BERLIN: Keir Starmer romances the EU. Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Berlin.
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 2 October 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is a |
| 0:04.0 | This is CBS I on the world with my colleague Judy Dempsey, a scholar at Carnegie Europe. |
| 0:09.0 | She's in Berlin. |
| 0:10.0 | Watching Sir Kairst-arma, the new Prime Minister for at least five years, leading an |
| 0:16.1 | overwhelming majority in the Commons of Labour Voters, and conversations with Ms. Van der Leyion, the president of the European Commission, |
| 0:26.0 | that suggests there's Rapporteurchmuth going on between the Labor Party and the European Union. Is that far-fetched duty or is that in train? |
| 0:36.0 | Well, the thing about Kir Storma's victory is that he had the majority and he can do what he likes with it. |
| 0:44.4 | And he got elected because there are his supporters actually do want some kind of new |
| 0:51.4 | relationship with the EU after the disastrous Brexit episode. |
| 0:57.0 | Except Stommer isn't capitalising on this. |
| 1:00.4 | Now he's having these talks with Ursula von der Leyen, the German president of the EU Commission as you mentioned. |
| 1:06.4 | But what is interesting at the big Labour Party Congress last week which should have been a huge |
| 1:14.4 | celebration a huge reboot a huge effort to say we're going to we're going to |
| 1:20.3 | re-engage Europe. Well, actually just a week before, the EU mentioned the reintroduction of, I won't |
| 1:30.7 | complicate matters, the Erasmus programme, The Erasmus program is a wonderful program |
| 1:35.3 | allowing students from across Europe to study wherever they want and they get subsidies |
| 1:40.6 | for it and huge university teaching opportunities and |
| 1:45.2 | education opportunities and Britain was part of this and it's it's an |
| 1:49.7 | awful lot of money involved and Britain had to pull out after Brexit and before we knew |
| 1:54.8 | it in London and Brussels were talking about the reinstatement of Erasmus and |
| 1:58.8 | guess what the right-wing telegraph and this was leaked to the newspaper no with the right-wing telegraph, this was leaked to the newspaper, no, the right-wing of daily mail, which is so anti-EU, leaked this note |
| 2:09.6 | about the reintroduction of Erasmus and the Labour Party Prime Minister |
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