A single dose of hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. The covid i9 pandemic has presented the European Union with an unprecedented test of its cohesion and competence. Right now, the scorecard looks decidedly mixed, with many Member States facing a third wave of infection while the vaccination roll out lags far behind that in post brexit britain. My guest is the former president of the European Commission, jean claude juncker. He once bemoaned a loss of collective eu libido. Is the Performance Problem getting worse . Jean claudejuncker in brussels, welcome to hardtalk. Yeah, its my pleasure to be here. Pleasure to have you on the show. There you sit in brussels. Of course, youre no longer the president of the commission, but you still watch events very, very closely. How disappointed are you by the eus failure to deliver a speedy vaccination roll out . I have to say, im disappointed by the performance of the European Union. Thats not the fault of the commission, but also o
Hardtalk with stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. The covid 19 pandemic has presented the European Union with an unprecedented test of its cohesion and competence. Right now, the scorecard looks decidedly mixed, with many Member States facing a third wave of infection while the vaccination roll out lags far behind that in post brexit britain. My guest is the former president of the European Commission, jean claude juncker. He once bemoaned a loss of collective eu libido. Is the Performance Problem getting worse . Jean claudejuncker in brussels, welcome to hardtalk. Yeah, its my pleasure to be here. Pleasure to have you on the show. There you sit in brussels. Of course, youre no longer the president of the commission, but you still watch events very, very closely. How disappointed are you by the eus failure to deliver a speedy vaccination roll out . I have to say, im disappointed by the performance of the European Union. Thats not the fault of the commission, but als
Rich will be here later. Now on bbc news, its hardtalk with stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. The covid 19 pandemic has presented the European Union with an unprecedented test of its cohesion and competence. Right now, the scorecard looks decidedly mixed, with many Member States facing a third wave of infection while the vaccination roll out lags far behind that in post brexit britain. My guest is the former president of the European Commission, jean claude juncker. He once bemoaned a loss of collective eu libido. Is the Performance Problem getting worse . Jean claudejuncker in brussels, welcome to hardtalk. Yeah, its my pleasure to be here. Pleasure to have you on the show. There you sit in brussels. Of course, youre no longer the president of the commission, but you still watch events very, very closely. How disappointed are you by the eus failure to deliver a speedy vaccination roll out . I have to say, im disappointed by the performance of the European Union.
Now on bbc news its hardtalk with stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. The covid 19 pandemic has presented the European Union with an unprecedented test of its cohesion and competence. Right now, the scorecard looks decidedly mixed, with many Member States facing a third wave of infection while the vaccination roll out lags far behind that in post brexit britain. My guest is the former president of the European Commission, jean claude juncker. He once bemoaned a loss of collective eu libido. Is the Performance Problem getting worse . Jean claudejuncker in brussels, welcome to hardtalk. Yeah, its my pleasure to be here. Pleasure to have you on the show. There you sit in brussels. Of course, youre no longer the president of the commission, but you still watch events very, very closely. How disappointed are you by the eus failure to deliver a speedy vaccination roll out . I have to say, im disappointed by the performance of the European Union. Thats not the fault of the
At least 12 people have died, after a passenger plane crashed in kazakhstan. The bek air flight had just taken off from the countrys biggest city, almaty, and was travelling to the capital, nur sultan, when it crashed into a building. 60 others were injured in the crash. 98 people were onboard the flight, including five crew. Our moscow correspondent Sarah Rainsford gave us this update. The latest that we are getting here are the extraordinary accounts of the people who have survived this crash. A couple of people have been telling their story to local media and even describing how they managed to walk away from the wreckage of this plane. One man, a businessman, who was flying up to the countrys capital, nur sultan, for business meetings today, he was sitting in the 15th row of the plane, just over the wing. If you look at the wreckage, its the front part of the plane, in front of the wing, that was the most badly destroyed as the plane ploughed into that building, just beyond the per