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00:00Portugal braces for a possible third election in three years after the government called
00:06for a confidence vote.
00:11Kylian Jorgescu supporters clash with police after Romania's electoral committee barred
00:15the far-right candidate from running in Sunday's presidential election.
00:21Former central banker Mark Carney is set to become Canada's new prime minister as he wins
00:25liberal party leadership race, succeeding Justin Trudeau.
00:32A new political crisis in Portugal could push the country towards its third general election
00:37in three years, as early as May.
00:42With two motions of confidence rejected in less than two weeks, Prime Minister Luiz Montenegro's
00:47own proposal for a confidence vote is likely to be rejected as well.
00:53If lawmakers reject Montenegro's motion, the government would fall, pending a decision
00:57by the president on whether to call fresh elections.
01:02The discovery that Montenegro's family received €4,500 from a group of casinos, for which
01:08the government will decide on concession contracts this year, initially triggered the crisis.
01:15The anonymous complaint sparked questions about potential conflicts of interest in the
01:20prime minister's private business dealings.
01:24Montenegro has denied any wrongdoing and called an early election a necessary evil.
01:28This has never happened in Portugal.
01:30There will be a confidence vote, which will be rejected, but it has nothing to do with
01:35the lack of confidence in the political action of the government that is ruling badly, but
01:39it has to do with the very conditions of integrity that the prime minister, who is the leader
01:45of that same government, has.
01:46The President of the Republic has already admitted that if the government falls, the first date
01:51possible for the country to go to the polls is May 11th and 18th.
01:55On the streets of Lisbon, the Portuguese seem to not want to go to the elections and ask
01:59for more transparency from the Prime Minister.
02:02I don't see a big way out for the country, I don't think there will be anything in the
02:07elections.
02:08It will maintain more or less the same model of distribution of deputies, more here or
02:12more there, and we will enter another impasse.
02:14Given the situation, it is better to clarify with elections what we are here to tie, and
02:20not to leave in the same place.
02:21I think there is little transparency and I think they should really give up the government,
02:31but the elections are a joke.
02:33I think it will be a great expense for the country, and we are the ones who pay for all of this.
02:39The debate and vote on the motion of confidence should take place this Tuesday, March 11th,
02:45a year and a day after the 2024 legislations.
02:49The deputies will be called to vote and express whether they trust this executive.
02:55If there is a majority in the sense of rejection, this will dictate the fall of the government.
03:01Joana Mourão Carvalho for Euronews in Lisbon.
03:09Syria's new government announced the end of a days-long military operation against fighters
03:15loyal to overthrown President Bashar al-Assad on Monday.
03:20On Sunday, Syrian activists had gathered in Damascus to call for peace and an end to the
03:26killing of civilians.
03:28But war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported violent clashes with
03:34gunmen associated to the Ministry of Defence.
03:38The initial surge of violence came after a surprise attack by gunmen from the Alawites
03:43community on the police patrol, kicking off widespread fighting across Syria's coastal
03:49region on Thursday.
03:51According to war monitors, at least 1,130 people have been killed in the clashes, including
03:58830 civilians.
04:01On Monday, the European Union condemned these attacks, demanding for the perpetrators to
04:06be brought to justice.
04:08While on Sunday, the US called for the perpetrators of these massacres to be held accountable.
04:19Russia announced on Monday that it was expelling two British diplomats stationed at the embassy
04:24in Moscow, accusing them of espionage.
04:28The Federal Security Service, FSB, claimed in the statements that the diplomats had submitted
04:33false personal details when applying for entry into Russia and were involved in alleged intelligent
04:39and subversive activities that posed a threat to national security.
04:43However, no evidence was provided to support these claims.
04:47Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, diplomatic expulsions between Moscow
04:53and Western nations have become increasingly frequent.
04:56Last month, London expelled a Russian diplomat in retaliation for an expulsion in November.
05:07Romania's Central Electoral Committee has suspended the application by ultra-nationalist presidential
05:12candidate Kalin Ceaușescu to run in the upcoming elections on Sunday.
05:17The suspension sparked condemnation and triggered protests in the capital, Bucharest.
05:22Ceaușescu's supporters clashed with police in front of the committee's headquarters.
05:26One gendarme was injured in the scuffles.
05:29The committee examined documents filed by Ceaușescu but did not approve one related
05:34to his campaign funding, noting that it was missing a required signature.
05:38The far-right candidate slammed the decision, calling it a direct blow to the heart of democracy
05:43before labelling Europe as a dictatorship.
05:46One of his advisers announced on Monday that he will challenge the election authority.
05:51The Constitutional Court should rule on Ceaușescu's appeal by Wednesday.
05:56The committee defended its decision in a three-page document and accused Ceaușescu of not displaying
06:01values the presidential office requires.
06:04Ceaușescu, dubbed the TikTok Messiah, came out on top in the first round of Romania's
06:09presidential elections in December.
06:11The Constitutional Court annulled the vote following the declassification of intelligence
06:16reports showing Russian meddling in influencing voters.
06:22A one-day strike by workers at 13 German airports caused the cancellation of most flights on Monday.
06:30Public sector employees at the airports as well as ground and security staff organized
06:35a 24-hour walkout as part of an ongoing dispute over wages and working conditions.
06:41The German Airports Association said more than 3,400 flights were expected to be cancelled
06:46throughout the country.
06:48The Frankfurt and Berlin airports said all departures and arrivals on Monday are affected
06:53by the strike.
07:11The Service Workers Union announced the strike on Friday but added a short-notice walkout
07:16on Sunday at Hamburg Airport, arguing that it must ensure the measure was effective.
07:21A common tactic in German wage negotiations, the so-called warning strike related to two
07:26separate pay disputes, negotiations on a new pay and conditions contract for airport security
07:32workers and a wider dispute over pay for employees of federal and municipal governments.
07:37Former central banker Mark Carney will become Canada's next prime minister after the ruling
07:46Liberal Party elected him as their new leader.
07:49And in his first speech, he was quick to take a defiant stance against threats from US President
07:54Donald Trump.
08:08He's attacking Canadian families, workers and businesses and we cannot let him succeed.
08:20Immediately addressing one of Canadian's most pressing concerns, Carney said his government
08:24will continue fighting Trump.
08:26The Canadian government has rightly retaliated and is rightly retaliating with our own tariffs
08:33that will have maximum impact in the United States and minimum impact here in Canada.
08:40My government will keep our tariffs on until the Americans show us respect.
08:45In first place, the next prime minister of Canada, Mark Carney.
08:51Carney was the former governor of Canada's central bank and is widely credited with helping
08:56orchestrate the country's fast recovery from the 2008 financial crisis.
09:01In 2013, he was appointed as governor of the Bank of England, becoming the first non-citizen
09:06to do so since its founding.
09:08More recently, he served as the United Nations Special Envoy for Climate Change and Finance.
09:14Carney will succeed Justin Trudeau as prime minister in the coming days after he's sworn in.
09:19The Harvard-educated economist with Wall Street experience may not keep the job for long.
09:24He's expected to trigger a snap election shortly.
09:27Opposition parties could also force one with a no-confidence vote later this month.
09:40Faced with the U.S. withdrawal, the EU 27 are taking their security back into their own hands.
09:47The member states have approved a plan to rearm Europe with a budget of 800 billion euros.
09:53However, on the left, some contentious voices are raised against European rearmament.
09:59Europe's rearmament is the next great folly of the European Union.
10:04It's going to make us less safe.
10:06It will make life nastier, more brutish, shorter in Europe.
10:11It will certainly dissolve what social fabric we have left after 20, 30 years of crisis.
10:19It is a way to weaken Europe in the name of making it stronger.
10:24The European Commission has proposed that member countries deviate from the EU's rules of budgetary orthodoxy to finance their defense spending.
10:32For its part, the future German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has opened the door to an end to the debt break to enable Germany to finance its own rearmament.
10:43This represents a 180-degree turnaround for this prudent state, which was notably in favor of restructuring Greek debt during the 2009 crisis.
10:54The former Greek finance minister welcomes this paradigm shift with some reservations.
11:00Of course I welcome the end of this debt break.
11:03But there is no silver lining here because Mr. Merz, the way he's announcing it,
11:08it is clear that what he wants to do is he wants to indulge in military Keynesianism.
11:12Instead of investing in life, he's investing mostly in death.
11:16And that, even if you look at it from a realistic economic, macroeconomic point of view,
11:22it's not going to generate the growth where it is necessary.
11:28Asked whether pacifism might be similar to giving Vladimir Putin a blank check to invade neighboring countries,
11:34he replies that pacifism is never a good response to invasion, but that opting for endless war isn't rational either.