Europe Today: French students 'retake Bastille', Trump 'unwilling' to help Ukraine
Key Points:
- Emma Rafowicz, French Socialist MEP, discusses recent student protests in France, highlighting a mass gathering at Place de la Bastille and Jean-Luc Mélenchon's declaration that "the Bastille has been retaken," while addressing concerns about a potential debt crisis in France.
- Helen Clark, former New Zealand prime minister and outgoing chair of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, speaks amid a major conference in Brussels with over 1,000 delegates from 50+ countries focusing on energy security and critical raw materials.
- Ukrainian MP Yulia Klymenko comments on President Zelenskyy's criticism of the US's reluctance to assist Ukraine ahead of talks in Miami, alongside the impact of a Russian glide-bomb strike that killed at least 33 civilians in Kramatorsk.
- Maia de la Baume interviews Rima Hassan, French MEP of Palestinian origin, about the controversy over flags in Strasbourg and the potential European Parliament procedures that may follow.
- Europe Today airs live every weekday at 8 am Brussels time on Euronews TV, website, and digital platforms including YouTube, Facebook, X, and Instagram, hosted by anchors Méabh Mc Mahon and Stefan Grobe.