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00:00Leaders of Austria's FBO and OVP met with President Alexander Van der Bellen after coalition
00:07talks seemed to stall.
00:10Transatlantic twilight is the expression used by think tank ECFR following its survey on
00:16relations between the EU and Donald Trump's United States.
00:20European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced a 200 billion euro package
00:25to push the AI industry in the EU.
00:30With the deportation debate fueling polarization in Germany, political parties are promising
00:35quicker deportation and stricter migration controls.
00:45Leaders of Austria's FBO and OVP met with President Alexander Van der Bellen after coalition
00:52talks seemed to stall.
00:55Critical voices from the OVP raised increasing doubts throughout the day about a successful
00:59conclusion of the talks.
01:01FBO's Herbert Kickl and OVP's Christian Stocker met at separate times with the President at
01:07his office in Vienna's Hofburg.
01:10Ahead of Tuesday's talks, Kickl still seemed positive.
01:38Points of conflict include the suspension of the right of asylum demanded by the FBO
01:43as well as Kickl's critical stance towards the European Union.
01:47Earlier, other parties that gained seats in the parliamentary election told the OVP it
01:52should end coalition talks with the FBO.
02:00The European Union will respond to the 25 percent tariffs on steel and aluminium imposed
02:05by US President Donald Trump.
02:09The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has assured in a statement
02:13that unjustified tariffs on the EU will not go unanswered and will be met with firm and
02:18proportionate countermeasures.
02:22According to von der Leyen, the EU will act to defend its economic interests and protect
02:26its workers and businesses.
02:30Von der Leyen has not yet specified how the EU will defend itself against US tariffs.
02:35However, her message has received support from a large number of MEPs, but not the Patriots
02:41for Europe, who believe the Green Deal is partly to blame.
03:05In 2018, Brussels responded to Trump's tariffs with similar measures on US steel and aluminium,
03:14something that could be done again.
03:25The transatlantic twilight.
03:28This is the expression used by the think tank ECFR, or European Council on Foreign Relations,
03:34following its survey on relations between the European Union and President Donald Trump's United States.
03:42According to the study published today and carried out in 11 member countries, 50 percent
03:47of those questioned believe that the United States is a necessary partner, compared with
03:5221 percent who see Washington as an ally.
03:57These figures mark a shift in European opinion.
04:00The main lesson is that citizens are already accepting and acknowledging the fact that
04:09Europeans and European leaders need to adopt a more pragmatic approach towards America.
04:15So in that polling, people do not show too strong illusions about the US.
04:23They kind of accept that if Trump wants it transactional, then we need to be open to
04:29a transaction as well.
04:32Faced with Donald Trump's America First slogan, the report's authors suggest that the union
04:37should prepare to defend its interests and turn the page on the historic transatlantic link.
04:43So we call it a transatlantic twilight because we believe that the old transatlanticism is
04:53over and the new one is supposed to be born.
04:57It can be born based on the action of the European mainstream who could adopt a more
05:04transactional and pragmatic approach.
05:07In such a scenario, yes, the transatlantic relationship would be based less on the values
05:15than it was the case in the past.
05:20The poll highlights the divergent perceptions of the new American president in member states.
05:27The Republican has a positive image in Hungary and Bulgaria, while Denmark and Germany are
05:32much more sceptical.
05:35This is why the authors of the study call on EU leaders not to act in isolation to try
05:40to establish a privileged relationship with Donald Trump at the expense of their European
05:46partners.
05:47U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance warned against what he called excessive regulation of A.I.
05:59at the A.I.
06:00Action Summit in Paris on Tuesday.
06:03Vance's address challenged Europe's regulatory approach to artificial intelligence and its
06:07moderation of content on big tech platforms, saying it would cripple the fast-growing industry.
06:15We invite your countries to work with us and to follow that model if it makes sense
06:19for your nations.
06:21However, the Trump administration is troubled by reports that some foreign governments are
06:27considering tightening the screws on U.S. tech companies with international footprints.
06:32Now, America cannot and will not accept that, and we think it's a terrible mistake, not
06:38just for the United States of America, but for your own countries.
06:42European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced that Europe will mobilize
06:46200 billion euros for investment in artificial intelligence.
06:50She stressed that A.I. is a force for good as long as its benefits are widespread and
06:55accessible to all.
06:57The summit underscores a three-way race for A.I. supremacy, Europe striving to regulate
07:02and invest, China expanding access through state-backed tech giants and the U.S. under
07:07Trump prioritizing a hands-off approach.
07:12I hear that Europe is late to the race, while the United States or China have already gotten
07:21ahead.
07:23I disagree, because the A.I. race is far from being over.
07:30Truth is, we're only at the beginning.
07:34The European Union will channel 200 billion euros into A.I. investments in a bid to catch
07:40up with the thriving tech ecosystems in the U.S. and China.
07:44An announcement warmly welcomed by multiple European start-ups present at the Station
07:49F incubator in Paris for the A.I. summit.
07:52It's not all done to the largest companies.
07:55There's a lot that can be done.
07:56We have lots of innovation, lots of people figuring out how to do things more efficiently,
08:00faster, more respectful of the regulations that we do have here.
08:04There are tons to do there.
08:05The EU was one of the first global powers to introduce comprehensive regulations around
08:10A.I.
08:11But U.S. Vice President J.D.
08:12Vance criticized this regulatory environment in a speech on Tuesday.
08:17Some A.I. experts, however, believe European companies need to lose these regulations if
08:22they want to remain competitive.
08:24So what we need is European entrepreneurs working with American technology, and then
08:27we at least share the power, we share the revenue.
08:31But if we don't do anything and want to do it on our own, we will fail.
08:35Because we don't have it, and the Americans have it.
08:38They have the technology and the capital and the speed and the innovation.
08:41So let's tear down the wall and accept them, incorporate with them.
08:47Because the enemy is not the U.S.
08:49The U.S. and the U.K. have notably refused to sign the summit's declaration that encourages
08:54countries to abide by certain ethics of A.I. governance.
08:58Sofia Katzenkova reporting from Paris for Euronews.
09:05With the deportation debate fueling polarization in Germany ahead of the snap election in less
09:11than two weeks, both established political and populist parties are promising quicker
09:17deportations and stricter migration controls.
09:20Christian Democratic Union interior politician Christoph de Vries says the current EU deportation
09:26model is dysfunctional and says change is urgently needed.
09:30I think we have to be honest in this discussion.
09:35The deportations are not really satisfactory in any EU member state.
09:42And that leads us in the CDU to the realization that we have to stop the illegal migrations
09:47to Germany, but above all to Europe as a whole.
09:51Because we see how difficult the deportations are.
09:54And if people have just arrived, the legal and actual hurdles for deportation are so
10:00great that we will never be able to do it as satisfactorily as it would be desirable.
10:07According to figures from the German Interior Ministry, 60% of deportations fail in Germany
10:14every year.
10:15The German police union say there aren't enough detention spaces to carry out deportations
10:19properly.
10:20We ultimately have to work in a European way, that is, we have to get all countries in the
10:25European Union on the same page so that we ultimately have the same procedure, the same
10:31conditions for all people who are asylum seekers and ultimately seek protection.
10:36We need a clear distribution key for everyone and we have to protect our European external
10:40borders much better.
10:41This requires front-ex that have to be heavily stacked, which protect the European external
10:46borders better with the respective countries, so as not to endanger the freedom of travel
10:50within Europe.
10:53International travel expert Daniel Time says the system doesn't work because of poor inter-agency
10:57cooperation and high levels of cases.
11:01Germany is a country of immigrants, which needs immigrants, but we probably really have
11:05to distinguish between professional immigrants, qualified people who learn the language abroad,
11:11then come to Germany, work from the beginning, earn money, live in their own apartment and
11:16an asylum migration, which often, as the statistics show us, is unfortunately poorly qualified,
11:21where people don't speak German, are unemployed for the first time, are subject to the state
11:26and also take advantage of the very generous German social benefits.
11:30These are two very different forms of migration and I fear that this negative asylum discourse
11:36undermines the absolutely necessary positive attitude towards professional migration.