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Hello and welcome to State of the Union I’m Stefan groa in Brussels the world has gotten used to nonsensical remarks by Donald Trump that’s why European leaders rarely comment on them they usually hold their nose and move on but Trump’s suggestion during a campaign rally that the United States would not

Protect NATO allies who failed to spend enough on defense sparked the r public backlash dangerous unhinged appalling those were some of the friendlier reactions here’s the eu’s foreign policy Chief NATO cannot be a alak military Alliance cannot be a military Alliance that works depending on the humor of the

President of the US on those days it’s not yes now yes tomorrow no it depends who are you now come on let’s be serious let’s be serious at a meeting of NATO defense ministers this week participants were also not in a mood to mince words the

Whole idea of NATO is that an attack on one Ally will trigger the response from the whole Alliance and long and as long as we stand behind that message together uh we prevent any military attack on uh any Ally so any suggestion that we are not standing up for each

Other that we are not going to protect each other that do undermine the security of all of us Stenberg also reported record military spending of the alliance as budgetary decisions are taken over a period of months NATO spending cannot be considered the direct response to Trump who has a track record

Of hostile remarks about NATO it rather reflects a response to Russian aggression and Vladimir Putin the higher military spending is being done in a rather difficult economic situation this week European Aerospace group abas reported its latest earnings the numbers were mixed the financial forecast for 2024 was cautious in general it’s a tough

Financial environment for the aviation industry who is looking toward cutting costs everywhere one option under consideration is a reduction of the number of Pilots at the controls of an airliner it’s called the extended minimum crew operations MCO something that Pilots believe is a deeply concerning development that would

Come at the cost of safety joining me now is oand De bruy president of the European cockpit Association welcome to the program thank you so you represent more than 40,000 pilots in 33 countries tell us why your organization is against MCO so in AV ation we have uh redundancy

And backup for all safety critical systems and this philosophy is at the core of modern Aviation to give an example on board of large airplanes every safety critical system is installed twofold or threefold uh to prevent this this crucial failure currently there are also two pilots at

The controls of an aircraft two pilots work as a team they serve as this critical safety net monitor ing systems uh but also monitoring each other detecting errors and mitigating potential hazards before they escalate just to be sure what are the risks associated with the One Pilot only

Scheme so in this concept when this one pilot is there for hours uh during the cruise phase he or she would need to take a toilet break and during this toilet break there would be no pilot so what happens for instance if at that moment Air Traffic Control asks to to

Deviate from your flight PA if there is an engine fire or smoke developing on the Fly deck or a collision warning I as a pilot will not be able to be responsible for the safety of my passengers of my crew and my aircraft the One Pilot concept is under

Evaluation by the EU Aviation safety agency how advanced is this evaluation and have you guys been consulted yeah so in the last two years a a small group of stakeholders has been consulted in which we indeed uh um were also consulted and have been involved it

Is the first time in history where the European Aviation safety agency is starting rulemaking without the purpose of solving a safety issue instead they are introducing many safety issues and we have no trust um in this evaluation process uh being carried out independently and uh impartially what about about your

Employers the airlines where do they come down on this well it is very simple it is commercially driven by some Airlines who see a potential of saving some money by reducing the number of pilots during Long Haul flights um Airlines may be tempted uh by the prospect of gaining this um

Cost-saving competitive advantage through the elimination of this of this pilot however they may find themselves unpleasantly surprised um to discover that commercial incentives are an extremely risky driver in aviation and if they doubt this they should simply ask Boeing all right oend de bruy president of the European cockpit

Association thank you so much for filling Us in on this very important topic thank you very much before we go here’s a look at the carnival season that came to an end this week some of the biggest parades traditionally take place in Western Germany in Cologne alone an estimated

1.5 million people took to the streets to celebrate the fun amid an abundance of candy flowers and alcohol unlike the carnival in Venice or Rio de Janeiro the parades in Germany feature floats that address political issues with biting sarcasm a floa in Cologne had figures of Vladimir Putin president XI jingping of

China and Iran’s supreme leader Ali Kam a all with planks of wood nailed to their heads in German that means you’re an idiot another float showed Ukrainian president selinski holding a helmet next to the inscription to be or NATO be amazing how complex issues suddenly become clear when you’re in a very festive

Mood that’s it for this Edition I’m Stefan groer thank you for watching have an excellent week