Nigel Farage and Graham Watson: two British MEPs, two views of Europe

Christophe Robeet speaks to two British MEPs with completely diverging views on the UK’s role within the EU. Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK Independence party, debates with Graham Watson, an outspoken Liberal MEP.

TALKING EUROPE

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Christophe Robeet

Presenter

27/11/2010 - TALKING EUROPE

Irish storm: can the euro survive?

On November 22nd, debt-ridden Ireland announced an ambitious austerity plan designed to secure a 85-billion-euro bailout from the EU and IMF. Speaking in Strasbourg, EU President Herman Van Rompuy sought to ease fears that Ireland's troubles would spread to Portugal and Spain but markets have remained jittery. Could the euro survive another storm?

12/11/2010 - TALKING EUROPE

Cecilia Malmström, EU Commissioner for Home Affairs

Cecilia Malmström is the EU’s "Interior Minister". She has just returned from Greece where 175 EU officers have been mobilised to help the authorities stem an influx of undocumented migrants across its border with Turkey. It is the first time that a rapid-intervention border team has been deployed to an EU member state since the Frontex teams were created in 2007. Mrs Malmström also tells us how the EU can respond to the recent terror threats.

12/11/2010 - TALKING EUROPE

Will Turkey ever join the EU?

This week, the European Commission issued its progress report on Turkey. Despite hailing the constitutional reform as a positive development, Brussels said that Turkey was still lagging behind in areas like press freedom, freedom of expression and religion and the integration of the Kurdish minority in the country. But the main stumbling block remains of course the issue of Cyprus. So, will Turkey ever join the EU?

30/10/2010 - TALKING EUROPE

The end of multiculturalism?

Recently, a surge of anti-immigration and anti-Islam sentiment has been sweeping across Europe boosting support for populist parties in several EU member states. Our guests discuss why the issue of immigration and the place of Islam in our societies have taken central stage here in Europe.

29/10/2010 - TALKING EUROPE

Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the Eurogroup

We interviewed Jean-Claude Juncker right after a key EU summit that focused on tightening the Economic Governance of Europe. The President of the Eurogroup told us that the agreed economic sanctions on member states running up large budget deficits are not ambitious enough. He also warns it is too early to declare that the Euro crisis is over.