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Remember this? Tlfrjts is, I believe, a big issue we can no | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
longer ignore. The next big scandal waiting to happen. I am talking | :00:14. | :00:22. | |
about lobbying. Today, over three years later, | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
Patrick Mercer has resigned the Tory whip to save his party | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
embarrassment, he says, after being caught up in a lobbying scandal. | :00:28. | :00:35. | |
We'll ask whether reforms are long unemployment figures, young people | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
out of work - in Germany, 7.5%, in the south in the eurozone, more than | :00:38. | :00:48. | |
50%. We'll be discussing the two most powerful men in euroland - | :00:48. | :00:58. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 127 seconds | :00:58. | :03:05. | |
2Nd Battalion, The Mercian Regiment was approached by a fake company, | :03:05. | :03:15. | |
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the fake company, Communication The fake company, Alistair Andrews | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
commune cation. The programme released this clip of | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
Mr Mercer. I do not charge a great deal of | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
money for these things. I would normally come out at �500 for half | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
a day. So �1,000 a day. Patrick Mercer says he took the | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
money for work outside of Parliament. | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
It was said he admitted five parliamentary questions, all | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
answered. In total, he was paid �4,000. This had stale not been | :03:50. | :03:57. | |
declared by Mr Merer as the rules demand in the register of members | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
interest. Whatever the truth in this instance, links between the | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
MPs and lobbyists are problematic. Indeed there are scandals going | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
back decades. From cash for questions in the 90s. To three | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
Labour MPs found guilty of breaking the rules in 2010. Indeed, that | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
year David Cameron called lobbying the next big scandal waiting to | :04:23. | :04:30. | |
happen. We know how it works. The lunches, | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
the hospitality, helping big businesses find the way to get its | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
way. Yet the promise statutory register | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
of lobbyists still has yet to materialise, inspite of having the | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
supposed support of all three main Westminster parties. The Government | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
is considering responses to its consultation. | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
It is not the complexity of the proposal that is the problem, but | :04:53. | :05:01. | |
the lack of political will. There is no political oomph behind this | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
proposal whatsoever. Panorama says that Patrick Mercer | :05:06. | :05:14. | |
agreed to set up a Fiji all-party group. Officially they have no | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
status but they are confused in the minds of journalists and the public | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
with official bodies like select committees. They have grown in | :05:22. | :05:28. | |
number. There were about 250 all- party groups in 1985. By January, | :05:28. | :05:36. | |
2012, there were 566. Far more even than the US Congress which has 380. | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
A recent survey of MPs and peers by the speakers office through up the | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
result asked if they were agreed that all-party groups were prone to | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
be taking responses from their own lobbyists for their own purposes, | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
48% agreed. It is said that the groupings are | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
small beer in the big scheme of things. | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
It is in the context of a �2 billion industry. Yes we have lots | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
of large consultant lobbyist agencies in London, but there is | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
this enormous in-house industry. You look at something like the case | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
of Murdoch and his lobbyist. The kind of access that they had to | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
Jeremy Hunt's office, for example and the close contact, the texting, | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
that is what of concern here. Whatever else happens, the pressure | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
on the Government to deliver on lobbying reform is bound to | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
increase. Well, I am joined by Mark Spencer, | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
the Conservative MP for Sherwood, the neighbouring constituency of | :06:40. | :06:47. | |
Patrick Mercer and former lobbyist, Thomas Docherty. First of all, Mark | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
Spencer, your colleague caught on camera, offering services to a fake | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
lobbying group, unwise to say the least? It does not look good. | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
Patrick will have to defend that when it comes to the investigation. | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
It was interesting he said he was resigning the Whip in order to save | :07:06. | :07:12. | |
his party embarrassment but does think not thank think that anything | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
he might have done is efficient to resign from the constituency? | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
think we have to say it was Patrick's decision to resign from | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
the party. Nobody forced him out. That is his decision. He has to | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
justify that course of action, but we have to ensure that we get the | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
facts and establish the truth and get to the bottom of what has been | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
happening. If the allegations of cash for | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
questions prove true, should he resign the constituency? There are | :07:40. | :07:46. | |
clear lines, cash for questions is wrong. It is set out in the | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
statutory legislation. Any MP prove tonne have taken cash | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
for questions should resign. Thomas Docherty, a problem, surely | :07:54. | :08:01. | |
a lack of clarity over the rules and the regulations? Last year I, | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
when 2nd Battalion, The Mercian Regiment was accused of the | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
breaching -- when Patrick Mercer was accused of breaching lobbying | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
rules, he refused to get involved as he could not see which of the | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
rules that Patrick Mercer could have broken, but I agree that we | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
need to overhall the work of the Standards Commissioner. | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
You are a former lobbyist, in any of the recently issues it is not | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
the lobbying groups themselves, lobbying company companies, I | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
should say, sorry, that have been a problem? I think where a important | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
point is made you cannot differ enSecretary of State between the | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
third party lobby ists and the lobbying industry as a whole. There | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
is a �2 billion industry here. They are professionals, they do it with | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
integrity, but there are too many who will not abide by the rules. It | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
is disappointing that four years after a voluntary code was | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
introduced that the individuals and companies that will not sign up | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
that is why I introcuesed a bill in the last session of Parliament, | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
that the Government refused to support that would have supported a | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
statutory register. What difference would that have made in this case? | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
There is a danger. What we don't want to do is to alienate the | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
constituents, the charities, the vicar from being able to lobby our | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
MP what is important to them. But your leader promised that. It | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
was the next big scandal waiting to happen, was said. It is proved to | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
be the case? When you try to write it down in legislation it becomes | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
grey in the areas. So you are not keen in a register? | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
We need more transparency. But we have to make sure that we | :09:50. | :09:56. | |
don't if you like, put off the small charities, the small unions. | :09:56. | :10:03. | |
I have spoken to the Fire Brigade unions, the local lobbyists. | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
It sounds like the Conservative MP to my left thinks that a statutory | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
register will not make a difference? I will tell you what my | :10:12. | :10:18. | |
bill covers. It does not cover the village vicar but it does cover the | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
�2 billion industry. There is a big difference between a constituent | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
writing to you about a bill and the �2 billion industry that exists and | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
what the Labour Party has been calling for is a cross-party | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
approach that says that we need transparency. We need a code of | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
conduct that says when Members of Parliament, when lobbyists break | :10:38. | :10:44. | |
that code of conduct, that they can have disciplinary action. If Mark | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
does not understand that... Do we need more stings like the Panorama | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
sting? I think that the journalists do a good job of exposing | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
corruption, but there are extremes. It is the grey area in the middle | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
that is the difficulty to write down in legislation. | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
One of the areas, which is a burgeoning industry, is this idea | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
of all-party groups, which is what the evidence is suggesting that | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
some confuse with the select committees, a different thing, why? | :11:14. | :11:20. | |
To be fair, they are a good way of informing MPs of what is happening. | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
So, 566 of them are working one day in every two years? I am a member | :11:25. | :11:31. | |
of the Caresers' All Party group. It is is a really good way of | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
informing me as to what is happening. | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
Thank you very much. Well, nearly 3.5 million young | :11:37. | :11:43. | |
Europeans are out of work. However, today's latest joblessness figures | :11:43. | :11:49. | |
could be seen as almost Good News. We learn that number has remained | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
static for a third month. But look more closely, you can see | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
why the European leaders are so worried about youth unemployment. | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
In the continent's youth joblessness hotspots, the numbers | :12:04. | :12:11. | |
out of work are continuing to soarN Greece, 53% of under 25s were | :12:11. | :12:17. | |
jobless a year ago. That stands now at 62%. Spain, Portugal and Italy | :12:17. | :12:23. | |
have seen huge rises too, but look at Germany, just 8% a year ago, now | :12:23. | :12:29. | |
it is even lower. The UK, which, of course, is not part of the eurozone, | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
has seen its youth unemployment fall too. So when it comes to young | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
people out of work it is the continent's south that is | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
continuing to suffer badly. �6 billion of EU funds have been | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
set aside to get every young person in Europe a job, but there are | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
demands from both sides for more to be done. Those who are anti- | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
austerity, blame it for strangling job creation. Supporters of | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
austerity fear that joblessness prompts social unrest and the | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
unpicking of the policy. In the words of Italy's Labour minister, | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
we now have to rescue an entire generation of people, who are | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
scared. We have the best ever educated generation in this | :13:10. | :13:16. | |
continent and we are putting them on hold. | :13:16. | :13:26. | |
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Joining me now is Jonathan Todd, Professor Hertz and Megan Greene. | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
First, is persistent youth unemployment one of the serious | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
problems facing Europe? It is. As you wouldn'ted -- pointed it out it | :13:41. | :13:47. | |
is not only the high levels but the disparrities between Austria and | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
Germany on the one hand and Spain and Greece in another. There are a | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
number of reasons to go into on this. | :13:54. | :14:01. | |
Yes, let's do. 7.5% in Germany, and 62% in Greece | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
is it responsible that -- possible that Germany truly understands the | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
pain of some of these countries? think that they are beginning to, | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
but we have to look at the difference between the two. Clearly | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
countries like Germany and Austria are not hit by the recession as | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
hard as the eurozone countries, but there are other factors as well. | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
For example a high rate of school drop-outs in the southern European | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
countries. There are problems of labour laws. That on the one hand | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
you have workers, established workers with gold-plated employment | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
conditions, on the other hand, young people who cannot get a job | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
or if they are it is on a short- term contract. Their public | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
employment services do not work very well. So as to link up people | :14:48. | :14:54. | |
with skills that employers are looking for... Sorry, carry on. | :14:54. | :15:00. | |
And then there is also the problem of the burden of labour taxation. | :15:00. | :15:06. | |
That is too high in some countries like France where labour is hit | :15:06. | :15:13. | |
much more hard. There should ab way to shift these things, for example | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
property taxes. So a combination of factors? | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
Exactly. Marina, the social nightmare. We | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
heard the Italian labour minister saying that we have the best- | :15:27. | :15:33. | |
educated generation, however there are school drop-outs, so the best- | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
educated youngsters with nothing to do? The figures are shocking. The | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
ramifications will be felt for decades, on the individuals and the | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
scarring. We know that the longer someone is out of work, the less | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
likely they will have jobs in the future and they will get a wage cut, | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
but in terms of society. As you raise, we know that youth | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
unemployment is linked with higher rates of social unrest. We have | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
seen riots in Sweden. Not only because of youth unemployment but | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
youth unemployment playing a role. We have seen protests in Spain, in | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
Italy, in Greece. And when these young people they | :16:12. | :16:18. | |
are out of work for 12 months, some of them? Yes, and graduates in | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
Spain, 40% of the unemployed youth there are college graduates N | :16:23. | :16:30. | |
Greece, 30%. They have no hope. What Mr Todd is saying that Mr Must | :16:30. | :16:36. | |
be structural changes, changes in the labour laws, hiring and firing | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
issues that should be changed? the short-term, structural reforms | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
result in more unemployment. Then they support employment later, but | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
that is not the case immediately. In countries such as Italy, Spain, | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
Greece, they have a lot more to do in terms of opening up the labour | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
markets so I expect that employment will rise before it stabilises. I | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
would say some of the other long- term effects of such high use | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
unemployment it is not just a reduction in the productive | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
capacity for the youths but also a lot of them are joust leaving. For | :17:12. | :17:19. | |
example, I am not exactly in the youth employment age bracket but | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
half of the context that I know have left N Ireland and also a lot | :17:25. | :17:31. | |
more political fragmentation. This is a long-term problem for the | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
eurozone. If young people are leaving the southern European | :17:34. | :17:42. | |
countries, then the chance of recovery is lessened? Absolutely. | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
And the point is that if you managed to create jobs that creates | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
demand which helps the economy o get out of a recession. The | :17:52. | :17:58. | |
attitude in the passes has all too often been once we restore growth | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
the jobs come after but the jobs should be coming before the growth | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
as well. You raise the point, that follows on from what you are saying | :18:08. | :18:14. | |
that the focus on austerity, austerity plus recession is a very | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
toxying cocktail. We cannot sacrifice our youth on the | :18:18. | :18:24. | |
austerity. We need policies that focus on job creation, growth, on | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
increasing lending to small and medium-sized enterprises so that | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
they can hire people. Creating apprenticeship schemes that give | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
jobs to the under 25. A whole host of measures that cost money. | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
But the problem is we don't know the direction that Europe is going | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
in? Is it about deficit reduction, banking reform, is it about | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
targeting? I mean, what is the plan to get us out of this? It is not | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
one thing or the other. Clearly we have to resolve the underlying | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
financial crisis. To get back to sustainable growth, but at the same | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
time, we have to introduce the structural reforms. One solution | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
that we are pushing hard is the so- called youth guarantee. It is the | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
idea that has been applied successfully in Austria and Finland. | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
It is a system whereby in four months of a young person losing | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
their job or leaving school that they are either offered a job or | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
failing that an apprenticeship, traineeship or further education. | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
This means that the young person what cannot find a job is at least | :19:35. | :19:41. | |
spending their time in investing and acquiring the skills that could | :19:41. | :19:49. | |
get them a job in the future. You look sceptical? It is the sums | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
that seem small. There will be hope in the European Investment Bank in | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
terms of helping facilitating lending to support growth and youth | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
unemployment, but the EMB is a sclerotic institution. If anybody | :20:02. | :20:09. | |
is looking for a quick turn around on unemployment in Europe. | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
-- I think they will have to wait. How much can we lay the blame to | :20:14. | :20:21. | |
anyone? Germany has been at the helm. They have not borne the brunt | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
of this crisis. That has driven their crisis to. Make a 108 turn on | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
the approach to this crisis, they would need to feel it also at home. | :20:31. | :20:37. | |
Do you agree? Germany does not feel the pain has it does not have a | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
crisis at home? Well, Germany is beginning to be uncomfortable to | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
say the least with the high levels of unemployment. | :20:45. | :20:51. | |
And should they be uncomfortable? Absolutely. Absolutely. Because | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
something has to change. But the point is that there is no | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
magic bullet to resolve the problem from one day to the next there. Are | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
a whole series of reforms that must be put in place and to resolve the | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
underlying financial crisis and the underlying economic problems of the | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
European Union. There is no getting away from that at the same time we | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
have to take specific measures to help the young people, to make them | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
more employable, to ensure that they are not cut off from society | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
whilst they are unemployed. Thank you very much indeed. Well, | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
this week in the European Commission has been giving advice | :21:30. | :21:38. | |
to its members in how to get their economies going. Joe Lynam has been | :21:38. | :21:44. | |
in Strasbourg to meet the movers and shakers. | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
Including one in particular. Yet if asked to name the President of The | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
European Parliament, how many of us would know it was a bespekled | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
German chap called Martin? He represents half a billion Europeans | :21:58. | :22:04. | |
at global summits like the IMF and G20. He is Europe's top directly | :22:04. | :22:10. | |
elected official. The signature enacts laws that affect all and he | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
is well placed to become the new head of the European Commission. | :22:14. | :22:20. | |
Yet how many of us know his name? How would he describe himself? What | :22:20. | :22:30. | |
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kind of guy are you? President Martin Shulz is arriving. I am | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
going to spend the day with him. Do you have a busy day today? Always | :22:37. | :22:44. | |
busy days in Strasbourg. Martin Sh lurbgs z is chairing a | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
debate about tax havens and tax avoidance. Something that Britain | :22:48. | :22:54. | |
has a keen interest in. Push for a political commitment on | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
a simple principle, in 2015, the European Union should have an | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
automatic exchange of information for all forms of income. | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
The topic may be tax but it soon gets to Britain's future in the | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
European Union. I think that the British business | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
leaders yesterday had it completely right. They said very loud and | :23:15. | :23:22. | |
clear, to you and to the others, that it will be an economic | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
disaster to to leave the European Union. | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
You can probably see the President of The European Commission, Jose | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
Manuel Durao Barroso and two seats over, Nigel Farage, the scourge of | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
the European Union is there as well. UK Independence Party got wind that | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
Newsnight was in town. Suddenly and in breach of parliamentary rules, | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
Union Jacks appeared on their desks. Looking at officials that work for | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
the European Commission and Parliament. The highest category | :23:51. | :23:57. | |
are people that earn a net take- home pay of just over �100,000 a | :23:57. | :24:03. | |
year. And yet under EU rules they pay tax | :24:03. | :24:10. | |
of 12%. It is tax fraud Ann absolutely | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
massive scale. Jose Manuel Durao Barroso, I say, how can that be | :24:14. | :24:20. | |
deemed fair? They are used to Nigel Farage's views here. So much so, | :24:20. | :24:26. | |
that Mr Shulz can do a half-decent impression of the UKIP leader. | :24:26. | :24:36. | |
What are you planning here, Mr Barroso ?! Mr Shulz may anybody | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
charge of the Parliament but has not hidden his desire to become the | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
commission President. To achieve it he may have to replace bras Jose | :24:45. | :24:54. | |
Manuel Durao Barroso. Who we intercepted to meet Mr Shu lz. | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
What kind of guy is he? I am not prepared... We are doing a | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
professional of the man. I get the impression he is man of strong | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
opinions? It is true. He is on the opposite side of the | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
political divide from you? Opposite? What do you mean by | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
opposite? He is centre-left, you are centre-right. | :25:16. | :25:23. | |
Oh! We are, it is true, he is a socialist, I am not, but yes a good | :25:23. | :25:30. | |
working relationship. OK. I was just giving an interview, | :25:30. | :25:40. | |
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also about HerrKlaus. Are we looking at the current of | :25:44. | :25:51. | |
the... Are you worried about the scepticism growing? The real threat | :25:51. | :25:59. | |
to Europe is in difrt. I like the debates, but what we need is a real | :25:59. | :26:05. | |
political debate about the way that Europe needs to go forward. | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
But the one country that were talking of retreating from its | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
relationship with the EU is Britain. So are some people in Europe tiring | :26:13. | :26:21. | |
of Britain as much as some in Britain are tiring of the EU? Is | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
the thrrb there a fatigue for the British in the European Union? | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
Absolutely not. I think that the majority like me | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
members of the European Parliament, we want to see the UK as a member | :26:34. | :26:40. | |
of the European Union active within the European Union, we honour the | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
enormous contribution of the situation to the UK to our success. | :26:44. | :26:50. | |
Therefore, there is no anglofatigue. There is perhaps a euro fatigue in | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
the UK. It is purely tactical. Nothing else. This is creating a | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
problem. From the first day, whatever he did and said, David | :26:58. | :27:04. | |
Cameron, in my eyes, that is my feeling, had more to do with the | :27:04. | :27:10. | |
internal situation in the Tory Party and in Europe and as a member | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
in the UK. There is an exten shall opinion, | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
that it may not survive it may break up? If it fails, the | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
political project behind the currency will fail as well. | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
Therefore we should be prudent in some of the Member States of the | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
European Union, 50% of young people, younger than 25 years, they are | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
unemployed, this is a shame. Unacceptable in the richest | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
continent of the world. Therefore, yes, I understand that people are | :27:39. | :27:44. | |
angry, but is this a result of European integration? Or is this a | :27:44. | :27:52. | |
result of a very poor fairness in this distribution of the rich to | :27:52. | :27:57. | |
welfare within the European Union. What kind of guy are you? We know | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
about your political background. What kind of person are you if you | :28:02. | :28:05. | |
were to describe yourself to someone who met you? That is | :28:05. | :28:15. | |
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difficult to describe yourself. (speaks in German.) I think, from a | :28:29. | :28:37. | |
political point of view... I'm a fighter. | :28:37. | :28:44. | |
Sharon Bowles works closely are Martin Shulz on key financial | :28:44. | :28:48. | |
legislation. He can be fiery and thoughtful. | :28:48. | :28:52. | |
a personal level, he is OK. You can deal with him. | :28:52. | :28:57. | |
If he replaced Jose Manuel Durao Barroso, what do you make of that | :28:57. | :29:01. | |
don't think it is an outcome that I would favour there. Are many other | :29:01. | :29:06. | |
candidates whose ylds that I identify with. | :29:06. | :29:12. | |
-- ideals, that I identify with. Mr President... The end of a long | :29:12. | :29:19. | |
day? Not yet. So, ten hours after he arrived in | :29:19. | :29:25. | |
Strasbourg, Martin Shulz leaves for a flight to brels to address | :29:25. | :29:30. | |
Europe's 27 leader. And the front pages. We begin with | :29:30. | :29:37. | |
the Daily Telegraph: It says that the original deal was a �24,000 | :29:37. | :29:44. | |
contract to help lobbyists to help push Fiji business. To the | :29:44. | :29:49. | |
Independent: Sir Bradley Wiggins out of the Tour de France. Eurozone | :29:49. | :29:58. | |
crisis as one in four youths is jobless. The Daily Mail: A block | :29:58. | :30:05. | |
for wild child porn. In the Guardian: Sleaze returns to damage | :30:05. | :30:09. | |
Tories as MP quits in lobbying scandal. That is all from us | :30:09. | :30:14. | |
tonight, but there is an important anniversary on Sunday, for which we | :30:14. | :30:20. | |
need a suitably regal tone. Over to my colleague, Sylvia Peters. | :30:20. | :30:26. |