i have always fought for europe. i have sometimes suffered with europe and agonized over europe. i have been through thick and thin with the european union and never have i lost my love for the european union. as we all know, there is no love without disappointment, or very rarely. love for europe, i mean what i say, because the european union has achieved so much in this divided world. inward and outward peace, prosperity. not for all but still for many. in 2018 we should consider what it means to have the european year of cultural heritage and celebrate our cultural diversity. these three principles, freedom, equality of opportunity and rule of law have to remain the foundation of our ever stronger and ever more united and more democratic union. for the people of europe, what they are looking for is not new treaties, new institutions. there are means to an end. new institutions, new treaties are perhaps of interest to us in brussels. elsewhere people don't care to whom. i'm only interested in institutional reform if it gives us a more efficient union. one day there will be trea

we want to help central europe. we do hope that in the future there will be a better cooperation between the european union and russia, the us and russia. we see this is not the case now. we see that the direction we are going is not bat direction. so we have to understand that currently the situation is very bad. there is a lack of trust. you wouldn't use the word antagonistic to describe russia? i don't want to comment on the words of boris. it is a totally different situation to be a foreign minister of the uk and being the foreign minister of a small central european country. what i can tell you is that we are pretty much concerned about the situation and concerned about the situation and concerned about the relationship between the east and west and we hope it will improve in the future stock white in 2014, viktor 0rban said, i don't think our eu membership precludes us from building and a liberal new state based on national foundations building and a liberal new state based on nationalfoundations —— illibe

all around europe people have been attending true europe rallies in berlin they are held here at the marked the cellist album get hot played at one of the rallies and decided on the spot that he had to do more. hi and welcome back to sara's music europe is experiencing some turbulent times right now and we're often being confronted by the possibility of a divided europe a group of classical musicians a so appalled by this idea that they have joined together to show their support for a united europe in the best way they know how with music i'm very proud to be part of this group. today at the ready all sustainment berlin the newly formed musicians for united europe group are playing their first concert to raise funds for the pulse of europe initiative. it's fantastic that everyone's made it here today it's really important i mean you just told me you come from yugoslavia so well i'm a real x. you was so my mom is question what that is serbian and i was changing usa in germany so i really know what it is to have a country and to lose it and to not be able to do anything about it i thin

i have always fought for europe. i have sometimes suffered with europe and agonized over europe. sinve been through sick and with the european union's. thin with the european union. never have i lost my love for the european union. as we all know, there is no love without disappointment. europe, i mean what i say, because the european union has achieved so much in this divided world. inward and outward peace, prosperity, not for all, but still for many. in 2018, we should consider what it means to have a european union of cultural heritage and celebrate our diversity. these three principles, freedom, equality of opportunity, and rule of law have to remain the foundation of our ever stronger and ever more united and more democratic union. for the people of europe, but they are looking for is not new treaties or institutions. they are a means to an end. stitch is, treaties are perhaps of interest to us -- new institutions and treaties are perhaps of interest to us here in strasburg. one day, there will be treaty change, but the busy ourselves means first and foremost that we have t

at the time of the bill it was clear to everybody that we had to protect europe from the rest of europe because security was not a topic and they going to going to feel economy might have been already knew where to go and wanted to catch up with the united states what you would be on the european project. if you want to get online and was the mission of. the who wanted to bring back the threads only of a continent that had been a split by two world wars that it's a vital stakes are still very rare look up everything but. the protection behind which europe could cross by i have to spit in what appeared to get a. globalization has come over it like a storm. and the ideas that seem to be preferred solution unless you don't have a reson nationalisms protection as the sovereign. fifty dollars idea yet have would be if you were. in the start a disastrous wars and crises that could have what have destroyed europe will have risen again because of the fear of the citizens you know that we have ignored for too long a mic who we thought for too long with you know past would never come back to us a

that would be an issue in europe. just like markets over concerned with populism last year, markets might be getting overly optimistic given the french election. europe, there are issues that sovereigntymuch countries it should have versus how much commonality they should have. robert: it is a little complicated but if you look at it between the u.s. and europe, when they created the euro out of nothing, they created the tremendous fiscal process that they immediately violated. what has happened with the financial crisis and euro crisis is they have really regrouped. and so, at first they wanted to drive the private sector involvement, and that was obviously a disaster. instead they tightened the fiscal restraints and the processes for approval of budgets. they began to make examples out of individual countries when the eurozone was acting in a position of strength. an example of that is cyprus where basically, they restructured the banking sector and took money out of deposits to right the situation. how does this ma

will it be a multispeed europe? of europe. i don't want it to be. will it be a multispeed europe7m is already. i mean, it got several speeds but it could go to all sorts of different levels, on all sorts of different issues, without freedom of movement or the schengen zone or fiscal consolidation. in a larger senseit fiscal consolidation. in a larger sense it is already. you could have four different sorts of grouping that platforms and what a confusing mess it would be. with all respect, i hope it will be able to call this country in the future forever and ever the united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland. but i see here, also, very vigorous signals fragmentation and off profound differences of opinion as to the identity, as to be idea of what the uk should be relative to europe. so this is a much wider problem which does not simply concern the european union. look, president trump, when he was a late did, he almost explicitly set out to destroy european integration. do you think? do you think it was a motive for this? he actually said

and europe. we had pushed for that as you know but for a variety of reasons it didn't come together and that just allowed space for those who didn't want to deal to get out of the way. i think the biggest, the thing that my heart still believes -- believed about was -- my heart still bleeds about syria. as you know i was spokesperson of the state department in the first obama term under secretary clinton and i had to from the state department podium every day in 11 and 12 get up and justify what was going on, and i am certainly on the team that thinks that we should have done more in 2011 to we should have 2014. done more together with your and -- with europe and we might have prevented the refugee crisis. a whole bunch of dominoes fell but most importantly it matters to us in the transatlantic community that the middle east has a chance to organize itself liberally. and its citizens in the middle east have right to have a say in how they are governed and have opportunities that we have. it is no

the europe we know is too weak to slow and too inefficient but only europe and europe alone can give us the capacity to act against the big challenges we face now. flanked by french and european flags he said europe needed to relaunch itself with greater cooperation on issues including asylum seekers border protection and intelligence. what's missing in europe today with regard to defense it is a common strategic culture in our incapacity to act together in a convincing manner puts our credibility in question. as well as strategic issues he also called for the creation of a transnational agency to foster european innovation financial stability and corporate tax were also in areas where he said much deeper cooperation was needed. for you to. instead of concentrating all our energy on our internal divisions as we've been doing now for far too long instead of losing our way in arguments in a european civil war arguing about budgets finances politics or whatever we need to consider how to build a europe that strong. but at a time when tensions between eastern and western europe are stres

few weeks, after it was found in eggs being sold across europe. now the pesticide has destroyed not only costel's bees, but also his livelihood. >> millions of bees used to collect pollen here. but two years ago, all the buzzing activity around beekeeper costel gresala fell silent. >> take a look. all the bees are dead. all because of this chemical they sprayed on the fields. my entire business is destroyed. at some point i'll have to burn everything down. >> in spring 2015, wheat fields here were sprayed with the insecticide fiprocid to kill ticks. its use near domestic animals was already banned at that time. people in the village of puiesti, in one of eastern romania's poorest regions, were not even informed, says greschala. >> it was a disaster for us beekeepers. we were robbed of our livelihood. a beekeeper can't exist without bees. these gentlemen caused an ecological disaster here. they didn't think about the people, nor the animals, nor us. all they're interested in is money. and they can't get enough of it! >> costel greschala lost 24 bee

what did they say europe was like? you have only ever heard good things about libya and europe? nowhere is completely good. towards the end of our conversation, the mood changed. it's pretty obvious that everyone‘s confused about what's going on. they seem to have been briefed by the people who run this place, so we have to be careful what we say, because he is standing just behind us. they all seem to be in a bad way and they have no idea what will happen next. shall we leave our water? very weird situation. the most amazing thing about it is how little they seem to know about the journey ahead of them. none of them seemed to have any idea about libya and the horrors await them. they all have this idea that europe is an unbelievably welcoming place where everyone will accept them and they will be given a beautiful life. sadly, none of those are entirely true. later that day, we hear that the migrants we just met are leaving for libya across the desert. to avoid detection, the smuggler sends them out of town alone. he will meet them at nightfall. we arrange to be there too. cr

in europe for. people who don't want to follow the united states and the candidates in your. rippin the over the last year who sort of looked as if they were inspired by the triumph or nor would they get phyllis in the governments or marine independent in prague's did really quite quite poorly the expectation that the end of last year for instance was that good for this would get about thirty percent of the adult troops in the end he got thirteen percent of the dots wrote and marine le pen's campaign i think was also surprisingly weak and started to fizzle out and that's i think because french people are dutch people simply didn't want to have a repeat of what's going on in the united states and yet recent opinion polls show that almost half of german voters are still undecided what do you think sustains these political in decisiveness and do you think the undecided voters in joe many i capable of the same surprise that the american and british undecided voters delivered last year i think i would that really would be very very surprising i mean we always knew that the both th

yes, i do remember europe's industrial heart revving up. i went to slovakia, to the czech republic, i went to poland and i did this talk ten years ago when they were struggling we were told they were the next best thing banks in austria and italy spent so much money lending to these areas. then suffered aggressively why should the story be back now? >> yes so as you mentioned, a lot of these economies went through a tough period, mainly because the bank s lent mainly mortgages in swiss francs, which turned out to be a bad idea when the swiss franc appreciated that caused a banking crisis by in large the banks resolved these problems if you look at the employment rate, it's at full employment already. housing prices are rising. it's a good time to be if you're a bank they're really competitive in terms of production. >> if i had to put my money in one emerging market or one emerging country, where would i do it? with my hottest bet in the sector. >> i like central europe hungary, czech, and poland >> that's very coincidental because we have

thanks to the migration crisis in europe hungary's profile is higher than ever but it's controversial and e.u. court says budapest is wrongly denying asylum to mike fleeman war and deprivation the government of prime minister viktor orban is defined calls the league a joke and says the e.u. will pay for its security council with serbia orbán is also accused of cracking down on political activists and free speech he's even trying to close a university started by the hunt gary an american billionaire george soros a man considered a threat by political so is hungry willing to play by the e.u. has rules and embrace its values or is its chosen path the way of the future peter c.r.t. hungary's horn minister talks to. peter foreign minister of hungary thanks so much for joining us here thanks for being with azure thank you. obviously migration is the big issue that everyone thinks of when we talk about your country hungary this was your reaction to the european court of justice ruling on immigration quotas back on september sixth and i'm quoting this decision jeopardizes the security and fu

europe low. jonathan: let's get to the economics. your take on treasury yields around 2%, with gdp growth around 2.5%? tough to reconcile the two. you have inflation 1.7%, below the fed started. you have gdp around 2.5%. something is wrong. we have a different view from robert. we think there is an under expectation of growth and a lot aspects,chnical looking for relative yields elsewhere in the world is perverting the market. part of that is the geopolitical issues whether it is harvey, irma, or korea. easy equity markets near all-time highs, and so we think technicals is a key factor. jonathan: let's get into it more. pgim has been dead right. forward, have we had capitulation yet from the treasury bears at the beginning of the year? is there more to come? we think 2% is as far as its going to go. eric: i would agree with that. global yields being low causes every thinges, and else keeps that. i think we are getting close to it. what if we do this and the other washington? trump just cut this deal with democrats, what if we do get

look no further than europe. take the euro and compare it to the stoxx 600 yield on high-yield europe, is that a cause for concern? eric: thinking broadly about global central banks, why are they tightening? is inflation out of control? no. this growth great? no, it's ok. it is financial stability. whether it is u.s. high-yield or european high-yield, whatever credit market you're talking about, they are getting compressed, which is a specific goal. sometimes there is too much of a good thing. that is the number one focus of central banks right now -- financial stability. trey, something that does not come up much at the ecb news conference. should it? how frothy should it look? trey: i think their sole mandate is price stability. from a u.s. perspective, asset bubbles and one of the things growth provides an low rates provide is the ability to create those excesses. they have to worry about trading demand andlse elevated prices. that is something we need to think about as investors even though the ecb may not be

so, i think she is quite weakened and that means something for europe, more than just germany. but i do think this sense of a loss of identity and a loss of their culture is notjust about immigration and foreigners coming in, it is also about the decline of the old communities, the industrialisation, it is about what has happened all over europe for economic and political reasons and notjust because of foreigners coming in. germany had been thought to be a country that had kind of got the balance right. that it had had a sense of confidence about its social system, that people felt there was a german identity and leaving aside the nationalism question, they were comfortable with the way germany functioned, has that changed? in general, that is true but as we see with the result of afd, this is very much a western german phenomenon. they do not see this in the east. cultural and economic reasons, but in germany it's the historic reasons as well, the fall of communism. people in the east who are like the left behinds of the north of england are the equivalent of east germans. peo

europe has a lot to lose and to gain in. only a need to balance between literati security and independence is an important point and when you're in a minute. by one digital transformation the sacredness of it and yet this one all evolution needs a radical innovation in america we need to have digital chairman islands and with industry and research money this is what i can also like to apply and friend. it was because our economies cannot continue to build themselves as if they were protected and in any cut from the rest of the world every new that's the way it is and the digital revolution is a revolution of talents you have to attract more of. and this is also the sense of our action no. prime minister and arm of minister of innovation in. and education and are fighting this fight in the government. also needs this kind of a. i don't want to enter and do this only revolution and to create a national coming to twenty european. united states. and for that. with a human you know little of opportunity to. benefit from no. divis

goodbye. ♪ brian: hello and welcome to "fokus on europe." i'i'm brian thomas, greaeat toe you with us. will, so far this year, about -- well so far t this year, abt , 100,000 refugees have made their way across the mediterranean from north africa to europe. most of them want to somehow get to germany. but the balkan route is shut down, and austria has joined hungary in enforcing tough border controls. and that means many of the refugees trying to make it across the alps are risking their lives in thehe process. reporter: rosenheim station in southern germany.

think -- no i think people in europe and outside europe are still doubtful as whether this reform will happen. i am more optimistic that it will happen. you have a couple of leaders who really want to force through reform and get back on this agenda. talk about reform -- and we have seen it falter in the past -- but there is a sort of commonly acknowledged shopping list of things that need to be done in europe, calm and finance ministry, etc. we will probably spend the next five years going down the road toward that. the root that things look to be taken, where does this leave the eurozone versus the eu? we had the eurozone at the core of the eu project. the eu, -- twoor speeds to the eu, or is it eurozone or bust? >> i think macron sees it that two speeds. with the eurozone, you get fiscal uniformity. smaller countries have to adopt the fiscal policy of the core, and then you have no flexibility left. >> there are u.s. companies based in the republic of ireland. >> potentially. but this is a big fight that needs to be had. my sense is that people are still standing over the architectu

she needed the support of europe, and she did not get it. she asked for the support of the other eu countries like watches show has done. -- like martin schulz has done. but they both say we can handle this only if the european union is trying to do something together. otherwise, germany cannot be the only country receiving a lot of refugees, so i do not see a big difference between schulz and merkel. as she has been changing her policy regarding refugees since , i think this is even a strong point for her right now. people s say she has this and wl be able to handle it in the future. in termslet me ask you of what people think, to what degree is migration a high priority for a number of german voters? malte: i think it is in the head of many voters. it is not a real, substantial topic in the election campaign due to the fact that the migration policy of angela -- even by the opposition partrty, there was no representation for all the fears of all the things that people were asking for. they had no political representation, so all parties we

recurring terrorist attacks in europe and the u.k. have become an unnerving fixture for europe's major cities as it turns out britain is at the top of the leaderboard when it comes to the number of extremists here there is many as twenty five thousand fanatics in britain more than any country in europe that's according to the use anti-terrorist chief three thousand are considered a direct threat by m i five and five hundred under constant surveillance to compare france with six terrorist attacks in the last two years is said to have seventeen thousand radicals spain the most recent victim of a major terror attack in europe just over five thousand so why is britain europe six treatment capital well funded burn the supposedly good and highest number of jihadi some twenty five thousand does surprise me a bit because i would have expected france or proportionate don't shift to. number given particular the alienation of the muslim communities in both those countries but i know and i'm not surprised that young muslims or point you in the te

is europe the only place to go in a way >> europe seems the value place it has not performed, the valuations are attractive. the problem is the strong currency if the dollar starts to stabilize, emerging markets, which have had an amazing run, we would expect them to start to pull back and people may look at europe rather than emerging markets. that's the pivot, should you be in emerging markets or europe when you look outside of the u.s. >> nick, thank you very much for those thoughts nick nelson who likes banks in europe and downgrades pharma to neutral. nick nelson from ubs. >>> coming up on the show, insurance company prepared for irma's impact. we have the latest on the deadly disaster hitting the caribbean coming up on "street signs." thankfully, the breakthrough in prevagen helps your brain and actually improves memory. the secret is an ingredient originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. the name to remember. chances are, the last time yoyou got robbed.an, i know-- i got a loan 20 years ago, and i got ro

and she tells them that much of what they've been told about life in europe is misleading. i was young voters are here. you have hear of this. i mean you know if you already have brought the census i feel. the assembled girls then get a first hand example of the dangers that potentially await them courtesy of camilla . the story she tells is not sanitizing it's one of beatings and a brutal exploitation. must live with. every night live. to save. fifty think it's only. because she tells us how hard it was to begin talking to school girls about her experience. says. the first times were especially difficult things like that old like taking things like that but it's a time goes on when i want to hear them i would like to find the summary of those three four month old us. sister bianna has more than ten years experience working with victims of forced prostitution. she's grateful for women like camilla who has overcome her own fears to help other young women avoid a similar fate. pattern admire her cordons help goodness. and. sorry. but you don't know what's in the world as to w

good thing that europe needs exactly what these kids are learning. these are the most important internet companies in the world and they will have more and more weight in the future the top ten are all from the u.s. or china none are from a very. tiny a stone you know is trying to change that it's capital city tommy might have a medieval face but it's got a digital heart and. this is how it's don't you know worse everybody has a card to access public services online credit history real estate ownership child benefits it's all there declaring taxes takes three minutes on the company takes twenty thanks to the digital society there's very little red tape. when you don't have to deal with the musician thinks you actually have more time for some added value taking my belief that government should change and use more technology so they can be more efficient. this way the government also knows more about its citizens to many in europe this idea of an all. knowing state is a big worry they're concerned here though is that the rest of the e.u. is lagging so

of europe. i'm not sure exactly what macron thanks of poland, but i can see that he seems to want to replicate his message for confronting french populace on the national stage. what he did was really confronting the national front and by pushing against her in the second round which had never happened before and by really demonstrating that she was mistaken, going .5. and by also putting forward a very positive pro- european message, once again of european price that nobody had done before and that seems to have worked.. he wants to replicate that so he seems to be doing that on the moment at the european stage.astic, it's fantastic, it's very impressive, he is very charismatic but i think there is a risk there and it's a risk that i call the obama trap. that is believing that because your election was sot symbolic, because it was so strong and so powerful that your words will really be meaningful to other people and that you will, by your own charisma have people follow you in the direction yo

it was more consensual towards europe. it was warmer towards europe. i think the difficulties are that he was speaking to four constituencies, the hard—core brexiteers that we have heard a lot about with boris, trying to talk to the mainstream britain and to her party, and reassure business which is really worried, they are planning for the future and worried about what is going to happen, and what the shape of the trading arrangements are going to be. so far, they have been rather nonplussed about what britain is putting forward. it is coming from a week prime minister and a divided party. the real difficulty is explaining to the british public what the end destination is going to be. our own political editor laura kuenssberg said she didn‘t really give as much detail on that apart from saying that it is going to be great? she talked a lot about let's be creative, there is a lot of talk about creativity, her new boris style buzzword. there really wasn‘t much detail. we know for sure that there will be a transition period. that was a sop to was t

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talking about integration in europe. >> this is what europe needs. there is a rich agenda out there. italy is working hard with other countries, france, germany, spain, to develop an agenda and push it forward. president macron will be speaking later today. susan collins punctured any remaining gop hopes of repealing obamacare anytime soon. dealing a fatal blow by rejecting the last republican health care bill. the main senator became the third two oppose the measure. hillary clinton is on her media tour promoting her book, what happened. there is one huge problem that is a combination of a reality tv campaign, the role that the russians played. things that have never happened before. we weren't prepared. now we have to be prepared. losing, helped prepare, the dutch, french, the germans, to defend themselves against some of the same forces. taylor: you can see the entire interview with charlie rose tonight. 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. eastern in the u.s. the top. in front of congress today following the agency's disclosure that it was the victim of a cyber ha

was founded and europe as advanced because if nine hundred fifty seven the six european democracies who decided the two found that the european union had to wait for the other democracies nothing would have happened if. twenty twenty two thousand and one the twelve counties would introduce the euro to wait for whole the other the euro would then be a reality so these as always being their way of promoting the big project in europe and i'm confident that it might work also in the future. so first it was the hearer's and crisis and the migrant crisis and now you have sat back said it's the latest crisis what europe is facing but britain has always kept its distance and e.u. matters i mean it's style some important common decisions that sachs said have the potential to actually reinforce the e.u. . for some project and for some initiatives probably know it is going to be must easier to go toward a certain direction for example the. policy we're talking about before the defense and security policy with out of the union i do believe that is going to be easier or less difficult to do it t

still largest opposition party five star movement and the northern league they're both anti europe and they're saying that they would bring their layer back if they win the next election now i don't know if that's going to happen but judging by the polls they do have a chance a real one i just want your opinion why most forty seven it's like almost half of the country if they think it's a bad thing why do you think that happened. well first of all. to the polls because yes people say that the euro isn't in favor of three thirty but then when you say if they want to leave the euro or if they want to leave the european union the majority of people is no we don't want to leave the eurozone we don't want to leave the european union so i mean take with a pinch of salt this kind of pulls force the forward second. why they want to destroy the italian economy i answer for them it is clear that all the movement and there. are two example of extremist movement. always of a simple solution to a real problem which require other kinds of solutions so they see where there is an employment need to ge

top story in europe this hour the wind is back in europe sales that was the message from the e.u. commission presidential klobuchar in his annual state of the union address younker told the european parliament there was now a window of opportunity to build a more united union after a bruising couple of years he urged the block to move beyond unfortunate who trade deals and he called for a stronger migrant policy to ensure those who don't warrant refugee protection sent back paul brennan has more from paris. a wide ranging speech from the president of the european commission junko juncker it's his annual state of the e.u. speech and you would expect as he said that europe to admit that europe had been battered and bruised a year ago but he gave a very optimistic version of how he sees the outlook for europe that unemployment for example is now at a nine year low that europe had seen five successive years of economic growth and that eight million new jobs have been created during the time that he has been the president of the european commission as far as the outlook goes he said th

after europe -- the u.k. leaves, it will be the only land border and they believe people and goods should be able to move seamlessly. john broughton joins us now from dublin -- john bruton joins us from dublin. we heard from theresa may and she says she wants a creative relationship and a deep partnership. are you any closer to understanding what the trade relationship will look like? know i think we need to first of all what relationship britain wants with the european union. talking about a full partnership, that is just words. that does not contain any detail as to whether for example the e.u. standards would be applied -- bytain and could be the european court of justice. they could adopt a cheap food policy which would require border.at the ireland the first decision is for britain to decide what sort of relationship it wants from the e.u. and there does not seem to be consensus in either of the major parties as to what the major goal is. they all agreed there should be a transition, but transition to wh

i don't want it to be the united states of europe. will it be a multispeed europe? it is already. well, it has got several speeds but it could go to all sorts of different levels, on all sorts of different issues, whether it be freedom of movement or whether it be schengen, whether it be, um, fiscal consolidation. to a larger sense it is already. you could have sorts of different groupings and different platforms — what a confusing mess it would be. well, with all respect, i hope we will be able to call this country, in the future forever and ever, the united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland. but i see here, too, very vigorous signals of fragmentation and of profound differences of opinion as to the identity, as to be idea of what the uk should be relative to europe. so this is a much wider problem which does not simply concern the european union. look, president trump, when he was elected, he almost explicitly set out to destroy european integration. you think? you think that was a motive for his? he largely said so he invited 0rban, farage. and his advisers said,

well as the china europe and the united states the portfolio. excellent match. german labor union see the move as an opportunity while their french counterparts fear job losses the merger is still subject to approval from the trust authorities. the results of last sunday's general election in germany have shocked many business leaders a strong showing by the far right party means forming a coalition government among the other parties will be difficult. as guns in china and what's important for us irrespective of the party politics is that it doesn't take too long to conclude the coalition talks don't define the talks will be difficult but they have to agree on a forward looking program of. germany's industrial lobby group is hoping for advantage as the political cards are reshuffled it is now calling for a massive three hundred billion euro investment program to help boost the economy germany's chambers of commerce and industry are making similar demand. the business community is sending its own kind of coalition agreement for investments with three priorities i

few weeks, after it was found in eggs being sold across europe. now the pesticide has destroyed not only costel's bees, but also his livelihood. >> millions of bees used to collect pollen here. but two years ago, all the buzzing activity around beekeeper costel gresala fell silent. >> take a look. all the bees are dead. all because of this chemical they sprayed on the fields. my entire business is destroyed. at some point i'll have to burn everything down. >> in springng 2015, w wheat fs here were sprayed withth the insecticide fiprocid to kill ticks. its use near domestic animals was already banned at that time. people in the village of puiesti, in one of eastern romania's poorest regions, were not even informed, says greschala. >> it was a disaster for us beekeepers. we were robbed of our livelihood. a beekeeper can't exist without bees. these gentlemen caused an ecologicalal disaster here. they didn't think about the people, nor the animals, nor us. all they're interested in is money. and they can't get enough of it! >> costel grgreschala lolos

together we stand for the future of europe. >> europe. youth. reconquista. narrator: the movement is considered populistic and nationalistic. federal police agencies have it under observation. >> the message they're spreading is unbearable to me. it's stepped way over the line of free speech. >> haut ab! haut ab! narrator: while the far-right wing marches, the police keep counter-demonstrators behind a barrier. among them irmela , mensah-schramm. she's the oldest one here by a good stretch. >> the young right-wingers chant that "loving your homeland is not a crime." but for irmela mensah-schramm's generation, "heimat" -- or "homeland" -- is a loaded concept. irmela: i am from the first generation born after the war, in 1945. i can't undo what happened then, but i can be part of what happens next. narrator: the antifascist protesters stage a sit-in. the far-right protest comes to a halt. irmela mensah-schramm decides to take her personal protest a step further and joins the sit-in. , whoever takes part in the sit-in has to expect legal consequences. one by on

we toughened our sanctions to equal europe. i still tell you that you're going to hear accounts, we can't do this, we can't do this. then after we all do it, they take credit for saying we finally got unity and we are making a difference. it takes leadership. it takes leadership to make this work. the stakes could never be higher in what russia is doing today. you're going to be the key person because you're going to get -- you're going to be the conduit to all of the different embassies in europe. and you're going to have ambassadors who are not going to want to be bothered with another thing on their plate, and yet i don't know of a higher priority than what russia is doing against our interests in getting an effective way for our sanctions to work. my last point would be, we expect you to work very closely with this committee on this issue. this is not a partisan issue, as you know. this is clearly an overwhelming support. we need your commitment that you'll work with us and keep us informed as to the progress we're making w