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00:00 The EU elections have shifted the European Parliament to the right as hard right MEPs
00:06 make significant gains.
00:11 Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo has announced his resignation to King Felipe.
00:21 Brussels business representatives celebrate the centre-right victory in the European elections.
00:30 The Ukraine Recovery Conference chairman resigns one day before the event in Berlin in a bitter
00:37 row with Kiev.
00:49 Hard right MEPs won significant support from voters at the 2024 European election over
00:55 the weekend.
00:58 The results have rocked the continent and traditional power bases across Europe, forcing
01:03 President Emmanuel Macron to call a snap election in France and Belgian Prime Minister Alexander
01:09 De Croo to resign.
01:13 In Germany, support for Olaf Scholz's centre-right Social Democrats also sank behind the extreme
01:19 right Alternative for Germany, which surged into second place.
01:26 According to fresh data published by the European Parliament, the centre-right has been reinforced,
01:32 the far-right parties made gains, while Greens, Socialists and Liberals lost.
01:38 Despite major upsets in France, Germany and Belgium and Liberal Renew Group and the Greens
01:43 suffering painful losses, the make-up of the European Parliament remains largely unchanged.
01:51 But an opposite swing has occurred in Hungary, with the new self-proclaimed centrist Tisza
01:56 party winning a landslide of votes and coming in tightly behind Hungarian Prime Minister
02:02 Viktor Orban's right-wing Fidesz party.
02:13 Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo has visited King Felipe at the Royal Palace to
02:18 announce the resignation of his government.
02:22 The King must now consult political figures and begin the procedure for forming a new
02:27 federal government.
02:30 De Croo's resignation follows his party, the open Flemish Liberals and Democrats, crushing
02:36 defeat in Belgium's regional, national and EU elections on Sunday.
02:42 The right-wing New Flemish Alliance party emerged as the biggest winner at the national
02:47 level with nearly 20% of the vote.
02:51 While the far-right anti-immigration Vlaams Belang party came in second position with
02:56 a vote share of 17.5%.
03:00 De Croo's party meanwhile received less than 7% of the vote, leaving it lagging well behind
03:05 the far-left.
03:06 But, speaking after the results, Prime Minister De Croo remained positive about the future
03:12 of his party.
03:13 Dear friends, we Liberals are combative and we are resilient.
03:14 And I am convinced that we will stand again.
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05:35 Despite the Social Democrats' historic defeat at the European elections, German Chancellor
05:40 Olaf Schultz has ruled out calling an early snap election.
05:45 AFD co-chair Alice Weidel said the party has set its sights on becoming the new ruling
05:52 government at the 2025 federal elections next year.
05:56 Liv Stroud, in Berlin, for Euronews.
06:05 Italian citizen Ilaria Salis will be released from detention in Hungary thanks to her election
06:11 as an MEP.
06:13 The 40-year-old teacher spent 15 months in jail after being accused of assaulting far-right
06:19 demonstrators in Hungary.
06:22 She is facing up to 20 years behind bars.
06:26 However, she always maintained her innocency.
06:30 The case made the headlines after the woman appeared in court handcuffed and chained.
06:38 Following a public outcry, Rome summoned the Hungarian ambassador and eventually obtained
06:45 Salis be moved to house arrest.
06:48 The woman has been elected with the Green and Left Alliance Party and will be able to
06:53 be released thanks to MEP immunity.
06:56 In this stage, behind me, Prime Minister Luís Monde Negro and head of the list Sebastião
07:09 Bogalho admitted that the current coalition in the government, the right-wing coalition
07:13 AD, failed to have more votes than the Socialist Party, led in these European elections by
07:21 the former Minister of Health Marta de Mido.
07:23 The PS had a relatively small victory, with another MEP from the AD, to raise the entrance
07:30 for the first time in the history of the Portuguese far-right in the European Parliament.
07:35 However, for the Chega Party, this was a result also far from expected, with only two MEPs
07:44 elected.
07:45 The liberals also enter for the first time in the European Parliament, the Portuguese liberals,
07:50 with the liberal initiative to elect two MEPs.
07:53 Ricardo Figueira, Euronews, Lisboa.
08:00 A pan-European organization representing European business and labor community celebrated that
08:06 the center has held in the European Parliament after Sunday's election.
08:12 They say that the previous Parliament's Green Deal could be reassessed.
08:17 According to Eurochambers, the EU needs to overcome its weaknesses compared to the US
08:22 and China in critical areas, namely manufacturing and clean technology.
08:27 "We've had a lot of concerns with the amount of legislation that the Green Deal has led
08:32 to.
08:33 It implies a lot of burdens for businesses, a lot of compliance and reporting burdens.
08:38 So one of our strong messages to the new members of the European Parliament and the new institutions
08:43 is that we need to slow down before we start bringing in possible new legislation."
08:51 Euronews advocates for a strong single market in order for a more autonomous European Union.
08:59 "We need to tackle those fundamental structural challenges that businesses are encountering,
09:06 particularly manufacturing sectors, energy costs, access to raw materials, access to
09:12 supplies in general."
09:15 Unions representing workers' interests across Europe stressed during the campaign that the
09:20 cost of living needs to be a priority.
09:23 The election results show that the Left and Green parties have declined in the current
09:27 Parliament but there is still a good majority to advance the EU's social agenda and welfare
09:32 model.
09:33 "So most important, no deals with the far right.
09:40 That's the most important.
09:42 They can't be trusted and at every single opportunity in the past they voted against
09:46 working people and their interests."
09:53 Migration also dominated the far right's electoral campaign.
09:58 "Migrant workers are very often the victims of exploitation by unscrupulous employers.
10:06 We need to make sure that all workers are covered by fair terms and conditions of employment,
10:11 that all workers, no matter where they're from or who they are or what jobs they do,
10:15 they can join a union and that they can bargain for a fair wage."
10:20 When it comes to renewing the Green Deal, the European Trade Union Confederation advocates
10:26 for more social investment and a new EU Just Transition Directive.
10:40 Berlin is preparing to host a new leg of the Ukraine Recovery Conference, the first one
10:46 hosted in a EU country.
10:50 This time around, the event is taking place in a tense atmosphere.
10:56 On Monday, Conference Chairman Mustafa Nayem announced his resignation, citing systemic
11:03 obstacles preventing him from performing his duties effectively.
11:09 In a Facebook post, he took aim at the Ukrainian government, lamenting budget cuts and bureaucratic
11:16 impediments.
11:17 The final straw, he said, was the cancellation of his trip to Berlin by the Ukrainian government.
11:25 The Ukraine Recovery Conference brings together heads of government and state to mobilize
11:32 international support for the reconstruction and modernization of the war-ravaged country.
11:38 This year, the event will be immediately followed by the Ukraine Peace Summit, which will be
11:44 taking place in Switzerland on the weekend.
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