Of the rule of law have now been well dealt with whether theyll be a solution i still cant say theres a lot of goodwill but there are also a lot of positions so i will join in working for it but there may also be no result today move barker has been monitoring the summit from london and explains now the reasons behind the deadlock. Well when it comes to money there are always problems in the e. U. Largely because there are key distinctions between those countries that are net contributors per capita to the budget and there are those countries the beneficiaries the contributors tend to come from wealthier countries in Northern Europe the beneficiaries from southern and Eastern Europe and what were seeing as a result of the pandemic is this problem significantly exacerbated so late into the night youve got these 2 key politicians trying to play peacemaker Angela Merkel the german chancellor Emmanuel Macron of france trying to get 4 countries known as the frugal for that include denmark s
U. S. Troops and the debate against military bases named after confederate soldiers. Chairman smith i call the meeting to order. I welcome our witnesses, secretary of defense esper and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff milley. We appreciate you being here today. I do have to read an Opening Statement here about procedure in light of the fact that we do have members who are participating remotely in his in this hearing, in accordance with house rules. So i will do that and then a couple other programming notes and we will get started. I would like to welcome members who are joining todays markup remotely. Those members are reminded that they must be visible on screen within the Software Platform for the purposes of Identity Verification when joining their andeedings, establishing maintaining decorum, participating, and voting. We will not be voting, but participating members must use the Software Platform video function while attending the proceedings unless they experience connecti
A Major General the most senior servicemen to have died in clashes on azerbaijans border with armenia only just very. Unlike the enemy our generals and officers do not hide behind the backs of soldiers they adequately carry out their combat missions unfortunately battles are not without losses. Both sides accuse each other of starting the latest hostilities. Both sides releasing videos of their high tech weaponry as ery missile strikes on armenian positions. Armenians shooting down azeri drones. All. The fighting which began on sunday has so far claimed more than a dozen lives including at least one civilian what i think many many say with the whole story of them going precious in red whereas the very area in stansell appropriated by significant religious are like egypt right next to the military trains or between them and was extremely important because it enough are the 1st one to suffer from that all korean. Military activity. The region is situated north of the disputed territory o
A signal that europe is able to act after all people often accused europe of being too little too late for us here were demonstrating that the opposite is the case at the end of april the European Union gave us the mandate of designing a recovery package and today only 2 months later the next generation europe is up and running and it has the agreement of the European Council and in the history of the European Union that is an absolute record for a new budgetary instrument our step fasten has more now on that land mondale. It was a dramatic summit and it was the longest in the last 20 years and finally they came up with this quite complicated compromise before the summit started there was a huge part of grants 500000000000 euros of grants well that was something that especially the northern smaller countries didnt agree to didnt want to agree to sort of compromise is now that its nearly half of the money is going to be grants and half will be loans and also through these grants there a
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