Vídeo: Estado da União: Von der Leyen candidata à reeleição, sanções e crise de Rafah

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Welcome to the State of the Union from Brussels it can’t be said that it was a surprise but the suspense over who will be the European people’s party’s main candidate in the European elections is over Ursula fion will run for reelection and said this week that she is excited

About the possibility of a second time as president of the European commission and the EP is excited to have her as a candidate given the notor she has gained in the European Union and the rest of the world but at her meeting with a parties group in the European Parliament

USA fion declared her red lines on who the EP can make alliances with the cut off line is do you stand for democracy do you defend our values are you very firm in the rule of law are you supporting Ukraine and are you fighting against uh Putin’s attempt to weaken and

Divide Europe and these answers have to be very clear funder lion was praised for her work to build consensus for the European Union support for Ukraine following Russian’s fullscale Invasion one of these consensus emerged this week with the approval of the 13th package of sanctions against Russia it targets

Companies that help Russia obtain sanctioned products including those based in China turkey and North Korea and to show his shock at the death in prison of Russian opposition leader Alexa naani the head of diplomacy announced a proposal that links the two issues as julan naala has told us Putin is not

Russia and Russia is not Putin they have just issued an statement on Lex’s death and I have proposed to the ministers to rename our Global human rights sanctions regime with his name this will be a way of keeping his memory alive foreign ministers expressed their political agreement with this proposal

Bor said but there was no consensus on a statement calling for a ceasefire in Gaza where 29,000 Palestinians have died according to the Hamas Health Ministry once again unsurprisingly Hungary was the only one of the 27 countries left out including in calling on Israel not to carry out a ground operation in the

City of Rafa 1.5 million Palestinians are Sheltering there and humanitarian catastrophe would reach a new level the United Nations W the manager of one of its agencies the UN DP dedicated to development had meetings with the European commission at the beginning of the week Akim schiner spoke next with a

News Akim Steiner undp manager thank you very much for coming uh to our studio we are of course not worried about the situation in the South uh in rafan year the border with Egypt do you think an evacuation of Palestinians to Egypt would be somehow a

Solution I only want to refer to the secretary General’s call and I think this is the only answer right now a humanitarian ceasefire to rely on um a evacuation of U you know maybe a million people who are already internally displaced under these circumstances could as many have said result in an

Absolutely catastrophic loss of life therefore the speculation about where else people could move I think is not one that in the UN we consider to to be either feasible nor do we wish to be part of a forced relocation of people will the UND DP and other UN agency

Somehow assist or replace the United Nations Agency for Palestinian refugees considering the whole situation of accusation of uh possible uh employment of Hamas members as many of us have said in the United Nations family there is no alternative to relying on unra infrastructure service and capacity right now to provide humanitarian

Support in a situation that is already extreme both in terms of the lack of uh support that we are able to provide from the outside because of access and many of the restrictions but also because of the difficult situation of operating within Gaza we are looking at how we can

Work with each other in order to expand the space for humanitarian support and then ultimately also to help people recover that is as well the situation in Ukraine which I imagine was also featuring high in your discussions with the European Union uh counterparts um is there already a a possibility of doing

Some uh reconstruction and long-term planning for Ukraine what has defined undp’s partnership with Ukraine uh ever since Russia attacked Ukraine is essentially our um contribution and our partnership in helping um Ukraine to keep basic state and governance Services um operational and we are focusing also on early recovery and reconstruction in

The context of small and medium scale Enterprises many in Ukraine have lost everything their business it may have been a you know a hairdresser Salon or a car repair Workshop or a digital business um they have lost everything they have had to move they become internally displaced one of the

Priorities of the Ukrainian authorities has been how to help help them uh be able to reestablish themselves as entrepreneurs uh to not only regain a livelihood but also the Dignity of not simply being um somebody who can no longer rely on themselves to earn an income aim Steiner undp manager thank

You very much for coming to the program and for this important contribution thank you to close the program let’s talk a little about art traditionally the presidency of the Council of the EU organizes some cultural events in the case of Belgium it decided to celebrate 100 Years of surrealism with two major

Exhibitions a story of not laughing can be seen at the Brussels Bullard Art Center the other titled imagine is on display at the Royal museums of Fine Arts one could say that some political events in Brussels are often the scene of some surreal moments that’s it for this Edition thank you for watching