Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 16/02/2025
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🗓️ 16 February 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Next week, European leaders will hold an emergency summit in response to Trump attempting to seize control of the Ukraine peace process. This morning, Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds attempted to downplay any rift between the US and its European allies, but accepted that Europe had to contribute more to its own defence. Priti Patel claimed that it was too early to say what the US's position on Ukraine will be. And we also hear about how technology could allow us to design plants which revolutionise agriculture.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to you, Coffee House Shots, the Spectators' Daily Politics Podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm Isabel Hardman, and this is the Sunday Roundup. |
| 0:18.2 | Kirstama will meet European leaders at an emergency summit in Paris next week |
| 0:22.6 | after Donald Trump appeared to be sidelining Europe in the Ukraine peace talks. |
| 0:27.9 | On the BBC, Victoria Derbyshire asked business secretary Jonathan Reynolds |
| 0:32.1 | why Stama had called this a once-in-a-generation moment for European security. |
| 0:37.7 | Overnight, an emergency summit of European leaders, which is coming next week, |
| 0:41.7 | Sarkir Stama has said this is a once-in-a-generational moment for European security. Why? |
| 0:48.1 | Well, first of all, we should welcome the fact that the US president wants to see an end to the |
| 0:52.5 | conflict. We all want to see that. |
| 0:54.7 | Very much agree that has to include Ukraine. That is the position of the UK government. |
| 0:59.8 | There will be no durable peace without involvement of European partners, particularly the Ukrainians, |
| 1:04.7 | as part of that. What the US has said repeatedly and has been a part of their program for some time |
| 1:09.9 | is they would like to see |
| 1:11.4 | Europe make a greater contribution to the collective defense of Europe. I think everyone recognizes |
| 1:16.1 | there is a reasonability behind that. So that is how Europe has to respond. I believe we in the UK |
| 1:21.1 | can play a part as that bridge between the US and Europe as we adjust to this new era, and it certainly is a new era. |
| 1:29.5 | But I think it would be wrong to portray this as some sort of fundamental breach. |
| 1:33.7 | There are still a great deal of common ground between the US and its European allies. |
| 1:37.5 | We must play our part and strengthen that. |
| 1:40.5 | What can this European summit achieve then when the Americans and the Russians appear to be deciding everything for themselves in talks in Saudi Arabia next week? |
| 1:50.0 | What the US will want is not just an end to the fighting. |
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