Her name is Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann and she is one of three lead candidates chosen by the European liberals for the upcoming EU elections. But what does she really think?
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00:13 I'm a little bit surprised.
00:39 She was, for six years, the minister of defense.
00:43 And the last five years, there were no one word
00:47 about the question of security of Europe.
00:49 And it's not the first attack from Russia to Ukraine.
00:53 We remember 10 years ago.
00:55 And so not one word.
00:57 I think this is really a little bit crazy,
01:00 because we could see what happens around.
01:03 And the other thing is that with La Fonda line is--
01:07 I mean, the Green Deal is now--
01:08 it's not only Timmermans, it's also--
01:10 Ursula von der Leyen is the Green Deal.
01:12 And so if the effects of the Green Deal, I mean,
01:15 touch the question of economic for companies.
01:20 And so we are really astonished in Germany.
01:22 And I tell you also people from her party
01:27 that she is more green than--
01:29 how could I say--
01:30 black at the CDU.
01:31 It's a color of black.
01:33 So I think we have to talk.
01:36 And we have to clear how the future could be.
01:39 But if you look in the past, I think
01:43 it was not the biggest show from Ursula von der Leyen.
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01:50 We have to be really careful, because it's a tragedy.
01:57 You could see it even on the hard left wing,
02:01 that after a while, in the first years, everybody say,
02:04 oh, thanks, God.
02:05 Please don't do it.
02:06 Don't touch it.
02:07 And after a while, it becomes a little normal thing.
02:10 But it's not normal.
02:12 And to be the right wing, they will destroy Europe.
02:16 And Mrs. Weigel, the head of the AFD,
02:19 she said in an interview of the Financial Times
02:22 that she is looking forward that Germany will go out of the EU.
02:27 I mean, could you imagine?
02:29 So you have to explain to people,
02:31 if they vote for the hard right wing or the left wing,
02:35 they cut their own success in economic things,
02:38 in peace things.
02:39 So--
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02:43 You know, before the wall opened in Germany,
02:51 his country, Hungary, was really very, very
02:54 important for the unification.
02:56 Well, the first moment when the wall opens a little bit,
03:00 and in this area, this time, 35 years ago,
03:05 was a very, very important partner for us in Germany,
03:08 especially in Germany.
03:10 And I'm really disappointed to see what Viktor Orban said
03:13 and how he's making policy.
03:16 And for me, it's unacceptable that he
03:19 stops every very important, for example, support for Ukraine.
03:24 And it's very good that the European Union, the parliament,
03:28 is now looking why he got 10 billion euro for looking
03:33 for the restroom.
03:35 I mean, you know what I mean.
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