#Romania: Preparing the Danube Channel for risk from attack by Russia. Antonia Colibasanu, Geopolitical Futures @GPFUTURES
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#Romania: Preparing the Danube Channel for risk from attack by Russia. Antonia Colibasanu, Geopolitical Futures @GPFUTURES
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS Eye in the World. I'm John Bachelors. The new Prime Minister of Romania, |
| 0:10.0 | Sholaku, speaking to the financial times about the planning ahead for Romania, which is |
| 0:16.3 | all in in supporting Ukraine and NATO in the war of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, |
| 0:23.0 | all in. The new Prime Minister is explaining how he will expand the grain shipments out |
| 0:29.2 | of Ukraine using the existing Danube, the existing ports to the Black Sea and Romanian infrastructure. |
| 0:38.2 | To help me with this, I welcome Antonio Colabasano of the geopolitical future. She also teaches |
| 0:45.2 | in Bucharest. She's a professor of politics and what we now see is geopolitics of the |
| 0:52.2 | Black Sea now monetized and militarized, and the Danube, which is a river that flows through |
| 0:59.3 | Romania from Ukraine and permits grain to leave Ukraine in some fashion. As I understand it, though, |
| 1:07.4 | we need to refer to a map to understand the intricate relationship between these states, |
| 1:13.7 | and the Black Sea, which is now patrolled by Russian warships. Antonio, a very good |
| 1:20.2 | evening to you. Thank you for this. The Romanian Prime Minister is clear lending all the support |
| 1:26.4 | he can muster to Ukrainians. At this point does that include expanding the facilities that |
| 1:33.2 | are available now for shipping grain? Does that mean expanding the amount of grain leaving |
| 1:39.0 | Romania for the Black Sea and for the rest of the world? Good evening to you. |
| 1:45.1 | Good evening. Thank you for having me again, John. And yes, indeed, well, the Prime Minister is |
| 1:52.7 | basically going on a plan, which is strategically important for the Black Sea region and refers to |
| 2:01.4 | basically increasing the capacity of the Black Sea ports and the Danube shipping lines |
| 2:08.0 | to accommodate Ukrainian trade through Romania. This is not obviously this is not going to be only for |
| 2:17.6 | grain, but also for other products. However, grain exports, Ukrainian grain exports are most |
| 2:26.7 | important now, and this is basically the purpose for the expansion. Now, obviously this has been |
| 2:35.4 | in the worse and has been discussed since Russia withdrew from the grain deal, and since Russia |
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