Made for minds. Can europe finally agree on a common coronavirus Recovery Plan . Even leaders are taking another crack at the 1. 00 trillion euro plan that would help the likes of italy and spain. But its foundering on the objections of other nations. Also on the show, to look at the difficulties of african nations to piece together their own recovery funds. And talk to one advocate of a very particular approach to post covert investment and deal or no deal. Times running out for brussels and london to ensure smooth trade come january the 1st alcove. It has complicating the negotiations. Glowing welcome to the show. Im stephen beardsley. In berlin, its good to have us. Yes, you heads of state and government are meeting today to discuss their pen democrat spawns, an unprecedented aid packages on the table. But the Strings Attached have some Member States balking, and that could spell trouble for other Member States in need of the capital. Well, others still are better set up to fund the
He should learn his respect thing each team tough. Tough, tough, tough, modest man who stood shoulder to shit last summer. Just sucks, but respect. Can europe finally agree on a common coronavirus Recovery Plan . Even leaders are taking another crack at the 1. 8 trillion euro plan. It would help the likes of italy and spain its founder on the objections of other nations. Also on the show of the difficulties of african nations to piece together their own recovery funds and talk to one advocate of a very particular approach. Supposed covert investment and deal or no deal time is running out from brussels and london to ensure a smooth trade come january 1st. Now covert his complicating the negotiations. Hello and welcome to the show. Im Stephen Beardsley in berlin. Its good to have you with us. Oh, you heads of state and government are meeting today to discuss their pen demick response. An unprecedented aid package is on the table, but the Strings Attached have some Member States balking,
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And chair, eddie junior. A conversation on the u. S. Military readiness and the Global Threats we face. Defense Program Senior research fellow, served two decades in the marine corps. Assessing u. S. Military strength, a pretty major undertaking. How does the Heritage Foundation try to do that . Guest we gather all publicly available information we can come across, official testimony from the pentagon, acquisition reports on major programs, general news reporting from the defense reporting community, our own personal contacts in the services and the pentagon and on capitol hill, and we gather all that all year long, go through a several month analysis and writing process, compare last years information to this years information, and then basically issue a report card on the military, and this year on a scale of one to five, we would give it a three, or in the words we use, we call it marginal, and we feel that the u. S. Military writ large is marginally able to meet the demands of u. S
Rally has fed into crude. Propelled thates price. People look beyond the covid to a look beyond to a returned to normal. Gold pretty much stable appeared bitcoin at record highs. Up about two thirds of 1 . We have a u. S. Dollar index unchanged. Lets have a look at the copper price. Copper advancing. The highest price and a more than six years. It is under president elect joe bidens formal transition. The hope is there will be a move toward a Lower Carbon Energy future. That britain the outlook for its demand. As has what is going on in china up. Joining in all of that. Lets have a look at the transition in more detail as we get over to new york and join Karina Mitchell for the first word news. Introduced biden has his foreignpolicy and Security Experts as he seeks to calm relations with International Friends and foes. The president elect is promising a multilateral approach, reversing the America First tragedy of the Trump Administration. He will prioritize ending damaging executive o