The major military powers in Europe are meeting today.
The group of countries is called E5 (not to be confused with E3) and consists of France, Germany, England, Italy and Poland. They will be preparing for the NATO summit next month and discussing aid to Ukraine. Hosts Zoya Sheftalovich and Ian Wishart discuss such micro-meeting structures for the EU as a whole.
Also on the show, we discuss the new EU agreement on rules of return for migrants. Under the new rules, people ordered to leave the European Union can be transferred to detention centers in countries outside the bloc. It’s a highly controversial plan, but it’s progressing rapidly, with countries already having floats to house these so-called “return hubs.”
And finally, we’ve talked on the show before about the heat wave that’s hit Europe. Now we dig into the story of senior weather reporter Zia Weise on why it is very hot.
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