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00:00President Donald Trump has announced a 90-day pause on tariffs for most nations.
00:10The CDU, CSU and SPD have agreed on a coalition agreement.
00:14The agreement paves the way for new leadership in Europe's biggest economy after months of political drift.
00:21King Charles III and Queen Camilla attended a state dinner at the Quirinale Palace on Wednesday evening.
00:30President Donald Trump has announced a 90-day pause on tariffs for most nations, except China, on whose imports he has raised the tax rate to 125%.
00:42Asked by a reporter why he'd made the decision, Trump said he'd been watching the bond market and people were getting a little queasy.
00:50Well, I thought that people were jumping a little bit out of line, they were getting yippy, you know, they were getting a little bit yippy, a little bit afraid, unlike these champions, because we have a big job to do.
01:03Trump added, however, that he was still honoured to have initially imposed the tariffs because, he said, somebody had to do it.
01:13Global markets soared after the announcement, with the Dow Jones index surging by 2,000 points just minutes later.
01:20The White House has made it clear, however, that a universal 10% tariff would still apply in the meantime while trade negotiations take place.
01:33U.S. President Donald Trump authorizes a 90-day pause in trade tariffs for countries other than China, according to a post on his social media.
01:44The revised tariffs of 125% on imports from China are to take immediate effect because, quote, the lack of respect China has shown the world's markets.
01:57Earlier on Wednesday, China imposed 84% tariffs on U.S. goods, taking effect on Thursday, according to a Chinese finance ministry statement on Wednesday.
02:06One expert said before Trump imposed once again new tariffs that China wouldn't hesitate to continue to retaliate.
02:16If the United States wants to use maximum pressure against China, China definitely will launch more rounds of restrictions against exports of rare metals to the United States.
02:30That will take a big bite on the American defense industry, and it may be too late, eventually, if the United States goes in the wrong direction, forcing China to retaliate against the United States.
02:44Earlier on Wednesday, the Chinese government did not say whether it would negotiate with the White House, as many other countries have started doing.
02:53The White House said a universal 10% tariff would apply to all countries while trade negotiations take place.
03:04The European Union has approved 25% tariffs on a wide range of U.S. products on Wednesday, including orange juice, steel, aluminium, tobacco and yachts.
03:17This follows the U.S.'s tariffs on 25% on imports of steel and aluminium from the bloc.
03:24Meanwhile, one wine merchant says they are waiting for the U.S. and the EU to hold negotiations.
03:31EU tariffs will take effect between the 15th of April and the 1st of December to allow time for U.S. talks.
03:53The EU is targeting 21 billion euros of U.S. goods annually in response to the U.S.'s existing tariffs on 26 billion euros of EU metal exports.
04:05Meanwhile, top EU leader Ursula von der Leyen wrote on X,
04:09We negotiate, not escalate.
04:12According to the EU, the Commission is working on a second package of retaliation, which will be presented early next week.
04:23The centre-right party Christian-Democratic Union, its sister party Christian Social Union and the centre-left party Social Democrats have reached an agreement to form a coalition government just 45 days after the snap election in Germany.
04:43The party leaders said at the press conference in Berlin that they have reached compromises on key issues such as cutting taxes and stabilising pensions.
04:51CDU leader Friedrich Mertz said that Germany is now a stable country after four years of instability, and his message to Trump is that Germany is back on track.
05:00The three parties have been under pressure to reach a speedy agreement after stock markets plummeted in response to U.S. President Donald Trump announcing tariffs across the globe.
05:09The next step before the government is formed is that SPD members and an executive committee from the CSU need to vote on the agreement before it can be signed.
05:17This is expected to take 10 days. After that, CDU's Mertz is expected to be elected as Chancellor, which could be in the first week of May.
05:26Liv Stroud, in Berlin, for Euro News.
05:29Public and private employees, pensioners and students have participated in a 24-hour nationwide strike in Greece.
05:41The protests were directed at the government's economic policy.
05:45The problems this policy is causing not only remain, but they are increasing, they say.
05:49One of the demands is that the state should stop spending money on defense systems and start focusing on issues such as the housing crisis and the restoration of Christmas and Easter salary bonuses.
06:00For many years, the lives of all workers are important.
06:05The margins have been destroyed, the things in the supermarket are exceptional.
06:15Therefore, the only way of the road is to go to the roads and to demonstrate our challenges.
06:23Apart from the economy, the focus was also on the Tempe tragedy, the fatal rail collision where a passenger train and a freight train collided head-on.
06:30killing 57 people and injuring dozens.
06:38Due to the strike action, the public transport timetables were modified.
06:46The main slogans of the demonstration were
06:49either their profits or our lives,
06:51and work with rights, life with dignity.
06:54The ongoing spread of foot-and-mouth disease across Central Europe
07:16has forced several large farms in Estonia to close their doors to visitors.
07:21No cases have yet been detected in the country,
07:26but outbreaks reported in Hungary and Slovakia
07:28have prompted agricultural workers to introduce preventative measures.
07:33No agroturismi ahvatlus ehk näidata tarbial toiduteekond võllult väldrikule
07:40on väga väike võrreldes selle riski ja hirmuga,
07:44mida võimalik pandeemia kaasa toob.
07:48Farms have also implemented several biosecurity protocols on food,
07:53the movement of livestock and employee hygiene.
07:56Meanwhile, Czechs to prevent the spread of the disease
08:01have led to large queues at the Slovak-Czech border,
08:04as transporters of animals, animal products or animal feed
08:08can only use three crossings when travelling between the two countries.
08:13The Czech Republic has not reported any cases of the disease on its territory,
08:18but Slovakia has experienced six outbreaks of the highly contagious disease in cattle and other animals.
08:28King Charles III and Queen Camilla attended a state dinner hosted by President Sergio Mattarella
08:34at the Quirinale Palace on Wednesday evening.
08:38The event, which coincided with the royal couple's 20th wedding anniversary,
08:45came as part of the UK monarch's four-day state visit to Italy.
08:50In a speech at the start of the dinner, President Mattarella praised the UK's commitment to European partnership.
08:57...elemento di fiducia, vedere confermato il chiaro e convinto impegno di Londra,
09:03insieme ai partner europei, nella tutela dell'ordine internazionale.
09:08Earlier in the day, the King and Queen met privately with Pope Francis in the Vatican
09:13in the first known meeting since the Pope's stay in hospital.
09:17The royal pair also watched a performance of Shakespeare's Othello by Italian drama students,
09:23met with school children at the Alessandro Manzoni School in Rome
09:27and greeted tourists while stopping for ice cream at the historic Gelateria Giolitti.
09:33The European Court of Auditors slammed the European Commission for opaque funding of non-governmental organisations in a new report.
09:51After looking at EU funding awarded to NGOs over a three-year period, it concluded more transparency is needed.
09:59At the same time, they found no evidence of misconduct.
10:02Thank you very much for your questions.
10:04Information on EU funding, including lobbying, is neither reliable nor transparent.
10:10For example, the European Commission did not properly disclose setting EU funded advocacy activities, such as lobbying.
10:19The financial watchdogs report comes at a time when the issue of NGOs funding has become politically divisive in Brussels.
10:26The Conservative European People's Party claims the Commission instructed NGOs to lobby members of the Parliament to further the policy goals.
10:35But NGOs have firmly denied such allegations.
10:38Luckily, the report shows that there is no scandal on NGO funding.
10:43It didn't find any evidence of misuse of funds.
10:46It didn't find any evidence on what our opponent said was undue lobbying.
10:51On the contrary, it confirms that we have the right to receive funding and use that for advocacy activities and that this is covered by the rules and regulations on which we work.
11:03According to MEP Monica Holmeyer, the lack of evidence in the Court of Auditors report is due very precisely to the lack of transparency.
11:12As there is no requirement to prove what has been done with the money, you cannot get any evidence because if they are not required, then they cannot be documented what has been done with the money.
11:25The Court of Auditors has also confirmed that there is no legal barrier for NGOs to lobby lawmakers directly.
11:30And in any case, MEPs are required to publish details of all meetings.
11:35And that will continue to be given up with the direct coverage of the board.
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