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Gavin Grey: UK correspondent on Europe reportedly looking to suspend approval of US trade deal · Best of Business

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to a podcast from News Talks. It'd be
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  Speaker 2: It's going to Given Gray, UK correspondent, Given Welcome to
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  Speaker 2: the show. Hi there An Now tell us about the
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  Speaker 2: European Parliament what they're planning to do on tariffs.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, this is going to be very very interesting because,
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  Speaker 3: of course Donald Trump due to arrive in Davos for
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  Speaker 3: the World Economic Forum, tensions running high already over his
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  Speaker 3: comments about Greenland, which is now doubled down on as
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  Speaker 3: well in the last few hours, saying that it's a
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  Speaker 3: one way thing. He's not going back on his demand
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  Speaker 3: to take Greenland and threatening some European countries with tariffs.
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  Speaker 3: Those countries saying right, well, we're not just going to
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  Speaker 3: stand there and take it. And it looks like the
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  Speaker 3: European Parliament today will later announce it is going to
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  Speaker 3: suspend approval of a US trade deal agreed back in July.
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  Speaker 3: It was a trade deal announced with much fanfare with
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  Speaker 3: Ursula Vonderlon, one of the EU big wigs as it were,
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  Speaker 3: and Donald Trump, and that was all after Donald Trump
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  Speaker 3: threatened them with thirty percent tariffs. The agreement in the
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  Speaker 3: end was fifteen percent, So yeah, slightly better, but still tariffs,
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  Speaker 3: and it was heralded. Is yep, everyone's now happy. Well,
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  Speaker 3: the EU is not happy over Donald Trump's announcement at
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  Speaker 3: Greenland and has decided, right, well, we're just going to
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  Speaker 3: shelve that, put it on ice and start to put
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  Speaker 3: a bit of pressure on The interesting thing about this
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  Speaker 3: is it may now open up questions about whether the
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  Speaker 3: EU is ready to move forward mid more retaliation against
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  Speaker 3: the UITs, the so called Bazooka measure, which would see
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  Speaker 3: the BLOCK effectively use an anti coercion rule that it
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  Speaker 3: introduced in case China got difficult with them. And this
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  Speaker 3: will basically mean that American companies could be barred from
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  Speaker 3: EU contracts, they could be barred from the free trade market,
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  Speaker 3: and yeah, they could be retaliatory tariffs the other way
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  Speaker 3: as well.
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  Speaker 2: Right, we'll keep a bridge to that one. What about
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  Speaker 2: the train crow another train crash in Spain.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and this comes just a few days afterwards that
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  Speaker 3: there have been, of course, the crash on Sunday down
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  Speaker 3: in southern Spain that has killed at least forty now
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  Speaker 3: is the latest estimate. There is believed to be bodies
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  Speaker 3: potentially still trapped in the wreckage of that crash. But
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  Speaker 3: and now a train driver has been killed and at
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  Speaker 3: least thirty seven others injured, five seriously when a commuter
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  Speaker 3: train derailed and crashed near Barcelona are down on the
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  Speaker 3: south coast. And yeah, it comes just sort of forty
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  Speaker 3: eight hours on a little bit more after this crash
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  Speaker 3: in the south of Spain. Now, according to local officials,
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  Speaker 3: the train collided with a retaining wall which had fallen
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  Speaker 3: onto the track and apparently now we understand all the
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  Speaker 3: passengers have been removed from the train. But as I said,
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  Speaker 3: there are five seriously injured and one dead. And it
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  Speaker 3: comes as heavy storms that battered northeastern Spain and coastal regions,
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  Speaker 3: and they're on high alert because of the weather. So
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  Speaker 3: this was obviously a huge emergency effort as well, thirty
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  Speaker 3: five crews sent by the local fire service. And I
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  Speaker 3: think the Spanish rail system very much under scrutiny after
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  Speaker 3: these two crashes.
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  Speaker 2: Now, finally French police have started in desceipting migrant boats
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  Speaker 2: on the water for the very first time.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, after huge amounts of pressure from the UK. So
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  Speaker 3: what the French were doing was effectively only intervening when
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  Speaker 3: they see migrants on beaches ready to get on a boat.
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  Speaker 3: They wouldn't physically go in the water, and that was
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  Speaker 3: because the excuse being used was it might endanger the
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  Speaker 3: lives of those on the journey, but because they are
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  Speaker 3: already endanger in their lives by getting onto very small boats,
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  Speaker 3: often unseaworthy boats, to try and cross to the UK,
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  Speaker 3: the UK said, look, this is now being used and
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  Speaker 3: abused by the people smugglers, because what they were doing
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  Speaker 3: was they were launching a boat with just one or
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  Speaker 3: two people on board from a canal slightly in land,
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  Speaker 3: and then there were simply motoring up and down the
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  Speaker 3: coast and the asylum seekers would rush into the water
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  Speaker 3: and then get onto that so called taxi boats effectively
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  Speaker 3: and to get on there in order to get the
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  Speaker 3: journey across, and the police, French police would simply stand
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  Speaker 3: there and watch, saying well, we're not going in the water.
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  Speaker 3: And it made people here in the UK absolutely irate.
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  Speaker 3: There was even a small sort of band of people
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  Speaker 3: from a society here in the UK that went over
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  Speaker 3: to France and were themselves going into the water, believe
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  Speaker 3: it or not, and knifing the boats, damaging the boats,
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  Speaker 3: slipping the inflatable boats so that they couldn't make it across,
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  Speaker 3: and they were threatened with prosecution by France. But finally
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  Speaker 3: now the French, who were paid millions of pounds a
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  Speaker 3: year by the British to try and stop the boats,
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  Speaker 3: are actually getting into the water and starting to do this.
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  Speaker 3: They actually stopped their first one. It has been announced
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  Speaker 3: back at the weekend. But we've only just found this
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  Speaker 3: out and Ryan, it really has been something this government's
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  Speaker 3: being keen they do, but then bewilder numbers in any
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  Speaker 3: way damp and down. Last year there was a massive
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  Speaker 3: number of people that came to the UK from France,
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  Speaker 3: standing at thirty six and a half thousand.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate your time, Gevin. Thank you. Gevin Gray, a UK
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  Speaker 2: europe correspondent.
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