:00:00. > :00:00.a coalition government since then were unsuccessful.
:00:00. > :00:52.Welcome to Politics Europe. As thousands of people continue to
:00:53. > :00:58.cross into the EU, we have visited reception centres to find out how
:00:59. > :01:01.countries are coping. At the Austrian German border, it has
:01:02. > :01:04.become a key frontline in the European migrant crisis. Up to 1200
:01:05. > :01:13.migrants have crossed this bridge every day in the last six weeks.
:01:14. > :01:16.MEPs vote to back a ban on mobile phone roaming charges across the EU,
:01:17. > :01:23.but there are warnings it could push up prices for UK customers. In the
:01:24. > :01:32.latest of our Meet the Neighbours series, the right-wing Polish party
:01:33. > :01:39.takes part. And, was Nigel Farage right to compare the fallout from
:01:40. > :01:47.Portugal's recent elections with European military interventions? All
:01:48. > :01:55.that to come. But, here's our guide to the latest from Europe in 60
:01:56. > :01:59.seconds. European refugee crisis continues with more than 85,000
:02:00. > :02:03.migrants crossing into Slovenia in the last ten days. Following an
:02:04. > :02:09.emergency mini summit, the EU agreed to send 400 order guides to help
:02:10. > :02:11.slow down the floor. The right-wing war in just his party came out on
:02:12. > :02:21.top in Poland's general election, celebrating the biggest victory
:02:22. > :02:24.since Poland exited communism. The EU has adopted tougher emissions
:02:25. > :02:30.tests for cars following the box like a scandal. They are considering
:02:31. > :02:35.a legal challenge. David Cameron attended a northern future form
:02:36. > :02:42.Forum in Iceland, there were sceptics at copying Norway. It is
:02:43. > :02:47.not a good option for Britain. And, good news for your phone bill:
:02:48. > :02:57.Roaming charges have been scrapped in the EU, meaning that charges will
:02:58. > :03:03.remain the same as in the UK -- Volkswagon. With us for the next 80
:03:04. > :03:08.minutes will be the Labour leader of the European Parliament, Mary
:03:09. > :03:12.Honeyball and you could's deputy leader, Paul Nuttall. Welcome. Let's
:03:13. > :03:19.take a look at the stories in more detail. This is the vote on mobile
:03:20. > :03:25.phone roaming charges. We have all complained about the astronomical
:03:26. > :03:28.cost of using your phone in Europe. Something has been done about it,
:03:29. > :03:36.finally. This must be welcomed? Very much so. I remember, I was on the
:03:37. > :03:39.committee when this was first introduced and that was six or seven
:03:40. > :03:46.years ago. It had been considered for some time before then. We
:03:47. > :03:49.finally got it through. Roaming charges will be abolished altogether
:03:50. > :03:54.in 2017. People will be able to go to the EU without paying additional
:03:55. > :04:02.charges. The cost of using it there will be the same as here? Yes.
:04:03. > :04:09.What's not to like? Is great for MPs, jetsetters and businessmen
:04:10. > :04:14.travelling in Europe -- it is. They have no guarantee that these
:04:15. > :04:19.companies won't push for higher costs within the UK. A group of
:04:20. > :04:25.mobile phone providers have said they may do it. We could end up with
:04:26. > :04:30.a situation where a a pension subsidises MEPs and wealthy business
:04:31. > :04:34.people who travel across Europe. The people who won't benefit from it, if
:04:35. > :04:41.it is put on to domestic users, will be those who go overseas for a week.
:04:42. > :04:46.What they will save will be offset. This is absolutely not true. In the
:04:47. > :04:50.report we have just passed in the European Parliament, there is a
:04:51. > :04:55.mechanism whereby if roaming charges are increased by providers, the
:04:56. > :05:02.National regulators can deal with it. I would have thought UKIP would
:05:03. > :05:10.be pleased with this, it pushes it back to each individual member state
:05:11. > :05:17.to make the decision. I'm terribly surprised at UKIP's attitude. I
:05:18. > :05:27.understand. Everyone who travels regularly crossed Europe want this
:05:28. > :05:30.to happen. -- across. I was there in 2007, they told us what they were
:05:31. > :05:37.going to do. There is no guarantee this won't be pushed on the domestic
:05:38. > :05:46.user. But the regulator. That from happening and has the power to do
:05:47. > :05:52.so? Oh, will they really? Will they? It is not a community service. It is
:05:53. > :05:56.a hard-nosed business. These people are not going to lose money, the
:05:57. > :06:01.only way they will claw it back is by putting it on the poor. Just
:06:02. > :06:06.angry because the EU has actually done something that voters will
:06:07. > :06:11.understand and be pleased about. No, I am angry that it will be pushed on
:06:12. > :06:15.to the poor and I am standing up for working-class people. I think UKIP
:06:16. > :06:22.has got this is absolutely wrong. Time will tell. The EU leaders have
:06:23. > :06:27.been discussing how to respond to the huge numbers of migrants
:06:28. > :06:41.arriving at the EU borders from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. Sugar
:06:42. > :06:45.said that the EU is running out of money and is being placed under
:06:46. > :06:49.strain. They have said Austria should stop waving through as asylum
:06:50. > :07:09.seekers to Germany, and start processing there applications in
:07:10. > :07:12.Austria. They have come from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, landing on its
:07:13. > :07:23.border. We are given to everyone before they passed through. This
:07:24. > :07:26.family have returned, their relief all too obvious. They have finally
:07:27. > :07:32.made it to Germany after leaving Syria. They are just a few of nearly
:07:33. > :07:37.80,000 people who have crossed into the Bavarian border town here. It
:07:38. > :07:47.has become a front line in this European migrant crisis, with
:07:48. > :07:50.tensions mounting between authorities in recent weeks. This is
:07:51. > :07:54.why. Migrants are looked after in this car park, but not registered
:07:55. > :07:59.here. It is just a staging post for a few days. Today I have talked with
:08:00. > :08:06.one person who wants to go to Sweden or Finland, but if you talk with the
:08:07. > :08:10.refugees, they only have Germany as their goal. That's because of the
:08:11. > :08:18.German Chancellor Angela Merkel's policy to welcome all Syrian
:08:19. > :08:23.refugees. The reality on the ground for a small town like this is that
:08:24. > :08:28.life has been turned upside down. TRANSLATION: Everything is more
:08:29. > :08:33.difficult, naturally the borders are being controlled. There are queues
:08:34. > :08:38.and people feel they are not as free as before to come and go. The MoU
:08:39. > :08:42.has voiced his concerns directly to Angela Merkel in Berlin. She told
:08:43. > :08:48.him she was working tirelessly to find a solution. As the political
:08:49. > :08:52.pressure mounts, the response locally has been impressive. This
:08:53. > :08:55.furniture warehouse has been turned into a temporary shelter, run by
:08:56. > :09:00.volunteers, state police and local government. This is it would have
:09:01. > :09:06.spent just a matter of hours here before being moved on to the local
:09:07. > :09:11.train station with 1200 others, to be transported to other cities in
:09:12. > :09:16.Germany. All those here have just arrived a couple of hours ago. They
:09:17. > :09:24.will be gone by tonight. How does it feel to be safe here in Germany? So
:09:25. > :09:30.good. Every single thank you to Germany. The German people have
:09:31. > :09:39.treated you well? Yes. It is beautiful. Is a huge logistical
:09:40. > :09:41.operation. The strain on local and national resources is beginning to
:09:42. > :09:46.show -- it is. TRANSLATION: Our capacity is
:09:47. > :09:50.limited, although we do have officials and volunteers to help
:09:51. > :09:57.with the whole process. Basically, we are ready to help, but in the
:09:58. > :10:02.last few weeks we are reaching a limit. The flow shows no sign of
:10:03. > :10:06.slowing down. As they moved to their final destination, elsewhere in
:10:07. > :10:14.Germany, the impact of this mass migration will be felt across Europe
:10:15. > :10:28.for many years. Reporting from Germany. The scale of the migrant
:10:29. > :10:33.crisis, it seems so far to be beyond your's ability to resolve? It is
:10:34. > :10:41.very difficult, and they are refugees. The vast majority of those
:10:42. > :10:49.coming to Europe are freeing from Syria -- fleeing, they are refugees.
:10:50. > :10:53.Can we even tell the difference now? I think we need to see this from the
:10:54. > :10:58.perspective of a humanitarian crisis. We know that Syria's war, it
:10:59. > :11:04.is very serious. People are not safe. People don't give up their
:11:05. > :11:14.homes, families, livelihoods and gold cross dangerous this is no
:11:15. > :11:17.reason. -- go across. It is clearly a humanitarian crisis. The question
:11:18. > :11:22.is, Europe seems nowhere near working out how to deal with it? It
:11:23. > :11:31.has been a huge strain on Europe, we have to admit that. Germany alone,
:11:32. > :11:38.in the last five months have seen 120,000 Syrian refugees. It is a
:11:39. > :11:42.massive thing. What should the solution be? What should the
:11:43. > :11:46.European response be? I think the EU needs to work together much more
:11:47. > :11:52.than it has done. There needs to be a more fair proportion. At the
:11:53. > :11:57.moment, Germany, Sweden and France have taken most of the refugees. The
:11:58. > :12:00.EU needs to come to more of an agreement to share them around. It
:12:01. > :12:06.is just not working very well, although Germany, that clip was very
:12:07. > :12:11.interesting. Germany has welcomed a lot of refugees and is by the sounds
:12:12. > :12:14.of it doing a good job. Angela Merkel's has some new problems. I
:12:15. > :12:19.will come back to that. Surely if Europe is to cope with this, a
:12:20. > :12:23.massive influx that is not going away, the burden have to be shared?
:12:24. > :12:27.It does, but it should not be shared across the EU, it should be shared
:12:28. > :12:36.across the Arab world. If you are happy Middle East and golf Estates,
:12:37. > :12:52.Qatar, Saudi Arabia, they are not taking anybody in -- gulf states. If
:12:53. > :12:57.you are coming from Syria, would you want to go there? There were
:12:58. > :13:01.statistics that said 80% of the people coming were not coming from
:13:02. > :13:10.Syria. They were coming out of Libya. Not Libya, Afghanistan,
:13:11. > :13:13.Pakistan... Coming out of Turkey, which is where most of the people
:13:14. > :13:20.coming to Greece, the overwhelming majority are Syrian. Actually,
:13:21. > :13:23.Andrew, the authorities are saying that one in three who turn up with a
:13:24. > :13:29.Syrian passport in Germany turns out to be fake. They are on the Turkish
:13:30. > :13:32.black-market 500 euros. Islamic State are saying they are going to
:13:33. > :13:35.flood our continent with Islamist who want to cause us harm. Do you
:13:36. > :13:42.think we should do something about this? Know who these people are?
:13:43. > :13:47.Think that is completely alarmist, bordering on being ridiculous. This
:13:48. > :13:52.is a humanitarian issue. Some of them, very few, maybe terrorists.
:13:53. > :13:57.Obviously, we need to take action to deal with that, but most of them are
:13:58. > :14:03.ordinary people who are fleeing from a country where they are absolutely
:14:04. > :14:08.not safe. How great it is what they have gone through to leave
:14:09. > :14:13.somewhere, it is overwhelming. The majority are not coming from Syria,
:14:14. > :14:19.they are mostly young men. Even a German employment agency has advised
:14:20. > :14:22.there will be 400,000 new welfare claims in Germany because of 80% of
:14:23. > :14:33.them are qualified and unskilled. Can I ask you a broader question
:14:34. > :14:37.about this? This seems to be developing into the European
:14:38. > :14:41.Union's is the crisis, it is much bigger than the euro zone. In the
:14:42. > :14:46.end the eurozone crisis came down to Greece, a very small part. We have
:14:47. > :14:53.had Donald task, the president of the European Council, Jean-Claude
:14:54. > :14:56.Juncker, the president of the European Commission, all saying in
:14:57. > :15:00.their own ways this is an existential crisis for Europe.
:15:01. > :15:06.Europe, they have all said, in different language, may not survive
:15:07. > :15:10.this. Obviously there is massive concern and the fact that all three
:15:11. > :15:14.of the institutions, the heads are saying this, means that we do need
:15:15. > :15:19.to deal with it. The point is though, Andrew, that often
:15:20. > :15:25.existential crises seem to happen to the EU. As you said, the eurozone,
:15:26. > :15:28.Europe does have an ability to get through this. I think this is a
:15:29. > :15:33.massive crisis and it is a crisis not only for Europe for the Middle
:15:34. > :15:36.East as well. Well, we're going to stick with the European crisis but
:15:37. > :15:40.were going to narrow into one particular country now. The UKIP
:15:41. > :15:45.leader Nigel Farage got to his feet in the Parliament to denounce the
:15:46. > :15:47.position of Portugal's President to invite the leader of the
:15:48. > :15:50.centre-right party which was the governing party before the election
:15:51. > :15:53.to attempt to form another government despite the fact that
:15:54. > :15:56.when you added up all the country's different left-wing parties, they
:15:57. > :16:01.didn't fight is a coalition but when you add them up they would have won
:16:02. > :16:07.a majority of votes in the general election. This is what Nigel Farage
:16:08. > :16:13.had to say this is the modern day implementation of the Brezhnev
:16:14. > :16:17.doctrine. This is exactly what happened to states living inside the
:16:18. > :16:23.USSR. What has been made clear here, with Greece, and indeed with
:16:24. > :16:27.Portugal, is that a country only has democratic rights if it is in favour
:16:28. > :16:32.of the project. If not, those rights are taken away. Nigel Farage
:16:33. > :16:38.speaking in the European Parliament on Tuesday. We asked our reporter to
:16:39. > :16:43.swot up on a Portuguese Constitution. Just talk us through
:16:44. > :16:45.what happened. The biggest party was the centre-right party which had
:16:46. > :16:49.been in government but it didn't have enough to form an overall
:16:50. > :16:54.majority so what did the President, who is the head of state, what then
:16:55. > :16:58.happened? Well, Andrew, let me prove to you that I've done my homework
:16:59. > :17:01.and have read up on the Constitution. So I found the right
:17:02. > :17:04.bits and in order for the President to choose the Prime Minister he must
:17:05. > :17:08.consult the parties seats with in the assembly of the Republic and
:17:09. > :17:12.made his decision in light of the electoral result. So let's take it
:17:13. > :17:15.back a notch. On four October there was an election in Portugal. As you
:17:16. > :17:20.mention, the centre-right incumbent Prime Minister was the largest party
:17:21. > :17:23.but lost his majority in the Parliament. The President then duly
:17:24. > :17:27.announced that he would be picked as the Prime Minister, and would run a
:17:28. > :17:32.minority government. So far so simple. But here are the
:17:33. > :17:36.complicating factors. First up we have the reason that the President
:17:37. > :17:40.gave for appointing the centrist right party, and he appeared to be
:17:41. > :17:44.suggesting that it was because he essentially didn't like the policies
:17:45. > :17:49.of the other left-wing parties. He thought... It sounded like he was
:17:50. > :17:54.saying they were to enter Europe and to anti-austerity. He is reported as
:17:55. > :17:58.saying that in 40 years of democracy no government in Portugal has ever
:17:59. > :18:02.depended on the support of anti- European forces and that this is the
:18:03. > :18:07.worst moment for a radical change to the foundations of our democracy.
:18:08. > :18:11.That means us on neatly to complicating factor number two.
:18:12. > :18:14.Previously there hasn't been a viable left-wing coalition that
:18:15. > :18:18.essentially would be able to go up against the centrist right. Now it
:18:19. > :18:23.would seem that the Portuguese Socialist is, led by Antonio Costa,
:18:24. > :18:28.have managed to form an alliance with the left bloc in the
:18:29. > :18:33.Communist, to essentially come up with a coalition of moderate left
:18:34. > :18:38.and far left. And what they are suggesting, that combined they would
:18:39. > :18:42.be far bigger than the incumbent Prime Minister. What they have said
:18:43. > :18:46.they will do is in the next few days put up a vote of no-confidence,
:18:47. > :18:49.which would essentially bring down that minority government. And then
:18:50. > :18:56.would expect the Prime Minister to then had to appoint the left-wing
:18:57. > :18:58.Prime Minister. Thank you very much for that interesting explanation.
:18:59. > :19:05.What does this have to do with the Brezhnev doctrine. Are their tanks
:19:06. > :19:09.in the streets of Lisbon? The Brezhnev doctrine basically says,
:19:10. > :19:12.doesn't it, that you can have a veneer of democracy as long as you
:19:13. > :19:16.agree with socialism as it was back then and the USSR. This has all been
:19:17. > :19:20.turned on its head. Brussels doesn't have its mitts directly on this but
:19:21. > :19:26.equally I would say it does follow a pattern, doesn't it? Let me finish.
:19:27. > :19:29.Silvio Berlusconi, for example... We are talking about Portugal, it is
:19:30. > :19:33.widely regarded that the President's speech was ill judged.
:19:34. > :19:38.But constitutionally he is perfectly within his rights to ask the largest
:19:39. > :19:43.party, which is the centre-right party, the former government. It is
:19:44. > :19:49.also quite clear that if it tries to form a government, there will be an
:19:50. > :19:52.immediate vote of confidence, it will probably lose that vote of
:19:53. > :19:56.confidence in the President has indicated that he will then ask the
:19:57. > :20:00.centre-left party to try to form a government and the centre-left party
:20:01. > :20:04.will ask the Portuguese communists and another left-wing party to give
:20:05. > :20:09.them an overall majority. That will all happen within two weeks. Where
:20:10. > :20:14.are the tanks in this? Well, there doesn't have to be tanks for the
:20:15. > :20:18.Brezhnev doctrine. So in the end, the Portuguese will have a
:20:19. > :20:23.government. What we are talking about is an overall trend here. It
:20:24. > :20:28.happened in Italy, it happened in Greece, where it they also wanted a
:20:29. > :20:31.referendum on the euro, only to be removed overnight. I am trying to
:20:32. > :20:34.stick with Portugal just for the moment. Also what you're going to
:20:35. > :20:38.get is the Portuguese President, having done this in the next couple
:20:39. > :20:42.of weeks, will then resign. His final act will be to put in power
:20:43. > :20:48.centre-left government that is opposed, two of whose parties out of
:20:49. > :20:53.three are opposed to European austerity. So I'm trying to work out
:20:54. > :20:57.where... I know in Twitter there has been a huge storm about this
:20:58. > :21:04.encouraged by Nigel Farage and yourself. I accept that his speech
:21:05. > :21:13.was well -- ill judged, but in the end they will get the parliament
:21:14. > :21:18.they want. Over 50% voted for the left. I do hope they get the
:21:19. > :21:23.government but there is a trend of a lack of democracy in Europe. I
:21:24. > :21:27.wanted to speak to him because they have been making a row. But we have
:21:28. > :21:33.a tank watch in Lisbon and in the next few weeks, if they appear... I
:21:34. > :21:37.wouldn't hold your breath. Portugal isn't the only country to have gone
:21:38. > :21:42.to the polls recently. On Sunday the people of Poland voters in the right
:21:43. > :21:45.wing Law and Justice party. European allies of David Cameron's
:21:46. > :21:50.conservatives. In the latest of our meet the neighbours series, Adam
:21:51. > :22:07.Fleming has been to Gdansk on Poland's North Coast. The Poles have
:22:08. > :22:10.just been to the polls so I have been to the place where an
:22:11. > :22:14.electrician sparked democracy in this country. This is the famous
:22:15. > :22:18.gate number two, where it was announced the Polish authorities
:22:19. > :22:22.were going to recognise solidarity. The first independent trade union in
:22:23. > :22:27.the Soviet lock. It eventually led to the first free elections in 1989.
:22:28. > :22:30.A corner of the shipyard is now a giant Izzy and dedicated to
:22:31. > :22:38.solidarity. The movement, and the idea. You can see the van he climbed
:22:39. > :22:42.on to make speeches, and check out plenty of retro interior design. Or
:22:43. > :22:46.why not recreate the talks to form the first non-Communist government?
:22:47. > :22:51.But the centreposmac boss is worried that solidarity is something that
:22:52. > :22:56.Poland is lacking these days. We are becoming Euro critical, but we are
:22:57. > :23:01.not Great Britain. We don't have your wealth, you're strong political
:23:02. > :23:06.position and we are located in a very special place in Europe. Is
:23:07. > :23:09.worried because the euro sceptics Law and Justice have just become the
:23:10. > :23:16.first party to form a majority government in the post-communist
:23:17. > :23:19.era. The new Prime Minister, though the real power lies with this man
:23:20. > :23:23.who ran the country with his twin brother when the party was last in
:23:24. > :23:27.power a decade ago. Their candidates were anti the euro, suspicious of
:23:28. > :23:35.immigrants and critical of companies. -- foreign companies.
:23:36. > :23:39.They have quite weak posters, but they? To find out the secrets of
:23:40. > :23:47.their success, I met Philip, the leader of the youth wing. The
:23:48. > :23:55.justice say the title in Polish? OK, that's quite hard. We had many
:23:56. > :24:04.people who have wanted to create the ideas, the innovations, have wanted
:24:05. > :24:09.to make the companies they are, and because of the economic situation,
:24:10. > :24:15.taxation of the government, they decided to leave. And his party is
:24:16. > :24:24.planning to be fairly tough on the EU. We have many, many problems with
:24:25. > :24:31.our economic ideals in the European Union, for example our ship
:24:32. > :24:43.companies were destroyed by the European Union. Law and Justice will
:24:44. > :24:50.want to make an agreement with Great Britain to stop the interference of
:24:51. > :24:54.the European Union. Although David Cameron's plan to restrict benefits
:24:55. > :24:58.to the 700,000 Poles working in the UK is a bit cheeky. Back at the
:24:59. > :25:02.Solidarity Centre you are supposed to write something for the giant
:25:03. > :25:09.wall when you leave. But what message is Poland now sending to the
:25:10. > :25:14.rest of Europe? We have had a Marxist government elected in
:25:15. > :25:18.Greece, we are going to have, I suspect, Portuguese government of
:25:19. > :25:21.the left, dependent on hardline Portuguese communists. We have a
:25:22. > :25:24.right wing government now in Poland. We have a right wing
:25:25. > :25:28.government, not a centre-right government, in Denmark. We got the
:25:29. > :25:32.Swedish Denmark is holding the balance of power in Sweden. I would
:25:33. > :25:35.suggest to you the mainstream is crumbling in Europe. I'm not sure is
:25:36. > :25:40.crumbling but I certainly think the mainstream has challenges. Polish
:25:41. > :25:44.result is interesting. I have talked to Polish colleagues about the
:25:45. > :25:51.result. There seems to be quite a generational issue here. In that the
:25:52. > :25:53.older people have had... They have invested in the housing they have
:25:54. > :25:56.under communism and they are relatively well off and polished
:25:57. > :26:00.terms, whereas the young people aren't. This seems to be one of the
:26:01. > :26:08.big problems. I will have to stop you there. Thanks. Goodbye.
:26:09. > :26:13.Well, there is no doubt about it, the main concern weatherwise is fog.