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This is BBC world news. The military In the moment, more on plans to fix | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
economic problems in Thailand. First, Europe's heads of state and | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
government will have plenty to chew over this evening. What will the | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
election results mean for policy in Europe and the economy? There are | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
those who insist that the lesson of the election is that Europe must | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
reform. That might mean doing less and returning some to member states. | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
Other believe that ever closer union is manifest destiny and the answer | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
lies in deeper integration. In the short`term, Britain has stressed the | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
need for the forms. In France, the president says the EU had become to | :01:37. | :01:44. | |
promote and should focus on jobs and investment. Angela Merkel believes | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
the focus should be on boosting the economy. In Denmark, Spain, Greece | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
and elsewhere, large parts of the electorate want to rethink. Let's | :01:55. | :02:05. | |
get more. The think tank Open Europe wants a new model. Let's talk about | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
reform. The dust has settled. Is there at the fit for reform? I think | :02:12. | :02:19. | |
there is. What we have seen `` is their appetite for reform? I think | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
there is. Francois Hollande, the President of France, he has come out | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
and asked for a rethink of the policy. I think that this might be | :02:29. | :02:40. | |
quite problematic. He talks about growth. He means more government | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
spending. I doubt whether that is what Angela Merkel had in mind when | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
she talked about growth. The French government may be pushed to resist | :02:52. | :03:01. | |
the EU`guided budget cuts. So they are singing from different hymn | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
sheets at the moment. Is there going to be a problem with regaining some | :03:06. | :03:12. | |
kind of European solidarity? The next time the Euro crisis will face | :03:13. | :03:20. | |
a test of its solidarity, all of these governments on the periphery | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
will be faced with stronger protest movements. They will still be able | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
to put out of somehow but it will only become harder. At the same | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
time, in the north, in Germany, for example, there is a far right party | :03:34. | :03:42. | |
that secured six or seven European MPs and is against fiscal transfer. | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
There is popular discontent with the current policies on both sides. Of | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
course, in the last parliament we had certain types of issues that | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
face the economy. How difference is this parliament going to be in terms | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
of economic reform and the need for it? We can see that the number of | :04:06. | :04:16. | |
free trade supporting MEPs has dropped slightly. That is worrying | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
because there is a project for a trade deal between the United States | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
and the EU. I think, fundamentally, not so much is going to change | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
within the European Parliament. There is a very Federalist mindset. | :04:31. | :04:38. | |
There is now 30% protest members. That is up from 21%. It is expected | :04:39. | :04:46. | |
that the main groups will continue as they always have. The fact that | :04:47. | :04:54. | |
these protest parties are doing well, in France, in Greece, in | :04:55. | :05:02. | |
Denmark, this will put a very considerable pressure on national EU | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
policy. It may also drive the leaders of these governments to try | :05:09. | :05:18. | |
to achieve a lighter and more flexible European Union. That is | :05:19. | :05:27. | |
what Britain is asking for. People vote for UKIP but I think the | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
British people are fed up with the command and control we have seen in | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
recent years. Interesting stuff. Thank you for talking to us. A | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
British woman is to take charge of one of the jewels of the Crown in | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
the French industry. Linda Jackson will become CEO of the 95 adult | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
company on the 1st of June. She has 35 years experience in the motor | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
industry but remains one of the few women to have a major carmaker. We | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
asked why she thinks so few women are in the drivers seat of these | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
major companies. I don't know why because I think the car business is | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
good. It is a sexy product, and emotional product. You don't just | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
buy a car, you choose it, they wanted, it is personalised. Women | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
play a large part in terms of choosing a car. I don't know why | :06:21. | :06:28. | |
there are so few of us. It is diversity, isn't it? But it is the | :06:29. | :06:36. | |
president culture, , feminine, you add something. Women are more | :06:37. | :06:45. | |
reflective in terms of decision. I like to have a team around to | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
discuss things. We reflect on things and make a decision. You are a | :06:50. | :06:56. | |
woman, you are British, you work in a culture that is different in | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
France. Do you feel pressure to have the more I will be tucked up at idea | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
what I want to do. I wanted that Citroen into the future. I want them | :07:07. | :07:13. | |
to be successful. `` I want to put. They can change what customers | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
want? I think that we have changed it. With the launch of the new | :07:17. | :07:24. | |
Cactus, that this will be want to go. You cannot look at that car and | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
not say it is innovative, creative, different. That is what Citroen is | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
really good at, producing a design of a car that is something a little | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
bit different. People have criticised the group for being slow | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
into China. They have just brought in a new partner. Some have | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
commented that they did not bring a lot to the party. They did a lot of | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
your expertise and technical know`how. `` they take a lot. Going | :07:51. | :07:59. | |
back to 2008, sales outside of Europe were 20%. Now they are 41% we | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
have doubled that. Tremendous progress since 2008. We want to be | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
at 50% by 2015. In terms of being slow, we have really accelerated in | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
the past ten years. We know that China is the market to be in. One of | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
the biggest markets. It will continue to be. I think we have done | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
both things. We have two joint ventures in China and they are an | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
important part of our business. I think they bring help to us in terms | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
of aiding globalisation. That was Linda Jackson, the new boss of | :08:39. | :08:46. | |
citron. The leaders of the queue in Thailand say that they are committed | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
to fixing the economic problems in the country. `` coup. They are | :08:50. | :08:58. | |
committed to pay farmers who have lost money under the rice scheme. | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
You have been keeping a close eye on this story. What more can you tell | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
us about this economic part of the coup? | :09:09. | :09:20. | |
The hope is that this is the first step. There are supporters and | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
followers of the former Prime Minister in fourth. The military | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
believe that this is an urgent issue and they have moved quickly to find | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
the money for the agriculture sector easy. `` the agriculture secretary. | :09:32. | :09:41. | |
The rice payments could add about one fifth of 1% economic growth this | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
year. The farmers have suffered. Rice prices were brought higher. | :09:47. | :09:57. | |
Apart from the handouts, business leaders are expecting a stimulus | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
package. They are hopeful that the state budget will be ready for the | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
new fiscal year. This will be good news according to analysts. They | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
will add two `2% over the next year to the Thailand economy. Keep an eye | :10:11. | :10:17. | |
on that story for us. That is it from us on World Business Report. | :10:18. | :10:33. | |
Stay with us. We will look at the papers in a moment. David Cameron | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
will meet EU leaders in Brussels to discuss the success of UKIP and | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
other Eurosceptic parties. The pair | :10:45. | :10:45. |