this poses all sorts of questions for europe because europe as to adjust toa europe because europe as to adjust to a world which began under 0bama and the pivots of the pacific but i'iow and the pivots of the pacific but now has an american president who is not interested in europe and not interested in having europe's back. and doesn't think that europe has anything worth having and therefore he can afford to do this? this is the first time in us history that the first time in us history that the united states has taken such action against its own allies and trading partners. but the united states sees itself as in a cold war. it has been noted that economic security is military security. for him it is important how europe, postures towards the major crisis, that in the us administration's perspective, is most dangerous and thatis perspective, is most dangerous and that is iran and north korea. also russia. you have all these crises going on and the united states is trying to make a point that this is important for me. europe is making a stand, it is as timbale expanse, they are sayi

relations with europe. after that health and human services secretary alex azar at a senate hearing on the cost of prescription drugs. >>> next a senate foreign relations subcommittee on foreign relations in europe including the nato alliance. this is an hour and 20 minutes. >>> good morning. this hearing of the senate foreign relations committee is called to order. i'm happy to welcome assistant secretary wess mitchell to discuss u.s. foreign policy in europe. um secretary, really appreciate you you coming and looking forward to our back and forth. i would ask my written opening remarks be put into the record. i'm accountant, i like data. there are two relatively big issues brought to the floor in the last 18 months. one relates to our nato partners meeting their 2 percent commitment. the short fall in 2016 was about $100 billion. in 2017 according to testimony they increased spending by 14.4 billion, slated to go up more, so now the shortfall is about 98 billion. from 2019 to 2024 another shortfall will b

migrant crisis time for fortress europe that's our topic here on quadriga here are our guests monica is the director of the german section of the international organization for migration in berlin and she says arrivals are drastically lower across the mediterranean get the sense of panic in crisis is at an all time high now is the time to go beyond a crisis footing and forge a long term humane policy with migrants recognised as people not numbers. and it's a pleasure to welcome. to the program she is a free. journalist from lebanon and she says the crisis europe is facing now is partly a fusil of its acted to act early on what was happening in syria during the early days of the revolution. and also great to have with us he's co-founder and director of the public policy institute in berlin he says the migration issue has long stopped being mainly about refugees it's now a tool in the fight for political power and identity in europe a fight that has the potential to lead to an implosion of the european union. so welcome to all of you i'd like to start out by picking up on your opening

now, this poses all sorts of questions for europe, because europe reallyjust has to adjust to a world in which began under obama with the pivot to the pacific but now has an american president who is really not interested in europe and not interested in having europe's back. and doesn't think, nazenin ansari, then that europe has anything that's worth having, and therefore, he can afford to do this? we have — this is the first time in us history that the united states has taken such action against its own allies and trading partners. but the united states, i think, sees itself in a sort of a cold war and certainly, wilbur ross, you know, noted that economic... who's the commerce secretary, yeah. ..the commerce secretary, that economic security is military security, and for them, it's important how europe, for example, postures towards the major crisis that, in their — in the us administration's perspective — is most dangerous, and that's iran and north korea, and also russia. so, you've got all these crises going on and the united states is trying to make a point that "this is i

thanks from europe. it is important to keep in mind that simply because we had a solid six year period in the previous administration that i would characterize as the perception of engagement but the reality of disengagement. in this administration and our first year and a half, we have a very strong track record. i think we have exactly the opposite. we are very engaged right now. look at our stance. look at what we are doing with iran. i think we may not agree with our allies on the tactics on every one of these things but we are in close dialogue. we are committed to finding a joint way forward. >> i suspect one of the issues we raised is putin asking to make decisions about ukraine without ukraine at the table. that has been the approach they have taken in the past. in your role, i expect you to have strong views on this. how would you advise the president on this issue of ukraine and specifically the sanctions and what is going on on the eastern border? >> i will not engage in too many hypotheticals

it's not true that they want to distance us from europe. and i think they want to fundamentally reshape europe on the mentality that. i think they've made promises that they won't keep. what chaos i hope they really are united. or we begin the day with the united states playing a dangerous game that is how the european union today describe u.s. president drums decision to slap trade tariffs on european steel and aluminum europe warned that a tit for tat tariff attack could come later this month today the european union asked the world trade organization to get involved now this is the closest thing that global trade has to a court of justice but it's wheels they turn slowly and there is no one forced me the european union's trade commissioner today refused to call this an all out trade war saying that psychology and words matter a lot when she made her point by applying trump's winning campaign slogan to his tariff policy she said when they say america first we say europe unite. they began this morning at six am central european time twenty

foreign policy in europe. the secretary i really appreciate you coming and looking forward to our back and forth. i would ask consensus of my opening remarks be entered into the record. i just want to make a couple quick points. i'm an accountant. i like data. there are two relatively big issues that have been brought to the floor in the last 18 months. one relates to nato's nato partners meeting their 2% commitment. the question i had, okay, 2% have a limited number of them actually meeting that. but what does that mean dollar wise. and we did ask the state department and in 2016 that shortfall was about 122 billion worth of defensive spending. now, in 2017 according to testimony, they've increased spending about 14.4 billion. decided to go up another 10 billion in 2018. so now the shortfall is about 98 billion. we're told that over the period from 2019 to 2024, another $35.5 billion shortfall will be filled, leaving $62 billion shortfall eight years after in 2016. so just kind of puts that into perspective i

used to europe france germany italy spain it if you as was of what you what will be a future of europe it's easily. question if we can see some parallel ities between what we hear from the chief to european as the argument association since this world and i believe that asia has a huge chains as well to elevate to build up something which is bringing more nations together as in up to now and very interesting developments not so much about give ocracy i believe this is something we should put an aside for surgery i believe if you are looking to a state is speedster says are countries who are developing in a certain sense and you have a parliament but say are coming from a long story which doesn't allow to to sing into categories of two book ready countries and i believe so it will speak you stand beside strong to an addition in menu fracturing could be a very good complementarity for both of the countries and so lets him keep some time help subsidies manny's. de to develop these economies and i believe these will be the investor money and we're going to alexei because i mean it's intere

europe. total budget of two hundred eighty one million which is one hundred years of work germany alone spends a year for the refugees which is a disproportioned it cannot be held we just need one portion that yeah that's an understatement my friend that's an understatement ok we are at amazing let me go to ralph here i mean ralph if we could put put aside all the ideology and all of the virtues signaling what so what some concrete things to do in the united states i think there should be built a wall then there won't be any children torn from their parents ok it won't happen what can you do as a first step in your mind a practical step. but i heard i'm probably best for them and i know it is to live on an island surrounded by a wall and we don't want to see was there any more but. i understand that in the united states it's a different story and of course the wall that we had to keep people from fleeing from chip in to a country so it's a bit different of course to compare it to was generall

in europe. it isa fourth—largest economy. in europe. it is a political turmoil. in the southern belly of europe. and that is one of the problem is that europe is one of the problem is that europe is an institution is facing. i mean if you look at the depth of italy, which is more than 2 trillion and with all these new promises that the new government has given, whether europe, i mean, debt will go up at least by 7% of the gdp, so how is europe going to react and maintained this situation? this is interesting because although we talked about the political crisis and then say no to the eurosceptic finance minister, this is still the government will ta ke this is still the government will take a sceptic view on the advice it receives from brussels and the ratings agencies were saying friday of last week we might even be looking now at reducing the standard and saying actually do that it isn't much above the level in terms of the debt you can find. we are running out of ways. when i got here years ago, you had these giant figures with a vision of european unity and n

on the believes i'm going to put is a survivor because she is now at the mercy of europe's populists and i let me begin with you it's been described as the biggest crisis of the many years that is surely no exaggeration no it is not it is a very deep crisis though we have talked about crises far and i'm going i do you know he has always survived this show and i think she still has a chance to get out of this one decently i think there is the possibility for compromise but yet both macca and feel far in it with all they have with their very causes of political existence so i think it is very true giants in the late stages of their political careers. you write for the newspapers have said as a columnist but you've already had a piece that you've all all sort out a piece in the week to get in the guardian in the u.k. this week saying no one can deny that angela merkel's coalition is in trouble how deep is the trouble well. it is in trouble i know but i don't think the trouble is as deep as it's made out to be i think there's a you could say in a way that the whole fun playing good cop b

it effects a liberal europe. we are. france and germany are two countries among twenty seven or twenty eighth or nineteen for the eurozone so it's much more difficult than it was in the past for these two to impose compromises and it's more difficult not only because of the number of the member states but also because of the divisions we have already talked about in the european union and in the eurozone but if there are no or if the if michael and merkel don't make proposals we'll make them so i think what they achieved in mezzeh bear is a compromise more eurozone leaders especially with the with the budget for the zone it was a very important. symbol or measure for my queen not going to be a huge budget yeah we don't know exactly but probably had but we see and that's why of that twice also we we didn't get given they didn't say how much is but it will be because because because it there are still difficult to find a compromise between france and germany and now adays because of the migration problem marital needs more

in we are in a situation in europe in which everything necessary is being done to keep this europe together trump is doing everything he can to harass us we need allies in europe and that's why this is a key issue. unphased the c.s.u. keeps provoking medical it's been very and state premier sudha met with austrian chancellor is a bust and courts in the austrian city of linz both want to clamp down on the influx of refugees. its resentment solidarity in europe will ultimately be decided by whether we succeed in bringing about a change on the migration issue i mean chancellor merkel will meet the leaders of key e.u. countries at a crisis summit in brussels this weekend the outcome of that meeting could rescue or sink her chancellorship. and let's go right to brussels where our correspondent barbara vessel is standing by for us hi barbara so we have this mini summit coming up on sunday who is taking part in what is planned. germany of course and then france italy spain area greece austria who is really pushing strongly this issue and what they're trying to do is prepare compromises look at the

from banning the deal revealed her chances are i'm going to hold a secure as new agreements across europe to come up my current flows into germany but it is strictly u.s. foreign policy and not two of these rebels in hand government stands save her job also coming up. at the world cup in a russia france or through to the quarterfinals arms of beating argentina four three in a thrilling game of football is the end of the road for argentina and their superstar in the n.l. messi his off hours off the top of. the a. m one a haul freight glad you could join me has been a make or break week for german chancellor i'm going to market and now she appears to have delivered a deal that could salvage her fractured coalition merkel has secured agreements with fourteen more a you countries for the rapid return of rejected the son she's also called for migrant processing sent to germany's borders as detailed in a letter sent to coalition leaders macca had faced a sunday deadline from a rebel faction in her government to overhaul the use migration approach she told reporters in brussels the deal could be

europe moves so to speak in lockstep. it is obvious that is not the case. no one wants to join the euro zone anymore, because they have seen what happens to greece, and the hungarians are leading ever fault against migration -- leading a revolt against migration. on the other hand, there's the if you will old eu, but there are again some differences. what we seeing is instead of the eu deciding something together, you have different groups within the eu deciding things. that is not disorderly unilateralism. disorderly 4,ly 5, 6 speed europe, but it is still possible. i mean, that's the way it goes. you are not going to get a united europe the way it was before. it's not going to happen. peter: donald trump waded into weighed in-- wade -- to the debate. what did you make of that? anna: you could see it as an attempt to destabilize merkel. i don't see it as that. he tweeted, and the main reason was the internal problems he has with huge backlash against the policies of separating families at the mexican border. he has done

it is also a problem in europe. our vision of russia is not the between western europe and eastern europe. >> i work with private equity in the technology sector. thank you for your insights in the american attitudes. for a lot of reasons i wind up talking with a number of people who are part of the 60 million americans who voted for trump and i think it would be helpful for you to speak not to the grid. dupont circle, -- not speak to circle,p here in dupont but speak to a group in allentown. what would you say to them? graduate withnts thousands of dollars in european -- in debt. the number and cause of bankruptcy in the u.s. is medical bankruptcy. europeans do not understand what that means. americans take one week of vacation, europeans take two or three months. all of that is rise to what the president has focused on, which is not that the soviet threat is gone, that rather that we have been ripped off. that europeans have outsmarted us. we are paying for their defense and they get two months vacation and we get

in europe driving on the way to europe whether they are refugees into the asylum or whether they're economic migrants they are all being you know they're being in tricked into this journey by smugglers and by social media and at the end of the day i think the thought is kind of has to be on how do we save the lives of these people then we can argue about distribution and or the other things out later on in the gonna this seems to be a slightly weak but across the board a general consensus claude touched on this earlier about tightening europe's borders would that solve the askew. well there's a minimal consensus yes it's a magic between north and south europe and east and west on the fact that we should basically keep people out and also these plans that are trying to off shore camps know that austrade a style models for sign and processing and of course the problem with those ideas is that they're largely unfeasible maybe because no country is willing to host camps and i think the key issue that was dead and again it's being played out even eval is that you governments have failed to delive

much time does europe have to reinvent itself when. we grew the sun since frankly i'd say two generations for one simple reason i call today's young people to erasmus a generation ago in the groups here as much programme lets them study anywhere in the u. and they will be in charge so we don't need to explain to them what europe is all about they're creating a new reality and the generation after them will know how to advance europe's development. thank you very much my pleasure. and i think one day this will be considered cruel and unjust war but it certainly all citizens of ukraine every man woman and child will be friend their homeland is the enemy invades. no one wants russia here which is. rebel against the mighty google news that matters. w made for mines. how to cover more than just one reality. where i come from we have a transatlantic way of looking at things that's because my father is from germany my mother is from the united states of america and so i realized fairly early that it made sense to explain different realities.

the unimportant rest of europe! is it wise in this situation to allow more time for britain to reach... if the uk would ask for more time, i think the remaining small remaining unimportant rest of europe would be ready to agree on such a demand. but it is once again, it's a matter which has been decided in the uk. do you think brexit will happen? if you ask my personal dream, i hope no. but it's a reality we have to accept the decision of the british people. let's talk about italy. you're known as the stalwart defender of the single currency, the euro, particularly when the greek crisis happened, the greek debt crisis. does italy threaten a new eurozone crisis, just waiving a big part of their debt is what they're talking about. it is fine, any debtor is happy for waiving of debts, but creditors are not. and the problem is for the future, how will you get new creditors if you don't deliver, if you don't stick to your debts? that's the problem. that's the problem of italy and it must be solved in italy. and europe, t

this is a doubly news live from budding europe's leading nations at loggerheads over migration italy's prime minister just become to agrees to join emergency talks but only after germany's angela merkel describes the draft a joint statement on the issue she's desperate for a europe wide solution to the crisis threatening her job also on the program campaigning for a clean election in turkey but as ankara turns away international observers from germany we ask what the chances that of a fast boat when the country goes to the polls other we can. kind of course another exciting day of not just of the football world cup and denmark were hoping to extend their winning style against australia to show you how they got. i'm still going to welcome to the program the european union's a fragile stance on migration is under strain again ahead of emergency talks plans for sunday italy has confirmed that it will take part but only after germany's i'm going to back all agree to scrap a pre-prepared joint statement chancellor merkel desperately needs a european solution to the migration crisis to shore

what to do with europe. europe is so much more important than we are if you're russia, frankly. one thing we share with the russians is we really like for everything to be about geopolitics. it's about d.c. and moscow and we're the great powers. that's a weakness that we share with them and which i think leads into our dialogue or our conversation about them. but europe matters so much more. europe's so much more of a relevant example for actual russians than the united states is. and europe's a bigger economy than we are, and the example of european democracy, frankly, is more important than the example of american democracy. i don't just mean now, i mean before 2016 as well. and a lot of mr. putin's evolution has to do with europe. i try to follow this in the things he says and writes, but there's a moment in 2010 where he writes an article for the german press where he says, okay, look, we admit we can't be like you, but we want to integrate with you anyway. we want a partnership with you, but we admit we

make time for europe that's the german chancellor angela merkel on the migrant crisis which is polarizing the ease some countries are threatening to seal the borders so could that sealed the fate of the european union itself this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm peter it is an issue that has split the european union and as the german chancellor angela merkel is warning it's make or break time for the future of the twenty eight nation bloc e.u. leaders are in brussels to discuss the migration crisis with deep divisions over how to manage the migrant flow into europe a controversial proposal to set up asylum seeker processing centers in northern africa will be examined france and germany want a shared responsibility among the member states but right wing governments are demanding tighter border controls and policies to reduce the number of migrants getting in well ahead of the summit dress the german parliament warning of how vital it is that europe does find the right solution. oh but you know how europe faces many challenges but migration could become the make or brea

most of europe trading lower as well. i saw the fair value is pointing to a positive start in london. that has faded. s and p futures are negative this morning and have been since i've -- since i got here. look at the oil story and what is happening with the miners, there is a selling story. be aware of china as well. let's show you what is happening with the oil price. it is going to be a massive week for crude. 1.58%, 4% lower over two days over the price of crude. branch down 6/10 of 1 -- brent is down 6/10 of 1% this morning. oil is trading lower. how much of that is in the price of equities, we will see. let's go to the bloomberg first word news. germany's crisis over migration policy enters a critical phase. chancellor merkel's political future is on the line and the rebels are already being felt across europe. she met with the senior members of her first and democratic union lately -- late yesterday to plan the response to an ultimatum set by the interior minister to order migrants turned away from germany's border

imposed duties of ten percent on steel and twenty five percent of our minium from europe and europe has now retaliated with tariffs designed to target u.s. states that main the vote republican a strategy designed to hit the u.s. president's support base the raft of new judi's on emblematic american exports like harley davidson bikes and whiskey will affect states like missouri and pennsylvania as well as the whiskey heartland in the south mississippi kentucky and tennessee. president donald trump has hinted at the possibility of further sanctions directed at europe this time affecting cars that would be a massive blow to big producers like germany for now it's difficult to tell where the tit for tat measures will lead and as the relationship between the u.s. and the european union continues to deteriorate it won't just be whiskey lovers who are affected. well there's a big change within the dow after one how. ended and eleven years industrial heavyweight general electric is no longer a component of the famous stock market index the company had fallen on hard times recently mostly due to

europe when. the un very ridiculous the us is very easy you know it's the biggest market is the world so for a company is very many around them in the u.s. if there is sanctions when i go when i close everybody across the river to cross us of course not us as a but you see have to weigh your interests if there are more trade more investment in your own but you're going to go more in the u.s. so it's very easy let's go to the front row here. well i think so far you know during this very lively discussion and debate i just want to make the following point. first of all i think there are. china russia economically quite complementary. has a surplus of capacity in beauty infrastructure maybe well over doing that in china but he's good at doing that. aetiology aside i think china sees that at the precondition for economic development secondly china is taking. protection now extremely seriously again because we're overlook that for so many years we are paying the price so russia has competitive advantag

this is you don't know who is lying for a role in raising this kind of bitterly divided europe come together elite or is arriving in brussels for a summit where political maneuvering on the forty issue of migration takes center stage on the american urges members to unite its warning the divisive issue could make or break the union also coming up in race against time in thailand british and american divers join the search for twelve school boys and their coach trapped in a flooded cave in thailand they've been got they've been missing since saturday an agonizing wait for their loved ones continues. and the world out there was plenty of drama group made sure colombia managed to make it through after beating senegal the african side are out of the tournament after japan saw poland. move. the body. i'm well of iraq thanks for your company everyone. if you leaders are in brussels for a crunch summit on migration and leases things have to change but the block is bitterly divided to stave off a crisis back home towns on the americal for her part cannot return home empty handed from the summit she'

but goes very very john that's why our in europe is not the other how would that make europe better i don't get it ok i travel to europe all the time i don't see it's improving i see it's declining rapidly go area bishop john peter peter the bolshevik revolution didn't make russia better but that didn't mean that people didn't believe in it they believed in it because it's an ideology it's a post national ideology which these people want to implement by replacing the population in their crazy minds that's what they're doing ok we're all in it you know italy has been here very hard by this immigration crisis we can use that word i mean shouldn't evil e on its own be able to decide what happens with inside its borders i mean why is it waiting for merkel ways and waiting for brussels why is it waiting for this summit that's going to happen in the weekend i mean italy's a sovereign country care it should take care of its people. first particularly if the unemployment benefits you think it's critical right now go ahead roland at a tower you have to decide for themselves go ahead. and the

you have any american administration treating europe with less subtlety in them europe is used to now you have russia which is quite plainly asks me in that how do you see me here and will react so that. those who are on the american side don't see that really a competition for hearts this is more. to. fight to leave because they believe they have you already but this is maybe a little bit maybe a little bit wrong the. wrong side didn't intend to be faulted to because i think we should also put taked always interests and we are a good partner economically trade we we speak to international law and due to national norms but it would was close interesting good here to primakov readings to to listen. away in the sure india in a disciplined just because i'm used to go she said after a visit to the recreated impale from norm said this is truth by the way this made us read all of us that it was really a win win situation and sticking to the norms and respecting the international this is a precondition to go to see now from some parts of the american diffuse ration pvc international norms im

essentially she is going to -- has been a leader of europe's largest economy and she has handled europe through tough times, the global financial crisis, and the debt crisis and there is a worry that if she goes, will there be someone to hold the center together? the problem is the reason it is hard to trade is it is not a short-term story. what we will find out is is there this push to keep uniting europe further or is it really properly fracturing and if it is, that is -- suddenly the whole brexit negotiations become more stressful. and it puts italy back in the spotlight. they are not going to be there to help out italy if it puts pressure on bond markets again. thank you, mark cudmore joining us from our mliv team. a lively debate on the blog this morning. mliv on your bloomberg. do not miss our exclusive interview with the prime minister of greece, we will you the best of that throughout the day and on the terminal. tv the function for that. that will be a big theme running through this morning's program. that is next. this is bloomberg. ♪ guy: welcome back. business a

here in london and the worst is london is the software of europe. dna of europe. europe was built after english ideas. >> really? is that how you see it in. >> i really believe that. i believe the cradles of europe are, of course, the uk. after world war ii, it is english ideologues who built the pattern after which this space of free exchange, of refusal of totalitarianism and so on, was built. england, uk is quitting a space which she herself designed. >> you are unusual for a frenchman. frenchmen and women are choef n shoef nis tick. about france. >> because one of the first sentences i heard in my life was my mother telling me that if i was alive, if i came in this bloody world, it was thanks to winston churchill and the brave pilots of the royal air force. that's why i'm born. that's why i'm here today. so i have a depth toward america and england. this is what i say tonight in this last exit before brexit. >> you feel you have a huge debt. frankly, so many people do. it's not often we get distinguished philosophers to come and try to persuade the brits. how

we are up by .2% in europe. m&a is a big story on the upside. -- walking away for a bit -- from a bid for inmarsat. a stock that has been bid up of late at the expectation of a bidding war that doesn't look to be happening. by 7.56 this morning. m&a playing a little theme, but generally this morning, after a battering yesterday, european markets are stabilizing. let's get a first word news update. advisorhite house trade sock to ease investor concerns about u.s. trade policy, suggesting the treasury department -- on foreign investor in won't be as sweeping as expected. the dow jones industrial average ended lower yesterday for the ninth time in 10 trading days as investors worry about the prospects for global trade. meanwhile, the ceo of ukraine's biggest steelmaker has weighed on -- waiting on the trump tariffs saying in the long-term, higher prices will have to be paid. >> the price of big iron will go local u.s. producers start to go up. in the long-term, consumers will have to pay for that which means they w

europe. i think there are also multiple ways and how you can sort of had bats on that because some could argue. voters me grow more resentful if they have to go to the polls again or you can argue that it would give them more time to sort of gather over these populism virus as if it was some kind of chicken pox i wonder how deep rooted if you believe the political mood in italy is is it more fleeting or is it more of a permanent nature. permanent we don't know. for sure. is. like a fool. who is feeding by the economic problems. of migration. and. together with greece paying more respect so. created deep into the public. i'm not sure. where the. italians are presented to or turn the t.v. that the decision of election result would be. quite interesting that they are actually out of a cave far far more straightforward articulation of this issue do you have any concerns. and opposite result because many people fought for example the trump could never win the white house because his ideas. here we

so you can count on looking towards eastern europe also within western europe with japan with china what we're having is not a trade war where it's. obscene each against all this is a hub and spokes sort of system where the usa is conducting bilateral trade wars with other countries these other countries around the hub will be trading with each other there's just resist abuse it will be a movement of a lot of traits of this is why the effect the impact on each of these individual called them lilliputians countries compared to go over in the middle. as we know go over could be tied down by the many small little pollution this is going to be probably the undoing the fact that. it will be a unilateral trade war of the united states against the world if trump has his way and that's not really something that we i mean everybody gets hurt let's not get this wrong there are losses to the world economy but it will be disproportionately borne by the united states because all the other partners have many more possibilities for trade where you know you just got back from the united states i mean wh

but in face of europe and this is what is worrying and somehow international observers. the new cabinet should easily post a vote of confidence expected early next week but the real test will be whether this highly unusual coalition can hold together and push the reforms that many voters expect and many e.u. leaders fear. al-jazeera really. well let's bring in our guests for today's inside story joining us from rome for their ego abd interior a professor of political science at the john cabot university in rome from brussels by skype is daniel grow director of the center for european policy studies and also in rome natalie director of the italian institute of international affairs and special advisor to the e.u.'s foreign policy chief editor he come again a thank you all for being on the program we appreciate your time. in rome if i can start with you so the markets are breathing easier after the coming to power of this new coalition government in italy but is this government good news for italy and is it representative of the italian people. it's a tricky question the f

know eat an easy example we can go out of the segment generally in europe so europe can explode when they look so it's public eye seems a president might call as an historic or opportunity you know is the goal is to a deuced this not to say stop person let me go to you because i think it's really interesting and when we look at a greater eurasia political economic and trade space is this a duplications of western institutions that were put into place after the second world war i think of the i.m.f. bretton woods and these kinds of institutions are there's a there's a interesting literature about the world beyond the west or parallel to the west is this something you would see because there is a hedge of mine in the west it's the united states but if we look at the you're asian space would there be a hedge a man would be actually more democratic in a way go ahead. per. person i would like to cut back to two points i believe so it's a question of confidence and trust is something where we should be i believe quite objective and say it's who has changed so world has changed and i believ

commission boss saying there are divisions in europe and they're getting bigger one third of the italian electorate do not want any more migrants on italian soil at all and their logic i guess would be the builders logic which is you don't go to bed up stairs and leave your front door open because if you do when you come down in the morning your t.v. video on your credit cards are gone so there is this fear that european politicians have to be seen to react to or educate the people of europe how does that happen. well i just thought to quickly point out the protection rates for people arriving in italy firm from libya currently about forty percent overall so i wouldn't say that ninety percent of those arriving. and i would also point out that you know the conditions of the abominable and i think we all agree on that but even if you are in iran were in charge of this offshore sentence the states will still not take these people the end because they're still sending the experts to unite safa cities to screen them afterwards if there's no consensus within europe on asylum rules i doubt ther

their relationship with europe is dubious, they get an awful lot of money in subsidy from europe. what they are saying is consistent with what the majority of companies have been saying. business hates uncertainty, we all hate it, but in a free—market economy and particularly in a world that is going towards free trade, flexibility and adaptability are name of the game, if you can't adapt, business always does adapt, you cannot survive, that is the whole point of the capitalist economy as opposed to a totalitarian communist economy. getting onto the political question of theresa may, and surviving, this has been an extraordinarily exasperating period, people who write to me, who write to almost any commentator, are saying, why can't we just get on with it? and the problem for theresa may is she has been presiding over a divided party. the significance of those defeats, or those successes for her, the defeats of the remainers, the gaggle of remainers in the house of commons, was very important, it means that in future, she can actually, and i think, from my private soundings, the

how far they will to go what they will find in europe. continues over israel's use of lethal force against protesters in gaza the u.s. is remaining on wavering in its support for its middle eastern ally and most recently washington's ambassador in jerusalem despite some less than diplomatic advice to journalists covering the rallies in which since march at least one hundred and twenty palestinians have lost their lives. the. well the american ambassador to israel david friedman has attacked the media for what he says is failing to fairly cover the recent protests along the israel gaza border he said that when you have a situation of some forty thousand protesters storming the israeli border under the cover of burning tires and with pistols a molotov cocktails that situation is unprecedented and he says that israel did the best it could and yet despite this ninety percent of media coverage was biased and critical against the israeli defense forces the american ambassador did however concede that some criticism against israel is legitimate

and europe going forward post-brexit, not a punitive one. parts of europe feel it should be a punitive acquisition. i hope this gives you an opportunity to clarify. you talked about the beginning of what was happening at the cme deal, you were going to be a beneficiary of th you make commentsat. -- of that. you make comments today regarding the pay gap, which raised eyebrows. what is missing from the list? we can go into the reasons, but when does that change, when you financeund london, the sector, are ther ewomen coming up that will be on the list in five years? how long does it take to change th emix? mix get-go --he to change the mix? this has been a very controversial subject. there are pockets of prejudice. women are welcome. significant number of women are welcomed in my senior cadre. six executive suites are occupied by women. i employ them because they are good at thier jobs -- their jobs. the use of quarters is not a good thing. -- quotas is not a good thing. i am in favor of women succeeding. if you asked boys and girls of the car

with all its internal divisions and they don't care much for europe kratz. are you hopelessly idealistic and if. this is even a comment on then you're going to support the idea of europe and still be very critical of the current state of the e.u. . there will be for you or anything else would be ridiculous. but if you ignore problems you lose credibility you know that nobody cared if you want to advance the european project you have to criticize the way things are right now good to see that the concept is worth defending we need to develop a vision of what we want for the continent of these quote on the basis of something that can be summed up in a single sentence something that everyone can agree with doing. no european country not even large states like germany will be able to master on itself the novels for the great challenges that we face. as there was even. if it did this and i think you know that but europe is still unpopular. you chose to study how the e.u. works you went to brussels to do research for your novel which won the german book award. tell