These women look really exhausted. Theyre coming on one by one. One of the women i see has got a little child with her. Summer isnt here yet, and some rivers are already running dry fears that we could be heading into a drought. And coming up in the sport on bbc news, can chelsea relegate middlesbrough and be just one more win away from the Premier League title with a victory in their meeting tonight at Stamford Bridge . Good evening from paris, where the President Elect, Emmanuel Macron, has been celebrating his decisive victory over Marine Le Pen in yesterdays election, and hes already started work on forming his government, ahead of his formal inauguration on sunday. Hes already been congratulated by many world leaders, including the british Prime Minister, theresa may. Mr macron won with 66. 1 of the vote, with Marine Le Pen of the Front National taking 33. 9 . The turnout was 7a , the lowest in nearly 50 years, and around 11. 5 Million People abstained. The transfer of power is un
Facebook is putting out tips on how to spot it, but could the British Election be the next to feel its impact . I am katty kay in new york, Christian Fraser is in paris. It is an extraordinary achievement. Not since the days of napoleon has a frenchman risen to power so young and with such speed. Not since world war ii has a leader taken power without a party and a parliamentary base. There were very few in the established Political Class who endorsed Emmanuel Macron or believed in his bid to become president , but president he will become this sunday when he assumes power from francois hollande. He has already resigned his leadership of the movement he began a year ago. It will now be re named La Republique en marche. Politicians from right and left will be allowed to campaign under its banner in next month crucial parliamentary elections, so long as they quit the parties to which they belong. The President Elect says he wants a coalition of the willing. Starting our coverage, our eur
To world news today. The german chancellor Angela Merkel has called for european unity in the face of brexit and the election of donald trump. Speaking at an Election Rally in munich in southern germany, she said the events of the past few days had shown that the europeans could not necessarily rely on other nations. Translation we europeans must really take our fate into our own hands. Of course, in friendship with the United States of america, in friendship with Great Britain and as good neighbours, wherever that is possible also with other countries, even with russia. But we have to know that we must fight for our own future on our own, for our destiny as europeans. And thats what i want to do, together with you. Her comments follow the g7s failure to commit to the 2015 paris climate deal. Earlier the german leader described the talks as six against one, calling the summit in sicily very difficult and very unsatisfactory. Instead she described the relationship between berlin and new
Lord Heseltine urges Europhiles to ‘fight back’ over EU membership
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January 3, 2021
LONDON: Tory grandee Lord Heseltine has called for pro-Europeans to “fight back” and battle to rejoin the EU.
The former deputy prime minister cited the stance of the SNP in pushing for another referendum on Scottish independence as the way forward for Remainers, despite the UK formally leaving the Brexit transition arrangements on New Year’s Eve.
Lord Heseltine insisted that as the 52 per cent-48 per cent decision to quit the EU was so close, pro-Europeans must not “lie down”, but follow the example of the SNP. The ex-Cabinet minister told Times Radio: “You have got a country which is deeply divided and it is very important to give hope and keep alive the aspirations of the younger generation.
a huge mess and i m not even sure that tomorrow they ll be able to work it out it doesn t seem like we there s a solution in sight anytime soon this is just music. the critics you say that the e.u. was too big and reliance too much on backroom deals instead of transparent democracy. well i don t think the euro skeptics are any ones to talk about transparent democracy but what s more worrying is when the europhiles like a menu mcmullen come out and say this is a disaster he also said until we can make agreements among 28 there is no way i m going to agree to any expansion which of course if you re north macedonia and and albania you re listening very closely for comments like that so it wasn t just the countries that sometimes feel like they re sidelined and those led by people like viktor orban who like to criticize the e.u. all of the leaders were frustrated and that is a very bad sign there wasn t anybody coming out talking about unity they were all