in europe? >> absolutely. and i think -- successive leaderers in germany have shied away from the fact that german voters who have to pay more if they want this kind of -- more unified europe. they're going to have to pay out of their own pockets for countries like greece if they're going to stay in the euro zone and things not to fall apart. but this s has been shied away from. it's been con speckiusly avoided by german leaders one after another since helmut kohl. >> not always were -- the strongest power was in europe economic -- economically seen. if you just look at the first years after the currency union and the single currency, you see that germany was the sick man of europe. so that was a completely different talk then. melinda: because those were also the first years followingn unification. let us now, however, turn to the present. in the past few years, it has looked as though helmut kohl might live long enough to see the house that he had built shaken absolutely to its foundations. let's look at a f

what a europe to grow. what a europe to grow up in. a black market where even pride was for sale to the highest bidder. a europe that drew the end of self-respect and human values hearkened back to the jungle. but, in order that the wheels could turn again, some had to put their faith in others. they had to trust and sit around the same tables defined the means of putting europe and the whole world to right. it was evident the europe of 1939 was gone forever. the annexation of the baltic states, the huge advances of the red army placed enormous areas of eastern europe under soviet domination. he agreed on free elections. amid the ruin of countries such as poland, they were held. they were was a matter of opinion. with communists already in key posts, it was no surprise things what their way. if anything else was needed to make the victory certain, there was always the presence of the secret police and a number of soldiers of the occupying red army. and peoples exhausted by war or hardly likely to resist such coercion. for all their ene

all across europe fourteen e.u. states impose sanctions on austria now there is barely a peep and in fact we hear of the social democrats in austria have not ruled out themselves entering a coalition with the freedom party what's going on i have feeling that the freedom party moved more to the center they tried to. get rid of people and positions extremists and far right of course there was a few arguments and t.v. discussions also were anti-semitism was lying under the surface but i think they're eager to to leave it there and not bring it up like before that's one point the other thing if i may i would like to come back to it how many witches this is our last chance in europe i disagree i think this is the biggest chance for what europe has now to to change the system to change the bloc towards more integration towards more europe with these societies and these countries that want to move forward ok let's come back to that in just a moment i saw him shaking her head rather vigorously there and i have a way that it

, the value of europe. and we are here today debate pay tribute -- to to helmut kohl, to the mark that helmut kohl has left on history. many of you have given us regulations -- recollections of moments you have shared with him. but from my generation, helmut kohl is already part and parcel of europe's history. without that life experience, we cannot be here, we could not do what we are doing. those were bold, courageous, is start acts which are -- historic ask which our generation is in position to take. thousands of pages have been written about what he did, most of all german reunification and european integration. helmut kohl is a man who took sometimes decisions, against the will of public opinion and sometimes he took on unexpected decisions were not particularly wanted. and as president of the french republic, i would not like his legacy to be reduced to his political career, remarkable though it was. -- lesson he leaves was much goes much further than that. for france, helmut kohl was a ally,terlocut

rather than with more europe. when hungary was a candidate for the europe, a lot of people invested and got credit in euro currency and then had problems paying back their mortgage. he won a lot of votes and won the latest election. a group of core european countries will create the kind of extreme where others will follow or we had a situation where for a long time we have different speeds. of differentidea speeds has been debated for really be can there different speeds on immigration? the european court of justice, for example, has just rejected a challenge from hungary and on quarters. if austria tries to balk at taking more refugees, might it also wind up getting a reprimand? withe: yes, but i agree matthew. i think the issue is decided in the sense that no country in all of e europe wants to take more refugees. any european country no matter which does not want to have more integration towards europe. that is even true of germany and also of the netherlands, of belgium. what will happen is, of course, the on

tunisia, we said all of europe 6500 and tunisia has is awfully close to europe. that is my concern. they simply do not have the capacity nor the intelligence assets that we have. so if you're interested in helping out in europe, the next step is actually to broaden that cooperation and try to find a way to help egypt help tunisia, help jordan to a certain extent make sure they can absorb and reintegrate their foreign fighter returnees and those are very very large numbers that are coming home. >> i will do on that. we already have seen, but you think we will see more border control measures put in place? less free travel? we've seen germany, france to a little but of that. -- definitelyry hungary. at least through their countries. do you think europe will address the open border situation and see more of a return to border controls or do think it will continue with the open border situation that we have now? dr. craig, i will address at you. whichever one wins to answer but we are on the clock. >> i have not spoken to european officials so i do not know what they intend to do. offic

and outside of europe. the united states and europe face many challenges and threats that unlike in the past are simultaneously dispersed among many geographic front lines and across multiple do mains, whether nonstate terrorist actors, threats of a more conventional nature, cyber threats, or nuclear threats. because we know we are stronger in confronting these challenges when we are working together, we will pursue even greater cooperation from and with the nations of europe, our best partners. history has shown that when we are united, we succeed in the face of shared challenges. as i remarked earlier, one of these challenges is russia. europe and the united states seek a normalized relationship with russia. however, russia has shown it seeks to define new post soviet global balance of power, one in which russia, by virtue of its nuclear arsenal, seeks to impose its will on others by force or partnering with regions who show a disregard for their own citizens. this is the case with bashar al assad's conti

in europe, there's not one single watch list for europe. they have not developed a way to effectively stop somebody from traveling, even though in this case, the individual was convicted of terrorist offenses. >> narrator: for more than a decade, counterterror chiefs have proposed laws to improve border defenses, such as giving european security forces systematic access to data that airlines collect about all passengers on the continent. u.s. border guards have used this tool, known as passenger name record, or pnr, for 15 years. but european politicians, concerned about privacy and data protection, repeatedly rejected pnr legislation. >> madam president of the council, read my lips: data protection directive. >> we have, you know, maybe a different privacy mindset in certain countries in europe compared to the u.s. it depends on the different cultural historical political backgrounds of each country, and they are different. >> narrator: rob wainwright is the director of europol, the agency tasked with coordinating law enforcement across th

europe is the largest investor into the american economy and europe is the home of our strongest and largest alliance the nato alliance, we have 26 european allies. so europe is vital to the united states. - i think the us/ british relationship will remain special but not as special as it was because britain will be able to help less than it did in the past. britain will be weakened by this geo-politically. britain will be out of discussions that involve the eu. - [narrator] the united states and other powers have increased incentives to negotiate trade agreements with the eu as a single block rather than 28 separate governments. the trans- atlantic trade and investment partnership ttip uses this approach. - the aim of the ttip, like the tpp was to achieve much deeper integration between the us and the european economies. the ttip is also a controversial is parts of europe, especially germany. europeans believe that their standards are more appropriate and indeed superior to those in the united states. they're more concerned about privacy. they're more concerned about gmos in their f

the changing face of europe. aidnations receiving dollars have their counterpart funds to good work. hydroelectrics, plants. factories there was ever-growing roar and bustle, the marshall plan was reconstruction. nato was the shield. now they were working for peace. working for themselves and working for tomorrow. the council of europe was meeting and at their conference there were many european nations. discussing the future of their countries. the council had not accepted their powers and could only advise the government on their power. it was at least a common meeting place where europe could be me that scene. a start that was a long way to go. the arteries of the continent might be throbbing with , there were still age-old barriers. seemed atomic bombs would shift towards rubberstamps, towards the roman cathedrals. yet the solution was is you that anyone had mentioned. unity the needs of trade would push down the walls. once the coal mines of the czars with the crucible of war. haveut them war would resorted

he will help europe to create a greater europe. nightmare,uld be a but give him 100 days to see what happens when she becomes more president. melinda: thanks all of you for being with us and all of you out there for tuning in. ñ;a]]]]]]] >> welcome to a very special new years edition of focus on europe, i'm michelle henery. we are wrapping up 2016 by taking a look back at some of our best reports of the year. and what a year it was! we've seen just how divided this continent is. it was a shock to many europeans when britain voted to leave the european union in the brexit referendumum. ththe fishermen in cornwall, however, are elated. >> bye-bye brussels! now we can spend our own money on what we think is right. >> the fishermen of no w

is europe the e.u. is europe much broader i think it's very important in a way to clarify who to sort this out you know because usually when we mention europe people consider that it is only e.u. so the twenty eight order twenty seven if you consider that the u.k. still out but is only as a way to look at what europe means and as you may know you know my last job. before creating the global com past was as a director of education and you said the council of europe and the council of europe comprise. seven countries and member states including russia including turkey including. crane and many other countries that are not part of the e.u. are well aware mr buswell let me add them and they're all my question because when we talk about the european identity or the european values which by the way while we're at the center of the ukrainian kong for a conflict i think we in russia at least we mean first and foremost the european union and the values the so-called european values that it sets out to promote yo

he will help europe to create a greater europe. nightmare,uld be a but give him 100 days to see what happens when she becomes more president. melinda: thanks all of you for being with us and all of you out there for tuning in. a announcer: this is a production of china central television america. mike: whwhat makeses a visionan? for some, it's the passion for innovation. for others, it's seeing opportunities to make a difference when others have given up. this week on "full frame," conversations with visionaries who are using their global fame to make an impact. i'm mike walter coming to o you from the heart of new york city's vibrant timemes square. let's take it "full frame."

it was first born in europe. nationalism has been born in europe. nationalism has not been born outside europe. more than that, i think it is a tricky thing which is happening. that is that an american president is bidding on more nationalism in europe. you know what nationalism in europe means? that's not nationalism based on values, it's nationalism in europe based on ethnicity. and what nationalism has done in the last 100 years in europe, we all know it! 20 million victims, all of this is based on nationalism. so an american president thinking, "0h, european unity is not necessary, let's go back to national identity, ideas of nationalism." that is playing with fire in europe! this is not america! this is europe! we have the holocaust, we had the pogroms. well, you can... i think it is a fair argument. you can cite the events of the 1930s and ‘aos at me but let's stick with what happened today. yes, but it can come back. let's look at the context for brexit. i come back to the basic point about the situation today in europe. you have just seem

at the time of the bill it was clear to everybody that we had to protect europe from the rest of europe because security was not a topic and they going to going to feel economy might have been already knew where to go and wanted to catch up with the united states what you would be on the european project. if you want to get online and was the mission of. the who wanted to bring back the threads only of a continent that had been a split by two world wars that it's a vital stakes are still very rare look up everything but. the protection behind which europe could cross by i have to spit in what appeared to get a. globalization has come over it like a storm. and the ideas that seem to be preferred solution unless you don't have a reson nationalisms protection as the sovereign. fifty dollars idea yet have would be if you were. in the start a disastrous wars and crises that could have what have destroyed europe will have risen again because of the fear of the citizens you know that we have ignored for too long a mic who we thought for too long with you know past would never come back to us a

i have always fought for europe. i have sometimes suffered with europe and agonized over europe. sinve been through sick and with the european union's. thin with the european union. never have i lost my love for the european union. as we all know, there is no love without disappointment. europe, i mean what i say, because the european union has achieved so much in this divided world. inward and outward peace, prosperity, not for all, but still for many. in 2018, we should consider what it means to have a european union of cultural heritage and celebrate our diversity. these three principles, freedom, equality of opportunity, and rule of law have to remain the foundation of our ever stronger and ever more united and more democratic union. for the people of europe, but they are looking for is not new treaties or institutions. they are a means to an end. stitch is, treaties are perhaps of interest to us -- new institutions and treaties are perhaps of interest to us here in strasburg. one day, there will be treaty change, but the busy ourselves means first and foremost that we have t

all around europe people have been attending true europe rallies in berlin they are held here at the marked the cellist album get hot played at one of the rallies and decided on the spot that he had to do more. hi and welcome back to sara's music europe is experiencing some turbulent times right now and we're often being confronted by the possibility of a divided europe a group of classical musicians a so appalled by this idea that they have joined together to show their support for a united europe in the best way they know how with music i'm very proud to be part of this group. today at the ready all sustainment berlin the newly formed musicians for united europe group are playing their first concert to raise funds for the pulse of europe initiative. it's fantastic that everyone's made it here today it's really important i mean you just told me you come from yugoslavia so well i'm a real x. you was so my mom is question what that is serbian and i was changing usa in germany so i really know what it is to have a country and to lose it and to not be able to do anything about it i thin

the europe we know is too weak to slow and too inefficient but only europe and europe alone can give us the capacity to act against the big challenges we face now. flanked by french and european flags he said europe needed to relaunch itself with greater cooperation on issues including asylum seekers border protection and intelligence. what's missing in europe today with regard to defense it is a common strategic culture in our incapacity to act together in a convincing manner puts our credibility in question. as well as strategic issues he also called for the creation of a transnational agency to foster european innovation financial stability and corporate tax were also in areas where he said much deeper cooperation was needed. for you to. instead of concentrating all our energy on our internal divisions as we've been doing now for far too long instead of losing our way in arguments in a european civil war arguing about budgets finances politics or whatever we need to consider how to build a europe that strong. feeling. but at a time when tensions between eastern and western europe

as the united states stood with europe through the end of the 20th century, europe stood tall with united states at the outset at the 21st. the american people will be forever grateful. again i have the privilege to see our bond firsthand. only two weeks after those attacks on 9/11, as a member of congress i traveled to germany to participate in international conference on terrorism. i will never forget what i saw as we arrived at the american embassy in berlin. a wall of flowers, 10 feet high, surrounding it. fragrant tokens of condolences, support and prayers of your people for ours. that image will forever be and mind.my heart for the first and only time in its history nato invoked article five for filling our commitment to confront our common enemies together and the american people will never forget it. in the global war against radical islamic terrorists we have been bound by shared sacrifice. for the past decade and a half the nations of nato have answered the call to rid the world of this great evil. from afghanistan to iraq, to many conflicts across the globe, our sons and daught

we do not invest enough in europe and our lost generation, it's not only a lost decade in europe, it's a lost generation we have. i mean, we need to do something for those people to have them believe in this europe again. peter: to pick up on a point you maybe short while ago, the time has come for angela merkel to dump wolfgang schaeuble. for her to decide, really, but one has to say -- peter: you are being very cautious. think itause i do not is the job of a journalist to advise the government to make this or that decision. peter: he stands for pulling the break. >> the idea that there has to be a limit to what a government can borrow is one of the most stupid ideas that has ever been introduced into policy. reader: prevailing poverty in the european union. the point of being a government is that you can are as much money as you need to save us from economic ruin and to decree from huron they you're not going to do that ever under any circumstances safely means that somewhere down the line, a politician is going to have to break his or her promise. i cannot even start to say how stup

he's for europe, for the nations, not the people of europe. he sees the brexit and trump as a menace, as a bad example, but he could try to convince his people, but he's got to present his program. the latest pololl in french television says the program of the candidate, then his credibility is not corrupt. peter: you just talked about the threat posed by marine le pen for this crossroads in european history, as you describe it. let's catch up with marine le pen. she, too, likes to present herself as an outsider, despite the fact that she presents herself as -- that she comes from what might be coming that's what might be considered a political dynasty. >> she believes france is on the verge of collapse and only she can say that. the parties on the right and left care only about money, but i am a candidate of the people of france. also belongs to the political establishment. she has been a european him p -- mp since 2004 and has been accused of misusing funds to help her political p party. she has vowed to p put france first, renegotiate the c

relations with europe. he discussed russia's cyberattacks as well as energy policy and he said he denies reports he's trying to dismantle the state department. held by the wilson center here in washington, d.c., this is about an hour. >> president and c.e.o. of the wilson center, happy to be talking to a packed crowd. and to welcome secretary rex tillerson back to the wilson center. as you know, mr. secretary, the wilson center has a tradition of honoring business and political leaders who follow our 28th president's dictum, that would be woodrow wilson, to, quote, enable the world to live more amply with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope, and achievement. ms. harman: the center honor new 2010 and you honored us by attending our event in dallas in 2014, where richard fisher, outgoing chairman of the dallas fed, received our public service award. you and i sat together. we're delighted to welcome you back this morning to talk about the future of u.s. relations with europe, and to take some question

europe. chiefan union policy frederico marini joined an event hosted by the atlantic council. it is about an hour. >> good afternoon and welcome to the atlantic council. thank you for joining us. i am the present ceo of the council. madam, high representative, a sellout crowd. they are bursting out the doors and i think this underscores ath the recognition we face historic moment in history for europe and the transatlantic relationship, long before the november elections, and that whate are eager to hear report you've given us from your trip thus far and also answer their questions and my questions as moderator on broader issues in the transatlantic relationship which we, of course believe is the cornerstone for all u.s. engagement with the world. we would like to think of ourselves as the home for europe and washington, d.c. and thus i am honored to welcome a high representative of the european union for foreign affairs and to ready policy and vice president of the european commission, madam

he was a unifier of germany and europe. theirgh he did not start reunicication,hehe people of eastst germany started the procs in g g did not complete the unification but nevertheless, he was an extremely important element in the processes. >> you experienced in close-up on many occasions. what kind of a man was he? >> he had a lot of different sides. he could be very friendly but he to waslso be very brutal the people around him. as a journalist, i experienced all of that close-up. this is also part of his legacy. >> allen, what is your strongest memory of helmut kohl? give us something that tells us the most about who he was? >> i remember on the night the wall came down for the night after that when he flew from berlin.imberland -- to there was an assembly in front of the town hall where john f. kennedy had his speech. the mayor of west berlin was there. there was a crowd of people who were jubilant at the fall of the wall and helmut kohl starts to sing the german national anthem. you can hear, they are all out of tune.

do we want to dismantling of of europe?antling we discussed using years of brexit and now it is all about brexit. now we have a lot of tensions in europe. in a few months or years, you will have other countries raising, and thinking i am not comfortable with bureaucracy. with this europe without any vision. with constraints. so, we need more vision, less bureaucracy. >> i think we have a good opportunity to get more for european development. i discussed some days ago, we are ready to make any reform only in line with the primary law. as soon as we get amendments to the primary law, we can do more. as long as we are bound to stick to the given primary law, we have to make more dynamic integration, but pragmatic in a governmental way. if we agree as soon as possible corporations, whatever, in common european law as soon as we get amendments. we will work in this direction. i think it is pragmatic to move in the direction to get more efficiency for europe, in this way to convince the people in the european member states that e

will it be a multispeed europe? of europe. i don't want it to be. will it be a multispeed europe7m is already. i mean, it got several speeds but it could go to all sorts of different levels, on all sorts of different issues, without freedom of movement or the schengen zone or fiscal consolidation. in a larger senseit fiscal consolidation. in a larger sense it is already. you could have four different sorts of grouping that platforms and what a confusing mess it would be. with all respect, i hope it will be able to call this country in the future forever and ever the united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland. but i see here, also, very vigorous signals fragmentation and off profound differences of opinion as to the identity, as to be idea of what the uk should be relative to europe. so this is a much wider problem which does not simply concern the european union. look, president trump, when he was a late did, he almost explicitly set out to destroy european integration. do you think? do you think it was a motive for this? he actually said

people like larkhall martin shows who have a vision of a better europe a prosperous peace for europe against nationalistic concepts elsewhere that you are capable of doing this is a reaction now why don't you react against the hunger against the poland you and the s.p.d. germany excuse me criticize that a lot mr invites are bound to his party conventions to merely its own little party family little family learned of is this through. now and you can throw out hungary i think it's over except to ration just to. focus on this throwing out somebody the point lighting shows mixed together with from across we have to go on with europe with a better europe if we want to save prosperity and peace and i think that's a wonderful concept and we would see how our young people in germany think about that if that's taken to the voters in germany i hope we meet in twenty twenty five and as i understood it would be the united states or you're right what are you doing if the germans don't vote for you see the social democrats have fought for ideas for a long time and sometimes it took longer than we

is one of the most enthusiastic european i know is throwing away a charm about saving europe europe is on the way down as you can see by the exit as you can see by all those right wing nationalist you can't read german you can leave the e.u. if you don't like the you but why others are not talking about who likes to not we're talking about europe as the fundament for peace and prosperity that's what we're talking about but this is not only in this day and danger that's happening right now is who is throwing out who he is talking about populations voting in the democratic way that you're just but only. if you would be french and it's possible that the majority of the friends will not approve that then i quote again though to prove it will automatically have to leave the you french will have automatically to leave the e.u. frets what mr solace for is a growing world for europe because mrs is not the one who was leading your approach rather france but rather it will be a new constitution a treaty and again this majority of the land that eventually that's a vision of an important social de

fundamental discussions about the more europe or less europe we have to be pragmatic. there are areas where we need more integration there are areas where probably we could reverse some of delicious leisure that sometimes appears to intrusive but frankly i don't think it is always helpful to have discussions of ideological philosophical debates about more or less europe because based on my experience of leading u.p.a. and commission ten years what i have seen was that even in times of crisis the moon is too cute financial and suffering that because we have it in europe at least since the second world war it was possible for you pinion to make progress for instance you have now some elements of a banking union with a common supervisory mechanisms common resolution mechanism that will be considered unthinkable before the crisis so for instance for the countries want to have a common currency definitely it's needed more integration so yeah let's talk about the concrete steps because i know that british thing and here are being touted by politicians which would mean that t

for the sake of keeping migrants out of europe they are ready to sell their heart and soul partnership becomes a permanent pain for africa. let me start out by asking you christine whether you think a summit like the one that the a you in the e.u. have just held really can make a an authentic difference can it break break through those old ways that you mentioned in your opening statement to really deliver a more equal truly fundamental partnership for change you know melinda i am skeptical as much is a lot of people my age back on the continent we've talked about these summits and the fact that the average young person on the continents doesn't even know that such as i mean it's taking place if these people are meeting about young people young people aren't even aware about that just how much change can they really be hoping to bring to young people without that the engagement of the young people by and large as i say africans odd even aware of these talk shops so to say. but i know if i take a look at actually all three of those opening statements that i just read off i'd have to con

i have always fought for europe. i have sometimes suffered with europe and agonized over europe. i have been through thick and thin with the european union and never have i lost my love for the european union. as we all know, there is no love without disappointment, or very rarely. love for europe, i mean what i say, because the european union has achieved so much in this divided world. inward and outward peace, prosperity. not for all but still for many. in 2018 we should consider what it means to have the european year of cultural heritage and celebrate our cultural diversity. these three principles, freedom, equality of opportunity and rule of law have to remain the foundation of our ever stronger and ever more united and more democratic union. for the people of europe, what they are looking for is not new treaties, new institutions. there are means to an end. new institutions, new treaties are perhaps of interest to us in brussels. elsewhere people don't care to whom. i'm only interested in institutional reform if it gives us a more efficient union. one day there will be trea

of europe. i'm not sure exactly what macron thanks of poland, but i can see that he seems to want to replicate his message for confronting french populace on the national stage. what he did was really confronting the national front and by pushing against her in the second round which had never happened before and by really demonstrating that she was mistaken, going .5. and by also putting forward a very positive pro- european message, once again of european price that nobody had done before and that seems to have worked.. he wants to replicate that so he seems to be doing that on the moment at the european stage.astic, it's fantastic, it's very impressive, he is very charismatic but i think there is a risk there and it's a risk that i call the obama trap. that is believing that because your election was sot symbolic, because it was so strong and so powerful that your words will really be meaningful to other people and that you will, by your own charisma have people follow you in the direction yo

and europe. we had pushed for that as you know but for a variety of reasons it didn't come together and that just allowed space for those who didn't want to deal to get out of the way. i think the biggest, the thing that my heart still believes about was syria. as you know i was spokesperson of the state department in the first obama term under secretary clinton and i had to from the state department podium every day in 11:00 and 12:00 get up and justify what was going on, and i am certainly on the team that thinks that we should have done more in 11, 12, 13, 14. we should have done more together with your and that we might have prevented the refugee crisis. we might have, a whole bunch of dominoes fell from that of most importantly it matters to usthe transatlantic community that the middle east has a chance to organize itself liberally. and its citizens in the middle east have right to have a say in how their governed and have opportunities that we have. it's not good to be stable and good for