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00:00France is entering a period of political uncertainty as Prime Minister Gabrielle Attal resigns.
00:11Two far-right groups have been cordoned off from power roles in the European Parliament
00:15as voting for top jobs began this Tuesday.
00:21With 562 votes in her favour, Roberta Mazzola has been re-elected by absolute majority as
00:27President of the European Parliament.
00:31As football fans leave Berlin, how did Euro 2024 impact the German economy?
00:43French President Emmanuel Macron accepted the resignation of his Prime Minister Gabrielle
00:48Attal this Tuesday evening.
00:50However, Attal and his cabinet of ministers will remain in place during the next coming
00:55weeks, especially during the sensitive period of the upcoming Summer Olympics here in Paris.
01:02While the NFP, the left-wing coalition, the one that won the most seats during the French
01:07legislative elections, is still battling to come up with a name for the future Prime Minister.
01:14And France is really going into quite an unprecedented period, known as a resigning government.
01:20And that means that it cannot be toppled by a no-confidence vote from the rest of the
01:24MPs in the French National Assembly, that's the lower house of the Parliament.
01:29And so this transition government headed by Gabrielle Attal and his cabinet will only
01:34be able to take care of everyday matters.
01:38It will not be able to push any political or policy measures.
01:43And this could be okay for a couple of days or maybe a few weeks, but it could really
01:47pose a democratic issue if this takes longer than a couple of months, especially considering
01:54how complicated the negotiations have been to come up with a name for France's future
01:59Prime Minister.
02:00The NFP, the left-wing coalition, is composed of different parties, like for example the
02:06hard-left France Unbowed Party, the Socialists, the Communists and the Greens.
02:10And they really have been squabbling to nominate someone.
02:14On Monday evening, the Socialists, the Greens and the Communists came up with a name from
02:18the civil society.
02:20Her name is Laurence Tubiana, and she is an activist as well as a diplomat.
02:26And she was one of the key actors in coming up and signing the Paris 2015 Climate Agreement.
02:33However, the France Unbowed LFP Party rejected this nomination, claiming that she is too
02:39close to current French President Emmanuel Macron.
02:43Sofia Katzenkova, reporting from Paris, for Euronews.
02:51Roberta Mezzola has been re-elected by absolute majority as President of the European Parliament
02:56during the opening session of the new term.
02:59The Maltese politician, who had 562 votes in favour, will represent the institution
03:03for the next two and a half years.
03:06This last mandate we have learnt that the future is anything but predictable.
03:12But come what may, I will keep working with all of you to face the tests when they do
03:18come.
03:20One by one, the MEPs cast their votes to the ballots placed in the corners of the hemicycle.
03:25Mezzola, member of the EPP, has been able to build a consensus in a difficult time for
03:31the Parliament and the initial discrepancies over her candidacy, like her position on abortion,
03:36have been diluted.
03:37But she will have to focus on reconstructing the damage caused by the corruption scandal
03:42known as Qatargate.
03:44There were issues that had to be tackled about transparency, the risk of interferences
03:55and of corruption, and there were steps taken by Mezzola that we supported, others that
04:01still need to be taken and that we will need to push for in the new mandate so that we
04:07are sure that we are protected from the risk of foreign interferences and the corruption
04:14risks that are everywhere in institutions and the Parliament needs to be fully defended
04:19from this risk.
04:20She had only one opponent, the newly elected MEP from the left, Irena Montero, the former
04:26Spanish minister who ran symbolically, had 61 votes.
04:31After this election, the new European Parliament will start working with the first big task
04:34in mind, the election of the President of the European Commission on Thursday.
04:39The 10th term has 54% new MEPs and for the first time it has reduced the number of women
04:45elected to 39%.
04:47It has 8 political groups, one more than in the past 5 years.
04:59Bar right candidates bidding to become Vice President of the European Parliament were
05:03voted down on Tuesday as part of centrist parties coordinated efforts to build a firewall
05:07against the radical right wing.
05:11While the European Conservatives and Reformists did manage to secure two Vice Presidents,
05:16the two newly formed radical right wing groupings were blocked.
05:22It means neither Patriots for Europe nor the Europe of Sovereign Nations will be represented
05:27in the European Parliament's bureau.
05:33Parties and political groups that basically want to destroy this Parliament, that want
05:37to weaken the European Union and that ran on platforms abolishing the EU, leaving the
05:42EU, whatever, should not hold responsibility in the European Union, should not hold responsibility
05:50here in the European Parliament.
05:52Well if your political goal is to destroy this Parliament, you should not be put in
05:56charge of managing this Parliament and that's the reason why we apply the cordon sanitaire.
06:03However the far right consider the cordon sanitaire strategy to be a breach of democracy.
06:22With 14 Vice Presidents up for grabs, 11 were clinched in a first round of voting, 5 were
06:39given to the Socialists and Democrats, 3 to the European People's Party, 2 to Renew Europe
06:44and 1 to the Greens.
06:50Lake Prepsa, whose waters are shared by the three Balkan states, North Macedonia, Albania
06:55and Greece, is about to collapse.
06:57From year to year, the process of withdrawing the waters from this lake with unique biodiversity
07:02becomes more and more intense.
07:17In order to prevent this environmental disaster caused by climate change and human factors,
07:22non-governmental organizations from the three countries initiated the forum for the development
07:26of the Prepsa region.
07:29This is in order to appeal to state institutions of climate change that there is no more time
07:33to delay the implementation of political agreements that foresee mechanisms for saving this ecosystem.
07:40This is in order to appeal to state institutions of climate change that there is no more time
07:49to delay the implementation of political agreements that foresee mechanisms for saving this ecosystem.
07:55This is in order to appeal to state institutions of climate change that there is no more time
08:01to delay the implementation of political agreements that foresee mechanisms for saving this ecosystem.
08:08At this forum, representatives of the Lake Constance Foundation presented their experience
08:17with the management of a unique ecosystem divided into three countries.
08:22The success of this foundation is based on the political agreement signed by Switzerland,
08:26Germany and Austria in the 60s, which has been successfully implemented.
08:32Lake Constance and Lake Prepsa are the only places in Europe whose waters are shared by
08:37three countries.
08:40Social society cannot wait for some politicians in far-off capitals to have the mindset that
08:47it's important or whatever.
08:49So if the people here and the mayors, if they realize and they think it's necessary and
08:55it's important, then probably they can influence also politician-makers on a higher level to
09:00really enforce that agreement.
09:03Several organizations from North Macedonia, Albania and Greece have committed to continue
09:07the mutual cooperation that did not exist in the past due to complicated geopolitical
09:11constellations in the Balkans.
09:14They hope to prevent the ecological catastrophe of this lake that is more than a million years
09:19old.
09:22Arriving to rapturous applause, Donald Trump appeared at the Republican National Convention
09:26on Monday evening with a bandaged ear after a would-be assassin's bullet grazed him during
09:31a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday.
09:35At the conference, Trump officially secured the presidential nomination after running
09:39unopposed in the primaries.
09:41He nominated Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio as his running mate 20 minutes before the nomination
09:46via his true social platform.
09:49Trump was widely applauded by the audience upon his entry and shook hands with a large
09:53number of supporters.
09:57Trump's strongest economy, Germany, has been stuck in a recession since last year.
10:02However, the 2024 Euros have also enticed fans who spend.
10:08But have the profits outweighed the costs of hosting the Games?
10:13Euronews asked international sports management professor Dr. Alexander Hodek.
10:43It's estimated that the tournament will cost the host cities a combined 260 million Euros.
11:06But both the Hotel and Catering Association and the German Brewers Association said unpredictable
11:12thunderstorms combined with sweltering heat dampened opportunities for fans to spend.
11:19Whilst the ten host cities will only find out over the next couple of months if they've
11:23managed to break even, the main winners of the tournament so far have been the UEFA.
11:29The Football Association already expects to make a profit of over one billion Euros from
11:36ticket sales, broadcasting rights and tax exemptions worth millions.
11:41Liv Stroud, in Berlin, for Euronews.