Now on Bbc News, hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk, im Stephen Sackur Today on the shores of Italys Lake Como at the ambrosetti forum, where some of europes leading politicians have gathered to talk politics and economics. The global Covid Pandemic and intensifying superpower rivalries all present the eu with some very difficult questions. My Guest Today is spains first deputy prime minister, nadia calvino. Is europe too divided, too inward looking to shape the 21st century . Deputy prime minister nadia calvino, welcome to hardtalk. Its a pleasure to be here. I think i have to start by talking afghanistan. The us led withdrawal from the country it looked chaotic, it was very difficult. What lessons do you think the European Union must learn from what happened . Well, for months weve been listening to the Defence Minister in spain warning us about the situation in afghanistan, but i think to all of us, it was a shock. Frankly, it was quite unexpected, you know, that there would be such a fa
First deputy prime minister, nadia calvino. Is europe too divided, too inward looking to shape the 21st century . Deputy prime minister nadia calvino, welcome to hardtalk. Its a pleasure to be here. I think i have to start by talking afghanistan. The us led withdrawal from the country it looked chaotic, it was very difficult. What lessons do you think the European Union must learn from what happened . Well, for months weve been listening to the Defence Minister in spain warning us about the situation in afghanistan, but i think to all of us, it was a shock. Frankly, it was quite unexpected, you know, that there would be such a fast development. Because the americans hadnt consulted with European Allies . Well, im not informed about the different consultations that may have taken place, but i think we were all surprised about the rhythm of these developments and the tragic developments. There are two things that i would highlight from the European Response. The first one is actually pos
Now on Bbc News hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk, im Stephen Sackur Today on the shores of Italys Lake Como at the ambrosetti forum, where some of europes leading politicians have gathered to talk politics and economics. The global Covid Pandemic and intensifying superpower rivalries all present the eu with some very difficult questions. My Guest Today is spains first deputy Prime Minister, nadia calvino. Is europe too divided, too inward looking to shape the 21st century . Deputy Prime Minister nadia calvino, welcome to hardtalk. Its a pleasure to be here. I think i have to start by talking afghanistan. The us led withdrawal from the country it looked chaotic, it was very difficult. What lessons do you think the European Union must learn from what happened . Well, for months weve been listening to the Defence Minister in spain warning us about the situation in afghanistan, but i think to all of us, it was a shock. Frankly, it was quite unexpected, you know, that there would be such a fas
First deputy Prime Minister, nadia calvino. Is europe too divided, too inward looking, to shape the 21st century . Deputy Prime Minister nadia calvino, welcome to hardtalk. Its a pleasure to be here. I think i have to start by talking afghanistan. The us led withdrawal from the country it looked chaotic, it was very difficult. What lessons do you think the European Union must learn from what happened . Well, for months weve been listening to the Defence Minister in spain warning us about the situation in afghanistan, but i think to all of us, it was a shock. Frankly, it was quite unexpected, you know, that there would be such a fast development. Because the americans hadnt consulted with European Allies . Well, im not informed about the different consultations that may have taken place, but i think we were all surprised about the rhythm of these developments and the tragic developments. There are two things that i would highlight from the European Response. The first one is actually po
stay in negotiating the terms. manus: you are welcome to daybreak: europe. mnuchin isn t too worried about the dollar. the chinese are exporting like it is 2010. equity markets are focused on the data rather than the revenue . there is the bond market that is telling us a little more interesting. the bond market simply doesn t believe the data. it didn t get the memo. you had the gdp number which is retrospective but the bond market lost 16 basis points. that is the steepest monthly decline. since june has had 2016. we are within spitting distance of the lows set last week. analysts said you should be 50 basis points higher than where you are now. they said we would be at 3% but the bank of nova scotia summed it up beautifully, this is uneconomic. 1.4%.ality is pc, it is the fifth straight month of being below the target of 2%. if you are in the bond market, you are in the 1%. , on thee in stocks verge of 1.2%. china delivered the numbers, the reactivation. you ve got the e