Security matters in a broad sense i think that in these areas the European Union can play a major role and its needed to small countries especially in europe they need to scale and the European Union can provide that scale that force the reason why finland decided to join also single gabrial said that in order for europe to become politically stronger it needs to be Even Stronger in order to become more cyber and in that case to come i mean seven from russias opinion from china as a painting from United States opinion do you feel like brussels should have more power than the National Capitals in the european states because becoming stronger politically kind of means that as well i think its a very critical question they were in their world what is the foundation of strength. Is it political gain political integration stability. Or or what kind of capacities you need in order to be influential and politically powerful i strongly believe that at the end of the day everything depends on y
Future role in global politics. Welcome to sophie and Sophie Shevardnadze calls for european reform grow in response to rising skepticism as to block able to stay united and take care of itself i ask finlands former Prime Minister ask. The european dream of a continent a liberal order is faltering economic inequality comes instead of common prosperity political bickering and resistance to your grass is stalling common decisions and the common foreign policies for you into foreign solutions to global problems what happened to the european vision will the union prove to be resilient and adjust to the challenges. It will crumble bearing dreams of a united europe with. Mr howard thank you very much for being with us today so much to discuss regarding europe and whats going on in the European Union right now so you were actually instrumental in bringing your country to the European Union and you are a very pro e. U. Figure. Lately we have high profile voices for instance germany sigman gabr
China and United States and thats because Europe European Union is a vegetarian amongst meat eaters and it was very there that quote do you think do you think do you think e. U. Should become more predatory how would that look like i think europe has values which foundation for for the future of europe us especially. I dont want to say that Technological Development means that you have to you have to. Make. A human aspects or cultural aspects but the fact is that technologies are moving forward much faster than cultures cultural changes are very difficult to be done and these legacies are big problem for for political Decision Makers and europe has its own legacies and it has to be able to solve these legacies and these legacies are linked to the fact that the european story has been creates story but. Those factors which are behind story of europe. Twenty thirty forty years ago. Were going to take a break right now when were back well continue. Talking about. Facing stay with us. With
More and more discussion about what is going to happen at the end of the day in similar way i think that in france. This nationalist movement. It has difficulties so i dont believe that these populist movements are we have to take them seriously they are relevant forces absolutely but i dont believe that they are able to create any kind of alternative for europe. So i feel like all that we just talked about the turn it forces to black said it has created sort of a tough consultation between the pro e. U. Fakers forest as Martin Schultz says of european constitutional treaty should we propose to Member States and those who refuse to sign should just leave European Union i mean do you feel like this sort of a stick before the carrot approach will help consolidate European Union i dont believe in that and i think mr should should ask why his party. It was not that popular in germany i think that that is my personal opinion that europe should analyze very carefully why we had these difficu
Down, yields go up, conversely, yields go down, prices go up, not to the degree. Not helping stocks to the degree you would think, at a time paul ryan trying to assure people theyre on top of the debt, on top of eventually a daca deal that should make nancy pelosi happy. A twoyear budget arrangement senate came up with that should be welcomed by all. Were in a bizarre kind of world, whether that passes or not, it could be daming to investors, if it were to fall through, analogous to the failure of tarp funding back in fall of 2008, that produced 777 point falloff in the dow, even though both sides regrouped, you would still see in the approval of a followup tarp deal, the dow fall another 6,000 points . We dont know whether youre damned if you do, damned if you dont on budget deal, whether you fall off if approved here or not but a catalyst could be or excuse could be failure to reach such an treatment, there are several house conservatives several we talk to next document hours are le