Katarina Barley first looks back on the death of former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing: "With Helmut Schmidt, they were nevertheless very different, but they were friends, true friends. This confidence facilitated many things for Franco-German friendship and for Europe. "
The MP also evokes the scandal which forced the Hungarian MEP Jozsef Sjazer to resign after a gay evening in full confinement.
She underlines the hypocrisy of Sjazer's political party, Victor Orban's Hungarian Fidesz, "which pursues a very aggressive discriminatory policy towards the LGBT community".
According to her
,
the veto of Poland and Hungary on the budget of the European Union
is explained by the fact that these two countries know that they are not in compliance with the rule of law.
"They are redesigning their countries as 'illiberal' democracies and they also want to redefine European values. It is really dangerous because if we do not stand firm, we will change the European Union."
On Brexit
,
the MEP who has dual German and British nationality believes that "for years, there was no serious negotiation ... and now we don't have enough time to get a voucher agreement".
"If there is an agreement, it will not take into account all the subjects", she laments.
A program prepared by Perrine Desplats, Mathilde Bénézet and Isabelle Romero.
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