What is the future of the European Union . Thats what we will be talking about today. What does it mean to say European Union as a democracy deficit . Supernatural governance, is it combatable with selfgovernment . Will the british leave the eu in june . If so, what does this mean for the european project . Will germany the indispensable motor, pull back from the dream of a European Political Union . Will the cultural, political and security challenge of radical islam, both within europe and abroad, strengthen or weaken the eu. What affect does putins russia have on the politics of the eu . What does the refugee crisis mean for european political integration and the concept of an ever closer union . What is the future of the eu mean for the United States . And the Transatlantic Alliance. We will be trying to answer some of the questions this morning. We have an outstanding panel of experts with differing viewing on these ishz adiffering views e and the European Union. Im interested in
Good morning. It is a sixmonth agreement designed to make it more difficult for iran to turn its Nuclear Stockpiles into weapons. In exchange for lifting economic sanctions meant to hurt that country. This deal is being called plus oneby the p5 nations. Others are calling this a bad agreement. Morning november 24. We will begin with your calls and comments in more details on the short term Nuclear Agreement with iran. The area code is 202 in washington dc. Benjamin netanyahu it says israel is not bound by the deal and reserves the right to defend itself. This is a headline this morning om the Los Angeles Times what is the p5 plus one nations from wall street journal this from senator marco rubio, saying this agreement makes a nuclear iran more likely. He went on to say theres now an even more urgent need for congress to increase sanctions until iran completely abandons its enrichment and reprocessing capabilities. Again, those details from wall street journal. A rare address from the w
The diplomat in charge of trying to end syrias long and bloody civil war, the United Nations general secretary ban kimoon said that ambassador brahimi will resign. He has made the threat many times before, lets listen to his words, and when you listen to ban kimoon its worth bearing in mind if this diplomat could not have solved the problems of syria, who can . Lets listen to them. Its very sad that i leave this position, and leave syria behind in such a bad state. But as you said, secretary general, i have absolutely no doubt that you will continue as you have to do everything that is humanly possible to work with security council, with neighbors of syria, and, indeed, with the syrians themselves to end these crisis. Mr. Brahimi has long been recognized as one of the worlds most brilliant diplomat and outstanding proponent of the United Nations. That the objective to which he applied his extraordinary talents has proven elusive has proven a tragedy. Reporter mr. Brahimi said that this
The Virginia Republican primary, even though cantor massively outspent brett. Cantor is the first House Majority leader to lose a primary in over a century. Will this mark the end of Immigration Reform push in washington . Peace laureates and over 100 academics have accused Human Rights Watch of being too close to the u. S. Government. We will host a debate. And we will look at the surge of children coming over the border into the United States. Over 1000 kids are now reportedly being held in a warehouse in arizona. We will speak with you was a prizewinning journalist sonia , asrio and Jose Luis Zelaya a child he left honduras in search of his mother. Years old, i was 13 i made the decision to come to the United States to be up to look for my mom. To come to this country and that theyth the woman said carried me and loved me. So for about 45 days, i took a journey from ponderous to the United States by myself. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, t
Portugal gets under way at the world cup i. S. I. L. Is a threat to all of the countries in the region. No country is safe from that kind of spread of terror. Secretary of state john kerry is in the middle east to address the growing crisis in iraq. It comes as sunni rebels from the Islamic State of iraq and levant or i. S. I. L. And their allies gain more territory on sunday. The territory takeover is significant. Fighters captured rutbar, giving them control of a highway to jordan. This as other cities in anbar, including alcrime on the border. They are a step home to haditha, which is home to a dam which if destroyed could learn to electrical flooding. Sunni rebels are in control of the secondlargest city mosul, tikrit, fallujah and tal afar. Thousands are fleeing the fighting and are in need of assistance. Many coming from baqubah, northeast of baghdad, where there has been fighting. Many have taken refuge in a camp outside of mosul. A city that is under i. S. I. L. Control. Lets g