it was the e.u. is the biggest piece project since world war 2 its importance and value are a measure of what. has been i think europe is great and i believe it should become an even closer union i hope it remains. to. be told its own look. at the bottom it's a. just man game left in the season. of the happy man acacias not to take the top. leads. on t.w. . to her. you're so. good . don't miss out. on the float. plane. load. plane play. this is d w news live from sri lanka imposes a curfew after violence against muslims angry mobs have killed one person and attacked mosques and muslim owned businesses the rest follows the deadly easter attacks by islamists also coming up more deaths in sudan protests in the capital khartoum turned violent despite a breakthrough in talk.

idea that the e.u. is too weak. the mediterranean no known go seems so a delicate in the last 3 years an estimated 10000 people have lost their lives trying to cross as many of those who survived the journey ended up here and it really. why can't the e.u. solve this crisis what's the situation like today. for years refugees have been trying to reach italy via the mediterranean the e.u. has failed to relocate them evenly across the member states and italy has been largely left alone with a crisis far right populist seize the moment and were voted into power now the government has closed its illicit pause as a result the number of refugees arriving in spain quadrupled in 2018 to 40000. passed. i'm eating even. he used to pick tomatoes as a day laborer now he lives and roman campaigns against the exploitation of refugees in southern italy is agricultural sector even is going to show me a guest house for refugees here he caught her living as day laborers. but for the many of the harvest workers live in the

the e.u. these days. how do you feel about the e.u. portion if the rules are decided over our heads and just imposed on us simply britain wants to leave the e.u. would you like germany to leave to go through absolutely and we should go back to the dutch mark to get us going what's the most common preconception about the e.u. that you hear most for you know that every country does its own thing we don't really have an e.u. . would be i'm horrified by developments such as breck's it and what's happening in hungary you know it's not good that every country does its own thing on its own right now i have my doubts about it of its life or if people are fed up with the e.u. . the most often heard objections on germany is the use paymaster. the e.u. is too weak. the e.u. is too interfering. is a bureaucratic monster. ok doesn't if you're ok we're going to see if there's any truth to these ideas that go on further. by the idea. as well with an electric scooter already approved in something new countrie

the e.u. is too weak. the e.u. is too interfering. is a bureaucratic monster. ok doesn't if you're ok we're going to see if there's any truth to these ideas let's go on further and. buy the idea. well with an electric scooter already approved in some new countries and soon to be allowed in traffic in germany too. we're planning to sound out opinions not just here but also in actually poland and possibles. i take the train to hamburg to investigate the idea that germany is the paymaster that's how the people we surveyed put it. in my opinion we're paying for countries that aren't giving anything themselves just taking germany is financially robust and has good economic growth cradle in and the but there are other countries that don't and they benefit from us we're bailing out the southern european countries who are going to be driven out of the middle countries like greece need to be helped out that takes effort and no one feels like it. without its supports germany would never have become one

idea that the e.u. is too weak. the mediterranean no known this seems so a dilemma in the last 3 years an estimated 10000 people have lost their lives trying to cross and many of those who survived the journey ended up here and it really is. why can't the e.u. solve this crisis what's the situation like today. for years refugees have been trying to reach italy via the mediterranean the e.u. has failed to relocate them evenly across the member states and italy has been largely left alone with a crisis far right populist seize the moment and were voted into power now the government has closed its english pause as a result the number of refugees arriving in spain quadrupled in 2018 to 40000 feet . that. i'm eating evil sunny he used to pick tomatoes as a day laborer now he loves and lyman campaigns against the exploitation of refugees in southern the police agricultural sector. is. cheney against her for refugees he cut her living as day laborers. but. that sort of many of the harvest workers live in the g

e.u. as the basis of a new deep and special partnership for the future that was my pitch to be leader of the conservative party and prime minister that is what i set out in my lancaster house and that was what my party's election manifesto said in 2017. that is in essence what the labor party's election manifesto stated to and over 80 percent of the electorate backed parties which stood to deliver bricks it by leaving with a deal we've worked hard to deliver that but we have not yet managed it i've tried everything i possibly can to find a way through it's true that initially i wanted to achieve this predominantly on the back of conservative and do you believe. in our parliamentary system that is simply how you normally get things done i sought the changes m.p.'s demanded i offered to give up the job i love earlier than i would like and on the 29th of march the day we were meant to leave the e.u. it's just 30 m.p.'s who voted differently we would have passed the withdrawal agreement and we

nobody of these mentioned governments wants to leave the e.u. the e.u. is a democracy which is also scrambling on the right policy that about climate change policy the right for migration policy of course these other things what everybody has to deal with but nobody wants to leave the you need a strong part of and know to act to elect a new commission president that comes next and that makes the stronger when the people go to vote and also vote for constructive parties. while the polls are indicating that the breck the party for example will be the strongest force in british elections. how strong can that parliament really be if a big part of it is made up of euro skeptics it's not a big problem which is made up of 2 big part of my point of view of course but this is not at all a blocking majority or anything abruptly minority if you will and that is that the european elections will show that in many countries the center will hold very strong and already the netherlands showed 1st good indications and when you go to ireland of another wave everything is

the e.u. provided financial rescue packages in return greece had to slash government spending but a lot of the european aid money went to the big bang. many greeks lost their jobs and pensions taxes saud poverty and deprivation has become rampant here. this is the german school in athens almost all of the students are great most of them come from well to do families but they're still worried about whether they'll be able to find a job after they graduate. you know i think i've lost faith. i'm afraid for the future will i be able to work here in greece i have no idea but these things are a mess in greece right now maybe life is better in other countries this is where. many students feel they'll have to leave the country to find a job that includes a lanie kind of molly. condit i'm very he if i could stay here i would i like living in athens there's a good university here but i won't be able to find a job after i graduate so i'll have to move to another european country. we visited a nice family

the e.u. is very important for our daily lives even voters in poland and hungary which have a lot of issues of course with with brussels and its leadership but nonetheless citizens saying we believe in the e.u. and as we've heard several times we haven't seen that concrete number yet but turn out apparently has been high in member states all across europe that is also an affirmation of democracy that's point number one point number 2 interesting how we talked about reaching out to other parties because no matter what final composition we wind up with in the european parliament for sure these big mainstream blocs these big tent party blocks that we've had the european people's party the social democratic bloc they will not be as strong as they used to be together they used to essentially be in a position to pretty much steer european policy that's going to change. these parties the people's party the people's party block the munford comes from they are going to have to reach out to parties like

if our borders were protected like the e.u. parliament i'd be a huge fan of the e.u. . after several others step down if the leader york martin is the party's only m.e.p. he's hoping for a new allies europe's right wing populists are spread across several political groups morton is trying to forge a grand alliance. as a. human in the end it's all about winning votes. it's easier with a large group than with a small one it's a simple as that we will be able to exert more political influence if we're part of the right wing conservative camp. and out of. the land a few days later my turn is meeting matteo salvini italy's interior minister and leader of the northern league the labor annoyed salvini has called for a new right wing alliance and although only 3 european politicians have accepted his invitation so far he's still attracting a lot of support. your. i'm also representing the french the austrians the dutch the belgians etc etc etc. italy is interior minister as a potential leader of a new right wing europe he celebrated on italy's as a shock to the old political el

the e.u. process the e.u. negotiation process the accession talks could only start with a unanimous vote of all member countries and it can only be stopped with a unanimous vote of all member countries so if they so ever kent control the will and the sale of all 28 member countries of european union only den he can but i don't think anyone in europe will have such a great or tory t.-o. of all the countries so he's exploiting the tricky issue for his upcoming elections which is not fair because he's not being honest to his constituents so after the opposition candidate was elected to be mayor of istanbul in march present there no gun called for a rerun of the election of course european parliament's top politician of stuff said that this was another move towards dictatorship saying that under present erred on turkey's accession to the who is quote impossible do you think that the criticism is justified it is not at all justified because one president out on was not the one who called for the reelection many par

or is the e.u. capable of reform as it now stands we don't see any alternative of breaking up the e.u. is nonsense to us it's perfectly obvious that it needs to be reformed ready. even with the e.u. is the biggest piece project since world war 2 its importance and value are a measure of it but. i think europe is great and i believe it should become an even closer union i hope it remains intact and grow stronger from issues to me it's the only hope of surviving in today's world more the un virtually the to push their. nations understand i think it's good that it's the way it is it makes things easier in many ways. that's why we've had peace for 70 years and let's hope it stays that way and we can continue working on the e.u. and i hope that britain stays. in florida when it comes to young people. and not chinese for european option and nobody can say. what you think. young activists are working on. the european idea. of this time working hard against it. europe's young people. 30 minutes on w. what s

the e.u. is the largest trading bloc in the world in terms of economic output it ranks behind the united states as the head of china member states share a common currency the euro but not all countries benefit to the same extent from the union germany for example and 3 times as much as italy with intra e.u. exports there are no border controls within most of the block and no custom stairs e.u. citizens can live and work in any country and sell goods and services there but there is a huge divergence in income and living standards across the block average wages range from 4 to 43 year old an hour and solidarity it's crumbling the british want to keep out eastern europeans while hungary the czech republic and poland have refused to take in their share of refugees the e.u. has an image problem many europeans see it as detached technocratic and practically run by lobbyists but much has also improved rules about the shape of queues numbers are long gone the european commission now employs fewer civi

will complain that the e.u. isn't quite working right now that it's seen as too remote that it's not helping some of the countries or people in the way that it should and there's always a lot of talk of reform that's where all the populace say they're going to reform it from within if you want to reform the e.u. and i think i'll ask all of my guests this question what reform do you think the e.u. needs to undertake. and 1st of all they need support asians at the national level that don't just take the credit for the good things that happen nationally and put all the blame to the you level that's the trend we've been seeing and that has given you a bad name you need national politicians that actually explain also the virtues of the us then i think you need trans nationalists what we've seen in this european parliament election is that mostly national issues still dominated the debates and shaped the outcomes if you had transnational truly transnational parties and listen i think that could make a difference towar

turkey in e.u. would be the best answer to this fear is of clash of civilizations if you remember turkey and spain had established the alliance of civilizations which is today led by the former foreign minister of spain mr may get more of he knows and that organization was a response to the biggest fear that we all have that what if the different civilizations were to clash and we would end up with another world war so it turkey can send a message to 1500000000 muslims around the world that culture of democracy and culture of islam can co-exist in a very harmonious way. manfred weber who is the leading candidate for here a pain commission president says once he assumes the presidency he will drop this session talks with turkey completely what will turkey's answer be to that but actually he's not telling the truth because even if he's elected even if he is the leader he will not have such an authority the e.u. process the e.u. negotiation process the accession talks could only start with a unanimous

many see the e.u. is an abstract idea this group is participating in a job seminar near paris most of them haven't graduated from school and have never heard of exchange programs like the rest mass they feel left behind by the e.u. and the not planning to vote early 400 euro edition we have to fend for ourselves our enough it's our only chance to find a job which the e.u. isn't helping us or to allow either politicians don't care about us in social measure. i'm from a small village with 300 inhabitants. you can see the european logo on all our official buildings but that doesn't mean anything to us. the only programs that might possibly help us a local initiatives. so people know is this economist says young people are wrong to expect too much from the european union its room for maneuver is limited and open with a little can only provide money through structural fun but its programs are not targeted at specific countries demographics or classes it's up to national governments to implement concrete pro

the e.u. could do a better job of promoting itself for many it seems inaccessible technocratic and under the sway of lobbyists there has been some improvement rules on how crooked cucumbers must be are long gone and the e.u.'s administration is only about the size of a city like munich even so brussels still gets the blame for everything that goes wrong that's another reason why britain wants to leave but the european bureaucracy still has its work cut out for it as it aims for a common finance policy and more wage parity. citizens hope that they will shape the future all the block the social justice climate change or new technologies the e.u. proclaimed it wants to be a leader in key technologies like artificial intelligence but introduce europe painfully behind competitors in the u.s. and china and some critics say the e.u. has no mother but itself to blame. larger networks faster speeds new calls for regulation the next e.u. parliament has its work cut out for it when it comes to digital tr

disadvantages part of an e.u. parliament effort to get out the followers it's cold this time i'm voting volunteers can sign up on a website.

the e.u. is too weak. the e.u. is too interfering. is a bureaucratic monster. ok it isn't if you're ok we're going to see if there's any truth to these ideas let's go on further. by the idea. and well with an electric scooter already approved in something new countries and soon to be allowed in traffic in germany 2. we're planning to sound out opinions not just here but also in interleague poland and possibles. i take the train to hamburg to investigate the idea that germany is the paymaster. that's how the people we surveyed put it. in my opinion we're paying for countries that aren't giving anything themselves just taking it in germany is financially robust and has good economic growth rate in of the but there are other countries that don't and they benefit from us and we're bailing out the southern european countries we're going to be division of the middle countries like greece need to be helped out and that takes effort and no one feels like it. without its supports germany would never have become one of the world's leading exportations. the port of hombur

in the e.u. hungary's policies have met was robust criticism in march she was suspended from the european parliament's main center right group allegations that ban is undermining democracy. how far will you go what is the. burning books also victor believes that the e.u. strategy is clear the. aristocrats in brussels aim to take complete control of all the member states. but hungary wants to remain sovereign and determine its own domestic policy in the political process cannot and will not accept that. the fia victor remains firm in his political convictions and opposed to the e.u. . but there are still dedicated pro europeans in hungary the momentum movement is the centrist political party that was founded 2 years ago. and so it doesn't seem as back then the government put up stop brussels posters. we went out and covered up the brussels with stickers so that the posters who. stop moscow and stop or bond is going to get it it's difficult to be an opposition party and hungry right now. the govern

sanctions against iran e.u. leaders have urged the islamic republic to stand by its commitments under the nuclear deal which was agreed with world powers back in twenty fifteen the u.s. withdrew from the deal a year ago and iran is now threatening to abandon it unless the other signatories of the european signatories provide quick relief from u.s. sanctions. it was supposed to be the post breaks it summit shaping the e.u. future without britain well the u.k. may not yet be out it did not attend the talks a welcome respite from bracks it deadlocked but another topic overshadowed the proceedings iran's threat to have banned and the nuclear deal signed with world powers in twenty fifteen e.u. leaders of tehran to think again for the ones that will be he got us here it's now even more important that europe shows a united front. we do not want an escalation but we want to keep using diplomatic tools. we know our limitations but we all agree that the more united europe is the better the chance we have of using dialogu

is urging the e.u. to walk away from the deal iran meanwhile is urging the e.u. to keep its promises to protect the oil and banking sectors from sanctions. let's bring in our correspondent teri schultz she's following the latest in brussels hi terry so my compare was there in brussels the holding meetings what is expected to come out of this. we're really not sure samee because the meetings were thrown on at the last minute it wasn't even possible for secretary pump to see the british german and french foreign ministers all together and with e.u. foreign policy chief federica mcgreevey so he's meeting them separately and we haven't heard a whole lot yet german foreign minister said that he had spoken with pompei and expressed concerns about an escalation in the region and made clear yet once again that the e.u. very much wants to keep the nuclear deal alive at the same time with the u.s. saying it has intelligence of the possibility that iran could be planning attacks against u.s. interests they have sent more and more military resources to the region and that's

ship with the e.u. in line with the proposal put forward by the honorable members for we're going to stoke on trent central the new brics it deal will set out in law that the house of commons will approve the u.k.'s objectives for the negotiations and then peace will also be asked to approve the treaty governing that relationship before the government signs it 9 the new deal will legally obliged the government to seek to conclude the alternative arrangements process by december 2020 avoiding any need for the northern ireland backstop coming into force this commitment is made in the spirit of the amendment tabled by my own befriend the member for him and say a west pass by this house on the 29th of january and while it is not possible to use alternative arrangements to replace the backstop in the withdrawal agreement we will ensure they are a viable alternative and finally 10th we will ensure that should the backstop come into force great britain will stay aligned with northern ireland we will prohibit t

but the e.u. attitude towards turkey has not been as good turkey probably can apply to be in the book of records of guinness book of records because no other country has waited for such a long time to join any international organization in history we have been trying to become a member since 958 and it has come to a point where both the turkish public opinion and the european public opinion is sick and tired of this question so turkey can do with or without europe but europe also has to decide can they do without turkey and i think the time to answer that question is coming up so take this current foreign minister mr a china shop lew says that some member states are deliberately obstructing turkey's accession to the e.u. do you have any idea who specifically he means whisky referring to and wireless member states doing this well some of the states some of the founding members of european union nationally worry about turkey coming in because when turkey.

also on the show the e.u. has elected a new parliament we'll look at what it could mean for a common east end businesses. and how lies can cost lives we hear from an african startup the fights fake news. welcome to business i'm stephen beers in berlin good to have you with us italian carmaker fiat wants to merge with its french rival renault and create one of the world's biggest car makers save billions of dollars and raised plenty of questions about the role of rondo's current partner nissan rhinos supervisory board is considering the possible merger proposed by feet chrysler the company's largest shareholder the french government is supportive equal. the government is favorable to the move but as a rental shareholder we must look into the conditions of the deal after all of this merger must be good for the economic and industrial development of renato but also for the employees that are here when it says there will be no plant closings from a merger of the both companies would gain by combining platforms tec

she's not too keen on the e.u. funds the battle with local authorities spending them their corruption and lack of cooperation is too difficult. let him have a billing of this nation maybe they should think about sending people from brussels to those countries to see who's responsible for inspecting projects and finding out where all the money goes it's almost got to be a sense overall jenny things romania has profited immensely from being a member of the e.u. the infrastructure in the cities is much improved europe has also helped building schools and paying teachers but in roma settlements only one child in five is actually going to school for the precocious and the neighbors this has changed also the result of jenny's project. my daughter loves school i kept her at home for a while but she really wants to be in school. more than anything else education is the key to a better future for the roma communities in romania. and here are some of the other stories making news around the world u.s. president donald trump

the e.u. side most. people are going to try to make time for him but it's not clear yet when that would be i understand that he is not expected to address the full foreign ministers meeting that will be taking place today but perhaps. a short bilateral on this side but again these plans are changing minute to minute and nobody is able to pin that down yet ok well what we do know is that the e.u. foreign ministers do want to talk today about the iran nuclear deal how it could be salvaged we heard the iranian foreign minister in our piece focusing in on on banking and oil sales these are important discussions are there. absolutely and iran was always going to be part of the agenda today it just wasn't expected to take center stage they really do have a pact a pact today they're talking about libya as well which is another really crucial issue but on iran last week tensions got a lot higher because iran issued an ultimatum to the e.u. that said look either you stand up to the united states and you. do or oi

speak a little while ago she said that the e.u. remain committed to the agreement and they really holding a united front on that and what is the european strategy to salvage the nuclear deal with iran rebecca. they haven't really given a public statement about what they're going to do but they what they are going to continue doing basically keep the status quo they want to maintain the deal they they think it's a good deal they think it's an important deal and they want to continue doing business with iran so long as they can without incurring those u.s. sanctions threatened by the u.s. . basically they they want to keep going on business as usual but business leaders here in brussels have said that if they were threatened with a sanctions if if if the price for doing business with iran was to incur u.s. sanctions then they would be forced to reconsider and at the same rebecca their new tensions in the persian gulf some of the rebel says its oil tankers were attacked calling this a criminal action a threat to navigation and interna

e.u. bear in mind this was supposed to happen to months ago so we'll go straight to new correspondent to get massive is following this story she joins us from outside the british parliament. let's just get a bash as a burgomaster welcome sir theresa may is promising a new deal for the 4th time of asking what's new about it. well the she's supposed to line this out in a speech here investments and so we have to see what she really has to say but i have to say that many people who are following this story of very skeptical as to whether there is much new in it we know that she has already been negotiating with the labor opposition party for several weeks and she has try to get them round and ensure them that the u.k. will not fall behind you stand when it comes to environmental stand when is it when it comes to work has rights for example and this has failed so labor has no is has decided not to continue these negotiations so it's really interesting to see what new she can now propose that w

correspondent have there been any signs of meddling in the e.u. elections. it's around here on the part of the european institutions and that is why the european external action service has set up a team of experts a reputable lot team if you want to a swat team that is monitoring a social media and quickly once a point out if anything is happening there any signs of meddling so far and nothing from that side also points in games for the nationalist far right parties are they really drawing that much voter support yes indeed it is a big concern that there could be a landslide victory for nationalist euro skeptic parties they could clinch up to 20 percent of the seats in the european parliament the big question of course how much of an impact if that would happen if that were to happen how much of an impact it would have depends on 2 things it depends on the overall turnout in the election and it depends very much on the question if they are able to form one political group so far they are divided among several groups in the european parliament if they could

we know that britain voted to leave the e.u. because they say they have been better opportunities outside the block how supportive or perhaps how restrictive is the e.u. to its member states so in a way that is restrictive because all the policies that for instance china also the united states puts in place to create new technologies by subsidies and so on to force are not in place and european and the european union at the moment. of course britain could do that out of the block but then it would lead to huge markets that it needs to sell its new products and this is what china and united states have to have strong industrial policies but also a very big market now you just mentioned china and the united states already we're right now in an environment of very tense global trade situation we also have an awful lot of new technologies that it's very hard to keep up with how competitive is the e.u. in its current form i think it is still competitive in you know in the middle of technologies like cars and machines and so on but of