in fa ct, unification of all of europe. in fact, it was thought to be dangerous for germans to go it alone as it wear and unite for germans to go it alone as it wearand unite an for germans to go it alone as it wear and unite an unsolved division of europe. so i was apprehensive but the over joy meant of europe. so i was apprehensive but the overjoy meant that of europe. so i was apprehensive but the over joy meant that seized of europe. so i was apprehensive but the overjoy meant that seized all of us, after the show on the 10th of november, a taxi brought me to the bare line wall —— merlin all our optimism did not turn out as we thought. we were disabused of some of our top of what peace and everything would mean. we will come to that in a moment but first, recollections, alexander you wear a man in yourearly recollections, alexander you wear a man in your early 30s, grew up on the other side of the iron curtain did you dance when you saw the wall come down? first of all, i need to say something important. i think the

and europe was about pragmatism but ideals. so for me i started to believe in a europe as a kind of solution of most of the continent's problem. and it came true with a succession of... we were all disabused of this hope because two years after the fall of the wall, the war in the balkans began in europe did not appear to be the place where peace would break out... we will come to that, but stephanie, young generation, same as annalisa, that event brought you to europe? i was one of 100 or so americans who got on a plane and moved to prague right after the velvet revolution and the berlin wall came down and spent four years there and went on to moscow and lived there for several years as well. for me, coming access, the fall of the berlin wall is such a strong image but there was so much else going on in the region at the time which overshadows that. it all began in poland around a round table that led to semi—free elections there. hungary played a huge role, when they turned off the barbed wire fence which allowed some east

do you foresee that as a role for europe? >> you know, i think we'd be much better off working together on this rather than -- i know mama krr m macron, we all know macron has a vision he'd like france to be the world leader on these various things, and bless him for that thought. i -- he's got to take that wherever he wants to take that, but i think we'd all be best off working together because, look, china's certainly going to do what it's going to do and it's going to take everybody working together. >> absolutely. mike, i'll turn it to you. >> let me ask about impeachment. >> another screen's going to fall and go crash. >> well, according to the constitution -- >> i bet you our audience is thrilled to be the only audience in washington not talking about -- >> yeah, exactly. >> senator, i thought your speech was fantastic. i think you captured accurately the trends in europe. i think that our friends in europe are awakening to some of the same problems we've felt with respect to intellectual property rights. but the proble

think europe and do you think europe account and it sounded. not today if the u.s. were to pull out or call back 6 actually from its commitments to nato europe would be woefully short of all the key capabilities needed for small scale interventions much less for the defense of europe against a potentially large scale threat from the russian federation so we need to stay together and rebalance the alliance that's where trump has legitimate grievance with the other allies and mccraw should work on strengthening the european pillar of nato rather than taking europe in a totally separate direction let me bring pavel in and ask this question some of the headaches which russia has had with nato expansion is and would any of that be dealt with if we saw a different sort of common european defense arrangement would that deal with the placement of certain u.s. missile systems that say in poland and so on and so forth or ultimately would we see the same sorts of military postures just with a different. oh those are missiles that have been deployed then.

and in europe 20 years ago now are cheaper in europe than in the u.s. >> give us examples. tell us about the prices. >> if you live in the u.s. you probably -- the median household is $68 per month for having broadband access internet at home. the median household in france is $31. in the uk germany is $3235. about half of what american households pay. the same as for yourself on, if you live in berlin, london, paris and madrid you would pay half or less of what you pay today for yourself on plan. >> reno airlines, all of those websites and look at land prices and we see exactly this in price by most airlines in assisting for every two. >> 20 years ago the u.s. had eight major airlines over the country. today only a fourth so they went from 8 - 4 in europe went the other way. 20 years ago we had nationalities owned by the government and not very competitive and once we've done over the cost 20 years is to bring in to force the carriers to get their act together and lower prices. >> which is why today flying is cheaper in europe. >> how widespread is this, is this true gold

s that affected other people to rebuild europe. they get paid to do that? or they forced to do that? or they volunteer to get out of the p.o.w. camps? >> they didn't volunteer let's put it that way. it's a great question and i wrote an article on this so they know the answer. the p.o.w.'s who are working for quaker's were paid but they weren't allowed to get their money through p.o.w.'s. but the quaker's did and i think it's fascinating. it's wonderful material for people who want to do assertation on this. they sent a team of three people to germany with a pay packet and photographs of the p.o.w.'s. we visited the families and they took the pay and photos and stories and collected information about conditions at the same time and these are in the quaker archives. this is what sort of the quaker mission. a lot of these were not paid for the reconstruction work and they're doing some pretty nasty stuff. >> brief question. was there any aid in germany and i think you did mention something about austria but they were starting to. >> that's a great question. th

sell our french army to the german that has been agenda since the beginning their big idea is to think europe and to kind of congregate everyone in this type of imperial europe they have as an idea a kind of napoleon type of and. and this is a very big challenge for us french because that would mean obviously losing our army losing our sovereignty so he is using this nato this nato thing which is right to her he has a head an agenda if i could say which is to bind our army with the german army and this is something us the french have to look after because losing our army means losing our sovereignty means losing our identity so i think we're probably going to come back in the 2nd part on what is the real combat today it's not communism anymore we'll know what the civilization issue is and obviously nato is not the one up for it so that's my point of view on that ok i would say with a lot of market in oxford but i would make the argument that all 27 from the united states being the 28 member of nato their sovereignty is compromised as well and if you look at public opinion polls it's been pret

will probably gain points in europe everywhere and he will probably come to a result because this is early 001 proposal of common european defense failed like most of his proposals actually over the last few years they failed miserably and so this one marks exceed one he said that nato was brain dead he had no no substance in the speech really about this but president putin gave him substance that by proposing to discuss by by hand by giving a hand to nato nato had said no we're not interested we can believe in it you can believe in it why don't you discuss it 1st so that's probably what michael is saying this week to worm to the nato general secretary against stoltenberg who's in paris for that precisely so nato would probably changes the scores it's speech about. the russia and about the threats that russia could represent ok many many you know that's an interesting point but i mean without you know the russian bogeyman then there's even more doubts about what nato is purposes because the in my mind nato is primary mission is to exist ok that's what they want they have 5000 bureauc

when you come from europe, things look very differently and most people in europe has a sense that europe has been renewed and that indeed it has been strengthened by recent hallenges. institutions do play a key role in devising for the member states and cannot be bypassed without severe repercussions in terms of losing influence. all the member states recognize they need to back up on these issues and have one mandate to negotiate with others if they want influence in the world and that means even major states such as france accepts a mandate that they are not always happy with on the issue of trade. but on that issue, the european institutions have a lot of power. there are other issue areas where the european union has not traditionally played such a big role and that would include security and defense issues in e ind omp pacific and how to counter chinese industrial and investment policies that are seen as detrimental to europe. but in these areas, new initiatives and partnerships are emerging that allows europe to contribute in ways that we have not seen before despite the formal wea

europe. krishna: u.s. for credit, europe for equities. samantha: allocation, u.s. if you want to be tactical, europe. jonathan: great to catch up with you guys. from new york, that does it for us. we will see you next week same time, same place. this was bloomberg real yield. this is blumberg tv. ♪ ofwelcome to the best bloomberg daybreak middle east. could saudi aramco be worth less? it could be. we dig into the details. would the share sale help wean the saudi economy off its reliance on oil? a study says that will depend on the size of the proceeds and how the government decides to spend it. the track record is not looking great. dubai's property problem continues. house prices down nearly 30% over the last five years. what is the government doing to address the issue?

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parisians where they stand when it comes to the relationship between europe and nato does europe need nato yeah i think so yeah before build up of defense. we have to speak of with the russian and to try to bring the europe a bloc efficient between the u.s. and china and russia going to sort of nato is obsolete because europe no longer truly has an organized enemy on its territory. i think europe needs to start having its own weapons both political and economic to protect itself europe cannot defend itself without me being alone we don't advance well with help we can move faster and stronger evidently the chasm between opinions on whether or not nato needs europe and vice versa is as wide here in paris as it is. within the block itself a mortgage diana reporting from paris hard to see we talked about this with the director of the crisis research institute mark almond he says that there are a number of disagreements threatening nato's integrity. brought certain tensions between paris and berlin between paris and washington french so that the need to assert themselves and your views for

need remains the only transformed from others and europe. sit together to meet together to make decisions to go their own issues so great importance what we should say. but his words today were in stark contrast to those of the french president among your mocker on he recently said that the alliance is experiencing a gradual brain death he's done has more. nato heavyweights are converging upon brussels and it's all smiles and pats on the back end a very very v.a.p. guest all the way from the united states the secretary of state might bump aoe himself but behind this facade of handshakes and mutual joy hides a nasty in the block's fabric and that is between the believers in the alliance and heretics who dare question the relevance of the block and this whole aggravation it stems from right here from france when president emmanuel mccrone dared to assume dare to say that the bloke is experiencing and i quote brain death what we are currently experiencing is the brain death of mater only works if the guarantor of the last resort functions as su

so europe is becoming more and more aware what is in europe's interest, and it was sort of make these efforts under that heading, that europe may see certain things differently from its allies and partners. so, for example, in the south china sea sale screws three wat are part of this tour, europe will not sale within 12 nautical miles of chinese occupied features, because in europe's view that is entering into a legal gray zone and europe doesn't wish to do that because they feel that that can make problems when arguing europe is for the rule of law and the rule of base order. that is different from u.s. policies but essentially europe also conducts the freedom of navigation operations that is supportive of the efforts of the u.s. and other countries so while there are differences, i would say they are minor compared to the similarities in terms of objectives of these efforts. so this kind of division of labor that allows europe to have a footprint in the indo-pacific, i think we'll see more and more of in areas where the institutions do not have much formal sovereignty. for example,

to eastern europe that he's not really counting on eastern europe to build you up to date he sees that eastern europe is really a different mentality and we've seen it concerning immigration recent concerning the liberalization of workers' permits in different countries there's different talents in eastern europe which is sometimes difficult to control coming from western europe and i think that emanuel macros europe is based mainly on the french european economies and they would like to duplicate that all across europe and just impose their vision of europe to eastern europe and we're just finding that it's very difficult that eastern european countries want to remain sovereign they want to keep being hot democratic countries voting the laws themselves and not having lost coming in from the european commission imposed on them and their men are not going to see this difficult to control them. honest international slammed israeli authorities for banning one of its employees from traveling abroad the human rights organization described the measure is punitive laith adds a palestinian hum

this is "bloomberg daybreak: europe." -- nejra: this is "bloomberg daybreak: europe." uncharted territory as well rbc wealth management because the current business cycle. how should investors be positioned going into next year? joining us now is frederique carrier, head up investment strategy at rbc wealth management. let's just talk about the case for equities. you see further upside in 2020. what gives you the conviction that equities will continue to move higher? frederique: we see higher grounds for equities for next year for several reasons. it seems that the recession seems to be probably more than a year away. monetary conditions are still good. we hear from lenders and borrowers around the world that growth goingty of around, which is good news. tight monetary conditions have proceeded recessions in history. this is not the case at the moment. they u.s. consumer is the main driver of growth in the u.s. we believe it can continue to spend. household balance sheets are a lot healthier than they have been. 7%.ngs rate is about housing crisis are back to precrisis

europe is one of the well or rather right now europe is about acquiring one of the most powerful computers in the world the next generation of supercomputers has to be built by us. but europe has got all this scientists and industrial capacity to be competitive in these fields. let's not talk ourselves down. we should not be talked down by others or talk ourselves down innovation needs clever minds but it also requires diversity. it needs freedom to think we have all of that here in europe people want to live here they want to search here and they want to create their future here. we need. a future ready infrastructure with common standards colluding to give it networks and secure clouds for the current and future generations. the rule material for digitalisation is data. every click that we make here in europe we feed algorithms. yet many of them transatlantic rhythms. that then influence our behavior. that's not a good state of affairs. if you did with the g.d.p. are we set the framework for the world. we can. do that now. exist for artificial intelligence too. because we here in europe.

and nato does europe need nato yeah i think so yeah before build up of defense. we have to speak with the russian and to try to being the only europe a bloc efficient between the u.s. and china and russia has to start having its own weapons both political and economic to protect itself europe cannot defend itself without me being along we don't advance well with help we can move faster and stronger evidently the chasm between opinions on whether or not nato needs europe and vice versa is as wide here in paris as it is within the bloc itself a mortgage donna reporting from paris. well the director of the crisis research institute mark almond told us he believes there are a number of disagreements threatening nato's integrity. brought certain tensions between paris and berlin between paris and washington french say that they need to assert themselves and your views for such as a separate pillar of nato and not be too dependent on americans but other countries like for instance germany that's often seen as a copartner axis with france running the e.u. is rather worr

lay out its own path and i'm thinking about the events of in europe and with china recently we have a crime visiting beijing cutting a deal worth $15000000000.00 in terms of agreements you have germany talking and worrying about huawei and whether it should build out the 5 g. network in the country it's looking like european democracies have to have tough negotiations with a country they never thought of perhaps as being a tough negotiator yes absolutely i mean you have to see that if you look at all to the trade numbers for the last couple of years that china really has spread everywhere it is the big deal economy power throughout the 3rd world into eastern. europe as well and of course what they saw also in 1989 and the americans in particular although they stick together vis a vis best in europe and raise too many rights and important to condemn what happened in china they also persecute the americans a back channel promised policy to keep the economic relationship going considering that china was planning to open to the world economy and that it's exactly a similar position we're

office prices in europe that are hard for domestic launches to compete with. the distance of an. information it's not a secret. if you search online you'll see that space x. recently sold launches for falcon 9 for $100000000.00 and offer the same rockets to europe for $50000000.00 that's half the price. from fatigue on the board. pis. the launch costs for r e m $6.00 have to be brought down dramatically by at least 40 percent which is no mean feat. that's why they're relying on synergies. new boosters have been developed and tested but they give the shuttle the thrust it needs during takeoff and they will likely be used for europe's smaller fake a rocket to swallow. this means they can produce more units which reduces production costs. the operators expect the biggest savings to come from the new production methods like the protective insulation on the upper section. plates used to be glued to the outside of the market by hand a time consuming process. 6 and for the 1st time these components are sprayed on by her bot. to make like this creates a uniform surface which is important

europe. krishna: u.s. or credit, europe for equities. samantha: allocation, u.s.. if you want to be tactical, europe. jonathan: great to catch up with you guys. from new york, that does it for us. same time, same place. this was bloomberg real yield. this is this is bloomberg. ♪ mark: i'm mark crumpton with bloomberg first word news. there may be a hitch in negotiations for an interim trade deal between united dates and china. president trump told reporters that the u.s. has agreed to a rollback of all tariffs on china and said he had not agree to anything. the house committee is investigating the president has released testimony from alexander benjamin, the national security council official described a july meeting where ukrainian officials asked about a meeting between president trump and blow to mental escape. he said then -- a security advisor john bolton cut the meeting short after u.s. clement gordon sondland spoke about ukraine needing to undertake certain investigations to get that meeting. he stated he felt the request was "inappropriate." calls for sco

brain death of neda words from french president emanuel mccrone published this week his warning for europe is not exactly surprising but it is shocking compared to sentiment just a generation ago tonight on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall and important question here in europe and in the u.s. how strong are they those ties that are supposed to buy i'm bring golf in berlin this is the day. you know the events of thank you need i remind me of what binds us our 2 countries free societies transatlantic allies and spread yourself said i only said that we certainly need more control of our own fate and iran. but the transatlantic relationship is indispensable for us in the middle and the midst of us i'm just i'm not of the opinion that nato is brain dead i still believe in international cooperation and that it's up by it especially because we are facing ever larger and more international challenges that also. i agree with that also merkel nato is strong. tonight it states north america and europe we do more to get it done that's done for decades we have implemented

the united states in europe's relationship. i get lots of visitors every day from your it's always an interesting experience. on the irish side it was a great grandmother that immigrated. i always asked my german friends where they are from. i guess i'm getting used to but i'm concerned it when they talk about the relationship and i don't view us as having any kind of a difficult relationship i will give you a little antidote in that regard. they want to talk about a number of things we talked about soccer we got down to talk about the issues and as we did with a robust debate which is not favored greatly by the vast majority of people in our congress when we were all done they said to me are we okay? we do a lot of friends i've been married for a lot of years. the relationship between these countries as a whole lot better than a lot of these people's relationship is. yes, we are okay. i'm always a little bit surprised. should we have differences and strong differences. doesn't remain the relationship should go away. the presid

wants to sell its natural gas to europe. north stream to pipeline is owned by russian energy concern gazprom the gas it carries is also gas problems but a new e.u. regulation says the pipeline owner and gas provider must be different companies as of 2020 but that would apply to north stream too which is still being built so the german government is claiming that since the pipeline is as good as done it shouldn't come under the looming legislation. the plan is for the 1200 kilometer long pipeline to transport an additional 55000000000 cubic meters of russian gas directly to germany the gas is needed to secure electricity supplies now the country is phasing out nuclear and coal power he you countries as well as the us maintain that a 2nd gas pipeline across the baltic increases europe's dependence on russia. in the u.s. there have been warnings of sanctions on european companies taking part but michelle holmes who's just returned from washington thinks that's unlikely. stream too is a difficult subject for the americans i made

back and the europe. -- back into europe. less bad is enough to buy risk. jonathan: still with me around the table is robert tipp, samantha azzarello, and krishna memani. less bad is enough to buy european risk. your thoughts? samantha: we don't really like european credit at the moment. we would rather be with investment grade in the u.s., in the high-end and high-yield in the u.s. jonathan: i imagine it's a different calculation to make. from a credit perspective, europe versus the united states for you? krishna: if you are a cross-border investor, would you find european credit assets very attractive at this point? and the answer to that is no. having said that, there are a lot of europe-domiciled investors who can only invest in that particular continent. and to them, given what's happening in europe, in terms of the reacceleration, or at least stabilization, and the ecb balance sheet expansion, ecb easing, that bodes really well for european credit assets. jonathan: robert tipp? samantha: -- robert: yeah, i think europe

what we have with europe is not just trade relations with europe, but very strong strategic partnership. nejra: right. maya: has you mentioned, we also have very strong aspirations. it is part of our national policy as well. when we are talking about china, we are talking about one of the biggest, largest markets. all of the countries of the other regions are -- have a desire to participate in this trade relationship. of course, we are talking about our political aspirations. we are talking about our reform agenda. it is looking for the european and atlantic euro atlantic area. we do not think we will affect it anyhow. we are in the region which is very diverse, as already mentioned. georgia is very open, very business friendly. we think that we are not only providing opportunity for the markets to connect to each other the just to clean, but to meet in georgia maybe. ofra: with europe, in terms the association agreement you have with the eu and the prospects of becoming a form member, is that complicated -- full member, is that complicated by brexit? maya: not really. we have large tra

europe is almost entirely flat. nejra: great to have you with us. -- stopher jeffreys head of legal investment management. coming up, donnell trump signs legislation supporting hong kong protesters. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ from good morning bloomberg's european headquarters in the city of london. i am nejra cehic. this is "bloomberg daybreak: europe." backing the bill. u.s. afterns the donald trump signs legislation supporting hong kong protesters. asian stocks and u.s. futures trade lower but avoid major declines. the pound jumps as a hotly anticipated poll predicts a big majority for boris johnson's conservative party. on the downside. latin american currencies plunge. in the u.s., positive data since the s&p 500 to a record high. today, u.s. markets are closed for thanksgiving. ♪ welcome to "bloomberg daybreak: europe." a little bit of risk off in today's session in asia but also reflected in the futures market after we saw the s&p, dow, and nasdaq hit record highs for a third straight session. it took the d

europe awaits another earnings and data heavy day. than 30 trade is less minutes away. ♪ a productive meeting. u.s. commerce secretary wilbur ross meets with chinese premier in bangkok. he tells bloomberg exclusively the two countries can broker a phase one deal this month. ross: we are making good progress and there is no natural reason why it couldn't be. matt: saudi aramco finally launches its blockbuster ipo but it could be worth half $1 trillion less in the target initially set. its ceo itsires seat -- fires it ceo over a relationship with an employee. welcome to bloomberg markets. we are looking at continued gains in futures this morning after hitting again all-time highs, at least on all-time equity indexes over the weekend. the 10 year yield, we see it coming up a little bit. this is a three year chart. straight line because japan is closed for a holiday. other markets in asia are up and now that u.s. treasuries are open, we see the yield as well. that means investors are willing to get rid of the perceived safe haven asset

let's get back over to europe. europeanay, the commission antitrust chief margrethe vestager spoke to maria tadeo in france. he: first and foremost, in the business environment, you find a lot of impressive tech. you find engineers, find research, and find them in impressive startup environments. of course, in the willingness to balance all of the possibilities and contain the downsides. maria: we do here many times that the reason you're so focused on taxation is because we haven't really seen any real innovation in europe. do you agree with that? margrethe: that's absolutely not the manyll of businesses who pay their taxes in europe. but not just some of them, every company should contribute where they do excellent business because this is the bottom line in europe. you did very good business here. maria: is that something you still think, by the end of 2020, it would be fair for the eu to just go it alone? margrethe: yes, we are strong believers in a global agreement. i am very happy to see progress made. there

the faster europe moves. the greater the advantage will be for our citizens our competitiveness and our prosperity to lead to get going from the line we'll have to overcome europe's internal political problems once in office this sunday she'll begin torin european capitals selling her green vision as something quote inclusive recognizing that many countries such as poland and indeed germany still rely on coal for electricity she also needs to tackle countries like hungary which aren't too keen on european values despite being member states she certainly has a big job ahead of her thanks of the deal has a brussels bureau chief matts hoffman caught up with us on the line after the concern may consummate revote in strasbourg and the europe that you want to build with this new commission how is the rest of the world supposed to view it. well i think it's time that europe is stepping up to be assertive and confident we have to give large to the world and if you look at the topics of the european green deal or digi

the villa hope there's a labor or hope a long live europe. but we were just watching the incoming e.u. commission president as he left london line addressing the parliament. ahead of a vote on her executive team she was speaking there in english french and her native german talking about gender equality climate change digitization migration just some of the challenges facing the european union today and there as well in strasbourg is your chief and correspondent max off when we can cross straight over to him now max as you have on the line making a call for a fresh start for europe what did he make of that speech. 1st of all it appears that you know she touched or she reached out to the different political groups and gave everyone a little bit of what they wanted to year to the left for example inclusiveness to the right competitiveness and then of course she touched upon her 3 major issues we talked about it earlier her 3 priorities that are reflected in the choices of the so-called beis executive presidents of the e.u. commission one is mak

straight to europe in general terms which power has been looked at slides and military members that are against international norms and rules that . russia so in that sense of benito is basically on twitter threat come from and he does actually never denied a piece when there was a needle that the middle east made a terrorism and say states pulls a reality threat but the reality is actually france among some countries has always blocked nato plane more active both political but also over asian abroad in the middle east so i think the matter is right it's always have a future wait or call but i think we also have to look at our own little bit each and every year france has many considerations when it comes to its traditional positioning it needs a look at john i know you want to come back on that i'll let you let you do so in just a moment but let's bring in yourself 1st of all from ankara. turkey still committed to nato or is it drifting away from the alliance and the west i mean what sort of an alliance partner is it whatever it takes strategic decisions without consulting its alli

europe and the united states with china. let me say that for our european friends, there's nothing wrong with our relationship. just as president macron said recently, we need to do this together and he was particularly talking to his european brethren. we need to get together in europe and with the united states when it comes to our relationship with china. i couldn't agree more with him in that regard. as far as china is concerned, i can tell you that as i travel around the united states, i look here and see a lot of people who were very focused on these kinds of issues, who educate themselves on these kind of issues. many, if not most people in the united states have no idea of the challenge that we are facing in many respects from china. we had the opportunity to travel in china in 1983. i walked around in china. i thought to myself, you know, this isn't going anywhere. they really had nothing there. didn't look like they were moving in any kind of a direction. it was communism at its finest. and i thought to myself, you

this is about reminding china the of the importance in europe and also lose sight of europe but also showing that europe can work as a unit as a unified whole it's just briefly what about losing sight of hong kong because that's something that europeans agender the moment when the call goes to beijing tomorrow and there he will have to balance the need to talk about what he called a taboo subject of hong kong with the need to present this united front and to push for trade so it's a balancing act for him a tricky one if it can and thank you very much well china's so peace investment in its bells and road initiative is the port of ingrates in europe and foothold for chinese influence in the west in the eyes of washington and it's a you allies the greeks caught in the middle the greek port of parathas is china's gateway to europe it's the 1st deep sea port that container ships from asia reach after passing through the suez canal china wants to make it the final destination on its new maritime silk road its spending billions to expand the port for greece in its economic desperation 7 pe

eastern europe and central europe germany and europe could finally grow back together but the values on which europe is built freedom like democracy equality and the rule of law preservation of human rights they are anything but something we can take for granted again and again we must live them we must defend them up and in the future to europe it's nice to fight for human rights and tolerance for freedom and democracy and this and times of sweeping technological and global changes this is more pressing a matter before the car. the individual may sometimes seem small but we must become discouraged because of this instead we must remember however spirits who said that freedom is like the sea i didn't he said the individual waves may not seem to do much but the power of the tide is. impossible to resist. madame until the berlin wall is now relegated to the arson history. and now we want to ensure that no wall i think he's on separate people again it proves to us that no wall is so high and so strong that we cannot break it democracy spoke in a column about the wall he said when we cre