Elmar Brok

HARDtalk's Stephen Sackur speaks to Elmar Brok, MEP and longest serving member of the European parliament and a close ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel. European politicians have a long cherished habit of taking the summer off. This summer may be different. The EU is bedevilled by problems that simply won't go away - from Brexit to immigration to an increasingly vexed relationship with the Trump Administration. Germany is the EU's most powerful economy, but is its political clout on the wane?