Elmar Brok - Member of the European Parliament
Feeling the strain from Brexit, immigration and attacks from the US president, how will the EU emerge from its current crisis? Stephen Sackur asks Elmar Brok - a senior MEP.
Stephen Sackur speaks to Elmar Brok, MEP - the longest serving member of the European parliament and a close ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel. The EU is bedeviled 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?
(Photo: Elmar Brok prior to the beginning of the EU foreign ministers meeting on the constitution in Brussels, 2004. Credit: Thierry Monasse/AFP)
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