Alain Lamassoure, Chairman of the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets

As the death toll from the Hungarian sludge keeps rising, environmentalists have warned that there are dozens of other "ticking toxic time bombs" in the region. The recent accident has once again highlighted the danger posed by obsolete heavy industrial plants inherited from the Communist era. 

On Wednesday, 100,000 workers marched in Brussels to protest against austerity measures imposed by European governments. This giant demonstration was part of a wider social movement across the continent, which some regard as the birth of a new style of European trade unionism. Our guests: Catherine Trautmann, French MEP, Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, and Elisabeth Schroedter, German MEP, Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance.