Freedom and independence, sovereignty, integration and territorial integrity and if there needs to be a response to the dramatic call that we had last month in kiev in the economic problems the European Union must lead an International Conference together with the United States and Russia International fund and to canada and others and in conclusion has to bet on the peace dividend and ukraine whose citizens have shown an example to us all. [speaking in native tongue] translator what happened in ukraine is a step further democracy. Now there is a discussion about the legitimacy of what happened and yanukovych has so much blood on his hands to lea leave the country and anyway he left the kiev in the midst of a crisis. I want to thank the European Union because lets be very clear the Foreign Ministers who negotiated on behalf of the European Union contributed not only to the end of the violent killing that contributed to the strong sufficient European Union inside ukraine and for the cha
The face of very tight and unusually tight fiscal policy for this period. It has been effect it, but the it has been effective but the precisesize of the impact is something that we can very reasonably disagree about and we can and work will continue. The uncertainty of the impact and the effects of ending programs and so on, one of the reasons we have treated this as a supplementary rather than as a primary tool. Don lee l. A. Times. Unemployment benefits are expiring shortly for millions of people. How much of an Economic Impact do you see that having . What effect would you expect that would have on the Unemployment Rate . If those people drop out of the labor force, will that not the Unemployment Rate down quite a bit . Yes, obviously it has a big economic effect on those directly affected who are receiving benefits. We do have an unusually large number of longterm, Unemployed People in the u. S. It is a major concern and one that i cited in my opening remarks. The effects of exten
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Gentlemen, thank you for going through the numbers with us. Thank you for being with us here on cspan. It is friday. Beginning tomorrow morning at 8 00 a. M. On cspan 2, book tv, 48 hours of nonfiction books all weekend on book tv. Over the holidays, you will see a lot of prime time in 24hour periods of book tv. American history tv begins tomorrow morning at 8 00 a. M. On cspan 3. Those are a couple of options for you over the weekend. Happy holidays. Taking a look at some of our cspan 3,g today, on getting underway, from the hudson institute, a discussion on u. S. Saudi arabia relations. Theot abrams is among participants. Look for that live shortly on cspan 3. Here on cspan, we will be live with the White House Briefing. Jay carney has scheduled that for 2 00 p. M. It is possible to hear from the president. No official word yet. The ap is reporting that the president is ordering a review of the militarys response to Sexual Assault in the armed forces. Set to sign the Defense Authoriz