it comes to investment? guest: thank you very much. i am happy to be with you this morning. indeed, the covid crisis has setback economies. countries that spend more on tourism have been harmed, as well as countries relying on oil and gas. the impact of the covid crisis on the different economies is quite different. the impact of the crisis is very different. [no

all of europe. yeah. just say that they see it as united states kind of meddling. their sphere of influence that they earned with their soldiers killed. yeah now that's a great question, which we should pick up does the marshall plan reach into eastern europe. does it medal in the soviet sphere of influence? does it option to invite country exactly gives the opera marshall speech and the initial invitation to come come and talk about marshall aid. so everyone's invited. everybody's invited this it is a policy against no individual state they say it has no ideological objectives. so the open invitation is indeed to the eastern european states. what do the europeans leaders do remember? a couple of them the checks and others rsvp for it yeah, we'll see you there. yeah. there's initial interest. of course, there's terrible economic hardship in crisis. so some eastern european states. it's very tempted by this. the soviets say no stalin says sorry you can't do it precisely because he's afraid that this

in europe, they are talking about 4%. you could say the uk stimulus package is pretty weak compared to its competitors. very difficult to compare because the uk has been a bit more generous on the support scheme. which bucket do you put this money into? the question will be, as stephanie was saying, the lesson from the financial crisis was that those who did more earlier did better. if biden are saying, "i can't spend too much", people would say that the lesson in the uk was that we didn't fix our banks quickly enough and the us did. most economists would say the risks are on doing too little, not doing too much. fascinating. to europe, where growth has been sluggish and unemployment, especially among the young, has been high for a decade now. will the pandemic exacerbate the problems in the european economies? will it open up structural cracks in the eurozone? with very different budgetary positions in the respective nations, will the response in europe be further integration, of taxation, for example, or will the crisis

troubled by what we see and hear right so i think you know the issue with europe is europe still has this concept of itself you know these nation states in the cities i'm french i'm german we're white french were white german without understanding that the concept of europe historically was more around the mediterranean so you have people on the mediterranean now who are no longer considered european but historically and when it culture were so the issue is where do you start looking right and i think european culture right now has been stuck since the age of conquest and exploration. going. on into these weapons of fate let us. bring i just want to add more because i'm not your pm and i don't i would like to hear from from from one from europe what do you think about this because i from my rams perspective point of view when i came here to 15 and i see all these welcoming narrative and all their narrative that you know i think i have. but he now in the united states. diplomatic super correct when you refer to my friends and yet you see that not much has been. so. ok you are of the m

and has now caught on in europe. welcome to the 1st tick tocks shared apartment in italy please take soccer's have lived together since october 2020 this stylish milan apartment is their stage and their mission is to produce content for social media 21 year old simona bellini is the oldest resident. says more than just a home for a tick tock it's a place that helps us develop personal. we all want to do something with our lives and make our dreams come true mine is to become an actor. but i mean everyone here has different dreams and ideas we all want to achieve something. most of them are already tick-tock stars with over a 1000000 followers every day they polish their on camera performance. martial arts acting classes are on the program together they produce short video clips benefiting from each other's popularity to reach a wider audience. 'd the 500 square meter apartment boasts trendy colors and modern design every element is a real eye catcher put in just the right place. because being successful on social med

europe is doing well. participation of women in the labor market has risen in the last does of decades. -- in the last two decades. in all the prime work years a woman is more likely to work in europe than the u.s.. that was not true 20 years ago. europe has made great strides at utilizing more resources women have. at the corporate level, women are contributing more. there is now about a third of board members across europe are women. the disappointing factor is while that has moved up a lot, a huge gain in just a few years, we see very few women at the very top levels. the executive directors, the cio, the cfo level. i still think there is a lot more to go. in terms of how women can contribute to performance, my view is greater diversity is good in itself. i find the companies with the largest portion of women on their board about performed -- have outperformed. guy: is that a reason to invest in europe? if you look at the long-term trajectory, most people are investing for the long term. what impact doe

europe will be within target range. and on present trends a direct threat to american shores is likely to mature if that is the right word early in the next century. ad weapons of mass destruction to rogue states. and you have a highly toxic compound. as a cia has pointed out of the nations that have or are acquiring weapons of mass destruction many are led by megalomaniacs and strong men of proven inhumanity. or by week unstable or illegitimate governments in some instances the potential capabilities at the command of these unpredictable figures. either equal to or even more destructive than the soviet threat to the west in the 1960s it is that serious. indeed it is more serious than that we in the west may have to deal with a number of possible adversaries each with different characteristics in some cases their mentalities differ from ours even more than those of our old cold war enemy. so the potential for misunderstanding is great, and we was therefore be very clear in our own minds about our strategic intentions. a

russia is the other europe russia is the europe they don't want to be it's a state which they. they regard as. reactionary nationalistic religious patriotic. and so on all of things all of al use that they reject europe the european union wants to be unhistorical post national and so on and that's why russia is like a sort of guilty conscience for the way they have their own internal political purposes they have to. hate russia and say they hate russia and when i say internal political purposes i mean that in the strongest possible sense of the term because just as in the united states of america conservatives and others in. they basically conservatives in europe very often attacked as being russian 5th columnists in other words it serves a very straightforward political purpose which is to insult and discredit people who don't agree with various aspects of western foreign policy so for all those reasons i don't think that there's any prospect at least not in a short or even medium term of any improvement same same question to you. because it's you know this kind of thing but w

it is variable across europe. - uk. i haven't done this calculation. it is variable across europe. over l it is variable across europe. over ten to i2% in some of the scandinavian countries. parts of europe where the majority of health care workers have been vaccinated so i haven't done those calculations but thinking about how long it took from us from the 9th of december two now, almost heading towards a mid—late march, to get to four in ten, in some countries in europe are really below 8%, it will take some time. �* ~ , ., , , time. but the key really is the vaccination _ time. but the key really is the vaccination programme. - time. but the key really is the vaccination programme. that| time. but the key really is the l vaccination programme. that is time. but the key really is the - vaccination programme. that is what will help unlock europe the way potentially it will help unlock the uk? ., . . ., ., potentially it will help unlock the uk? ., ., ., , uk? the vaccination programme is the key measure — uk? the vaccination programme is the key measure in — uk? the vaccin

so you talk about disarray in europe. and i would add to that the fact that countries like hungary and poland and slovakia and the czech republic are now going to get their vaccines from china and/or russia. the austrians and the danes are talking about vaccine partnerships with israel. so much for the solidarity of the eu dealing with this crisis cohesively and together. it'sjust not happening any more. the disarray is getting worse. yes, but the european solidarity is weakening. why is it weakening? because the european union, as such, is unable to manage at the request, the extent, the response to the covid crisis. and so member states are trying to have the vaccine wherever they can get it. of course, covid has created a massive economic challenge for the european union. there is a recovery plan which involves more than 700 billion euros of new debt taken on by the commission to be spread out across the worst—affected areas and to be tied to the forthcoming eu budget. but there are many governments in europe who are

in europe, controversy from the beginning with astrazeneca, how do we restore confidence in europe? oksana: yes, again, incredibly important to emphasize the risks from covid, a known risk is much higher, not only from a hospitalization and death, but we are only one year into this to see what the disability burden will be versus anomalies around blood clotting. we will hear more about it tomorrow. the regulatory expertise has been pooled together and data scrutinized further. in some counterintuitive way we can see these regulatory bodies in germany and other countries are scrutinizing the data. they are doing their job, but to an extent when we are in the middle of a pandemic. we have heard from the who the more that we allow community transmission to carry on, when we suspend vaccinations, other countries do not have vaccines in their hands -- that is another issue -- this promotes the variants. we have to be extremely cautious around this, and i feel the damage has been done. manus: should europe export the astrazeneca vaccine that they are left with that people do not want? if

but india has halted exports and europe is threatening to. stefanie, let's talk about what is happening. they are pretty troubled by what has been happening. they singled out the uk in particular. what is there problem and what of the changes that are likely to follow from this? do you think they are follow —— they will follow through on the threats? yes, well, it's a very interesting question. for now, it has only been threats. interestingly, there are reports in the uk and also back in europe that right now, there are talks going on between the british government and the european commission, who have found an agreement after what has been a very tumultuous week, where the european commission actually made their possibilities to stop exporting vaccines produced in europe to the uk and to other parts of the world even more likely and stronger measures that they can take. so, they said that in the future, the european commission would look at proportionality and how many vaccines the country actually has which is receiving vaccines from eu

and the worsening picture in europe could have an | picture in europe could have an impact on the uk, the government made clear. i impact on the uk, the government made clear-— impact on the uk, the government made clear. i think what's going on in euroe made clear. i think what's going on in eumpe is — made clear. i think what's going on in eumpe is a _ made clear. i think what's going on in europe is a real— made clear. i think what's going on in europe is a real wake-up - made clear. i think what's going on in europe is a real wake-up call- made clear. i think what's going on in europe is a real wake-up call to | in europe is a real wake—up call to us, and a warning. people that say we could ease restrictions sooner, we could ease restrictions sooner, we need to look at what's happening in the past and rises in europe have led to rises in the uk. i am hopeful it won't happen this time, not least thanks to the vaccine, but we really do have to stick by the rules to prevent this happening. in a do have to stick by the rules to prevent this happening. in a sign of how the fate

and has now caught on in europe. welcome to the 1st tick-tock shared apartment in italy please take soccer's have lived together since october 2020 this stylish milan apartment is their stage and their mission is to produce content for social media 21 year old simona bellini is the oldest resident. says more than just a home for 8 it's a place that helps us develop personal. we all want to do something with our lives and make our dreams come true mine is to become an actor. but i mean everyone here has different dreams and ideas we all want to achieve something. most of them are already tick tock stars with over a 1000000 followers every day they polish their on camera performance. martial arts acting classes are on the program together they produce short video clips benefiting from each other's popularity to reach a wider audience. the 500 square meter apartment boasts trendy colors and modern design every element is a real eye catcher put in just the right place. because being successful on social media means makin

and has now caught on in europe. welcome to the 1st tick tocks shared apartment in italy please take doctors have lived together since october 2020 this stylish milan apartment is their stage and their mission is to produce content for social media 21 year old simona bellini is the oldest president. says more than just a home for a tick tock it's a place that helps us develop personal. we all want to do something with our lives and make our dreams come true mine is to become an actor. but i mean everyone here has different dreams and ideas we all want to achieve something and. most of them are already tick tock stars with over a 1000000 followers every day they polish their on camera performance. martial arts acting classes are on the program together they produce short video clips benefiting from each other's popularity to reach a wider audience. 'd the 500 square meter apartment boasts trendy colors and modern design every element is a real eye catcher put in just the right place. because being successful on social

any markets, but the europe market. we saw the markets attracting the interest in many investors, particularly u.s. investors when there was no stimulus by the european union and other european banks. it is more from a sentiment perspective that europe can once again move forward as a bloc and having no internal disputes. anna: thank you very much for joining us. bibiana carretero, senior portfolio manager at efg asset management. let's get a bloomberg first word news update. laura: the european union is escalating with the u.k. -- a spat with the u.k. over vaccines. they are ready to start blocking the administration of astrazeneca to great britain until the drugmaker fulfills its obligations to the e.u.. both sides are blaming the other for vaccine nationalism. u.s. defense secretary lloyd austin made an unannounced visit to afghanistan this weekend. washington is weighing the future of u.s. troops in the country. the former administration made a deal to bring the 2500 personnel home. president biden says the deadline

-- situation in europe. president xi jinping warns beijing will go after so-called platform companies. the latest on china's tech crackdown live from con tong -- hong kong next. this is bloomberg. ♪ mberg. ♪ annmarie: this is "daybreak: europe." i am annmarie hordern with manus cranny. xi jinping warns beijing will go after so-called platform companies as china's tech crackdown widens. the president is ordering the oversight of internet firms, crackdown on monopolies, and promote fair competition. they allegedly have their sights set on tencent after cracking down on ant group. thank you for joining us. pretty strong language from what we hear on china state media. what is your take on what is coming out of china today from president xi? >> as you mentioned, china kicked off its tech crackdown at the end of last year and it is the first time the top guy gave a d killed comment on the situation. -- detailed comment on the situation. xi jinping mentioning beijing will go after tech companies. they didn't m

and has now caught on in europe. welcome to the 1st tick-tock shared apartment in italy police take soccer's have lived together since october 2020 this stylish milan apartment is their stage and their mission is to produce content for social media 21 year old simona bellini is the oldest resident. says more than just a home for 8 it's a place that helps us develop personal. we all want to do something with our lives and make our dreams come true mine is to become an actor. but i mean everyone here has different dreams and ideas we all want to achieve something. most of them are already tick-tock stars with over a 1000000 followers every day they polish their on camera performance. martial arts acting classes are on the program together they produce short video clips benefiting from each other's popularity to reach a wider audience. 'd the 500 square meter apartment boasts trendy colors and modern design every element is a real eye catcher put in just the right place. because being successful on social media means ma

russia is the other europe russia is the europe they don't want to be it's a state which they regard as. reactionary nationalistic religious patry i'll take. and so on all the things all of our use that they reject europe the european union wants to be an historical post national and so on and that's why russia is like a sort of guilty conscience for them and they they have their own internal political purposes they have to. try. and say they hate russia and when i say internal political purposes i mean that in the strongest possible sense of the term because just as in the united states of america conservatives and others in india they basically conservatives in europe very often attacked as being russian 5th columnists in other words it serves a very straightforward political purpose which is to insult and discredit people who don't agree with various aspects of western foreign policy so for all those reasons i don't think that there's any prospect at least not in a short or even medium term of any improvement same same question to you. because it's you know this kind of thing but

perceptions of europe. no, i mean, it is very true that we have had a very rigorous debate about the quality of these particular vaccines that we had the very sort of thorough examination of them. i think that's right, because the credibility of this particular approach is this is extremely important. but now the vaccine roll—out is going on in the different countries, it's accelerating. and i think we're ahead of russia, by the way, if we look at the numbers, but that is not significant. and we hope that there will be further vaccines available as well. in addition to the ones that we have at the moment. i mean, the russian vaccine has not been, they haven't applied for being able to distribute it in europe, but i hope they do that as well as well as others. i've got to ask you very quickly, carl, before i go to you, john. i mean, really, europe's not had a very good vaccine campaign. they went for this kind of collective procurement, even, you know, technically advanced. germany has to date only vaccina

do you want to avoid domestic europe and buy international europe? john: i don't think so. i think what you're looking for are the same type of trades we are seeing coming through, that cyclical rotation, that value rotation that is accorded by better global growth. i think the situation we saw during the 2010s, where europe had a banking crisis which obviously caused a second recession, we are not seeing the same kind of set up at the moment. so while it may be that the u.s. is in the driving seat for growth at the moment, i wouldn't write off global recovery. when it comes to currencies, yes, the euro has rich end up relative to the dollar. it has obviously weakened a little bit in recent days, but one thing i would look at is it is still well below what we would consider fair valuation, which would be well north of $1.30 to the dollar. in currency today, while at the margin it could be a headwind if the euro does strengthen, by and large, we feel that europe is quite well set up with a currency below what we consider its fair value. alix: what country has the potential t

cases in europe are rising. there was a official saying they're rising exponentially. 20 million people in france have gone into lockdown. the variants are rapidly spreading across europe and less than 10% of germans have been vaccinated compared to 50% of adult britons. the european commission haggle the over price and liability with the drug companies. but then more recently, the sort of mess up about astrazeneca has been extraordinary. first of all, european politicians, particularly macron, poured cold water with no basis on efficacy of the astrazeneca vaccine. he said it was quasiineffectively over people over 65 which was no evidence and more than 16 european countries temporarily suspended the vaccine as there was an increase in cases of blood clotting when there is no evident that it had anything to do with the vaccine at all. there were amount of blood clots that happened were no different than what you would expect and the u.k. more than 10 million people me included have had this vaccine and they're f

troubled by what we see and hear right so i think either the issue with europe is europe still has this concept of itself you know these nation states in the cities i'm friends i'm german where white french were white german without understanding that the concept of europe historically was more around the mediterranean so you have people on the mediterranean now who are no longer considered european but historically and when it culture were so the issue is where do you start looking right and i think european culture right now has been stuck since the age of conquest and exploration. go on. to say what you're. doing i just want to add more because how much you're pm and i don't i would like to hear from from from one from europe what do you think about this because i from my ranch perspective point of view when i came here to 15 and then i see all of these welcoming narrative and all the narratives that you know i think you have. but i know in the united states. diplomatic super correct when you refer to my friends and yet you see that not much has been. so. ok europe or most people in

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if you west you know israel even more up go do much better than europe and now since . china and russia have offered that vaccine to help europe they say all masooma coal says that this is a sign of war i mean providing help would be war i mean the says so incredibly crazy that it's you know it's terrible if i can come back briefly to the fact that when president putin announced on the 11th of august last year that jones russia had a vaccine for us want to be announced oh many leaders in europe scoffed at it saying you know that scene from russia what else and. only own well and even it made the european medicines agency one of the hits the lead that this must be a russian roulette so it was really trying to take the mick out of the situation in russia supposedly incapable of producing a vaccine then came the study of the lancet saying that the russian vaccine was one of the best comparable to the american and then on the 9th of january so many 4 months later mrs merkel said she had a conversation with president putin and that they had agreed to produce t.v. . russian v

europe's top human rights body, the council of europe, has called it a huge set back for the protection of women in and outside the country. the bbc�*s 0rla guerin reports from istanbul. even behind the mask, the defiance is clear. this was the response in istanbul to president erdogan�*s decree issued in the dead of night, pulling turkey out of the landmark treaty protecting women and girls. this in fact proves that the government enables these men, enables these men in their violence towards women, domestic violence, abuse, sexual harassment and murder. i felt the biggest ache in my heart and it'sjust the biggest disappointment as a woman you can feel in turkey. well, there's plenty of anger here. these women believe the decree is an attempt to drag them and their country back in time, to deprive them of key rights and protections. turkey's main opposition party has put it like this, "women will be kept as second class citizens and left to be killed." it was a very different picture ten years ago. turkey was first to proudly sign up to the treaty, ironically called the istanbul co

that europe doesn't need sputnik feet at all and he believes that by mid-summer europe will be able to achieve continent wide immunity without the russian vaccine and also cited issues with production in russia. we have absolutely no need for sputnik v. the russians are having a hard time making it. well this was something that a lot of our putin reacted to as well mr putin called this statement strange and also decided to ask. this wasn't a direct question for the european official but perhaps. officials in europe will hear that mr putin said whose interests do you represent is it the people or the pharmaceutical giants those who produce the other vaccines in any case this was something that drew criticism from the company that's making sputnik the as well in a tweet they called mr brett on biased against the vaccine just because it's russian but in any case the producers of sputnik v. are saying that they're ready to save more lives and like we heard from vladimir putin more and more countries are approving the use of the russian vaccines the 1st one sputnik v. in particular and anot

manus: this is "bloomberg daybreak: europe." i am manus cranny in dubai. let's take a look at cybersecurity now. a group of hackers say they have breached a massive trove of security camera data out of a silicon valley startup, gaining access to live feeds of surveillance cameras inside hospitals, jails, and carmaker tesla, amongst others. joining us now is our reporter for cybersecurity. thank you so much for being with us. how did it happen? more importantly, what do we know about the scale, the size of this hack? >> i think the scale and size of the attack are probably what are the most extraordinary things about it. on monday, a group of hackers was able to access the live feeds, as well as the archives of 150,000 surveillance cameras inside, as you said, hospitals, police departments, prisons, schools, and companies, including tesla. this is probably one of the most extraordinary aspects of this. they were able to access administrative credentials that were publicly available on the internet. they were able to use that user

and their experience of getting through this pandemic might be different from what people have in europe the united states the rest of russia but it's hard to tell that it didn't work out at the end of the day so this is it were a flight out of back to moscow and what that means well for one that means that i have to put my mask back on. when we watch movies that i think they typically make us worry about the wrong thing they make us worry about robots turning evil you know what the real threat of the past artificial intelligence is long but it turns evil but just that it turns very competent but has goals that are not aligned with our goals. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy from day shouldn't let it be an arms race is on the off and spearing dramatic development only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical daryn time to sit down and talk. business boom bust the one business show you can't afford in this i'm rachel blevins in washington coming out here up is imposing new prescriptions on vaccine expo

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other questions being asked in poland and the rest of europe why poland and the rest of europe why poland did not learn what happened in the uk? we saw this new variant with its ferocious infectiousness taking hold in the end of last year, some people might ask why europe did not go into a stricter lockdown earlier? ., .,, , ., , earlier? there are those questions of course. earlier? there are those questions of course- they — earlier? there are those questions of course. they have _ earlier? there are those questions of course. they have been - earlier? there are those questions of course. they have been asked l earlier? there are those questions i of course. they have been asked for many months now but the government says it has been under increased or consistent should i say pressure from industry, from services, to open up and also society. the health minister himself said last night that people have a feeling already that people have a feeling already that covid—i9 has been beaten to a certain extent. they have become accustomed to it so you had these competing forces with the go

, when you wanted to talk - to europe about something. britain, post—brexit, _ needs a new place in the world. the language in this| report is interesting. gone is that phrase, - much beloved of scandanavian nations, "middle power", the phrase we used - to use about britain - punching above its weight. they talk about shaping the international order, j and of course we had a look at britain's trends — - science, technology — - and britain looking to this idea of the indo—pacific tilt. you began by asking isobel- whether this is a new cold war. i don't think so. the cold war was driven by ideology, this is - driven by interests. india and china are the two most populous countries i in the world, both of them almost 1.4 billion people. i of course you are going to want to trade with those countries, l have relations with those i countries, but we are back to thatjuggling act. it seems to me it'sj always been there. how do you weigh up your values versus your interests? _ i think in this new paper we are seeing interestsl are tilting

it takes people, different ethnic groups from europe. remember what i said earlier about how not all white people are white people. there are different groups of white people. you can see that it sort people out by their proclivity for sex crimes. so people from the generic group or baltic regions of europe. basically southern and eastern europeans are more likely to be skirt chasers as opposed to these pure nordic times are all ultra soft control and discipline. they will not do anything nasty. but this is a kind of racial or ethnic stereotyping in nativism.

and across europe have received a dose of this vaccine. fewer than 40 cases of blood clots have been reported. in fact, that is less blood clots than you would see in the normal general unvaccinated population. so, i think we are all convinced this is a safe vaccine and we know it has saved lives. >> so, what do you make of this decision therefore, by a dozen european governments, including the french government, to put the vaccination rola -- rollout for the astrazeneca vaccine on hold? >> i find it a rather bizarre decision given that the ema has insisted the vaccine is safe and all the ta we have, and cleated ta in the u.k. from 11 million doses of the vaccine -- including data in the u.k., support the fact that this is a very safe vaccine. the other interesting piece of information that when you look at the data coming out from the pfizer/biontech vaccine you see similar levels of blood clots in response to people having had a vaccine. of course, we do not believe these vaccines are associated with blood clots. but why single out the o

the invitation of american power into europe. if it is an empire, it is one that is cooperative and collaborative between western states and the united states. it is true, obviously the u.s. settles on a policy that is a sharp departure from the cooperative approach that roosevelt had hoped for. it is true, i think, the u.s. bears responsibility for worsening cold war relations. worsening tensions. and, for making a peaceful resolution of u.s., soviet differences probably if unlikely impossible. but, they did it in collaboration and cooperation with thousands of allies on the european continent, and millions of europeans thought that this was a forward-looking, reasonable solution that they could support, and indeed that they could welcome. these are policy choices that are undertaken with cooperation. europeans are very well aware of what is going on in eastern europe at the same time. they understand there is an alternative form of imperial control that is not just a theoretical idea out there, but a real possibility that he co

business sector of importing and exporting to and from europe and the counterparties in europe are seeing the same thing. trading activity largely now doesn't take place. it is a permanent loss. i would like to think in a future time the u.k. will see sense and rejoin the euro zone. lisa: in the meantime, sticking with the idea that we are in a covid era, particularly in the eu, which has been slow to vaccinate, there is a question whether the ecb is bringing an eyedropper to a flood, trying to maneuver a bond market where the eu talks about delays to the vaccine rollout. the eu warning the government about the risk of further astrazeneca vaccine delays. how much does this affect your long-term outlook for the region s growth prospects and how is it changing in real time -- region's growth prospects and how is it changing in real time? ian: the longer you are in the covid hole, the longer term scarring on productivity growth. what matters long-term is productivity growth. the longer the fiscal response is on the smaller side of where it should be, and the monetary response, and i would li

our lack of vaccine or good creation so i think we can see that your europe in europe is a failure for all these kind of issues well it's going to be a big question over the next days and weeks for sure a phillipe divorce lawyer speaking to us from paris thank you for your take you millions of 'd britons in need of hospital treatment helping forced to wait for months june to the covert crisis and the u.k. hospitals are now warning they may have to cut more services unless additional funding is made available let's go through this story new data revealing some 4600000 people on n.h.s. waiting list at the end of january it is the highest number since records began in 2007 more than 300000 have a ready within a year or longer to start hospital treatment gregory metcalf is one of the patients to surgery date keeps being pushed back. i'm very much in sickle pain because obviously and if even when sure the dislocation is very serious injury on page bill so to have gone through so many like even more so now probably so the 40 or 50 times is very physically painful but i was very shocked as we

with europe really finding itself not on the same page as the u.s. on a number of issues recently be it the iran nuclear deal being the u.s. pulling out of the climate change accord under donald trump and then of course there's ongoing disagreements over the stream to gas pipeline projects so what is seems like we're seeing here is really europe calling for it to come together and to stand up against this external pressure but of course in a way that is fair on the par with those sanctions coming from the u.s. in a way that would ensure this ongoing friendly dialogue between the 2 sides the nuclear and the presidents of the 2 a political thing turned euro continent told us that he thinks the e.u. needs to form its own alliances without interference from washington. it's a good idea now or 2 to try to put new i.d.'s to have more european strategic autonomy is excess exactly what you should do to retaliate against extraterritorial measures from the united states was done with g.'s european or companies but also saw the autonomy and the. ability to euro

let's say china united states and europe on the other hand europe is the weakest link so there is a temptation for the chinese to say if you want to kind of battle we go for the weakest link not for the strong competitor united states. how far do you think europe will be willing to go particularly with that awareness of how dependent it is on china's market well i think germany is very dependent on the chinese market the rest of europe is not as dependent on chinese market china is the largest trading partner now for the e.u. i believe although it's mainly because they export so much from china they're not selling as much to china as they are to united states for example united states is more important export market for europe as a whole so europe is as martin said very reliant on the u.s. in various ways especially for its security i think that the fact that it is kind of come around on china is more a sign that they're accepting the reality as it is and that's why things like the sanctions i would argue are important because it creates moral clarity and i think as recently as december when t

if europe is not afraid of the soviets, if europe is living peacefully, they are going to, quite logically, say thank you for your service, american army, who has been there since 1945. we would like you to go home now. you are not actually that popular in many places in the world, because, frankly, no one likes to have an occupying army in their country, even an ally. and there was a lot of fire and fury politically throughout the 19 eighties over the deployment of, for example, american short-range nuclear weapons. think about what i just said and the geography of that. the united states wanted to deploy short-range nuclear weapons in germany, with a range of about 15 kilometers. the phrase that went around at that time, in the german parliament, was, you have to understand, the shorter the missile, the dead or the german. they understood that the american armies presents, in a sense, was a reason for the soviets, in their weird logic, to keep their military presence. once you have to military presence is, anything can happen. bush and those around him feared that americans might be aske

a letter which many countries are joint and in this letter we ask for europe. implementing a new digital identity it's about the speed with which that can be done not just whether it should be and when i'm talking about digital sovereignty that doesn't mean we are going to do. everything on our own but it means that europe as part of a globalized world acting in a free room based market needs to really extend its capacities and its potential together with partners and we need to look at where do we need to improve where are we doing well in ready where are they dependencies not carry risks with them and where should we set up our own european bodies and instruments in order to have greater resilience the vaccines are a case in point but so structure has often change and i think that now we need to develop proposals that really utilize all the potential that we have in the single market and we need to do this with a view to how we understand it a humane economic system where people are the focus so you need to be european gentle economy with a sense of responsib

let's say china united states or europe on the other hand europe is the weakest link so there is a temptation for the chinese to say if you want to kind of battle we go for the weakest link not for the strong competitor you the states if you how far do you think europe will be willing to go particularly with that awareness of how dependent it is on china's market well i think germany is very dependent on the chinese market the rest of europe is not as dependent on chinese market china is the largest trading partner now for the e.u. i believe although it's mainly because they export so much from china they're not selling as much to china as they are to united states for example united states is more important export market for europe as a whole so europe is as martin said very reliant on the u.s. in various ways especially for its security i think that the fact that it is kind of come around on china is more a sign that they are accepting the reality as it is and that's why things like the sanctions i would argue are important because it creates moral clarity and i think as recently as decembe

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hungary offers easy access to the rest of europe. how much of that business might involve illegal dealings no one knows for certain. i believe the fact that the government is quite friendly to the chinese immigrants vs the whole policy toward china and chinese people. reflects. a desire to have. close relations with china and this why i say is that. going to government is quite on friendly to immigrants . in hungary and public discourse the chinese people living here they do not count as immigrants. indeed orbán rarely passes up an opportunity to publicly do his chinese partners it's no accident that it also sends a message to the e.u. hungry has its sights set on the east. beyond crucial to develop this region we need external technologies and financial help. for you for european money alone is no longer enough so we welcome as a sign as being a new world order but china is looking to peace region as a place to get involved in development yankee violently under this new world order hungry has decided to profit from china as much as

russia is the other europe. russia is the europe they don't want to be it's a state which they regard as. reactionary nationalistic religious petrea take. and so on all of things all of our use that they reject europe the european union wants to be unhistorical post national and so on and that's why russia is like a sort of guilty conscience for the way they have their own internal political purposes they have to. hate russia and say they hate russia and when i say internal political purposes i mean that in the strongest possible sense of the term because just as in the united states of america conservatives and others in. they basically conservatives in europe very often attacked as being russian 5th columnists in other words it serves a very straightforward political purpose which is to insult and discredit people who don't agree with various aspects of western foreign policy so for all those reasons i don't think that there's any prospect at least not in a short or even medium term of any improvement same sam

it is hard to see how europe can fully recover as long as trades of eastern europe remains at the present low level. i had my ideas pretty well sorted out from the time i went to visit our airmen at the base. europe has recovered say to roughly the 1938 levels, but that is not enough. a europe with greater population and more social justice must have a far higher production level. above all, there must be greater integration. our men on the spot knew this. will you go ahead and ask questions? >> mrs. roosevelt, did you see a definite improvement in these countries you visited receiving martial aid? >> oh, yes, i've taken particular trouble, of course, to see our people everywhere and to actually ask. now, we've done different -- i mean, nations have done different things in different countries. i think eca has done a really outstanding job. i'm not sure that everywhere in '52 they'll be ready to stand on their own feet. >> i've been on a very short trip, but i've been to quite a number of countries, and one impression is outstandingly clear, the interdependence of these nations i personal

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