We cant think right time of crisis. And how will the European Election affect the rest of. Expert discussions have to get up your hands or we have to do it and citizens voters 1st and. Dwi has it all. Election on may 26th g. W. Holland a very warm welcome indeed to quadriga coming to you from the heart of europe and our focus is on this weekends elections to the European Parliament where it has been widely assumed that populist far right parties might grab as many as a quarter of all the seats in the parliament but then scandal in austria and the
collapse of the countrys Coalition Government between conservatives and the populist right this after secretly film Video Footage emerged apparently showing the leader of the right Freedom Party promising State Contracts to a woman posing as the niece of a Russian Oligarch so on the eve of a Watershed Election for europe our question here on quadriga this week is Video Scandal election blowed to europes. And to discuss that question im joined
ukraine. starting this campaign for the election quite late. reporter: that s right. and in fact that s something he said he regretted just a few days ago, that he hadn t been able to enter the race as early as he would have liked. and it has been entirely dominated by ukraine. because of the events that have been happening there and because of the positions of the various candidates until then on the right position for france to adopt to russia. all of them had had fairly well-defined positions, some of them on the wrong side of history over the course of the last few weeks. so it has very much dominated the campaign. there are of course other issues. the cost of living. remember this is a mandate during the last five years that macron has seen the yellow vest movements. there s an awful lot of worry about the cost of living out there. and a vast array of candidates looking for that top spot. 12 of them in all. 11 against emmanuel macron that joined the race earlier than he did. and
and we do have the opportunity because of glasgow. we now have the opportunity to make it happen. the question is, will we? who will pay for the fight against climate change? who will pay for the climate transition? i really think that the lowest wages will never pay for the climate transition, and we have to take into account this reality. we have to put on the table hundreds of billions of euros to finance renewable energies, to finance nuclear energies, maybe new nuclear plants. and on the other hand, there is a need to find the funding. and if you explain to the poorest people in the uk, or in france or in germany or in italy, that the poorest people will pay for the fight against climate change and will pay the climate transition, there will be new yellow vest movements everywhere in europe, and that s exactly
we now have the opportunity to make it happen. the question is, will we? who will pay for the fight against climate change? who will pay for the climate transition? i really think that the lowest wages will never pay for the climate transition, and we have to take into account this reality. we have to put on the table hundreds of billions of euros to finance renewable energies, to finance nuclear energies, maybe new nuclear plants. and on the other hand, there is a need to find the funding. and if you explain to the poorest people in the uk, or in france or in germany or in italy, that the poorest people will pay for the fight against climate change and will pay the climate transition, there will be new yellow vest movements everywhere in europe, and that s exactly what we want to avoid. in my home city, london, there is a constant cacophony
who will pay for the fight against climate change? who will pay for the climate transition? i really think that the lowest wages will never pay for the climate transition, and we have to take into account this reality. we have to put on the table hundreds of billions of euros to finance renewable energies, to finance nuclear energies, maybe new nuclear plants. and on the other hand, there is a need to find the funding. and if you explain to the poorest people in the uk, or in france or in germany or in italy, that the poorest people will pay for the fight against climate change and will pay the climate transition, there will be new yellow vest movements everywhere in europe, and that s exactly what we want to avoid. in my home city, london, there is a constant cacophony