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In the new seat
This week we’re flanked by Mika Aaltola, a Finnish MEPs that represents the European Popular Popular Party of the Right Right, Dorota Bawolek, a European correspondent for the Polish broadcaster TVp and Ian Lesser, vice -president of the German Fund Marshall, the transatlantic Tank Tank.
EU-USA business tensions
The renewed business offensive of the President of the United States Donald Trump has left Brussels fairly underlined with massive charges that have an effect on European exports in metal, aluminum and vehicles – and threats extra to return.
The European business commissioner Maroš Šefčovič is making an attempt to defuse the disaster, warning that the EU’s retaliation measures might begin from 14 July.
The deputy Mika Atella made the American method as a “unfair remedy”.
The OECD additionally warned this week that Trump charges are dragging international progress to its weakest ranges from the Covid-19 pandemic.
Polish presidential elections
In a really slender presidential race, Poland elected the conservative Karol Nawrocki, nationalist and Eurosceptic, strictly defeating the pro-EU candidate and the mayor of Warsaw Rafał Trzaskowski. The outcome marks a blow for Prime Minister Donald Tusk who requested for a vote of belief in his authorities initially of subsequent week.
The rhetoric of Nawrocki-swallowing nationwide sovereignty, anti-migrant insurance policies and the refusal of “Diktats of Brussels”-alarmed Eurofili. However, his nationalist platform resonated with a fairly divided voters.
“He isn’t very presidential,” Dorota Bawolek mentioned to the panel including that the story exhibits that the Poles choose a “regular man”.
The EU refuses Spain’s supply for a number of official languages
Finally, the panel discusses the Diplomatic setback of the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez after the EU Council rejected his proposal to make the official languages of the Catalan EU, Basque and Galician. The transfer, promised to Catalan separatists in alternate for political help, was rejected by the Member States for fears of a domino impact that entails different regional languages.
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