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Vincent McAviney: Europe Correspondent on Trump's threat of 200% tariffs on European alcohol · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: There's meetings in Moscow. Putin has spoken. He says he
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  Speaker 1: supports the ceasefire, but he sees a whole lot of
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  Speaker 1: other stuff. We're joined now by Vincent mcavinie. Hello, Vincent,
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  Speaker 1: good morning. What's going down.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we're having to decrip what exactly Vladimir Putin means.
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  Speaker 2: In the past twenty four hours, he's visited the Cursek
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  Speaker 2: region of Russia, which has been held for several months
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  Speaker 2: by Ukrainian forces, but they seem to be struggling to
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  Speaker 2: keep the territory. Putin appeared very rarely for him, addressed
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  Speaker 2: in military uniform, saying that now Russia had control of
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  Speaker 2: its own territory. This was thought to be a sort
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  Speaker 2: of key bargaining chip that Zelensky had in negotiations for
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  Speaker 2: territory which Russia controls. Now, what we've heard in this
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  Speaker 2: press conference, we know that this US envoy, having got
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  Speaker 2: agreement from the Ukrainian team, was on its way to Moscow.
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  Speaker 2: Putin has said that he agrees with peace proposal, but
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  Speaker 2: says it needs to lead to an enduring peace. There
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  Speaker 2: was some sort of diplomatic circus sire acts going on
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  Speaker 2: in this press conference talking about the need to make
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  Speaker 2: sure the underlying causes of the crisis are resolved for
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  Speaker 2: that enduring peace. So it'll be up to the Trump
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  Speaker 2: team to try to unpick what exactly that means. But
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  Speaker 2: for now, the bombardment between the two nations continues, big
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  Speaker 2: strikes on Moscow this week by the Ukrainians.
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  Speaker 1: It's such a process, isn't it this. You have to
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  Speaker 1: negotiate the negotiations, then you have to negotiate a ceasefire,
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  Speaker 1: and then you can go and negotiate possible lasting peace.
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  Speaker 1: Is Putin asking for too much too soon?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think he feels pretty emboldened at this point.
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  Speaker 2: He's drawn barely a word of condemnation from the Trump
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  Speaker 2: administration versus the treatment that Presidents Lensky and the Ukrainians
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  Speaker 2: have faced. That's always worth reistrating that if Vladimir Putin
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  Speaker 2: wanted to end this today tomorrow, he could do. He
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  Speaker 2: could pull his forces out. It was his fault. He
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  Speaker 2: invaded the territory, it was an act of war. They've
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  Speaker 2: committed war crimes in the territory. So every once peace,
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  Speaker 2: he could simply pull his troops back. But he's not
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  Speaker 2: doing that. So we'll see where this goes now.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I meanwhile, Donald Trump has written the EU with
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  Speaker 1: a two hundred percent tariff. It's a big number. It's
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  Speaker 1: on alcohol.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. So the EU was hit earlier in
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  Speaker 2: this week by the latest round of Trump tariffs are
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  Speaker 2: particularly on steel and aluminium are twenty five percent tariff.
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  Speaker 2: They got hit by that, so they have struck back
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  Speaker 2: with sort of retaliatory tariffs, but particularly citing sort of
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  Speaker 2: US goods. So those were for instance, Harley Davidson motorbikes
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  Speaker 2: and Bourbon of course, which is you know, American whiskey.
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  Speaker 2: So the Donald Trump has now sort of responded to
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  Speaker 2: that particular front, saying he's going to put a two
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  Speaker 2: hundred percent tariff on alcohol from EU countries and of
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  Speaker 2: course that will be you know, wines from France and Italy,
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  Speaker 2: champagne as well spirits. I mean, it would be absolutely
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  Speaker 2: drastic to the prices of those products which are big
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  Speaker 2: EU exports. But also there is you know, high demand
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  Speaker 2: and great love for in America as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, And I thank you for your time today,
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  Speaker 1: Vincent McAvennie.
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