The Euronews Brussels bureau brings you its newest episode of a chat present that goals to interrupt down European information and politics to make it extra accessible to viewers.
This week, we're joined by the Belgian MEP Philippe Lamberts who's the President of the Greens group within the European Parliament. We're additionally joined by Czech MEP Ondrej Kovarik from Renew Europe and Jacob Funk Kirkegaard, a senior fellow with the German Marshall Fund.
Panelists mentioned the latest banking collapses, and their impression on European banks and savers. Regardless of the dramatic headlines, all have been sure that Europeans had nothing to fret about, that the state of affairs was below management as Europe took measures years in the past after the Lehman Brothers crash and the Greek debt disaster.
The panel additionally commented on the Chinese language president's journey to Moscow this week. Regardless of the sturdy photographs, panelists didn't assume the journey ought to severely concern Europe.
"Russia is China's lapdog now, they don't have any alternative. China will not be going to offer Putin weapons, as a result of Europe will sanction them because the US has", mentioned Jacob Funk Kirkegaard.
"I'd actually urge the European Union to take care of its personal pursuits. Now, we've got seen what hyper-dependency from Russia meant to us, to our strategic autonomy. And in a means and I'd say, particularly after I have a look at the German mercantilism, we're overdependent on China as properly," mentioned MEP Philippe Lamberts.
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