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Politics Europe. Hello and welcome to Politics | :00:00. | :00:49. | |
Europe. On today's programme, as the American and Russian foreign | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
ministers meet in London the West underlines the threat of sanctions | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
against Vladimir Putin. Following the Edward Snowden spying | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
revelations, the EU Parliament agree sweeping new rules on data | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
protection. A triumph for individual freedom or just more red tape? MEPs | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
agree that mobile phone charges should be standard across the EU but | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
will phone companies sign up to the plan? Do you have what it takes to | :01:17. | :01:25. | |
become a top bureaucrat in the EU? We have the lowdown on what it takes | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
to get into the European civil service. All that is to come. Here | :01:29. | :01:38. | |
is our guide to the latest goings-on in Europe. Ahead of Sunday 's | :01:39. | :01:51. | |
referendum in Crimea, Germany warned that Russia faced economic damage if | :01:52. | :01:59. | |
it did not ease up tensions. Ed Milliband promised a referendum on | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
EU membership but only if the EU was asked to transfer more powers to | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
Brussels. George Soros, the man who helped break the pound, told the BBC | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
that the EU may not survive its long-lasting stagnation. MEPs voted | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
to introduce a common charge for all mobile phones and, finally, good | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
news for the vice president of the European commission after a cottage | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
pie that she bought in England was nicked. The Mac I have a lot of | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
offers from people who said that their mother makes the best cottage | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
pie in Great Britain so I will send one to you. People were unhappy that | :02:39. | :02:40. | |
it was stolen. Who could have thought a cottage pie | :02:41. | :03:01. | |
could cause such problems? Welcome to both of my guests. As you head | :03:02. | :03:12. | |
towards the European elections, is the Parliament beginning to run | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
down? You could say we are beginning to step up. We have more reports | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
this week than normal, and when we meet in Strasbourg next month we | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
will have a lot of work to do. There is a lot of legislation to be | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
cleared. When you go down? We start in Easter and will go on until May | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
22. What did you make of some people who have been saying that in the UK | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
the Lib Dems could be wiped out at the EU elections? We will not be | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
wiped out. Every party will suffer from the expected surge in the UKIP | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
vote. Labour will suffer less than the Conservatives and the Lib Dems | :04:00. | :04:07. | |
at we have to be out there fighting the case was staying in the EU and | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
trying to face down the narrow nationalists in the UKIP. What is a | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
good result for the Conservatives? Will focus on our agenda for reform | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
and people need to know that if you want a referendum on EU then there | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
is one party that will give you that choice. That will not be determined | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
by voting in the EU elections. David Cameron has made it clear how | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
important European elections are. Whether people like it or not the EU | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
parliament has equal power over its member governments and that shows | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
how important the role of MEPs is. If you want a good citizen so that | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
it MEPs pushing the agenda for reform, vote for us. We will | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
continue pushing the agenda for reform. John Kerry has met with his | :04:54. | :05:01. | |
Russian counterpart in London in a final efforts to broker a deal on | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
the deepening crisis in Ukraine. The talks, head of a referendum on | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
Crimea on Sunday were residents of the region, largely ethnic Russian, | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
although there are other minorities to, decide whether or not to join | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
the Russian Federation. Here is a gloomy sounding Foreign Secretary, | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
William Hague. The fact that Russia so far has not taken any action to | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
de-escalate tension is makes this a formidable difficult tasks today and | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
I think therefore we have to be realistic about that. In the absence | :05:38. | :05:47. | |
of progress today, the EU and the United Kingdom will move to further | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
measures as we have already agreed. If there is no diplomatic way | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
forward, we will do that. We are joined from Cambridge by a Labour | :06:00. | :06:09. | |
MEP. She has led a move to impose sections on Russia. In the world of | :06:10. | :06:17. | |
politics it seems clear that Crimea is lost and that it is back as part | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
of Russia again. Do you agree? We cannot agree because the invasion of | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
Russia was clearly against international law... The invasion of | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
Crimea you mean. You would call it an invasion? Yes. The EU parliament | :06:35. | :06:42. | |
proposed a resolution that called it an invasion. If we ever decide to | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
come to a deal which then recognises this change, that is an imitation | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
not just a Vladimir Putin that is an imitation not just a Vladimir Putin | :06:54. | :06:55. | |
but to others around the world to will happen with Crimea is that it | :06:56. | :07:02. | |
will turn into another of the frozen conflicts that we see in Eastern | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
Europe and Central Asia. I stood in Georgia after the Russian invasion, | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
looking across the borderline at 3000 Russian troops so I know what | :07:11. | :07:19. | |
it looks like and there is a huge fear and therefore we cannot accept | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
this annexation of Crimea. Of course, 8500 troops on the borders | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
with Ukraine are there and Moscow statement this morning talked about | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
their right to defend their Russian compatriots. We must therefore fear | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
action in eastern Ukraine as well. Is it going on in two stages? | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
Assuming that the referendum goes Russia's way, whether or not it is | :07:46. | :07:53. | |
democratic or not we can put aside for the moment, and the Russians say | :07:54. | :08:00. | |
that they have done it and we will accept the will of the Crimean | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
people, what should Europe to? It is an illegitimate referendum against | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
Ukrainian constitution where there is not even an option for that move. | :08:13. | :08:23. | |
It is being held at the barrel of a gun. What is Europe to? Europe has | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
already said that if the referendum is ahead there must be more | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
consequences. What worries me about that is that when they make the sort | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
of statements, when John Kerry talks about 11 power talks, we hope it | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
succeeds but there was no sign whatsoever on the ground that this | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
referendum would not go ahead. As you say, the result is a foregone | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
conclusion. It will be boycotted by opponents. We know the result | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
already. I am deeply worried that this sort of pressure it that we | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
have heard from William Hague but other European foreign ministers | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
to, talking about consequences has not been followed through by | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
actions. On Monday there will be a move towards greater sanctions but | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
when we saw that Korea unfortunate incident whether private Downing | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
Street brief was photographed and made public, I have been asked in | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
meetings at Brussels this week is Cameron more interested in defending | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
Russian banks in London or will he go ahead and support asset freezes? | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
I do not believe that it is motivation, I hope it is not, but | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
that is what is being asked? That is embarrassing and Downing Street that | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
the bigger issue is whether Angela Merkel is prepared to go ahead and | :09:44. | :09:53. | |
risk the gas being cut off. Her speech was absolutely right this | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
week but I think she missed a trick. She should have gone stricter Moscow | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
when this happened in exactly the way that the French president did so | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
when the Russians went into Georgia. Had she done that and banker fist on | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
the table, because Germany is so important for Russian trade, she | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
might have secured something. Instead we have left it for the | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
Americans and I hope that the talks will come to something, but if they | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
don't we have to put sanctions in place. Let me bring in your fellow | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
MEP here. Are we ready for this? Are we operate? If we do bring in tough | :10:34. | :10:41. | |
sanctions, are we really ready for Russia than to say that the gas | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
pipeline is being cut off as Mac are we ready for the Kremlin, which can | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
be ruthless, to say OK then we will take over the BP assets in Russia | :10:54. | :11:06. | |
and the oxide and car plant. -- VW plant. This is not a game of Risk, | :11:07. | :11:16. | |
it is the 21st century. There should be serious consequences for this | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
kind of action. If we act against Russia with economic sanctions, are | :11:23. | :11:29. | |
we ready for retaliatory action on our European economic assets in | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
Russia? Have to look at the consequences of what being | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
announced. If you look at the Russian stock market it has fallen. | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
Today's newspaper showed that there will be a doubling in after capital | :11:43. | :11:49. | |
in Russia. It is already starting to hurt and further sanctions will hurt | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
Russia more. That's go to our colleague in Cambridge. I would | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
suggest to you that Crimea is already lost, it is a done deal, and | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
that the big challenge now is with the mobilisation of the Russian army | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
on the Ukrainian border, with Russian television spewing out | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
regular propaganda that there has been a fascist takeover in Ukraine, | :12:12. | :12:18. | |
that radicals look like they have arrived in the East as well, but | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
that the issue will be what happens if and when Russia takes is Ukraine | :12:23. | :12:30. | |
as well? Angela Merkel has become the bugbear in the media but she and | :12:31. | :12:42. | |
the others, that group has said that they want to move towards Ukraine | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
having a membership prospective for the European Union. We are talking | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
about an agreement in which Ukraine could potentially joining the EU | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
eventually. The idea that Germany is blocking sanctions, I do not agree. | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
There is a huge Cold War frenzy on both sides. Colleagues from the | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
Baltic states, Estonia for example, are worried that NATO will not stand | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
by its defence commitment to them. On the Russian side, we are talking | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
about this phrase, defend our compatriots, people killed in the | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
demonstrations... I understand all that but what will you do? We have | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
to be ready. We have to ensure that when politicians in Europe threatens | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
serious consequences, they will follow them through. The rhetoric | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
from reporting in Russia today, they called the EU like the wizard of | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
Oz, that it pretends it has power but in reality it is weak. I call | :13:46. | :13:53. | |
for the foreign ministers meeting on Monday to make good those | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
commitments so that we can see real action in terms of these bands, | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
asset freezes, and other sanctions that really show that it written | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
that our words mean something in reality. We have to leave it there. | :14:09. | :14:17. | |
What would we do if the Kremlin freezes European assets? We still | :14:18. | :14:25. | |
have not had an answer to that. How do we protect our sons on the? It | :14:26. | :14:34. | |
all comes out after revelations from Edward Snowden which claimed | :14:35. | :14:36. | |
governments use mobile phones against like Angry Hurts to spy on | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
us. -- ourselves. Tim Berners-Lee says the UK needs to go further than | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
EU regulations to come with --, with a Bill of Rights. We have downloaded | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
this report from Alex Forsyth who has been to Strasbourg to | :14:55. | :15:02. | |
investigate. The internet is embedded in our | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
daily lives. Every minute, billions of its of data is shared as we play | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
and shop online. There have been reports about how our information is | :15:12. | :15:18. | |
used. Particularly allegations that some agencies have been collecting | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
fast quantities of data from e-mails, web cams and even the games | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
we play on our phones. It has all caused concern. My private life is | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
my private life and that is the main problem with Facebook. If everybody | :15:33. | :15:41. | |
has access to my personal information that is not good. There | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
is not a lot of information about security. When I use use the | :15:46. | :15:56. | |
internet I want to know that my online data is not being followed. | :15:57. | :16:03. | |
There is the need for more privacy on the one hand and secondly, growth | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
on the internet, which is where the future lies. In future we will be | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
buying and selling more and we want to do it safely. Firms will need | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
permission to share your data and there will be large fines for anyone | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
who breaks the rules, under this new law. They would need consent for | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
profiling, when they use your information to build a picture of | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
your life for things like targeted advertising. You have the right to | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
have your data raised from the internet if wanted. If you want a | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
digital market, which we need, you need to put this regulation in place | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
as quickly as possible. That will be good for companies and it will | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
preserve our data protection as a fundamental right. This week, | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
regulation has had backing from EU parliament. It has taken two years | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
to get here. Now, details will be negotiated between member states | :17:02. | :17:03. | |
before implementation. That won't be easy. The UK has warned too much | :17:04. | :17:10. | |
prescriptive red tape could cost businesses up to ?320 million each | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
year, some in Europe are keen to make sure that does not happen. Low | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
we are part of a single market so we should be part of a single set of | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
rules. But we are at early stages. --. We need to look at the detail | :17:24. | :17:32. | |
and ensure the report -- regulation is sustainable. There has not been a | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
smooth path, this legislation being some of the most amended in history. | :17:39. | :17:47. | |
It tax firms say it it is an workable. 60 universities have | :17:48. | :17:58. | |
signed and said it will be harder to do research. They have access to | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
data which is historic and abroad and they don't know the identities | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
of individuals. Despite concerns, this advertisement from the EU makes | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
clear that no one wants to feel exposed online. -- European | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
Commission. These laws date from 1995, when just 1% of us were on the | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
internet. There is support for a streamlined regulation for the whole | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
of Europe. Getting agreement as to how that works will be hard. | :18:28. | :18:36. | |
The European telecommunications network is against this, the GSM is | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
against this, the French consumer groups are worried, Digital Europe | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
is worried, is anyone backing this? If you talk to some of the people | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
who look forward to the new services, they say that the current | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
data protection laws date from before the internet H. They clearly | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
need to be updated. -- internet age. We need the balance between | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
making sure this internet will take off and we have innovation, but also | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
ensuring people are comfortable with the data that is being shared. | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
Achieving that Allens is important, and we are not there yet. -- that | :19:13. | :19:20. | |
balance. We need to work towards the right balance between security on | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
the one hand and data being used for if citing services. It has been | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
commended 3999 times. Do you know what you are doing? I'm not sure how | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
that figure is calculated. Neither am I. You have people speaking 22 | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
different languages in the EU parliament so that means you divided | :19:41. | :19:50. | |
by 22 and you get... (CROSSTALK). There are talk about it being too | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
vague, there being legitimate interest, something that is too | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
broad a definition. Are not sure it is. It has been used in the last | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
tata protection law. It is difficult to strike the right balance between | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
allowing people to innovate and ensuring people's data is protected. | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
There is no doubt that there are now people wishing to sell goods or | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
services who are targeting profile -- and profiling customers on the | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
basis of where they go, the spending habit and so on. That is, to my | :20:23. | :20:29. | |
mind, and unacceptable abuse of individual data. Winnie to educate | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
consumers that when they the deep -- data online, they should be aware | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
that information will be used. -- we need to. I have the idea that the | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
public is more idea about this than those in lamenting the law. A data | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
protection Officer or officers will need to be implemented. I thought | :20:52. | :20:58. | |
you were after less regulation. That is something we are concerned about | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
and that is why we are at the early stage --officers. This has to be | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
discussed between the 28 member states. It shows we need to be | :21:08. | :21:16. | |
conservative and not cut off regulation. This won't stop the NSA | :21:17. | :21:29. | |
or GCHQ spying ? Nick Clegg is right when he said we need a thorough | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
review of what is being done with peoples individual data. In | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
particular, mass surveillance. -- people's. Fancy working for the EU? | :21:38. | :21:44. | |
One of the regular competitions to become a EU civil servant is open | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
for applications. It is a famously tough multilingual process. How hard | :21:50. | :21:56. | |
is it to become a Eurocrat? Here is Adam with the latest to Z of Europe | :21:57. | :22:03. | |
were R is for recruitment. -- A to Z. | :22:04. | :22:10. | |
To get here, most officials go through an infamous multistage, | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
multilingual process called the Common core. I am going to get a | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
taster. Here at the EU's recruitment agency. -- commcore. The | :22:21. | :22:29. | |
institutions have hired between 1.5 and 2000 per year. Applicants tended | :22:30. | :22:39. | |
to him ten to 70,000. Applications. It is less gruelling than it used to | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
be. Until 2010, they used to be a test of EU knowledge. This was | :22:46. | :22:53. | |
criticised. In our modernisation of the selection process, it was | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
something we abolished. Those questions were very specialised | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
sometimes. They changed rapidly and you could only prepare for the test | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
if you are already here, for example. I could do with some | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
preparation and there is an industry dedicated to that. This Russell 's | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
bookshop has a section devoted to passing that test. -- Brussels. What | :23:14. | :23:22. | |
is it you want in your life? This woman coaches hopefuls for the. If I | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
was trying to get through the process what should I be focusing | :23:29. | :23:39. | |
on? -- for a fee. I would rephrase that, if I want to go through the | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
process. There is a different energy. Slightly or could pep talk | :23:45. | :23:52. | |
over, it is test time. A mix of reasoning, maths and logic. Done by | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
the computer. I will do the first part in my mother tongue. Unlike | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
everyone else, I am missing part to comment because you have to do it in | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
a second language and my French is a little bit rusty. It says I will | :24:06. | :24:13. | |
need to work quickly and accurately. Which of the following | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
statements... According to a large-scale study... Chlorophyll | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
plank and energy... An hour later, and I am done. All I can say is that | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
it was very intense. You are against the clock. The questions are very | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
tough. And, you are putting a lot of pressure on yourself. I got the | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
results a feud aid later. I got it at the Amsterdam airport. If I get | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
through, I will have another day of exercises and even then I will only | :24:46. | :24:48. | |
go into a recruitment pool with no guarantee of a job. So? Happy to | :24:49. | :24:58. | |
confirm you did well, 28/40. I think they are just being nice because | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
they go on to say I would not have passed most of the competition that | :25:02. | :25:04. | |
they run but they may have passed one of the easy ones. Well. I think | :25:05. | :25:12. | |
we can all agree we have not had to sit that test. How would you rate | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
the quality of the EU civil servants you have to deal with? Roy | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
Janssens, after being president of the commission said, he had | :25:21. | :25:31. | |
brilliant and useless people. The test needs to be tough. If you pass | :25:32. | :25:39. | |
the test, you in one of the Chris Houston jobs in the public service. | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
The conditions makes Humphries look modest. That is all we have thank | :25:45. | :25:53. | |
you for being my guest. Goodbye. -- that is all we have time for. | :25:54. | :26:08. | |
Sunday should be a decent day for most of us. It will be a breezy day | :26:09. | :26:16. | |
across northern parts of the country. Across Scotland we have had | :26:17. | :26:24. | |
windy weather. Wins across the north of | :26:25. | :26:25. |